We all need a little Christmas -- and we could use your help this year! Here’s your chance to be involved in a newly re-imagined adaptation of Charles Dickens’ class “Christmas Carol.” Set in downtown Columbia in 1937, the story unfolds during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The familiar characters are still here, but now recast as Tennesseans of all walks of life, each struggling through hard times.

***For the Audition:

we ask that you prepare a 1-minute dramatic monologue of your choice. If you sing, please be ready with a song. Rehearsals will be at __ on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturday’s beginning on October 21st. Performances will take place on December 21st at 2 pm and 7 pm and 2 pm on the 22nd, at the Cherry Theatre.

We hope this play will become a cherished annual Christmas event for families of Maury County and beyond. The productions is being directed by Sherry Johnson, founder of the Building Block School for the Arts, working from a script by Carter Crocker, an Emmy-winning writer of children’s animation. Each performance will include music by the gifted bluegrass artists, the Murphy Ridge Band.