Cold Feet and Toast of London star Robert Bathurst will play Scrooge in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol at the Southbank Centre this Christmas.
Bathurst will be joined by Halle Brown, Iona Fraser, Richard J Hunt, Vicki Lee Taylor, Olivier Award winner George Maguire, Ediz Mahmut, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher Parkinson, Minal Patel, Annie Southall, Carole Stennett, Danny Whitehead and Mitchell Zhangazha. Playing the role of Tiny Tim will be Daniel Lee, Alexander Quinlan and Samuel Sturge. Also in the children’s cast will be Elliot Marsden, George Menezes Cutts and Dereke Oladele.
Charles Dickens classic tale is transported to 1930s East Tennessee with Ebenezer Scrooge cast as the owner of a mining company town in the smokey mountains. Dickens timeless story has been adapted by David H. Bell, Paul T. Couch and Curt Wollan with the musical featuring a book by David H Bell and music & lyrics by the Queen of Country music Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol – A New Musical will run from 8 December 2022 to 8 January 2023 at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Tickets on sale here.
