Striking 12 2005

Opened: December 3, 2005
Closing: December 23, 2005

Striking 12 - 2005 - New York History , Info & More

Ars Nova
511 W. 54th St. New York, NY 10019

Based on the story "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen

On New Year's Eve, an over-worked and under-inspired single guy who's had enough of holiday cheer makes a resolution: to stay home and go to bed early. But his reclusive evening is interrupted by an eccentric young woman selling special "full-spectrum holiday light bulbs" to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder. Though her intervention and Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Match Girl, our protagonist finally begins to pull out of his funk.

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