The Arts Club has remounted this popular holiday season production at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. It is a heartwarming country twist on a Christmas classic: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, with music and lyrics by the iconic Dolly Parton on now through to December 24.
Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carolsets its stage in 1930s East Tennessee, reimagining Ebenezer Scrooge (David Adams) as the owner of a mining company town nestled neatly in the Smoky Mountains. As a Christmas Eve snowstorm rages throughout the night, Scrooge must revisit his past, present, and future—with the help of his deceased business partner’s spirit and three ghosts—to understand the true meaning of Christmas: empathy and community. Combining the classic characters of Charles Dickens with the songwriting expertise of Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is a musical rediscovery of joy and compassion through understanding the true wealth that comes from connection.
The musical debuted in Boston in 2019, and the Arts Club’s production marks its Canadian premiere, directed by Bobby Garcia. He said, “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is a heartwarming mash-up of two icons. The combination of Dolly Parton’s honest, authentic, and joyful music along with Charles Dickens’s timeless Christmas ghost story of redemption really makes for a wonderful night of musical theatre for the entire family. At its core, the show is a poignant reminder of the importance of community and of the sparkling magic that musicals can bring into our lives.
Nobody does Christmas quite like Dolly and Dickens!”
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