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The cast of In Your Arms, 2015. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
The cast of In Your Arms, 2015. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
PHOTO EDITORS: Photos of the Globe’s production of A Christmas Carol can be found here.
SAN DIEGO (August 13, 2024) — The Old Globe announced today that it will present Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays, A Thrilling Solo Rendition of the Holiday Classic by Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons, and Michael Arden. Globe audiences will experience the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge brought to life by Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays (Broadway’s I Am My Own Wife, Broadway and The Old Globe’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and directed by the Globe’s Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (The Old Globe’s Henry 6, Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Wanderers). Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays will play for 10 exclusive performances only, in the intimate Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Performances begin December 12 and run to December 22, 2024, with the opening set for Friday, December 13. Subscriber and donor priority pre-sale for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays starts September 6 at 12:00 noon, and single tickets for the general public will be available on September 18 at 12:00 noon online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623), and in person at The Old Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park on September 20.
This holiday season, Mays will return to The Old Globe after his San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award–winning performance in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2013. He will portray over 50 beloved characters from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—from Scrooge and Marley to Tiny Tim and the three Ghosts. In this new version of his acclaimed one-man show, Mays showcases Dickens’s text with his virtuosic performance.
“It’s a great delight to share with San Diego a show that I know will be a special holiday gift and a memorable evening in the theatre,” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “The great Jefferson Mays’s remarkable career has included many major works for the stage, including a solo Broadway run of A Christmas Carol. The new version of that work he will bring to our stage in December celebrates the extraordinary power of Charles Dickens and the thrill of this classic tale of Christmas miracles. But most of all it rejoices in the versatility, range, and singular talent of one of America’s finest actors. I’m honored and excited to add this holiday treat to our lineup.”
Jefferson Mays recently appeared in Broadway’s Winter Garden revival of The Music Man as Mayor Shinn opposite Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, before bounding across the Rialto to perform his Tony-nominated one-person A Christmas Carol, directed by Michael Arden, at the Nederlander in the same season. On television, Mays can be seen as the entitled talk show host Albert Duhamel in HBO Max’s “Julia.” His adaptation and performance of A Christmas Carol garnered multiple Ovation Awards at Geffen Playhouse in 2018, and it was streamed in the winter of 2020 to raise money for regional theatres across the country. Additionally in television, Mays plays the dyspeptic antique shop owner T. L. Gurley in “Hacks,” currently streaming on HBO Max. Mays also plays the eccentric coroner Virgil Sheets in “Perry Mason,” also streaming on HBO Max. Mays starred as George Hodel in the TNT miniseries I Am the Night, directed by Patty Jenkins, and had a featured role in the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Mays’s other television credits include recurring arcs on FX’s “The Americans”; Cinemax’s “The Knick,” directed by Steven Soderbergh; and NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” as the serial killer Dr. Rudnick; as well as a memorable guest role in the Netflix hit “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” In theatre, Mays was nominated for a 2017 Tony Award for his role in the Tony-winning play Oslo, and is perhaps best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in I Am My Own Wife, where he played over 40 different roles. Mays was also Tony-nominated for his performance in the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.
The creative team for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays will be announced at a later date.
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays, A Thrilling Solo Rendition of the Holiday Classic will play in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way). The production will play for 10 exclusive performances only from December 12 to December 22, 2024, with the official press opening Friday, December 13 at 8:00 p.m. Subscriber and donor priority pre-sale for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays starts September 6 at 12:00 noon, and single tickets for the general public will be available on September 18 at 12:00 noon online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623), and in person at The Old Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park on September 20. Prices start at $39. For additional information, visit www.TheOldGlobe.org.
Opening night post-show receptions for the cast and donors are held in Hattox Hall, located in the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.
Financial support for The Old Globe is provided by The City of San Diego. The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.
The Tony Award–winning The Old Globe is one of the country’s leading professional nonprofit regional theatres. Now in its 90th year, the Globe is San Diego’s flagship performing arts institution, and it serves a vibrant community by creating theatre that lives beyond the stage. Under the leadership of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director Timothy J. Shields, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 16 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages, including its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people annually attend Globe productions and participate in the theatre’s artistic and arts engagement programs. Its nationally prominent Arts Engagement Department provides an array of participatory programs that make theatre matter to more people in neighborhoods throughout the region. Humanities programs at the Globe and around the city broaden the community’s understanding of theatre art in all its forms. The Globe also boasts a range of new play development programs with professional and community-based writers, as well as the renowned The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Numerous world premieres—such as 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.
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