WNYC & WQXR to Present A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A LIVE RADIO DRAMA, 12/8

On Monday, December 8th at 5pm and 7pm, WNYC and WQXR will host the fifth annual presentation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Radio Drama, written by Arthur Yorinks and inspired by the Charles Dickens classic, performed by station hosts and special guests.

The performance will take place at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, the street-level, intimate live event venue.

To help bring Dickens' classic holiday tale to life, five accomplished actors will perform with WNYC and WQXR hosts.

Mark Linn-Baker will lead the cast as Ebenezer Scrooge. Baker can currently be seen in Broadway's You Can't Take it with You and is perhaps best known for starring with Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year.

Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays, currently playing eight roles in Broadway's A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder will play all three ghosts.

Real-life husband and wife and Broadway regulars Marin Mazzie (Bullets over Broadway) and Jason Danieley (Next to Normal) will play Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit.

Ten year old Payton Lusk of Westchester will play Tiny Tim.

Veteran broadcaster and the new announcer from NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, Bill Kurtis, will narrate.

All other roles will be read, as is the tradition, by WNYC & WQXR hosts including John Hockenberry (The Takeaway), Robert Krulwich (Radiolab), Anna Sale (Death, Sex & Money), Dan Pashman (The Sporkful), Naomi Lewin (WQXR) and Jeff Spurgeon (WQXR).

A CHRISTMAS CAROL will be directed by WQXR host Elliott Forrest. The creative team includes A Prairie Home Companion's touring foley artist Fred Newman, who will shape the audio atmosphere of the production, and award-winning songwriter and composer John Forster (Into the Light, A Good Swift Kick) on the piano. Martha Mooke, who plays regularly with Phillip Glass, will play electro-acoustic viola. Caldecott Award-winner Arthur Yorinks wrote the audio play.