A Christmas Carol: Live Radio Play
You’ve never experienced Charles Dickens’s holiday classic quite like this. Five WRDL Radio Players bring to life scores of characters, live sound effects, vintage commercial breaks, and musical underscore to create an authentic 1940s radio experience, all in front of a live studio audience. A Christmas Carol is a classic story of redemption that has been adapted by Joe Landry, an award-winning internationally produced playwright. The actors play dozens of roles as the familiar story unfolds. Three ghosts take Ebenezer Scrooge on a thrilling journey to teach him the true meaning of Christmas. This show is family-friendly and for all ages! The cast includes Broadway actors, Byron Jennings, Caroline McCormack, Daniel Davis, Stella Everett, and Cooper Jennings.
The play also includes live music by Marta Waterman, Live foley by Patrick McDonough, and the beautiful voice of Erin Hebert. Directed by Ann Citron.
CAST
BYRON JENNINGS BROADWAY: “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”, “She Loves Me”, “You Can’t Take It With You”, “Macbeth”, “Arcadia”, “The Merchant of Venice”, “Inherit The Wind”, “Noises Off”, “Is He Dead”, “Accent on Youth”, “Heartbreak House”, “A Touch of the Poet”, “Twelve Angry Men”, “The Man Who Came To Dinner”, “A Month in the Country”, ‘Henry IV”, “Dinner At Eight”, “The Invention of Love”, “Carousel”, “Sight Unseen”. OFF BROADWAY: “Plenty”, “Waste”, “Don Juan”, “The Foreigner”, “Dealer’s Choice”, “Stuff Happens”, “Pericles”, “The Merchant of Venice”, “On The Open Road”, “The Twenty-Seventh Man”, “Ten Chimneys”. TELEVISION: “Tommy”,” Fosse/Verdon”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Blacklist”, “The Good Fight”, “Boardwalk Empire”, “Elementary”, “Billions”, “Difficult People”, “Deadbeat”, “Damages”, “White Collar”, “Kings”, “Gossip Girl”, “Law & Order”, “Liberty”, “God In America”. FILM: “The Greatest Showman On Earth”, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, “True Story”, “Lincoln”, “Julie & Julia”, “Hamlet”, “Civil Action”, “The Ice Storm”, “A Time To Kill”, “Quiz Show”, “A Simple Twist of Fate”, “I’m Losing You”.
DANIEL DAVIS began acting at the age of eleven, which is now a very long time ago. Most of his career has been on the stage having done more than two hundred productions in regional theatres across the US and Canada. Including six seasons at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ten seasons at the Williamstown Theatre in Massachusetts, the Guthrie theatre in Minneapolis and many others. He is best known to television audiences as Niles the Butler on “The Nanny” and Professor Moriarty on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.
CAROLYN McCORMICK Broadway credits include – “Equus”, “The Dinner Party”, “Private Lives”. Off Broadway- “My First Ex-Husband”, “Windows”, “At the Wedding”, “A Man For All Seasons”, “The Stone Witch”, “Family Furniture”, “Open House” (drama desk award, Lucille Lortel nomination), “What I Did Last Summer”, “Black Tie”, “Ten Chimneys”, “Celebration”, “Privilege”, “Biography”, “Dinner with Friends”. Multiple plays in regional theatre at Seattle Rep, Old Globe, ACT, Denver Center, Williamstown, Papermill Playhouse, Yale Rep. Television includes Dr. Olivet on “Law and Order, Minuet on “Star Trek”, series regular on “Cracker” and “Spenser For Hire”, guest star on “Boston Blue”, “Bull”, “Billions”, “Madam Secretary”, “Blue Bloods”, “Body of Proof”, “Cold Case”, “Judging Amy”, “The Practice”, “Homicide”. Films include “Mapplethorpe”, “Nyad”, “The Post”, “Whatever Works”, “Loverboy”, “You Know My Name”, “A Simple Twist of Fate”, “Enemy Mine”. Multiple Lifetime movies and Hallmark’s “A Holiday Spectacular” as well as myriad audio books including “The Hunger Games” as well as many Ken Burns documentaries. Williams College BFA, American Conservatory MFA. CarolynMcCormick.com
STELLA EVERETT recently starred in feature film; “Ride Or Die”; opposite Briana Middleton, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival. This spring, Stella starred Off-Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater production, “Five Models In Ruins”, 1981, opposite Elizabeth Marvel. Previous credits include the Paramount+ series “EVIL” and the CBS series “EAST NEW YORK”. Up next, Everett will be in season 2 of “Running Point” on Netflix. Everett is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where she received The Fendi Vanguard Award for outstanding promise in the acting field.
COOPER JENNINGS Recent credits include “As You Like It” (Orlando) and “King John” (Bastard) at Shakespeare on the Sound, “Power of the Dog “(Arkov), “Troilus and Cressida” (Troilus) at the Juilliard School and “The Three Musketeers” (D’Artagnan) at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. MFA in Acting, The Juilliard School.
