EASLEY — Each holiday season, Easley’s Foothills Playhouse presents a seasonal play full of delight and this year will be no different.

A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol opens Dec. 4 with a message and laughter for all.

Based on the famous Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, this production goes a little further, bringing some humor to a serious message on charity and the heart.

For those unfamiliar with Dickens’ tale, Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miserly curmudgeon who must be taught the lessons of what Christmas is truly about, replete with ghosts of past, present, and future to lead Scrooge in reclaiming the joy of giving and the season.

In this case, though, the characters are actually some of the same ones you would recognize from the fairy tales of youth.

Snow White, a couple of the wolves, Old King Cole, Little Bo Peep, Rumpelstiltskin, Humpty Dumpty, Mother Goose, Cinderella, and Jack of beanstalk fame are all major players as Dickens’ original tale unfolds, except this time, there is a touch more humor involved.

The audience will not only receive a heartfelt message about the season but a tickle to the funny bone as well.

Written by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus and directed by Donna Duffie, A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol will run two weekends at Foothills Playhouse, Dec. 4 through Dec. 6 and Dec. 11 through Dec. 13. Show times will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The house opens for seating thirty minutes prior to showtime.

Tickets are available at the box office or can be bought online at www.fhplayhouse.com.

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By D. C. Moody

dmoody@civitasmedia.com

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