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'A Christmas Carol:' Ebenezer Scrooge's Short, Strange Trip

Michael Marsolek talks with Jere Hodgin, Mark Metcalf, and Cohen Ambrose about The University of Montana's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Performances take place in the Montana Theatre, in the P.A.R.T.V. Building at the University:

November 25 and 29 at 7:30 p.m.; 
November 30 at 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.;
December 2-5 at 7:30 p.m.; 
December 6 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

(Broadcast: "Front Row Center," 11/23/14. Listen weekly on the radio, Sunday mornings at 11:40, or via podcast.)

This treatment of the tale of one hallucinatory, core-shaking night in the life of literature's most famous penny-pincher is driven by Dickens's storytelling. Character actor Mark Metcalfplays the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by Cohen Ambrose. Adapted by Jere Hodgin. 

Tickets can be ordered here, or at the UMArts Box Office at (406-243-4581), M-F between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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