{"id":7668,"date":"2025-05-16T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hamptontheatre.org\/?page_id=7668"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:06:44","slug":"a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/?page_id=7668","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\n\"Hampton\r\nAdapted for the Stage by Joe Landry Music by Kevin Connors\r\n
\r\nDec. 12 - 14, 2025<\/strong>\r\n
\r\nBy popular demand! HTC\u2019s third annual production of \r\na family-friendly holiday classic, live on stage.
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Dates and Times<\/h5>\r\n\r\nFri Dec 12 - 7:00
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Rosemary Cline on Hampton Theatre Company\u2019s \u201cA Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play\u201d<\/h2>\r\n\r\nby T.J. Clemente\r\n
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\r\n \r\nRosemary Cline is presently the 6th President of the Hampton Theatre Company and will be participating in their production of \u201cA Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play\u201d that is being performed at the Quogue Community Hall on Friday, December 12, at 7pm, Saturday, December 13 at 2:30pm, and Sunday, December 14 at 2:30pm.\r\n
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\r\nShe was kind enough to give Hamptons.com an exclusive interview about the show. \r\n
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\r\nThis performance will feature actors from the HTC family of players\u2014including Andrew Botsford, Rosemary Cline, George A. Loizides, Nicholas Auletti, Scott Butler, Stephanie Moreau, and Lindsey Sanchez. They will each take on multiple roles in the story and present vintage radio commercials, performing in period costumes on a set depicting the studio of the fictional \u201cWBFR\u201d radio station in 1940s New York City. \r\n
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\r\nThe production is directed by Andrew Botsford, with incidental music recorded by Dee Laveglia, lighting by Sebastian Paczynski, and costumes by Teresa LeBrun.\r\n
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\r\nIs there something special about participating in a seasonal holiday show?\r\n
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\r\nI\u2019ll say there is. I can\u2019t remember how many years we\u2019ve been doing this at the HTC. This is the third year for a Christmas Carol, but we\u2019ve done a \u201cIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life,\u201d\u2029so we are at least five, six, seven years in, and what I think is we all love to do this together. Sometimes the cast of characters changes; we have a few new actors this year, which we\u2019re so happy to welcome. But it\u2019s so special to be giving to the community what we love to do with the people we love to do it with, and to get to share it with them.\u2029You know, it\u2019s just wonderful to be out in the community at the holiday time, giving and taking of all the cheer, and then also being able to present such a traditional piece of theater, especially \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d People love it. There are these hilarious jingles from the \u201940s. And afterwards, we do a sing-along, and we give hot cocoa and cookies ahead of time, and people of all ages come, and they always tell us throughout the year how much they enjoy it. So that\u2019s another thing that\u2019s really special.\r\n
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\r\nWhy is it a pleasure to work with Director Andrew Botsford?\r\n
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\r\nAndrew Botsford and I have been best friends. We have known each other for probably 50 years. We have worked together for 40 years. \u2029We have been husband and wife, as you know, many times, we\u2019ve been brother and sister, we\u2019ve been lots of different permutations of the male and female roles, and relationships. So, working with him, for me personally, there are so many inside jokes. We know each other really, really well, and we understand each other\u2019s pleasure in doing what we do. And we love to mix it up. We argue. And sometimes we argue in front of the rest of the cast, but it\u2019s just part of who we are, and I think when people have been with us just a few minutes, they get that it\u2019s all very good natured, but we don\u2019t always agree, and we have the comfort of this very long-term friendship in which we can express our differences. \u2029We don\u2019t have to walk on eggshells around one another. This is the only time he ever directs me. So that\u2019s kind of cool. \u2029And I\u2019ve only directed him once (\u201cA Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum\u201d), and that was really fun for us. So we don\u2019t know what the future will hold.\r\n
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\r\nWhat are the challenges facing an actor doing a radio play?\r\n
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\r\nNumber one, you\u2019re not using your whole body. You\u2019re not moving. On the stage, you\u2019re staying in one place. And because it\u2019s a radio play, we have to play to the microphone, to the audience, instead of really being able to turn to one another and do it back and forth the way we\u2019re used to. \u2029So just constantly remembering, okay, you can look to the side, you can relate to the other people, but you really have to be focused on the microphone and out. So that\u2019s a challenge, not being able to move around the stage. That\u2019s a real challenge. We are also not really in full makeup and costume. We\u2019re just in a suggestion of the era. And this set is sort of two-dimensional.\r\n
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\r\nIt\u2019s not like a real set. But that\u2019s also part of what makes this so special. \u2029It\u2019s just a different way to use what we know how to do, and it\u2019s always fun to do that. It\u2019s always fun to say, okay, here are the restrictions in this game. So here are the challenges. \u2029Now, let\u2019s see everybody do this the best they can.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosemary Cline on Hampton Theatre Company\u2019s \u201cA Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play\u201d by T.J. Clemente hamptons.com Rosemary Cline is presently the 6th President of the Hampton Theatre Company and will be participating in their production of \u201cA Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play\u201d…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7668\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptontheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}