A new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the 2015 festive offering at Northamptonshire venue The Castle in Wellingborough.
Luke Sheppard directs A Christmas Carol which features eight actors and more than 70 children. It has been written by Ben Frost and Richard Hough who are also developing a new musical version of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
Tom Attwood plays Jacob Marley. He worked at the National Theatre for five years and was in the German première of Ghost the Musical at the English Theatre Frankfurt.
Greg Barnett (Scrooge) played Keith in the stage adaptation of Viv Nicholson’s book Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury and on tour in 2010 and Antonio in the Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Twelfth Night.
Eamonn Cox (Bob Cratchit) was in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre while Adam Hepworth (The Ghost of Christmas Future) co-wrote and composed IF—A New Musical in which he also played Tom at Waterloo East Theatre.
Bryan Hodgson (The Ghost of Christmas Past) is a former teacher and director at the Northern Academy of Performing Arts, Emma Odell (Madge Cratchit) played Gwendolen in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Pauline in Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van and Mrs Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, all at Pitlochry in 2015, Rebecca Ridout (Belle) played Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music at Leicester’s Curve in 2015 and Giovanna Ryan (The Ghost of Christmas Present) was on the 2015 tour of Calamity Jane directed by Nikolai Foster and played Euphronia in the Northern Stage production of The Glass Slipper at Northern Stage, Newcastle in 2011.
A Christmas Carol runs at The Castle, Wellingborough from Monday 7 December until Tuesday 29 December. Press night will be on Friday 11 December.