Ebenezer Scrooge: Jazzed Up Like The Dickens! Sat. Dec. 5th

Rehearsal footage from Ebenezer Scrooge: Jazzed Up Like The Dickens! Saturday December 5, 2009 at Kaufman Auditorium. Tickets $10 adults, $7 youth 18 and under in advance and $13 adults, $10 youth at the door! (906) 228-0472.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Jazzed Up Like The Dickens Dance Production Coming To Kaufman Auditorium December 5, 2009

Ghosts! Scrooge! Bob Crachit! Tiny Tim! See them all swoop and soar across the Kaufman stage in Americas Favorite Holiday Event! This dance production features a cast of over 60 beautifully costumed dancers. Come and join Marquette dancers on a Dickens of a journey through the story of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Bring the entire family!

The City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center and The Second Skin Shop have teamed up to bring a community dance performance of Ebenezer Scrooge: Jazzed Up Like The Dickens on December 5, 2009 at 1 p.m. (matinee) and 7 p.m. at Kaufman Auditorium.

The show is choreographed by Jessica Pesola, Alexandrea Holley, Megan Bronstein, Jill Vermeulen, Taylor Rovin, Maria Formolo and Cee Wilkinson of Northern Michigan University, Maggie Barch of the Beladinas, Bob Railey of Marquette Folk Dancers, Karie Schmid of New Attitudes Dance Studio, Kristen Frak-Miller of Superior Dance Academy, Jill Grundstrom of Marquette Center for Dance, Kimber Schumann of Dawn Dott Dance Studio, and Deb Choszczyk of Lake Superior State University.
The show features dancers of all ages. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Dr. David Shahbazi) sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit (David Bashaw), shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire.
Later that evening, after returning to his dark, cold apartment, Scrooge receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley (Kristen Halsey). Marley, looking haggard and pallid, relates his unfortunate story. Marley informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during each of the next three nights. After the wraith disappears, Scrooge collapses into a deep sleep.
He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past (Maggie Barch and the Beladinas). The spirit escorts Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from the curmudgeon's earlier years. Invisible to those he watches, Scrooge revisits his childhood school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his engagement to Belle (Kerry Yost with Young Scrooge played by Michael Skrobeck), a woman who leaves Scrooge because his lust for money eclipses his ability to love another. The dance continues through Dickens fashion until the Ghost of Yet To Come (Tara Middleton). Live music will be performed by local artists Adam Whittington and Emily Dawn.
Seating is reserved and sold on a first come, first serve basis. There are no refunds or exchanges.

Tickets prices are as follows:
$7 Children/$10 Adults in advance




$10 Children/$13 Adults at the door




Tickets available at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center Gallery gift shop
located in the lower level of the Peter White Library. Call 228-0472 to order
by credit card or for more information. Tickets will also be available at the door. For information email arts@mqtcty.org or log on to www.mqtcty.org/arts.html

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