“Some versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are like hot toddies: traditional, sweet, and heartwarming. SCROOGE IN ROUGE, is like a boilermaker: a raucous holiday celebration spiked with campy drag, “Naughty List”-worthy lyrics, and deliciously over-the-top performances calibrated to instantly kick the audience into higher spirits!”  —Open Eye

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Directed by Jessica Zingher, this hilarious quick-change version of the Charles Dickens classic is set in a Victorian music hall. The Royal Music Hall Twenty-Member Variety Players are beset with a widespread case of food poisoning. This leaves only three surviving members to soldier on through a performance of A Christmas Carol. The undaunted trio gamely face missed cues, ill-fitting costumes, and solving the problem of having no one to play Tiny Tim. Done in the style of British Music Hall, Scrooge In Rouge abounds in bad puns, bawdy malapropisms, naughty double-entendres, and witty songs. A raucous holiday treat!  Audiences teenage+ recommended.

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The cast features Reneé Welsh Noel, Matt Kenyon, Nonye Obichere with Lois Buesser on the piano. The production team includes Chris Dyer, Lois Buesser, Reneé Welsh Noel, Ben Griffith, Meredith Magoun, Kyara Miranda, Patrick Dodds, Lucas DeVore.