A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol at St. Mark's Church

A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of redemption with book and lyrics by Wren, set to music from the Gilbert & Sullivan operas.  What does that mean?  Well, anyone who’s seen The Mikado or The Pirates of Penzance will recognize “Three Little Maids from School” and “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” in “Three Little Ghosts for Scrooge” and “I Am the Very Model of the Mystic Supernatural.”

Directed by author Gayden Wren and music-directed by Stephen O’Leary—the same team that helmed the 2001 Off-Broadway production hailed by The New York Times as “Extremely funny … Sure to warm more than one cold heart” and by The New Yorker as “The old tale newly interesting—and a lot more fun”—the 30th-anniversary production will be seen at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Islip on Friday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m.