EXPIRES: September 8, 2025

“A Christmas Carol” Stage Play Searching for Cast

Theater
Description

Actors sought for production of “A Christmas Carol”. Please see the details below.

About the project:
This fresh approach to the classic tale faithfully conveys the magic of Dickens. On Christmas Eve in 1843 friends and family gathered at Dickens’ home ask him to tell a story, but he refuses to work on Christmas Eve. If there is going to be a story, each must take a part in its telling. And so the story unfolds with the cast of 10 playing over 40 parts.

Additional info:
If you can’t make one of audition dates, please see the attachment.
Callbacks will be Sunday, September 14th if needed.

If you are interested, please apply.

7 Project roles
Charles Dickens/Scrooge
50
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65.
A dynamo of energy. A mesmerizing presence and voice. At this age, he is already near the height of his storytelling powers.
Application deadline closed.
Mark Lemon
40
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59.
(Also plays the role of: First Portly Gentleman, Fezziwig, Ghost of Christmas Present, Fatman and Man on the Bed). The genial, quick-witted editor of the well-known weekly humor magazine Punch. He is advancing toward middle age and corpulence.
Application deadline closed.
Frederick Dickens
30
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49.
(Also plays the role of: Fred, Young Scrooge, Peter Cratchit, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (I) and Old Joe). Younger brother of Charles Dickens. Something of a ne’er-do-well, but charming. He is a Dickens after all.
Application deadline closed.
Clarkson Stanfield
50
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65.
(Also plays the role of: Bob Cratchit, The Ghost of Christmas Past, Topper, The Thin Man and The Undertaker). A painter, famous for both his theatrical scene painting and naval genre pictures. Handsome, with a quality that is at once mischievous yet gentle, equally at home in theaters and the Royal Academy.
Application deadline closed.
Rebecca Stanfield
40
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59.
(Also plays the role of: Belle, Martha Cratchit, Dora, The Charwoman) Wife of Stanfield. An actress before her marriage, she has no trouble slipping into the evening’s activities.
Application deadline closed.
Catherine Dickens
20
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39.
(Also plays the role of: Mrs. Fezziwig, Betsey Cratchit, Jenny and Mrs. Dilber). Wife of Dickens. She is the one who has the resources to put up with occasions such as this, when her husband’s flights of imagination take precedence over everything else, with humor and grace.
Application deadline closed.
John Forster
30
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55.
(Also plays the role of: Second Portly Gentleman, Ghost of Jacob Marley, Dick Wilkins, Man with the Handkerchief and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (II) Editor and writer. Dicken’s closest friend and advisor. He’s the only person in whom Dickens confided the painful story of his time in the blacking warehouse. He is in many ways Dickens’s opposite: though given to occasional fits of joviality, he is by nature gruff and taciturn. It takes an evening such as this one to reveal that other side.
Application deadline closed.