One week to go until magical ‘Christmas Carol – a fairy tale’ opens at Wilton’s Music Hall starring Sally Dexter as first female Scrooge on a London stage
· Running 29 November – 4 January
· A brand-new reimagining of a Christmas classic written by Piers Torday
· Staged in the most festive venue in London, Wilton’s Music Hall
One week today Christmas Carol – a fairy tale opens at Wilton’s Music Hall, with Emmerdale’s Sally Dexter starring as the first female Scrooge on a London stage.
Dickens’ festive tale has been reimagined by renowned children’s author Piers Torday especially for Wilton’s, and has taken the classic story of miserly Scrooge, a ghostly voyage of discovery and finding out the real meaning of Christmas and reinvented it as audiences have never seen it before…
Musical theatre legend and soap opera superstar Sally Dexter will play Fan Marley, the late Ebeneezer Scrooge’s sister who married Marley and who, as his widow, has inherited the business and his reputation as the meanest miser in town. Notorious as the lonely, penny-pinching and downright malicious misanthrope and despised by all who cross her path, three spirits visit Fan on Christmas Eve to show her why she must change her nasty ways.
Known to many as Emmerdale’sFaith Dingle, Sally has appeared in some of the West End’s most loved productions including Billy Elliot The Musical and Oliver! and won an Olivier Award for her performance in Dalliance at the Lyttleton Theatre.
Brought to Wilton’s by the team behind the critically-acclaimed The Box of Delights, this adaptation written by children’s author Piers Torday (The Frozen Sea, The Last Wild), has design by Tom Piper and directed by Stephanie Street, previously seen in James Graham’s Quizand Nightwatchmen at the National Theatre.
Brimming with spellbinding magic, haunting music and out-of-this-world puppetry, arguably the most famous festive story ever written will be retold beautifully at the most Christmassy theatre in London.