A Huron County Christmas Carol

Show Info

Cast

Creative Team

Rebecca Auerbach

Rebecca Auerbach

Role: Fanny, PRESENT, Mrs.Dilbert
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Rebecca is always honoured to return to the Blyth Festival where she has spent 10 seasons telling Huron County stories. An award-winning actor, she has worked on stages across the country. As a writer, she is developing a personal new solo show, Discount Dave and the Fix, as well as The Wilder Sisters, inspired by the women of the CKNX Barndance era. Film/TV highlights: Sunset Superman (TUBI), Bike (BellFibeTV1), and Riley Rocket (Sphere Media/Oasis Animation). Rebecca also plays in the folk/roots/country band Regal Road. More than anything on earth, she loves her dog, Archer.

Rebecca Auerbach

Fanny, PRESENT, Mrs.Dilbert

Rebecca is always honoured to return to the Blyth Festival...

Felix Dawe

Felix Dawe

Role: Tiny Tim
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Felix is a 12-year-old from Clinton who enjoys playing soccer, Zelda, and keyboard in his family band, The Honey Sweethearts. His recent theatre credits include roles in Everybody Gets Eaten By Sharks and The Day the Aliens Attacked Fairfield with Ordinary Magic Theatre Company. This is Felix’s Blyth Festival debut. He is looking forward to eating candy in the green room and playing the grand piano that he has nicknamed “Gerald”.

Felix Dawe

Tiny Tim

Felix is a 12-year-old from Clinton who enjoys playing soccer,...

Graham Hargrove

Graham Hargrove

Role: Fred, PAST, YET TO COME
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Blyth Festival credits: HCCC (2019), The Drawer Boy (2022), John Ware Reimagined (2022). Elsewhere: 13 seasons in the orchestras and an onstage musician at the Stratford Festival. Inner Chamber ensemble, 12 seasons. Performed in Marek Norman’s Ballycroy (2022). Recently recorded and toured with Loreena McKennitt on the “Under a Winter’s Moon” album (2022) and tour as well as her “Lost Souls” album (2018). Awards: Dora (2015, Sound Design/Composition) 2nd and 3rd place in the All Ireland Bones Competition (2017,2019).

Graham Hargrove

Fred, PAST, YET TO COME

Blyth Festival credits: HCCC (2019), The Drawer Boy (2022), John...

Bruce Horak

Bruce Horak

Role: Narrator, Bob Cratchit, Cactus Mac, Burt
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Blyth Credits: Assassinating Thomson. Other Theatre: Goblin:Macbeth (Stratford Festival, Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare Company) Richard III (Shakespeare Company), Leading Ladies, Dear Johnny Deere (1000 Islands Playhouse), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Wizard of OZ (ATP), A Christmas Carol (National Theatre of Canada). Film and TV: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Transplant, In the Dark

Bruce Horak

Narrator, Bob Cratchit, Cactus Mac, Burt

Blyth Credits: Assassinating Thomson. Other Theatre: Goblin:Macbeth (Stratford Festival, Bard...

Randy Hughson

Randy Hughson

Role: Scrooge
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Blyth Credits: James Donnelly & Company (The Donnellys: A Trilogy) Angus (The Drawer Boy), Scrooge (A Huron County Christmas Carol), Stompin’ Tom (Stompin Tom). Many roles over seven season including directing Power and Gloria and Heat Wave. 13 seasons at the Stratford Festival. Randy has played leading roles across Canada. He has performed in Mexico and the United states including many shows at the Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Factory theatre, Soulpepper, Theatre Passe Muraille, Necessary Angel and Crows theatre in Toronto. He has been nominated for eight Dora awards, three Vancouver Jessie Awards, three Edmonton Sterling awards, one Calgary Betty Mitchell award, one Gemini and two Broadway World awards and was awarded one of each.

Randy Hughson

Scrooge

Blyth Credits: James Donnelly & Company (The Donnellys: A Trilogy)...

Trish Lindstrom

Trish Lindstrom

Role: Belle, Clara, Emily
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

Woohoo! Blyth Debut! Originally from Toronto, Trish is an award-winning actor who has appeared onstage across Canada and The U.S. for over 3 decades. Stratford (6 seasons), Shaw (5 seasons), U.S. 1st National Tour, 59E59th (NYC), New York Musical Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Crow’s, Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Musical Stage, Soulpepper, Aquarius, NAC, Centaur, TIFT, Toronto Fringe, Urban Ink, MTC, MTYP, Ship’s Company, Charlottetown, and YPT. Most recently: played Ginny Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish). She is a proud member of The Actor’s Center (NYC). @lindstromtrish, www.trishlindstrom.com. For Mom.

Trish Lindstrom

Belle, Clara, Emily

Woohoo! Blyth Debut! Originally from Toronto, Trish is an award-winning...

George Meanwell

George Meanwell

Role: Marley, Doc Cruikshank
Categories: Christmas Carol Cast

BLYTH CREDITS: John Ware Reimagined (musician/as cast); Mr. New Year’s Eve: Guy Lombardo (music director); The Pigeon King (co-creator). Other theatre: Lear, Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale (Groundling), Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare In Love, The Taming Of The Shrew, Pirates Of Penzance, The Grapes Of Wrath, As You Like It, Jacques Brel… (Stratford Festival), Once (Neptune Theatre). RECORDINGS: Another Street, Late, The Easy Straight. PREVIOUSLY: Quartetto Gelato (1996 NPR Performance Today Debut Artist of the Year). More information at meanwell.ca. George is delighted to be returning to Blyth!

George Meanwell

Marley, Doc Cruikshank

BLYTH CREDITS: John Ware Reimagined (musician/as cast); Mr. New Year’s...

Adam Campbell

Adam Campbell

Role: 2023 Production Sound Design
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Adam Campbell is a versatile sound designer, composer, percussionist and singer-songwriter. Originally from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Adam has worked as sound designer/composer with Stratford Festival, Blyth Festival, Human Body Expression, Edmonton Opera, Capitol Theatre, Lights On Stratford and more. Adam has toured and performed throughout North America as a percussionist with TorQ Percussion Quartet and Ladom Ensemble, and regularly plays in the pit for musical theatre productions with companies such as Mirvish Productions and Stratford Festival. In 2019, Adam released his debut solo singer-songwriter album, Guess I’m A People Too, featuring a mix of folk, rock and 90’s-tinged original music. Adam currently lives in Stratford, Ontario, with his wife Alice and their cats Ninja and Nazca.

Adam Campbell

2023 Production Sound Design

Adam Campbell is a versatile sound designer, composer, percussionist and...

Gil Garratt

Gil Garratt

Role: Playwright & Director
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Actor, director, playwright, collaborator, Gil has been with the Blyth Festival in some capacity or other since 1999. Outstanding shows over the years have included: Death of the Hired Man, the Drawer Boy, the Outdoor Donnellys, World Without Shadows, Pearl Gidley, the Nutalls, A Killing Snow, the Last Donnelly Standing, the Pigeon King, In the Wake of Wettlaufer, The Donnellys: A Trilogy. Gil has been artistic director since 2014, and lives on a little farm in Central Huron with his wife and four beautiful children.

Gil Garratt

Playwright & Director

Actor, director, playwright, collaborator, Gil has been with the Blyth...

Verne Good

Verne Good

Role: Original Sound Design
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Verne is so happy to see A Huron County Christmas Carol back at Blyth! For Blyth: The Pigeon King, New Canadian Curling Club, and others. Elsewhere: sound designs and compositions for The Grand, Tarragon, Factory, Roseneath, Soulpepper, and Stratford.
Dora Nomination in 2016 for The 39 Steps at Soulpepper. Verne is a proud member of ADC IATSE 659 and IATSE 357, and works as both a sound designer as well as a stagehand and audio technician.

Verne Good

Original Sound Design

Verne is so happy to see A Huron County Christmas...

Steve Lucas

Steve Lucas

Role: Set & Lighting Design
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Blyth Credits:

Set and lights and projections for: Innocence Lost: The Steven Truscott Project; The New Canadian Curling Club; Test Drive; Billy Bishop Goes to War and The Real McCoy

Set and light design for: The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom; Queen Milli of Galt; The Pigeon King; If Truth Be Told; A Huron County Christmas Carol; The Drawer Boy and  Chronicles of Sarnia

Lighting design for:

Pearl Gidley; Stag and Doe; The Wilberforce Hotel; Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad; 

Set design for: Seeds 

Since 1987 Steve has designed award winning sets and lighting for more than 500 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen in 27 countries around the world.

Steve has received several awards including four Dora Awards for his designs. He has also been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre and thirty three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.

 

Steve Lucas

Set & Lighting Design

Blyth Credits: Set and lights and projections for: Innocence Lost:...

Suzanne McArthur

Suzanne McArthur

Role: Stage Manager
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Suzanne has enjoyed 13 seasons with the Grand Theatre, six seasons with Drayton Entertainment, six seasons with the Port Stanley Festival Theatre, 5 seasons with the Stratford Festival, and has also worked for Mirvish Productions, Studio 180 Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times and Tarragon Theatre. Training: B.A. from Brock University. Upcoming: In Seven Days (Grand Theatre/Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Et cetera: Suzanne lives in London with her children Michael and Charlie.

Suzanne McArthur

Stage Manager

Suzanne has enjoyed 13 seasons with the Grand Theatre, six...

Caitlin Mears

Caitlin Mears

Role: Assistant Stage Manager
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Blyth Festival: Debut. Elsewhere (Selected): Rent, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, The Miser, Three Tall Women (Stratford); Bluebeard’s Castle (Against the Grain Theatre); The Breathing Hole (National Arts Centre); Homes: A Refugee Story, Home for the Holidays (Grand Theatre); The Tender Land (UofT Opera); Cinderella: The Panto (Capitol Theatre); Angel (Opera Atelier); August: Osage County (Soulpepper); Twelfth Night (a Company of Fools). Caitlin would like to thank her family, friends, and mentors for all their support.

Caitlin Mears

Assistant Stage Manager

Blyth Festival: Debut. Elsewhere (Selected): Rent, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, The...

Marek Norman

Marek Norman

Role: Music Director & Arranger
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Photo Credit: David Cooper. Blyth Festival Credits: Billy Bishop Goes to War, A Huron County Christmas Carol.

Marek Norman is considered one of Canada’s most versatile theatre artists. A multi-award-winning composer/songwriter/actor/producer, his performance credits include Canadian premieres of Closer Than Ever and Falsettos, world premieres of Amelia (by John Gray) and The Death of Von Richthofen … (by Des McAnuff).

Marek has created over 50 original scores for theatre productions. His musicals include Dracula – A Chamber Musical, Emily, Larry’s Party, Dancer, Ballycroy – and Wanderlust (in collaboration with Morris Panych) which received its world premiere at the Stratford Festival.

Other works: The Tin Soldier, Oliver Button is a Sissy (National Tap Dance Co.), The Lover (a film-ballet), opening/closing ceremonies for The Canada Games, Bridgefest (PEI), and Special Olympics – for which his anthem, “Along The Way”, has become the organization’s main theme (worldwide).

Mr. Norman co-produced (with his wife, Barbara Barsky) the Canadian premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, which garnered five Dora Mavor Moore Awards – including Best Production and Musical Direction.

Their company, Reprise Concerts, produced classic works in concert format: including Company, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Roar of The Greasepaint, Smell of The Crowd.

Marek has written, arranged and performed over 1500 commercial jingles. His theme for American Airlines –“We’re Giving Our Best” won the prestigious Clio Award for Best Song of the Year.

As a singer, Marek has provided vocal support for such superstars as:

Bryan Adams, Sheena Easton, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, Luther Vandross and Colm Wilkinson.

Marek Norman has received seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards nominations,and is the only theatre artist to be so honoured in the following four categories:

1 ) Producer (Assassins)
2) Composer (Larry’s Party)
3) Actor (Closer Than Ever)
4) Musical Director (Assassins, The Last Five Years, A Chorus of Disapproval,
Oh, What A Lovely War)

As an educator, Marek continues to work with many of Canada’s young writers of musical theatre. He is the former composer-in-residence for Stratford’s famed INNERchamber music ensemble. His initial commission, “A Day Like No Other” (for seven musicians and actor) received its world premiere at Factory 163 in June, 2016. “Suite Wanderlust” (for orchestra and dancers), March, 2017. SONG CYCLE: “The Light That Shines”, November, 2018. “Mystique”, March, “Gestures”, October, 2019 – and, most recently, “Ballycroy” (in concert), November, 2022.

Marek Norman

Music Director & Arranger

Photo Credit: David Cooper. Blyth Festival Credits: Billy Bishop Goes...

John Powers

John Powers

Role: Original Songs & Music
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

John is thrilled that Blyth is doing another production of A Huron County Christmas Carol with such a wonderful cast of actors/musicians! He would like to extend a special thanks to Gil for the opportunity to make this show together, to Marek for the excellent arrangements and musical direction, to the cast for bringing these songs to life and to his family for the love and support.

John Powers

Original Songs & Music

John is thrilled that Blyth is doing another production of...

Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston

Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston

Role: Costume Design
Categories: Christmas Carol Creative Team

Blyth Credits: The Donnellys: A Trilogy, Drawer Boy, Jewel, Huron County Christmas Carol, Wing Night at the Boot, Kitchen Radio, Billy, Bishop Goes to War, Innocence Lost, Against the Grain, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, Queen Milli of Galt, Schoolhouse, The Thirteenth One, Test Drive, Overboard!, Barndance Live!

What a joy to be able to dress these quirky, Huron County Christmas Carol characters again! They are some of Jennifer’s favourite designs. Jennifer has been fascinated with the language of clothes since she was a teenager and the study of clothing is her passion. She is a designer, educator, creator and purveyor of costume and fashion. She has designed 18 Blyth productions for the Blyth Festival, including The Donnellys: A Trilogy this past summer. Jennifer is the owner of Pick a Posie Vintage – just down the street at the corner of Wellington and Queen. Drop by for a visit!

As a free-lance costume designer Jennifer has created costumes for over 175 theatre, dance and opera productions across Ontario. She has spent over 13 seasons at the Blyth Festival as a costume designer. She is known for her attention to detail and for collaborating on new works. 

Jennifer holds a BFA in Theatre Production and Design from York University and an MA Fashion from Ryerson University. She has worked as part-time faculty for various university departments including the Toronto Metropolitan School of Fashion and School of Performance, and York University Theatre and Dance Departments. She has developed curriculum and taught courses in costume design, fashion design, pattern making, draping, construction, millinery, corsetry, accessories, specialty building, painting and dyeing.

Jennifer has enjoyed working with several museums in the province including the Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate and the Huron County Museum. She has presented at ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Costume, Fashion and Textiles.

Jennifer owns and manages two different social enterprises in Blyth Ontario. Pick a Posie Vintage is a second-hand costume, vintage and eclectic fashion shop that offers one of a kind pieces as well as custom design services. The Fashion Arts & Creative Textiles Studio (FACTS) is innovative and educational fibre and textile arts hub that offers classes and workshops at both the community and professional level. Jennifer grows a dye garden on her property that she uses to  dye clothing, accessories and yarn with. Visit Pick a Posie Vintage and the dye gardens at 345 Queen Street in Blyth, at the corner of Queen and Wellington.

 

Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston

Costume Design

Blyth Credits: The Donnellys: A Trilogy, Drawer Boy, Jewel, Huron...

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Randy Hughson and Graham Hargrove. Photo by Gemma James Smith

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Show Times:

2:00pm, 8:00pm & 10:30am

Runtime:

Approx 2 Hours

Performance:

A Huron County Christmas Carol

Venue:

Memorial Hall

Ticket Deals:

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    get one free!
  • Previews- Nov. 30 Dec. 1 $40

A Huron County Christmas Carol

Adapted from the Charles Dickens classic and directed by Gil Garratt with original music by John Powers.
Memorial Hall.


It’s back! This show sold out in 2019! With live original music by John Powers, a cast of actor/musicians, and a star turn at Scrooge, the play is a down-home take on the holiday classic.

“A Huron County Christmas Carol is fun, full of great songs and filled with the warmest possible mood, but it also digs more deeply into what Dickens’s story is all about …If we feel a tear well up it’s because the show reminds us to cherish the spark of goodness we have in us that helps us through a life that is never long enough.”

Christopher Hoile, Stage Door

A HURON COUNTY CHRISTMAS CAROL – the Dickens’ classic, modernized and set in Huron County.

Together, E. Scrooge, and J.Marley were titans of industry. Their shrewd, ruthless approach to business helped them build a Feed and Fuel empire that has acquired all the mills in the community and across the province, amassing a staggering fortune. Now the sole man in charge, Scrooge, (a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner) is unwilling to go on making deals with tiny family farmers (like the Cratchits of Holmesville) let alone supporting all these little local Lions Clubs, and Optimists, and IODEs and these unending wretched charities always walking around with their hands out. Honestly, are there no workhouses?

Scrooge’s miserly ways are challenged in the night by (you guessed it) three spirits. The first shows him his past (where he relives his boyhood in a lonely Goderich mansion, meets the love of his life at a CKNX Barndance, and jettisons it all in pursuit of filthy lucre). The second widens him to his present (where his faithful employee is scrambling to provide for his family, and Scrooge’s own organic farmer nephew is partying without him). And the last reveals his inevitable, impending encounter with the business end of Cemetery Line.

A tale of avarice, greed, regret and redemption.

But, but wait – you there, what day is it?

A Huron County Christmas Carol returns to Memorial Hall at the Blyth Festival

November 30 to December 22, 2023

Tickets on sale June 14th

A Huron County Christmas Carol at Memorial Hall

Performances at 2pm and 8pm, and are fully air conditioned for your comfort.

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Play Showings

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A Huron County Christmas Carol PreviewThursdayNovember 30, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas Carol PreviewFridayDecember 1, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas Carol OpeningSaturdayDecember 2, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolTuesdayDecember 5, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolWednesdayDecember 6, 202310:30 AM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 7, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 7, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolFridayDecember 8, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSaturdayDecember 9, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSaturdayDecember 9, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSundayDecember 10, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolTuesdayDecember 12, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolWednesdayDecember 13, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 14, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 14, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolFridayDecember 15, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSaturdayDecember 16, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSaturdayDecember 16, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolSundayDecember 17, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolTuesdayDecember 19, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolWednesdayDecember 20, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 21, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolThursdayDecember 21, 20238:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas CarolFridayDecember 22, 20232:00 PM
A Huron County Christmas Carol - ClosingFridayDecember 22, 20238:00 PM