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Alleyway
Theatre
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 by
Charles Dickens
adapted by Neal Radice
FORBES
THEATRE 500 PEARL ST
December 13-21
Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM
Saturday, Dec 21 at 5PM
Our delightfully faithful adaptation will shift your
Christmas spirit into high gear. Scrooge, Tiny Tim and
the Alleyway Carolers will be on hand to warm the cockles
of your holiday heart for our 20th year!
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THANK
YOU BUFFALO!
A CHRISTMAS CAROL CELEBRATES 20th ANNIVERSARY
Alleyway
Theatre and sponsors M&T Bank, WKBW-Channel 7, 97Rock, WHTT,
The Edge, The Hotel Lenox, and Paragon Advertising will present
the 20th anniversary production of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS
CAROL, adapted and directed by Neal Radice for five performances
only,
December
13-21 at Forbes Theatre, 500 Pearl Street.
For 20 years, Alleyway Theatre's A CHRISTMAS CAROL has presented
Dickens' quintessential holiday classic. An immediate success
in 1982, the Alleyway production won the hearts of countless
Western New York families and became part of their annual
celebrations. Its universal themes of gratitude, generosity
and redemption annually inspire thousands of Western New Yorkers
for whom, without it, the winter holidays would not be complete.
Once again,
this season, parents who were themselves young children when
they first saw the Alleyway production, will be bringing their
own children to see what Dickens' called "a whimsical sort
of masque intended to awaken loving and forbearing thoughts."
Through the years over seventy adult actors have appeared
in the production, with dozens of child actors playing, and
eventually outgrowing, parts as the Cratchit children.
Over 70,000
theatre goers have enjoyed the production during the last
two decades. The 20th Anniversary Production will star British
actor John Smeathers as Ebenezer Scrooge (5th year) and feature
Neal Radice (20th year), Katy Clancy (9th year), David Sambora
(14th year), Peter Jaskowiak (3rd year), Michael Mirand (16th
year), Joyce Stilson (13th year), and newcomer Jennifer Caruana.
This year's child actors include Hayden Denesha, Carly Daniel,
and Kirk Daniel as Tiny Tim (2nd year).
A CHRISTMAS
CAROL will play for five performances only December 13-21,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Saturday, December 21 at
5PM in the beautifully restored Forbes Theatre at 500 Pearl
Street. Tickets: $24 general admission; $10 students (call
for school matinees prices), available at the Alleyway Box
Office noon to 5PM, Tuesday through Friday, at the door 45
minutes before each performance at Forbes Theatre, by phone
with Visa/Master Card at 716-852-2600 or save service charges
by buying online at http://alleyway.com.
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Located in
the heart of Buffalos Theater District
and run by the Alleyway
Theater Inc, this space has dedicated itself to finding
and producing the best in new drama and musicals since 1980.
Operating out of the old Greyhound bus depot, the theater has
a Sept-May season during which it puts on 4-5 original works
in its 99-seat convertible facility.
As well, it sponsors workshops, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play
Competition, the Buffalo Quickies series of short plays, and
annual holiday season showings of The Road to Bethlehem
and A Christmas Carol (presented at the Forbes
Theatre, Buffalo Christian Center).
Regular performances take place Thu 7:30pm, Fri-Sat 8pm, Sun
2pm. Admission $18 (general); $10 (student/child). Available
online, by phone (+1 716 852 2600), or at box office.
Other theaters under the Alleyway Theater Inc aegis include:
Pandoras
Box Theater Company, K!dSHowCo,
and the Upper
West Arts Center. |
716 852 2600
716 852 2266
Box Office: Noon-5pm Mon-Fri; 45 min before show