Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
Opens This Friday!
Hilarious holiday parody nearly sold out for opening weekend.

For the holiday season, TheatreWorks New Milford is proud to announce the Friday debut of Christopher Durang’s hilarious holiday parody of “A Christmas Carol,” Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge.

Tickets can be purchased here or by calling the box office at 860-350-6863.

In the play, Durang, author of such cutting-edge comedies as Beyond Therapy and Sister Mary Ignatius Tells It All to You focuses on one of Dickens’ most insignificant characters — poor Bob Cratchit’s wife. One day she flips, takes to drink, and tries to throw herself off a bridge, running headlong into the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, as well as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge. But this time around something is wrong with the Ghosts’ mystic powers, putting Scrooge and Mrs. Bob on a hilarious collision course with other Christmas classics such as It’s a Wonderful Life, The Gift of the Magi, and many more.

“This play is out and outright silly in the funniest way possible,” said Director Beth Bonnabeau-Harding. “Durang turned every syrupy tale he could think of on its ear, be it holiday-oriented or not, classic or contemporary, to create an absolutely outrageous situation that you have to check your brain at the door to enjoy.”

“The show really is a crazy crowd-pleaser for both young and old,” said Producer and President of TheatreWorks, Richard Pettibone. “Younger audience members will love the physical, slapstick comedy; more mature audiences will appreciate the skewering of so many of the Holiday’s ‘sacred cows.’”

Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge features some of the area’s finest actors: John Taylor of Sherman; Susan Abrams of Warren; Regan Flynn of Prospect; Jim Lones of Oxford; Viv Berger of Southbury; Regina Sweeney of Mahopac, NY; Glenn R. Couture of Ansonia; M.J. Hartell and Tracy Hurd, both from Brookfield; and Lainey Ford, Lori Larson, and Ken Greiter, all from New Milford.

The production crew includes Technical Director, Scott Wyshynski, Stage Managers Lainey Ford and Mercedes Cesseras, and Set Designer, Glenn R. Couture.

Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge was commissioned by the City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and premiered there on November 7, 2002. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the play “a rollicking parody…splendid.”

Open Casting Call for... David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole

December 8th & 9th from 7 to 9 PM

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TheatreWorks New Milford is seeking two men, ages 17-45, and three women, ages 30-65, for its opening production of the 2009 season ― the heartfelt drama, RABBIT HOLE, by David Lindsay-Abaire.

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, RABBIT HOLE charts the journey of Becca and Howie Corbett, a typical, suburban couple from Westchester County whose world is turned upside down in the wake of a life-shattering accident. Without sentimentality or mawkishness, Lindsay-Abaire weaves a simple and honest tale of loss filled with brilliant dialogue, all-too-familiar characters, unexpected laughter, and an overriding sense of hope for Becca and Howie’s uncertain future. RABBIT HOLE is under the direction of Susan Pettibone of New Milford.

The auditions will be held at TheatreWorks, 5 Brookside Ave., New Milford, Conn, on Monday, December 8 and Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Current Production December 5, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 31* Fri & Sat - 8:00 PM / Sun - 2:00 PM Where: TheatreWorks $20.00 / *New Year's Eve Gala: $50.00 / $30.00 Subscribers Reserved Seating Click Here for details on NYE gala.