New Rep On Tour Announces A CHRISTMAS CAROL 12/6-23

New Rep On Tour is pleased to announce it has added a winter show, A Christmas Carol adapted and directed by Benjamin Evett, this season. The winter Tour will travel to New England schools from December 6, 2010 through December 23, 2010 and reach an audience ranging from elementary school students to college students.

New Rep On Tour will also present two student matinees and one public performance of A Christmas Carol at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Charles Mosesian Theater. The two student matinees will be held on December 20, 2010 and December 22, 2010 at 10:00am and the one public performance will be held on December 20, 2010 at 7:30pm.

"I am thrilled the Tour has grown from two to three productions with the addition of a winter show this season," states Kate Warner, Artistic Director for New Rep. "New Rep On Tour is a wonderful program. It is remarkable that forty percent of the students who see a New Rep On Tour show are experiencing live theatre for the very first time.

In Dickens' timeless story of redemption, Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly miser, is visited by the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Each of these unearthly guides calls Scrooge on a journey of self-discovery, helps him to appreciate humanity, and shows him the importance of charity.

New Rep On Tour brings high quality professional productions of relevant plays from the dramatic and literary canon to area schools, in accordance with Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum frameworks, and onto the stages of local High Schools and Middle Schools in special 90-minute adaptations. Following each performance, the artists lead a talkback session, allowing students to ask questions and discuss the important topics of the play. Teachers have come to rely on the Tour as an annual event in their schools, and student testimonials describe the widespread enthusiasm for these productions.

New Rep On Tour, now in its 11th season, has performed for over 88,000 students. New Rep On Tour's mission is to bring high quality professional productions of relevant plays from the dramatic and literary canon to area schools.

New Rep on Tour is proud to have Bank of America as its Educational Outreach Sponsor, building on a long history of partnership.

"We are excited to continue our support of New Rep's impactful education programs, which will bring live theatre to thousands of students in the Greater Boston area. At Bank of America, we believe the arts, in all its forms, should be shared with the widest possible audience," said Robert E. Gallery, president, Bank of America Massachusetts.

New Repertory Theatre can offer its vital programming thanks to the additional generosity of individuals and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Clarks Companies, The Roy A. Hunt Foundation, The Fuller Foundation, The Harvard/O'Neill Community Enrichment Fund, Crossroads Community Foundation, J. Stallone Realty Group, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Local Cultural Councils of Billerica, Brookline, Burlington, Cambridge, Reading, Scituate, and Sturbridge.
The Artists

Peter Edmund Haydu (Ebeneezer Scrooge) is delighted to be appearing with New Rep On Tour in this production of A Christmas Carol. After playing virtually every other male character in the play in more productions and performances than he can count, finally he gets to try his hand at the old grouch himself! Other New Rep productions have included five years as Marley, Old Joe, and four or so other characters in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Father in Ragtime. Favorite roles at other theatres such as the Charles Playhouse, Lyric Stage, American Stage Festival, Foothills Theatre, and Stoneham Theatre have included: John Adams in 1776, David Lee in The Foreigner, Billy Bishop (and 17 other characters) in Billy Bishop Goes to War, Dick Deadeye in HMS Pinafore, Jigger in Carousel, Loevborg in Hedda Gabler, and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He appeared in the Boston Company of Forbidden Broadway and as Orin in the Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia companies of Little Shop of Horrors. His voice has been heard on many Public Radio shows, on CBS News, and regularly on PBS, notably on Vietnam, a Television History; Nova; Enterprise; and Frontline (for which he does the Series Announcements). He also provides, for WGBH's Descriptive Video Service, narrated descriptions of films and PBS programming for visually-impaired viewers. He is a proud member of AEA, AFTRA, and SAG.

Gabriel Kuttner (Marley, Gentleman, Fezziwig, Belle's Husband, Ghost of Christmas Present, Businessman, Old Joe) Recent work includes: On An Average Day, Fully Committed, A Christmas Carol and the U.S. premiere of Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Stoneham), Charlie Fox in Speed-the-Plow (New Rep - IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actor). For Orfeo Group, credits include two Elliot Norton Award-winning productions: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged and Look Back In Anger. For the Publick Theatre, roles include: The Real Inspector Hound, Faith Healer (IRNE Nomination), Travesties, Romeo and Juliet, Misalliance, Copenhagen, The Beard of Avon and Design for Living. Other U.S. theatre includes: Pugilist Specialist and Bug (WHAT), Talking to Terrorists (Súgán Theatre Company), as well as originating the role of Henry Kohl in the world premiere of Permanent Whole Life (IRNE Award for Best New Play) at Boston Playwrights Theatre. London theatre includes: Greek by Steven Berkoff (Riverside Studios), the European premiere of In the Boom-Boom Room by David Rabe (Courtyard Theatre), Rents by Michael Wilcox (Courtyard Theatre), the European premiere of Shaved Splits by Sam Shepard (Edinburgh Fringe and Riverside Studios) and Death of a Salesman for the English Theatre, Frankfurt.

Ross MacDonald (Bob Cratchit, Fred, Young Scrooge, Miner, Lightouse Man, Seaman, Businessman, Caroline's Husband) is delighted to be back as an actor with New Rep and working on one of his all time favorite stories. Ross graduated from the University of Southampton and trained at The London Academy of Performing Arts. UK roles, include: Macbeth, (Macbeth), Faustus (Faustus), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet), Benedick (Much Ado about Nothing), Lucientio (Taming of the Shrew), Pistol & Fenton (Merry Wives of Windsor), Aston (The Caretaker) and, Garcin (No Exit). Since moving to Boston, and resuming his acting career he has been seen at New Rep in the roles of Arthur Dimmesdale (The Scarlet Letter), Chief Johnson (Mister Roberts), The Playwright (Exits and Entrances), and Brendan (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) and, for The Publick Theatre, Yakov (The Seagull) and Simon Bliss (Hayfever). Ross is also a veteran of Afghanistan, having served as an infantry soldier with the British Army in Helmand in 2007.

Becky Webber (Fan, Belle, Martha, Miner, Elizabeth, and Caroline) is happy to return to New Rep! Boston area credits include: A Christmas Carol and Opus with New Rep, As You Like It with Commonwealth Shakespeare, Hamlet with The Gan-e-meed Theater Project, and Trying with Gloucester Stage. Becky is a graduate of Brandeis University and has also studied at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Benjamin Evett (adapter and director) is the Founding Artistic Director of the Actors' Shakespeare Project, a professional company that produces intimate, accessible, contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays all around the Boston area. As a director at ASP, Ben has directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (nominated for the 2009 Eliot Norton Award), King John, Love's Labour's Lost, and Richard III. Ben has also directed The Magic Flute at the Boston Conservatory, Once in a Lifetime at the PALS Children's Chorus, 3 Shepard One Acts and Ball Boys at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training, and others. As an actor, he has performed in over 150 productions all over the world, from New York to Kansas City to Moscow, including 7 productions with the New Rep. He is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Classics. He is married and has two sons, Dashiell and Spencer.

COMPANY: New Rep On Tour
c/o New Repertory Theatre
200 Dexter Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472

STUDENT
MATINEES: Arsenal Center for the Arts
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 10:00am
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 10am

PUBLIC
PERFORMANCE: Arsenal Center for the Arts
in the Charles Mosesian Theater
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA 02472

TICKETS: To reserve seats to The Tour's Public Performance of A Christmas Carol, please
call the Box Office at 617-923-8487. A $20.00 donation is suggested for this performance.
All proceeds go towards New Rep On Tour.

DIRECTOR: Benjamin Evett

CAST: Peter Edmund Haydu Ebeneezer Scrooge

Gabriel Kuttner Marley, Gentleman, Fezziwig, Belle's Husband, Ghost
of Christmas Present, Businessman, and Old Joe

Ross MacDonald Bob Cratchit, Fred, Young Scrooge, Miner, Lightouse
Man, Seaman, Businessman, and Caroline's Husband

Julian Schepis Caroling Boy, Belle's Son, Tiny Tim, Ghost of
Christmas Yet to Come, and Turkey Boy

Dakota Shepard Ghost of Christmas Past, Mrs. Cratchit, Sister, Miner,
and Mrs. Dilber

Becky Webber Fan, Belle, Martha, Miner, Elizabeth, and Caroline

DESIGNERS: Lauren Duffy Scenic Designer

Erik Teague Costume Designer

Schools on the 2010 Winter Tour to Dates:
Tantasqua High School-December 10, 2010
Brighton High School-December 14, 2010
Nathaniel Bowditch School-December 15, 2010
BC Middle School-December 17, 2010
Greenfield Community College-December 17, 2010
Saint Mary's High School-December 21, 2010
Dover Sherborne Regional Middle School-December 23, 2010

PERFORMANCE: Touring performances through December 23, 2010 at area schools.

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