Georgiana and Kitty If “it is a truth universally acknowledged” that all things come in threes, then the final installment of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's triptych of life after Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana and Kitty, Christmas at Pemberley, is proof enough. If you're familiar with the first...
David Rainey as Scrooge and Elizabeth Bunch as the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol at Alley Theatre .If “it is a truth universally acknowledged” that all things come in threes, then the final installment of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's triptych of life after Jane Austen's, this addition will be as warm and cozy as a counterpane comforter or a glass of mulled brandy. Everything's pretty much in the same place in Regency England as we've left it.
But there's a new visitor on the estate, the sister of Elizabeth's husband Darcy and Kitty's best friend, Georgiana . I could write an ode on Ms. Ehrhardt, who was so memorable as the stuffy and priggish Anne de Bough, the childhood fianceé of Darcy, who precipitates much of the light sturm and drang in. Can Ehrhardt make a false move or be any more alive and true on stage? No, I think not.
Sad to say, even with all this scintillation, The Ensemble Theatre has lost a bit of its holiday glitter. Last year's eye-opening musical Christmas present,, has been re-gifted and wrapped in used paper. Where once this whirligig of phenomenal song and dance merrily pranced and high-stepped into high-octane entertainment, now the show has forgotten to include the batteries. Still filled with some powerful individual performances, the luster is gone.
The Ensemble cast is very good, however, and the liquid smoothness of Jakori Jackson is a perfect fit for the Prince of Motown, Marvin Gaye, in the rip-rousing “Can I Get a Witness?” And Troi Coleman, Brytanni Davis, and Bridgjette Taylor Jackson shimmy up a storm as Martha and the Vandellas in “Jimmy Mack” and “Heatwave.” While the suave quintet of Jakori Jackson, Ramaj Jamar, Donte Miller, Fortune Onwunali, and Talbert Williams, Jr.
Dickens shines brightest throughout this version. More of his thick-as-goose-gravy prose is said verbatim than any other production I can remember, although John Steven's tantalizing one-man adaptation from Country Playhouse years ago came nearly as close. But the Alley has stagecraft wizardry in its arsenal, and it's used magnificently to tell the tale.
Chris Hutchison is most ghastly as the tortured ghost of Marley, condemned to haunt the earth witnessing the pleasures he couldn't allow himself in life. His echoing howls are satisfyingly grisly. Expressive Dylan Godwin is the picture of over-worked Bob Cratchit and deeply devoted father who only has joy to give his family. When he talks of visiting Tiny Tim's grave during Scrooge's hallucination of the future, he breaks hearts.
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