Dallas Theater Center Cancels Tonight's Performance of A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Tonight's performance of A Christmas Carol, December 6, 2013, has been cancelled due to bad weather conditions. Please check the website for additional details.

Dallas Theater Center brings a brand new adaptation of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol To the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center for the first time. DTC Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty wrote the new adaptation and will direct the holiday favorite, with choreography by Joel Ferrell. A Christmas Carol runs through December 24. Single tickets to A Christmas Carol are on sale now at www.DallasTheaterCenter.org and by phone at (214) 880-0202.

Brierley Resident Acting Company member Kieran Connolly (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Next Fall) assumes the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the first time. Additional Acting Company members include Chamblee Ferguson (Clybourne Park, FLY) as Jacob Marley; Tiffany Hobbs (A Raisin in the Sun; Clybourne Park) as the Laundress; Liz Mikel (A Raisin in the Sun; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) as Mrs. Fezziwig; andChristie Vela (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; God of Carnage) as Mrs. Cratchit. Making their debut as Company members are Daniel Duque-Estrada as Scrooge's nephew Fred and Alex Organ (previously in DTC's Fly By Night) as Young Scrooge.

Akron Watson (To Kill a Mockingbird) returns to DTC to play Bob Cratchit. Other members of the cast include Jeremy Dumont (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), Sonny Franks (Gypsy) and Joseph Holt, who is making his DTC debut. Southern Methodist University students in the cast are Ashlee Elizabeth Bashore, Susanna Batres, Thomas Gelo and Charles BranDon Potter. Members of the youth cast are Christine Adkins, Tatiana Angustia, Leonella Arguello, Jacob Barnes, Devion Camp, Abby Chapman, Gregory Hill, Nathan Javier Mendoza, Patricia Meza, Ava Rose Mitchell, Marhly Murphy, David Allen Norton, Liam Taylor, Tristan Thomas and Jennifer Udoh.

The new production will make great use of the Wyly Theatre's flexible architecture, placing the audience in the midst of the set, with the action happening all around them. Set designer Beowulf Boritt, who transformed the Wyly into a stunning white island for The Tempest, brings the vibrant world of the play to life. Jennifer Caprio's (The Odd Couple; It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman) costume design includes fresh interpretations of traditional Victorian garb.Jeff Croiter (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Arsenic and Old Lace) returns to DTC as lighting designer; Broken Chord returns for sound design (The Odd Couple; Henry IV); Stephanie Williams, who has worked on previous productions of A Christmas Carol, is handling wig design; and makeup design is by Louise Zizzo, with support from MAC Cosmetics.

For the sixth year in a row, DTC is partnering with the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) to raise money for that organization. Members of DTC's administrative staff, crew, Brierley Resident Acting Company and the A Christmas Carol cast will spend a day volunteering at one of the Food Bank's two Dallas facilities. During performances of A Christmas Carol, DTC will provide a location in the Wyly lobby for patrons to donate canned goods to the NTFB. Members of the cast will also collect monetary donations for them after every performance. Over the last five years, DTC patrons have donated almost $240,000 to the NTFB.

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