Scrooge at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Johnstown, CO

Scrooge the Musical returns to the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse from November 30 – December 31, 2018.

This touching musical classic always warms everyone’s hearts – even those of the most diehard Scrooges!

Scrooge in front of his counting house. Photo Credit: RDG Photography

The Story

Ebenezer Scrooge hates people. He sees them only as scavengers and fools, whose sole purpose in life is to get in debt so that he can collect the interest on the loans he gives them.

But why does he hate people?

That’s what Scrooge: The Musical explores. Scrooge is taken on a journey through time by the Ghost of Christmas Past to his deprived boyhood and then his young manhood, when he loses the only woman he’s ever loved. But that’s not enough to warm Scrooge’s heart, so the Ghost of Christmas Present shows him the poor but charming home life of his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and the less poor but equally charming home life of his nephew, Fred and new wife and all their friends.

It’s a journey of discovery and redemption for Scrooge, and perhaps goes a little way toward redeeming Scrooge’s poor, forgotten partner, Marley, as well.

The Production

The Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge watch as Tiny Tim sings “The Day That I Dream About.” Photo Credit: RDG Photography

Brian Burron returns in one of his signature roles for the Candlelight, having played  Ebenezer Scrooge in 2011 and 2013. His performance has only gained in power and depth, . He’s feisty with the ghosts…well, until the cowled Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come hovers over him!, and sympathetic in his transformation from a cold-hearted miser to a man who sees everything he gave up in his life that might have made him happy.

Eric Heine as young Ebenezer, so in love with Isabel, is equally effecting. How we root for him to yield to his older self’s entreaties and not let Isabel walk out of his life!

Kent Sugg is a rather more chilling Marley than we usually see, so agonized in his hell and so desperate to help his former partner avoid the fate in store for him, and then there’s the utter menace of the silent but sinister Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

The rest of the company has a lot of fun in their roles, and with the choreography – from Tom the Hot Soup Man (Scotty Shaffer) leading the townsfolk in “Thank You Very Much” to Scott Hurst and Annie Dwyer as Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig in “December the 25th.”

The show closes with Burron delivering a stirring rendition of Scrooge’s anthemic, “I’ll Begin Again,” a song that is sure to resonate with everyone as the New Year approaches and New Year’s resolutions are made.  “I will start anew. I will make amends. And I will make quite certain that the story ends on a note of hope and a strong amen.”

And while Scrooge may have seen the light by the end of show, afterwards he will be happy to pose with theatre-goers who want his miserly sneer in their photos!

The Dinner

Table for two at the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse’s production of Scrooge

Appetizers and salads

Broiled sole filet topped with mixed garlic lemon butter sauce. Served with mixed vegetables and rice

Apple glazed porkchop (sweet and savory apple glaze on the size). Thick cut porkchop with mashed potatoes and sweet corn

The Cast

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Production Team

How to Get to the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse

The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse is just off I-25, about an hour north of Denver or an hour south of Cheyenne, Wyoming. There’s plenty of parking onsite.