(Seguin) — The classic telling and musical of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to the stage this Christmas in Seguin.
The musical will be presented this weekend at the Texas Theatre. The show will jump start the Christmas week in Seguin with shows on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and on Monday.
Helping to piece the show together is Director Sheila Lucas. Lucas says this show promises to dazzle audiences with its beautiful musical renditions and heartwarming storytelling that vividly brings Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation journey to life. She says despite a short rehearsal time, the group was compelled to put in the work so that folks can enjoy the show for a second year.
“As I said, it was such a success last year and people were asking for it. They said, ‘please do it again. Please do it again. We want to bring friends. We want other people to see it.
We’ve got family coming in.’ So, this year, it was a short rehearsal period as well and I thought, gosh, we did so much work on it and we had all costumes and sets and everything in place and so many of the people were available and wanting to do it again. We just decided that it probably would be advisable to go ahead and repeat it and let the folks that didn’t get a chance to come and see it to see it and the folks that want to come see it again, another chance to see it and I think it’s going to work great,” said Lucas.
Lucas says affording the community a Monday night performance was also important, especially after last year’s success.
“We tried it as an experiment knowing that school was out. People would be in town to visit their relatives and there’s nothing to do. So, we thought, well hey, let’s try it out and it was our biggest house. So, it was a success, and we thought, let’s do that again for sure,” said Lucas.
Lucas says the show embodies all the elements of the holiday season. She says it will even include her signature Santa Scarf auction.
“We will also have our scarf auction, our Santa Scarf Auction. Every year, I crochet four Santa scarves by hand, and we raffle them off each performance and they have been a big success. I have people running around town now saying ‘here’s the scarf that I won last year. I’ve still got my scarf.” The students in the show sell raffle tickets, and they sell cookies before the show and all of those proceeds go to put a little gas money in people’s pockets. We are community theatre and of course, no one gets paid, and we will have carolers out in front of the theatre before the show,” said Lucas.
Tickets can be purchased at thetexas.org. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23.