ANNUAL A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns to Dallas Theater Center Just in Time For the Holidays

The Dallas Theater Center (DTC) annual tradition of A Christmas Carol returns live to the stage this year. The show opens at the Dee & Charles Wyly Theater on November 24th, and the first preview is already sold out, adding to the anticipation for the opening night! After switching to a digital version of A Christmas Carol in the 2020-21 season, this season the DTC audience welcomes back to its large-scale indoor production just in time for Christmas time.

The Dallas Theater Center continues its 12 year partnership with the North Texas Food Bank. They will raise funds after each performance, with every dollar going to the blackboard. The DTC audience contributed nearly $ 900,000 and provided more than 2.7 million meals for food-insecure North Texans.

Christie Vela, Associate Artistic Director at Theater Three and founding member of DTC’s Diane and Brierley Resident Acting Company, directs production. She has also directed several other DTC productions including A Christmas Carol (2015), Gloria, and Real Women Have Curves. Vela has directed productions for Shakespeare Dallas, Second Thought Theater and Kitchen Dog Theater. Vela is also an accomplished actress, who last appeared on stage in DTC’s Tiny Beautiful Things. She also appeared in DTC’s productions of Steel Magnolias, Inherit the Wind, Sense and Sensibility and Les Misérables.

“This piece never stops being relevant. It’s a lot more relevant after what happened in 2020. We figured out who really mattered. Teachers, workers, people in the warehouses. Not bankers,” Christie said Vela, director of A Christmas Carol. “This is a battle for Scrooge’s soul. This production shows how much our actions mean, how important what we do matters.”

Raphael Parry, Executive and Artistic Director of Shakespeare Dallas, will play Ebenezer Scrooge. Parry joined Shakespeare Dallas in 2002 and became Executive and Artistic Director in 2008. He is slated to direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the 50th season of Shakespeare Dallas in the summer of 2022. He is also the co-founder and former co-artistic director of Undermain Theater, the founding producer of Project X: Theater, and was the artistic director of Young Audiences of North Texas for five years. Parry has received multiple awards for director and actor from the Dallas Theater Critics’ Forum and the Leon Rabin Awards. This is a return to the DTC stage for Parry. He joined the theater as an actor in several roles including The Importance of Being Earnest, Tartuffe and Taking Steps. He even starred and directed DTC’s A Christmas Carol (1995, 1997).

“Christmas time is a wonderful time to celebrate with our families and friends. I think the timeless story of Scrooge’s redemption combined with the wonderful music and spectacle of live theater creates a magical moment for everyone involved, ”said Raphael Parry, Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol.

In A Christmas Carol, three ghosts visit stingy Scrooge and take him on a fantastic journey through the past, present and future of Christmas. But will it be enough to save Scrooge’s soul? Full of happy songs, magical ghosts and the Christmas spirit, DTC reinterprets the classic Dickens story of joy, redemption and the Christmas spirit.

The Dallas Theater Center requires viewers over the age of 12 to show a negative COVID-19 test or proof of vaccination. Guests do not need to show identification and DTC does not store customer information. To view DTC’s COVID-19 guest policy, please visit www.dallastheatercenter.org/covid-19-guest-policy

Concessions can be purchased prior to the show. Production runs from November 24th to December 26th. For more information or to buy tickets, please visit www.dallastheatercenter.org/show/a-christmas-carol-2021/

A Christmas carol is presented by the Moody Foundation with additional support from PwC. Pay What You Can Performance is sponsored by Deloitte.

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