A Westben Christmas Carol - SOLD OUT

Saturday, November 30 & Sunday December 1, 2 pm - The Barn

Saturday, December 7, 2 pm - Norwood United Church

Chick Reid, Narrator and Tom McCamus, Scrooge

Westben Youth, Teen and Festival Choruses

Music Director & Keyboards Brian Finley

Director of Youth & Teen Choruses, Conductor Donna Bennett

Sythnesizer Kerstin Walsh

The Past, the Present and the Future – all come wonderfully to life in this concert-style retelling of the perennial classic by Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol. Adapted by Brian Finley, with original and traditional music, bundle up to experience this family favourite at The Barn with a cup of hot apple cider, or indoors, at the everfriendly Norwood United Church.

TICKET PRICES

$30 Adult | $28 Senior

(all ticket prices + HST)

Please contact the Box Office to be placed on a waitlist: 705-653-5508 or toll free 877-883-5777

Youth Chorus

Layla Alonso, Brooke Buckland, Brielle Cassidy, Gwen Crawford-Kenney, Benjamin (Ben) Cunning, Vivienne Dawson, Cara Eddie, Evelyn Heenan, Eliza Heenan, Elizabeth Higgins, Heidi Ingram, Coraline Jonah, Sam King, Olivia Larkan, Silva McCarrell, Maren McCarrell, Ivy Morford, Quinn Morford, Finley Ramjohn, Layana Ramjohn, Dani Ross, Eloise Smith, Sebastian Smith, Finley Wilson, Sophia Wilson, Elliot Wing

Teen Chorus

Deva Alonso, Claire Buckland, Sophie Haskell, Janey King, Kendal Morford, Alex Patterson, Sara Volk

Westben Festival Chorus

Sharon Abernethy, Barb Allen , Julie Bearcroft, Lionel Bennett, Laura Berman, Katherine Cochrane, Lance Cooper, Rylee Crawford, Julie Crook, Nancy Elmhirst, Joan Filip, Irene Fulton, Amy Hagerman, Lorne Hagerman, Sarah Higgins, Shane Hodge, Hajni Hos, Holly Hurlburt, Suzan Johnson, Jill Larkan, Patt MacDowell, Karen MacGinnis, Kim MacNeil, Marlene Mainland, Claudia McGrath, Gail McIntyre, Beverly Meyers, Kira Meyers-Guiden, Mike Nitsch, Tina Nodwell, Judy Pearce, Bill Reid, Debra Richardson-Edge, Sandy Robertson, Pat Ross, Aimee Ross-Carter. William Ryken, Elaine Scott, June Seaborn, Patrick Shannon, Jay Song, Lillian Tilbrook, Kerstin Walsh, Fred Wardle, Lynn Watson, Doug White, Janice West, DannyYoung

Chick Reid

Chick is entering her 48th year as a theatre professional. Her long and varied career includes

thirteen seasons with the Stratford Festival, including Tempest, Napoli Milionaria, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beaux Stratagem, Grapes of Wrath, Little Years Noises Off, No Exit; four seasons at Theatre Plus Toronto, including Saint Joan, Burn This, Abundance, Holiday, Crimes of the Heart; six seasons at the Shaw Festival, including Cavalcade, Back to Methuselah, The Women, Marathon 33, Peter Pan, War and Peace, The Madness of George III, Dracula, Getting Married, The Ladykillers, Devil’s Disciple and Sherlock Holmes: The Raven’s Curse Chick has also done extensive work across Canada and internationally, including Tarragon Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Grand Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Globe Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Westben Arts Festival Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Broadway. FILM/TELEVISION: most recently, Everything’s Going to Be Great with Brian Cranstan, Fairfield Road, Everything She Ever Wanted. TEACHING: twenty years in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. Chick was honoured to be the 2108 Recipient of CAEA’s Life Membership Award for her contribution to the Performing Arts in Canada. She lives on a farm in Warkworth, Ontario with husband Tom McCamus which they share with their beloved Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers.

Tom McCamus

Tom has just returned from the Stratford Festival where he played Judge Brack in ‘Hedda Gabler’ and Arthur Miller in ‘Salesman in China’. In his 17 seasons at the Stratford Festival and 10 seasons at the Shaw Festival and many years at various theatres across Canada, Tom has played such roles as Richard III, Coriolanus, Edmund Tyrone, MacHeath, King John, King Arthur, Brutus, Captain Hook, Aslan, Horace Vandergelder, Peter Pan, Androcles, King George III, Charles II, Hamlet, King Lear, Rhett Butler and Mozart.

In the Film and Television world Tom has appeared in: I love a Man in Uniform, The Sweet Hereafter, Long Days Journey into Night, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Room, Orphan Black.

He is a winner of a Dora award, Genie award, Gemini Award and an Actra Award.

Tom lives on a farm in Warkworth with his wife Chick Reid and their dogs.