Revived North Shore Theatre Looks Ahead; May Stage Favorite A CHRISTMAS CAROL

With the purchase of the shuttered North Shore Music Theatre finalized this week to the tune of $3.6 million, businessman and theatre owner William Hanney is looking ahead at the upcoming production season including bringing back the theatre's holiday favorite 'A Christmas Carol', reports Boston.com who says that, "Hanney made it clear he was eager to see the adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic return with longtime artistic director Jon Kimbell, who retired in 2008."

Over 300,000 people a year attended the North Shore Theatre, making it the largest regional theater in New England, but last year the theatre succumbed to deep debt and closed after 55 years in business. Citizens Bank paid $3.6 million for the theater at a foreclosure auction held in October.

With the theatre's revival, productions are expected to resume as early as this summer, says Hanney who also helms Theatre by the Seas in Rhode Island as well as a chain of 10 movie theaters in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut. He tells Boston.com, "I paid for it, so now the hard part starts."

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