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Whew. This is the fastest feature known to man, theater artist and filmmaker E.G. Bailey said late last week as he raced to finish postproduction on Dickens Holiday Classic, the Guthrie Theater s Christmas Carol offering that starts streaming Saturday. The whole process from getting the call to basically delivering this for the [opening on Dec.] 19th was about 2½ months. Warp speed from concept to finish.
If Bailey feels whiplash, he doesn t mind. He s living out a dream marriage of theater and film while working in partnership with Guthrie artistic director Joseph Haj on something that s new. It s a hybrid conceived and built intentionally as a film on a virtual platform, Haj said. E.G. is a very sophisticated theater artist and filmmaker supersmart about both mediums. And the opportunity for us to kind of press these things into one another is just fascinating and interesting.