By the fourth week of December almost everything available to do has curdled into obligation, and the two nights nobody schedules anything at all are the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth. That is precisely when a company in Pasadena is still performing, which is the useful fact here. A Noise Within has been a resident classical company since 1991 — meaning the same ensemble of actors works together across a whole season rather than being assembled per production — and that shows up in a Dickens adaptation more than almost anywhere else, because Carol is a story carried by a crowd. The Cratchits, the mourners, the people at Fezziwig's party: when those are played by actors who have been onstage together since autumn, the town feels like a town instead of a chorus. The room on East Foothill is small enough that Marley's entrance is genuinely startling rather than a lighting cue you watch. Take the relative who complains about everything; this is the one they will not complain about. Performances run through Christmas Eve, Pasadena, evenings and matinees.
By the fourth week of December almost everything available to do has curdled into obligation, and the two nights nobody schedules anything at all are the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth. That is precisely when a company in Pasadena is still performing, which is the useful fact here. A Noise Within has been a resident classical company since 1991 — meaning the same ensemble of actors works together across a whole season rather than being assembled per production — and that shows up in a Dickens adaptation more than almost anywhere else, because Carol is a story carried by a crowd. The Cratchits, the mourners, the people at Fezziwig's party: when those are played by actors who have been onstage together since autumn, the town feels like a town instead of a chorus. The room on East Foothill is small enough that Marley's entrance is genuinely startling rather than a lighting cue you watch. Take the relative who complains about everything; this is the one they will not complain about. Performances run through Christmas Eve, Pasadena, evenings and matinees.
By the fourth week of December almost everything available to do has curdled into obligation, and the two nights nobody schedules anything at all are the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth. That is precisely when a company in Pasadena is still performing, which is the useful fact here. A Noise Within has been a resident classical company since 1991 — meaning the same ensemble of actors works together across a whole season rather than being assembled per production — and that shows up in a Dickens adaptation more than almost anywhere else, because Carol is a story carried by a crowd. The Cratchits, the mourners, the people at Fezziwig's party: when those are played by actors who have been onstage together since autumn, the town feels like a town instead of a chorus. The room on East Foothill is small enough that Marley's entrance is genuinely startling rather than a lighting cue you watch. Take the relative who complains about everything; this is the one they will not complain about. Performances run through Christmas Eve, Pasadena, evenings and matinees.
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