Exclusive Holiday Party at Boscobel

Join Boscobel and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival for an exclusive Holiday Party with the Fezziwigs in the beautifully decorated Boscobel House on December 5th – 5 to 7pm.  Actors from the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival will read the hilarious Fezziwig Christmas Party excerpted from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig are characters featured in the Charles Dickens book, A Christmas Carol. Mr. Fezziwig is the proprietor of a warehouse business for whom Ebenezer Scrooge worked as an apprentice with Dick Wilkins; and in Stage 2 of The Christmas Carol, has a Christmas ball. Mr. Fezziwig is a happy man with a large Welsh wig. Old Fezziwig liked to dance to “Sir Roger de Coverley”, a lively tune of the 1800s.

Scrooge revisits Fezziwig with the Ghost of Christmas Past, during the Fezziwigs’ lively Christmas party. Fezziwig is one of the few people to whom Scrooge is thankful, for he says, “He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

Scrooge is reminded how much he once appreciated Fezziwig. Since Fezziwig is the elder Scrooge’s opposite in many ways — in kindness, generosity, affection for his employees, relationship with family, and apparent happiness — Scrooge is thus confronted with the fact that his own choices have diverged greatly from those of someone he admires.

Festive fare and drinks to follow.

Tickets just $75 – Order Now!

(Fifty dollars tax deductible, all proceeds to benefit Boscobel and the HVSF.)

To Order Tickets, Click Below: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/89802

SPACE IS VERY LIMITED
 
Boscobel House & Gardens
1601 Route 9D Garrison NY
www.Boscobel.org

www.HVShakespeare.org

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