{"id":368027,"date":"2026-10-08T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368027\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:42:10","slug":"a-nicole-kidman-themed-christmas-carol-comes-to-nyc-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368027\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nicole Kidman-Themed Christmas Carol Comes to NYC Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you come to this place for holiday schmaltz, well, have we got the show for you<\/a>. But if you come to this place for unplaceable accent work, distracting wigs and maybe a viral meme (or three), then we have just the reason to ignore Johnny Depp in Ebenezer and make your way to New World Stages.<\/p>\n

Fro the delightfully\u00a0deranged mind of playwright Kevin Zak comes a new stage comedy, A Kidman Carol, in which Cate Blanchett is visited by the ghosts of three Nicole Kidmans who are determined to\u00a0save her soul, Hollywood and the joys of raving in Ibiza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: Off-Broadway Week is back with matchless two-for-one ticket deals<\/a><\/p>\n

After a sold-out developmental run last year, A Kidman Carol will\u00a0get an official Off Broadway\u00a0engagement at New World Stages,\u00a0with Kidman played by Titanique<\/a>\u00a0co-creator and Olivier Award winner Marla Mindelle (that’s one\u00a0Olivier more than Kidman!)\u00a0and Drama Desk Award nominee Josh Sharp (ta-da!) as\u00a0Blanchett. (Those two are tied in Drama Desk noms, BTW.) The limited six-week\u00a0run begins November 16 at New World Stages, with an official opening on November 30.<\/p>\n

Written by Zak (Ginger Twinsies<\/a>) and directed by Skylar Fox, the comedy\u00a0finds\u00a0Academy Award-winning legend and Hollywood Scrooge Blanchett\u00a0on Oscar’s Eve dealing with visits from three Kidmans, forcing her on a journey through\u00a0the Australian outback, a Dickensian present-day Hollywood\u00a0and a terrifying awards-season future. If\u00a0she\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0heed\u00a0Kidman’s message, Blanchett\u00a0risks the destruction of her soul, cinema and, possibly, the entire world.<\/p>\n

Or, as the announcement puts it: “A Kidman Carol is a vicious, chaotic fever dream…that will leave you not only entertained, but somehow reborn. How can we find hope again after discovering the dream you wished would come true….might actually be a nightmare?” Oh naurrrr!<\/p>\n

The strictly limited engagement\u00a0consists\u00a0of 54 performances, ending December 30. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, October 14 at 10am. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

New World Stages is located at 340 W 50th St. For more information and to sign up for pre-sale, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you come to this place for holiday schmaltz, well, have we got the show for you. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8122,9,11,10,8123,905],"class_list":["post-368027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-categories-theater","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-theater-performance","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}