a christmas carol – TINSEL and TAP SHOES

News: Lachy Hulme to play Scrooge in 2025 season of ‘A Christmas Carol’

The five-time Tony Award-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this festive season with Lachy Hulme, one of Australia’s most recognisable stage and screen actors, stepping into the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge.

News: ‘A Christmas Carol’ Returns In 2025!

The five-time Tony Award-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol will return to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre for a strictly limited 5-week season from 27 November.

Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Comedy Theatre, Melbourne (2024)

For the third year in a row, GWB Entertainment’s A Christmas Carol is once again playing at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre. Based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, the iconic story sees curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

News: Full Cast Announced For ‘A Christmas Carol’ (2024)

One of Australia’s most loved and award-winning stars across film, television and theatre, Erik Thomson, will play the coveted role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the blockbuster production of A Christmas Carol – Melbourne’s new festive tradition at the Comedy Theatre from Friday 22 November.

News: ‘A Christmas Carol’ Casts ‘Game of Thrones’ Actor in Leading Role

Tony Award winner and international screen star, Owen Teale will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the triumphant return season of the smash-hit Old Vic production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol, returning to the Comedy Theatre from 12 November.

News: A Christmas Carol Returns In 2023!

The smash-hit Old Vic production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol, returns to Melbourne to delight audiences at the Comedy Theatre, this November 17-December 31.

Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre (2022)

Charles Dickens’ timeless tale will be adapted and re-told as long as there are theatres and TV and movie screens in the world, with the magic of his story being that, while it’s a relatively simple tale, the impact of its message is never diluted through re-telling.

So, while we have seen many an adaptation of the novella over the years, stage versions of the play are not too common on the local stage, compared to Europe where they are much more of a Christmas tradition. It’s wonderful to see this tradition come to the Australian stages so that Christmas-loving theatregoers can get into the festive spirit early, given we’re still a few weeks out from Christmas Day itself.

News: A Christmas Carol set to have its Australian premiere at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre in November 2022

Two visionary Tony Award winners — director Matthew Warchus (Matilda the Musical) and playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) — have created a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens’ timeless story, A Christmas Carol.

Dickens’ 1843 novella tells the story of a selfish and greedy old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates everything related to Christmas. Ultimately a tale of compassion and redemption, after being visited by Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Scrooge is changed into a better man.