Students bring adaptation of Dickens'classic to life
For Brad T. Cox, portraying
Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew in
the lied Center's production of “A
Christmas Carol” this weekend is
an exhilarating opportunity.
The freshman theater per
formance major has experience
doing dinner theater and high
school shows, but he has never
performed for a crowd of more
than 500.
“When you get out there and
are on the other side of 2,500
seats, you can be nothing but
awestruck,” Cox said of being on
the Lied Center's stage.
Jeffery Scott Elwell, a profes
sor and chairman of the
Department of Theatre Arts, said
in the early days of the Lied
Center for Performing Arts, some
people who were supportive of
both it and the theater depart
ment thought it would be nice to
have cooperation between the
two units.
This year is the 13th time the
theater department and the Lied
Center have collaborated for “A
Christmas Carol,” but this year’s
production is a little bit different
Elwell was commissioned to
write a new adaptation of the
classic tale by Charles Dickens
about the miserly Ebenezer
Scrooge who hates Christmas.
Elwell said he tried to keep
die play as true to Dickens’ origi
nal intentions as possible by
keeping the main character’s
transformation slow and realistic.
Some of the royalties Elwell
receives as a playwright will go
toward the creation of two uni
versity scholarships.
Elwell said students perform
ing on the Iied’s stage get to expe
rience professional theater first
hand.
“They get to work with
Broadway-size scenery,” he said.
“They get to work with body
mics, which... mirrors reality in a
large professional theater.”
Freshman theater major
Jennifer Ward (Ghost of
Christmas Past) was in lied pro
ductions of “The Nutcracker”
when she was younger and is
happy to return to the profes
sional stage for “A Christmas
Carol.”
“The technical aspect is more
developed and the crew back
stage and dressers and everybody
is so professional,” she said.
Yale graduate David Ackroyd
plays the part of Scrooge in the
show.
Senior theater performance
major Kyle Johnston said the
chance to work with profession
als like Ackroyd and Director Rob
Urbinati is one thing he has
enjoyed about this show.
"It's nice to see their process
because it’s significantly different
from what you see in an academ
Story by Crystal K.Wiebe, Photos by Steven Bender
ABOVE: Scrooge, taken to the Cratchit
family by a spirit sees the familyat a
sullen moment that helps him realize
the difficulty of living on a meager
budget
ic setting,” Johnston said
Johnston has previously per
formed in productions of “A
Christmas Carol” and
"Oklahoma!” at the Lied. He said
the composition of the audience
is different at the Lied than places
like the Howell Theatre.
“(You play to a) general pub
lic audience instead of a more
academic one,” Johnston said.
Ackroyd, who has much
experience both on stage and in
film, said he has enjoyed working
with a young cast
"They are uncynical,”
Ackroyd said. “It's fun to see the
kind of joy these kids throw into
acting."
Elwell’s script, which has
been revised throughout the
rehearsals, may provide a chal
lenge for the young actors,
Ackroyd said. There are 11 ver
sions of the script, including the
original, which was finished in
midsummer.
ABOVE: Saoogespencb a late night reviewing his business'books
before the spirits visit him.The spirits reveal to him his uncaring
character.
RIGHT: Ebenezer Scrooge makes an unexpected visit to the
Cratchit family at Christmas. Scrooge, who received successive visits
by spirits, changed hismiseriyway* and granted financial benefits
to his employee Mr. Cratchit
The many script changes
prompted freshman theater per
formance major Brett Waldon to
joke: “Whatever you learned the
day before - forget it”
But Waldon said he appreci
ates the extra lines he received as
a result of the changes, which
added depth to his little-known
character of Peter Cratchit •
Elwell cited many reasons for
the revisions including Urbinati’s
“unconventional concept” for
the show. But, Elwell said, some
changes are inevitable with adap
tations.
“On stage you don’t have to
describe things (such as) how
someone is reacting because an
actor is doing that,” he said.
LEFT: Ebenezer
Scrooge makes
a dreamy
decent into Ms
own grave, an
act that fright
ens Scrooge
and helps instill
inhimanew
perspective on
life.
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