Alhambra’s Christmas Carole is back

December 8, 2013
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JOSEPH PARRA, who has done several roles at the Alhambra, returns this year to play Fezziwig. SHAIN STROFF is another Carole returnee and this year he is Charity Man # 1, and in addition was the Choreographer.

At various shows during this run ABBY DAVEY, a veteran actress at the age of ten, will be playing Tiny Tim. Following in her footsteps on Gala Night, her younger brother HARRISON DAVEY played this role. Young Master Davey who is age four was the tiniest Tiny Tim we have ever seen but was a real trooper, who sang, danced, and knew all his lines perfectly.

TIM ELLIS as Scrooge’s nephew Fred sang marvelously in a pivotal role, with his songs as narrative for much of the action on the stage.

Director/Producer Booth has done a superb job of selecting performers who wonderfully are picture perfect for their roles and can really sing, and we mean sing. We don’t think we have ever hear Scudder’s unique musical compositions performed as well. We applaud TRAVIS GERALD YOUNG (Bob Cratchit), MICHELLE LYNN MYERS (Dorothy Cratchit), LAURIE BLOOM (Molly Fezziwig), KAYLA KELSAY (Belle), JOSHIAN MORALES (Charity Man # 2) and JENNIFER AUBUCHON (LIzzie).

The only other young person in the play was the Cratchit’s daughter Sarah, played by TAYLOR HALSEMA, who at age fourteen is already a seasoned Alhambra veteran with previous roles in “Joseph,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Willie Wonka.”

The Dual Critics of EU Jacksonville have been reviewing plays together for the past nine years. Dick Kerekes has been a critic since 1980, starting with The First Coast Entertainer and continuing as the paper morphed into EU Jacksonville. Leisla Sansom wrote reviews from time to time in the early 80s, but was otherwise occupied in the business world. As a writing team, they have attended almost thirty Humana Festivals of New America Plays at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, and many of the annual conferences sponsored by the American Theatre Critics Association, which are held in cities throughout the country.

They have reviewed plays in Cincinnati, Chicago, Miami, Sarasota, Minneapolis, Orlando, New York, Philadelphia, Sarasota, San Francisco, Shepherdstown, and The Eugene O’Neill Center in Waterford, Massachusetts. They currently review about one hundred plays annually in the North Florida area theaters, which include community, college, university, and professional productions.

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