Clockwise, top to bottom: Fracaswell Hyman, Scott Davis (center), Steve Vernon, Vanessa Welch and Randy Davis perform in the radio show, “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol.” (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Big Dawg Productions)
WILMINGTON Usually this time of year, at least one staging of “A Christmas Carol” is going on in Wilmington. While entertainment venues, and thus theater companies, have been thwarted by Covid protocols from doing in-person shows, Big Dawg Productions is finding a way to bring the famed tale of redemption into the homes of theater lovers.
Big Dawg has launched “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” as a radio drama or as it would be coined in 2020, “an audio presentation” available to stream through Dec. 22. It’s one of many ways the story has been told and retold since Dickens published the original 1843 novella, “A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.” Tom Mula’s stage version was introduced to Big Dawg’s
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WILMINGTON Big Dawg Productions announces an audio presentation of a Wilmington favorite, “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” by Tom Mula.
The production can be stream by visiting showtix4u.com/event-details/43942. Tickets are $15, and the show is Dec. 17-22. Big Dawg Productions asks that one ticket be purchased per person, and not per household. The honor system will be in place. Once a ticket is purchased, you will be sent a link to a video that contains the play in audio form.
In the tradition of radio theater, the show will feature music, sound effects and powerful performances by four veterans of the Wilmington stage. The play stars Randy Davis as Jacob Marley, a role that gained him the 2018 StarNews Theater Award for Best Actor. The show also features Vanessa Welch as The Bogle, Steve Vernon as Scrooge, and two time StarNews Theater Award winner for Best Actor Fracaswell Hyman in multiple roles.