{"id":73567,"date":"2025-12-06T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:30:07","slug":"st-petes-freefall-theatre-is-going-longer-and-stronger-for-its-2025-rendition-of-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73567\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete’s freeFall Theatre is going longer and stronger for its 2025 rendition of ‘A Christmas Carol’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ASara DelBeato in freeFall Theatre\u2019s \u2018A Christmas Carol \u2018in 2020. Credit: Thee Photo Ninja \/ c\/o freeFallTheatre<\/p>\n

After doing a fully staged musical adaptation of \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d for several years, St. Petersburg\u2019s freeFall Theatre<\/a> shifted to an outdoor concert version during the pandemic in 2020. The company brought that version back for a limited engagement in 2024\u2014indoors\u2014and that was such a hit (Cathy Salustri of \u201cThe Gabber\u201d called it \u201cstupendous\u201d) that they brought it back for a longer run this year.<\/p>\n

Featuring original songs by Keith Ferguson and Bruce Greer as well as familiar carols, \u201cA Christmas Carol in Concert 2025\u201d will be performed by four singers \u2014 Heather Baird, Eric Davis, Sara DelBeato and Jonathan Harrison. <\/p>\n

The redoubtable Matthew McGee is the narrator, who plays Scrooge and all the other roles. (Anyone who saw McGee do the American Stage one-man adaptation of \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d three years ago knows he\u2019s up to the task, or rather the multi-task.)<\/p>\n

With musical direction by Michael Raabe and video elements incorporating P.J. Lynch\u2019s famous illustrations for the original novella, this promises to be, in McGee\u2019s words, \u201cso unique and very moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you go see \u2018A Christmas Carol\u2019 at freeFall Theatre<\/p>\n

Tickets to see \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg on select nights Dec. 12-24 are still available and start at $25.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article appears in Nov. 27 \u2013 Dec. 03, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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