{"id":28989,"date":"2025-10-31T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:25:07","slug":"ntpa-announces-15th-annual-scrooge-the-musical-in-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28989\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPA Announces 15th Annual Scrooge The Musical in Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLANO \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts (NTPA) presents its 15th annual production of Scrooge The Musical December 10-21 2025. This year\u2019s show features 150 adult and youth actors, making it NTPA\u2019s largest cast to date. The musical has drawn over 20,000 patrons and is the longest-running Christmas Carol adaptation in Texas.<\/p>\n

Veteran Director Returns<\/p>\n

Mike Mazur, NTPA Vice President, directs Scrooge for the 8th time. Mazur holds a BFA from Bowling Green and an MFA from NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed off-Broadway and in Hollywood London Warsaw and Paris. Mazur says, \u201cEach year we keep the show new fresh and bigger and better than before. This year includes scenes inspired by Dickens\u2019 neighborhood visits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longtime Scrooge Takes the Stage
\n\"\"(Jazou Ota\/Unsplash)<\/p>\n

Plano resident Darrell Rodenbaugh stars as Scrooge in his 15th year with NTPA. Opening night marks his 125th performance in this role, making him the longest-performing Scrooge in Texas. Rodenbaugh explains, \u201cScrooge teaches us that we can start our lives over and change for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talented and Diverse Cast<\/p>\n

The cast includes professional actress Gennifer Stratton, former Plano City Councilmember Shelby Williams, BroadwayWorld Supporting Actor of the Year Tom Walsh, and NTPA staff members. The show features family pairings multiple Tiny Tims actors, NTPA Deaf Theatre star Meryl Evans, and actors from Starcatchers, NTPA\u2019s troupe for actors with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Community Gift Performances<\/p>\n


NTPA provides two Gift to the Community performances, offering free tickets to veterans and underprivileged families. Audiences will enjoy pre-show carols, a Santa visit, free intermission snacks, and post-show gift bags. A special ASL performance will take place Saturday December 20 at 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

Show Details<\/p>\n

For tickets and more information, visit ntpa.org or email scrooge@ntpa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts (NTPA) presents its 15th annual production of Scrooge The Musical December 10-21…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-28989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}