MET's A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns At The Weinberg Center For The Arts

Maryland Ensemble Theatre's production of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" returns to Frederick's Weinberg Center for the Arts. The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Tiny Tim will transport audiences to Victorian England as the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his miserly ways and embraces the true spirit of Christmas.

"It's such a treat to bring this classic to life each holiday season," said the show's director Julie Herber. "The spirit of the show is infectious, the energy we feel greeting the audience after the show is always so cheerful and heartwarming."

"The entire 'Christmas Carol' team looks forward to it every year," said Herber. "Each year it feels like coming home. We have so many cast members that return year after year, it's like having a holiday family reunion and that really comes across on stage." Over the years, thousands of families have celebrated the holidays with this production of "A Christmas Carol", making it a highly anticipated holiday tradition in downtown Frederick.

New this year is the addition of an ASL interpreter during the Friday, December 16th show date to improve accessibility. Also new this year, MET's new Managing Director Katherine DuBois will be joined on stage during the curtain speech by some of MET's community partners including City Youth Matrix, AARCH Society, Mrs. Maryland Petite, and The Frederick Center to raise awareness of their causes and in the hopes that patrons will join MET's Season of Giving Campaign by donating to MET and the community partners organizations. Donations will be split 50/50 between MET and the community partner associated with the performance that they participate in.

"With the wonderful support of our Frederick audience we are thrilled to have the opportunity to promote these special causes during this season of giving." - Managing Director, Katherine DuBois

Tad Janes, MET's Artistic Director, will return in the iconic role of Scrooge and will be joined by memorable returning cast members Gené Fouché, Lisa Burl, Jack Evans, James McGarvey, Jeremy Myers, Sean Byrne, and Lena Janes. The production features a number of junior performers, many of whom are students or alumni of MET's Ensemble School.

About A Christmas Carol: "A Christmas Carol" is a stirring tale that has endured and delighted since being greeted with critical and popular acclaim upon its publication in 1843. Dickens himself was the first to add a performance element to the story, personally performing 127 public readings of "A Christmas Carol". Since then it has been adapted hundreds of times to nearly every medium possible including the first surviving film version in 1901, Orson Wells on CBS Radio in 1938, both opera and ballet adaptations, a Muppets' movie and a Broadway musical.

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