UpdatedWed, Dec 16, 2020 at 9:14 am ET
Reply
Westport Country Playhouse, in Partnership with WSHU Public Radio, Presents A Merry Little Christmas Carol
Westport Country Playhouse, in partnership with WSHU Public Radio, will present a free-of-charge audio play, A Merry Little Christmas Carol, on Saturday, December 19, at noon, followed by a rebroadcast on Saturday, December 26, at 8 p.m. WSHU frequencies and locations are listed at wshu.org in the About Us drop-down menu.
UPDATE: The encore broadcast will be on Sunday, December 27, at 8 p.m. on WSHU (not Sat., Dec. 26 as originally stated). A Merry Little Christmas Carol is written and directed by Mark Shanahan, adapted from his play of the same name, and based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The holiday show runs approximately two hours and is appropriate for ages 6 and up.
Globe. In this latest tale, Tom tells the terrifying tale of Lily Purple. FOR reasons that will soon become clear, I have had to change a few names in this unsettling story. It began to unfold one wintry December night in 1972 at a certain old gothic Victorian house in New Brighton. A 42-year-old man named Stuart Bonneville and 30-year-old girlfriend Louise Geoghan, were lying in bed, and the wind was howling at the windows. You don t do anything romantic anymore, Stu, Louise complained and turned to her boyfriend and watched him roll his eyes. He had been trying to read Heinlein s
From Carry On to EastEnders, we pay tribute to national treasure and showbiz royalty, Barbara Windsor.
11 December 2020
Sparrows Can t Sing (1963)
Barbara Windsor, who has died at the age of 83, had a long reign. She changed her surname from Deeks around the time of Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 and withdrew from public gaze on leaving the Queen Vic for the last time in 2016. In between times, ‘Babs’ became a national treasure, although she is bound to be remembered for the wrong reasons, as there was much more to her than that pinging green bikini in Carry On Camping (1969).
As part of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop, Windsor had announced herself in Lionel Bart’s Cockney musical, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (1959), and she went on to earn a Tony nomination for the Broadway transfer of Oh, What a Lovely War! (1965). Littlewood had urged her to drop out of the Carry Ons, and Windsor took 2 wilderness decades to emerge from their shadow. The talent was a
Westport Country Playhouse Presents A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS CAROL
Free-of-charge audio play, featuring Paxton Whitehead as Scrooge, offers an inventive and theatrical holiday experience from your home.by BWW News Desk
Westport Country Playhouse, in partnership with WSHU Public Radio, will present a free-of-charge audio play, A Merry Little Christmas Carol, on Saturday, December 19, at noon, followed by a rebroadcast on Saturday, December 26, at 8 p.m. WSHU frequencies and locations are listed at wshu.org in the About Us drop-down menu. A Merry Little Christmas Carol is written and directed by Mark Shanahan, adapted from his play of the same name, and based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The holiday show runs approximately two hours and is appropriate for ages 6 and up.