Three days before The Big One. Your feet hurt; you’re crabby: The kids. The wrapping and cooking. The blue bulbs. Ach! You need a drink! The Firehouse is here for you, baby.
Save your liver and buy a ticket to this show. Sit back, relax, and let your favorite actors do the hard work for you.
At only $5 a ticket, it’s the perfect antidote to the hollydaze. Students free! One show only.
Fab actor/director Billy Christopher Maupin (Assistant, Mr. Marmalade) directs a stellar cast including - but not limited to: Robert Albertia, Jacqueline Jones, Richard Koch, Katherine Louis, Tom McGranahan, Jacqueline O’Connor, Maggie Roop, Jeanie Rule, Michael Thibodeau, Cooper Timberline, and Scott Wichmann in the staged reading of Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge by Obie-award winning playwright Christopher Durang. It’s a wild and crazy reimagining of Dickens’s classic story from the perspective of the unsung wife of good ol’ Bob, with a veritable gallimaufry (look it up!) of some of your favorite auld yule standards intertwined. With expert musical direction by Matt Mangialetti, it’s Mommy Dearest meets the Ghost of Christmas Past!
See! A sassy, take-no-prisoners African-American Ghost of Christmas past, present and future!
Witness! A very naughty Mrs. Bob Cratchit as you’ve never seen her before!
Feel! The tension as Mrs. Cratchit and Ebenezer discover true love!
Suspend! Disbelief, as Clarence the Twain-reading, wingless angel comes to the rescue!
“Abundant laughter…Mrs. Bob is a rollicking parody that caters to our desire to have our traditional holiday and mock it, too.”
– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Date: Mon., Dec. 22
Time: 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00
Where: Firehouse Theatre, 1609 W. Broad St.
Admission: $5 at the door, students free!
More information: Call the Firehouse at (804) 355-2001, or e-mail info@firehousetheatre.org. The information above was provided by Stacie Birtchett at the Firehouse
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