by Noella Noelophile®
Mr. Charles Dickens requests your presence, this weekend.
And he may just cast you in his famous Christmas Carol, to boot.
(Charles Dickens as Scrooge (Phil Soinski) with Father Christmas (George Bush) and Little Nell (Heidi Piskar.) Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
Mr. Dickens’ retelling of his Christmas classic will be the highlight of the festivities, as Carson’s International Printing Museum hosts their annual “Dickens Holiday Celebration”, next Saturday and Sunday, December 10th and 11th!
Miss Pross (Marjorie Wilser) from Dickens “Tale of Two Cities” assists guests in printing their own Holiday card on an 1860 Parlor press during the “Dickens Holiday Celebration”. This yearr’s celebration happens at The International Printing Museum Dec. 10th & 11th 2016 in Carson, CA (Photo courtesy of the International Printing Museum, and used with permission.)
The Museum will be decked out in Victorian greenery. You’ll get to print your own Victorian Christmas cards and gift tags on a working nineteenth-century printing press. A British lunch of bangers, gingerbread and punch will be served.
Holiday music courtesy of the Dickens musicians Capt. Jack (Jack Conway), Father Christmas (George Bush), Steerforth (Mark Barbour), Miss Peggotty (Debbie Bush) and Forester (Gary Remson) will serenade guests as they lunch in Victoria’s Tea Garden during the “Dickens Day Holiday Celebration”, at The International Printing Museum Dec. 10th & 11th 2016 in Carson, CA. (Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
Captain Jack, with his 1895 Concert Roller Organ, will provide musical entertainment. And you may very well hear Christmas carols from Queen Victoria’s court musicians, The Victorian Roses!
Each day, there will be three audience-interactive performances of A Christmas Carol in the Museum’s Heritage Theatre, with “Charles Dickens”, of London, selecting audience members as part of his cast. (Performances tend to sell out, so advance reservations are advisable! Here’s the link for tickets.)
Fagin (Ken Riedel) & the Artful Dodger (Keefer Blakeslee) from Dicken’s Oliver Twist are up to no good @The International Printing Museum’s “Dickens Day Holiday Celebration” happens Dec. 10th & 11th 2016 in Carson, CA. (Photograph courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
But–beware. Additional Dickensian characters will be roaming the Museum. You may want to keep an eye on your wallet, with Oliver Twist’s Fagin and the Artful Dodger around. And man-hating MIss Havisham, from Great Expectations, will be proud to show you just how well her ward, Estella, has learned her lessons. Not to mention Mr. Micawber, of David Copperfield fame, who may just try to sell you his “Electrostatic Health generator cure”. (Victorian snake oil, you’ve got to love it!)