Years in the making, there's a new Dickens A Christmas Carol about to come out at Alley Theatre. alleytheatre
David Rainey will be back as Scrooge but expect a lot of changes in roles and scripts in the new version ofWhen Rob Melrose became the Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre in November 2018, during one of the first board meetings, a three-year plan was presented and one of the items on it was"New artistic director creates new version of"It was either my first week or second week on the job and I thought 'Oh well, I guess that's me,'" he says laughing.
"That's when I landed on magic, music and Dickens," Melrose says."I felt like the truer a version was to the story, the more I liked it. The more it invented new things that aren't in the novella, the more I thought it aged poorly. Because you really felt those parts that seemed cool 20 years ago but now, like steam punk, it was a fad 20 years ago but really it's not so great right now." .
to be its cash cow every year, its revenues bolstering the costs of some other, lesser known, newer and in some cases riskier riskier productions. The Alley brought in Jim Steinmeyer, a famous illusionist from Los Angeles who has worked with Disney and David Copperfield and Doug Henning and other famous magicians."He's created some rally exciting illusions with more spectacular elements. We also worked with Afsaneh Aayani who did all these puppets."
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