MUSICAL "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" COMES TO THE LEGACY

What would the Christmas holiday be without a visit with that cranky cheapskate curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge? Luckily the Legacy Theater in Branford has opportunities galore for the magical and musical encounter until Sunday, December 12 with James Andreassi doing the honors as that Bah Humbug Master of the Miserly Scrooge himself. It is exactly seven years since his business partner Jacob Marley has left this earth and Jacob is back with a mortal warning for his old colleague: repent your stingy ways or else. Marley knows all-too-well the punishment that could be Scrooge’s as he himself has suffered. Scrooge is fated to encounter a trio of ghosts who will make him review the choices he has made in life to date, how he abandoned his love Belle for his greater desire for wealth, how he neglected family like his sister Fan and nephew Fred and how he refused to be charitable or to celebrate Christmas. On a creative set designed by Jamie Burnett, with period costumes by June Gold, much original music by director Keely Baisden Knudsen and musical director David Bell, we are invited into Scrooge’s narrow world and are privileged to watch it expand into a genuine appreciation for love and life as Scrooge repents his penurious ways and transforms himself into a grateful and giving man. Helping him along the way with song and dance and ghostly hauntings are Keely Baisden Knudsen, Chris Lemieux, Josiah Rowe, Emmett Cassidy, Betzabeth Castro, Kiersten Bjork, Emery Knudsen and Liviana Knudsen. This traditional tale has been adapted creatively by Keely Baisden Knudsen from a novella by Charles Dickens. For tickets ($ 60), call the Legacy box office, Stony Creek, Branford at 203-315-1901 or online at info@LegacyTheatreCT.org. Performances are Wednesday at 2 pm and 7 pm, Thursday at 2 pm and 7 pm, Friday at 8 pm, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 pm. Remember your masks. Come early to be serenaded by The Royal Court Singers and enter the lovely holiday spirit of the performance. There is no Bah Humbug tolerated here.