With nearly everything virtual this year, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre is going full-out fantasy in restaging its perennial holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan. 

This cyber-only circuit of beloved theatrical venues culminates in a triumphant (virtual) finale at Theater for the New City.

Adapted, directed, and reinvented by Vit Horejs, it features over 30 puppets by Milos Kasal including a quartet of Rockettes in Slovak, Moravian, and Ruthenian folk costumes and holiday songs in Czech, English, Hebrew, Slovak, Spanish and Swahili.

The running time is 75 minutes. The “pretend” out-of-town try-out performances at venues outside Theater for the New City (many of them are long torn down) will be created with virtual backgrounds in the prologues.

Sat 12/19:
11am Jan Hus Playhouse, NYC – introduction by Vit Horejs
3pm Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava – introduction by Katarina Vizina
7pm Madison Square Garden, East 26th Street and Madison Avenue – introduction by Theresa Linnihan

Sun 12/20:
11am Royal Albert Hall, London – introduction by Deborah Beshaw-Farrell
3pm Clockworks Puppet Theatre, Brooklyn, NY – introduction by Jonathan Cross

Sat 12/26:
11am Théâtre des Champs Elysée, Paris – introduction by Michelle Beshaw
3pm Hollywood Bowl – introduction by Judith Barnes
7pm Bolshoi Theatre – introduction by Hayden DeWitt

Sun 12/27:
11am Hudson Valley Summer Festival – introduction by Bonnie Sue Stein
3pm La Scala Opera House – introduction by Harlem Lafayette

Wed 12/30:
11am Detroit Institute of Arts – introduction by Valois Marie Mickens
3pm National Theatre, Prague – introduction by Gail Whitmore
7pm Bannerman’s Island, Hudson River – introduction by John Scott Richardson

Thu 12/31:
A co-production of Theater for the New City and Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
3pm Culminating performance at Theater for the New City, NYC – introduction by Daniel Wilkes Kelly