SCROOGE IN ROUGE

An English Music Hall Christmas Carol

November 29 - December 29, 2024

Created by Ricky Graham, Jeffery Roberson & Yvette Hargis
Original music by Jefferson Turner

Celebrate the season with a Christmas Carol turned holiday boilermaker – a raucous, drag-fueled extravaganza with outrageous costumes, sassy lyrics, and side-splitting performances guaranteed to get your spirits soaring!

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Hot toddy? No way! Try a hilarious holiday boilermaker!

Some versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are like hot toddies: traditional, sweet, and heartwarming. Open Eye Theatre’s musical holiday offering, SCROOGE IN ROUGE, is like a boilermaker: a raucous holiday celebration spiked with campy drag, “Naughty List”-worthy lyrics, and deliciously over-the-top performances calibrated to instantly kick the audience into higher spirits!

The Royal Music Hall Twenty-Member Variety Players production of A Christmas Carol is in a pickle after seventeen members of the company suddenly fall ill. This leaves the three remaining members to plow on (so to speak) through a musical performance of the Dickens classic. Expect missed cues, unfamiliar characters, and costume mishaps aplenty. With cheeky puns and bawdy songs, this quick-change version of the Christmas tale is a hilarious holiday treat!

TICKETS

$30 — General Admission
$24 — Seniors
$18 — Students
$15 — Economic Accessibility
A limited number of $15 Economic Accessibility tickets are available online for all performances (does not include benefit show on 10/31). If not sold out, a limited number of pay-as-able tickets will be available at the door. View our ticketing policy.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: Ages 14 and up.
CONTENT AWARENESS
SCROOGE IN ROUGE is a bawdy musical riff on Charles Dickens’ classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL. It features playful humor and some double entendres with sexual innuendo, in the spirit of British humorists Monty Python and Benny Hill.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Friday 11/29, 7:30pm PREVIEW
Saturday 11/30, 7:30pm OPENING
Sunday 12/1, 2pm

Thursday 12/5, 7:30pm
Friday 12/6, 7:30pm
Saturday 12/7, 7:30pm
Sunday 12/8, 2pm

Wednesday 12/11, 7:30pm
Thursday 12/12, 7:30pm
Friday 12/13, 7:30pm
Saturday 12/14, 7:30pm
Sunday 12/15, 2pm*

Wednesday 12/18, 7:30pm
Thursday 12/19, 7:30pm
Friday 12/20, 7:30pm
Saturday 12/21, 2pm & 7:30pm
Sunday 12/22, 2pm & 7:30pm
Thursday 12/26, 7:30pm
Friday 12/27, 7:30pm
Saturday 12/28, 7:30pm
Sunday 12/29, 2pm CLOSING
Our Sunday 12/15 matinee performance is masking-required. All other shows are masking-optional.
RUN TIME: 100 minutes with a 15 minute intermission
ACCESSIBILITY

Contact us at 612-874-6338 or boxoffice@openeyetheatre.org for accessibility information and requests. Learn more.
COVID PRECAUTIONS: All audience members will be required to wear masks during our Sunday 12/15 matinee performance. All other shows are masking-optional. The masking policy will be posted on the door.
View our COVID-19 Policy

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Creative Team

Joel Sass – Director
Heidi Spesard-Noble – Choreographer
Jake Endres – Musical Director
Michael Sommers – Scenic Designer
Kathy Kohl – Costume Designer
Bill Healey – Lighting Designer
Brian Hirt – Stage Manager
Evelyn Kelly – Assistant Stage Manager
Brandon Sisneroz – Creative Technical Director
Patrick Bailey – Dialect Coach

Meet the Cast

Abilene Olson (she/her)

Lottie Obbligato
Abilene’s powerhouse vocals come to SCROOGE IN ROUGE! Some of her favorite credits include Ghost Quartet with Theatre Elision, and Open Eye’s original musicals HAIR BALL and LOCH MESS by Josef Evans. We’re thrilled to be working with her again! Catch her in February/March for In the Green at the Elision Playhouse!
Maren Ward (she/her)

Vesta Virile
Maren gleefully returns to holidays at Open Eye having spent many years as Father Winter in THE HOLIDAY PAGEANT. In addition to her other many roles at Open Eye (HAIR BALL, LOG JAM, CONSTANCE IN THE DARKNESS, TO THE MOON), Maren is artistic director of zAmya Theater Project.
Tom Reed (he/him)

Charlie Schmaltz
Tom has been featured on stages all over the Twin Cities including Theater Latte Da, Ten Thousand Things, Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Brave New Workshop, Mixed Blood, History Theatre, and HUGE Improv Theater. He was an audience favorite in our three outdoor musicals by Josef Evans: LOG JAM, HAIRBALL, and LOCH MESS. On screen he appears in Netflix's Lady Dynamite, Shudder's V/H/S/85, History Channel, and Locally Grown Comedy along with commercials and several award-winning short films.
Patrick Adkins (he/him)

Alfred Da Cappo
Patrick is a Twin Cities-based pianist and composer who specializes in jazz and improvised music, and is well-versed in a variety of musical styles and settings, with a strong classically-trained background that serves as the foundation for his versatility and adaptability. We’re delighted to have him as our accompanist!