For the second year, the ESU theater department will be performing “A Christmas Carol” which will be livestreamed online and recorded for listeners on the KVOE radio station later in the holiday season.
“It’s a condensed version, just one hour long,” said Bob Hart, co-director and instructor of theater. “The actual Christmas Carol runs closer to two hours. It’s like a condensed, greatest hits of “A Christmas Carol.”
Hart will also be playing Scrooge.
The show will be using foley sound effects, which will be performed behind the scenes of the show’s actors.
“All the sound effects for the show are live,” said Matt Mahr, foley artist and senior theatre major. “So when you hear someone walking down a hallway, it’s me with shoes on my hands on a table, or we have a miniature door, and we’re in the middle of building our wind machine right now, so none of it is pre-recorded sound.”
The show will be performed Dec. 2 in Bruder theatre and is open to the public. It will also be livestreamed on Emporia State’s website and on KVOE.
“It will be simulcast both online and on radio, and then it will be recorded and rebroadcast at a later date,” said Jim Bartruff, director of theater.
The event doesn’t cost to attend but they will be accepting donations. Food will be donated to the local food bank and cash will go to the general theatre scholarship fund.
“It’s not a play it’s a radio show, so rather than having the actors in costumes…we’ll really just have actors on stage waiting for their cues and we walk up to microphones,” said Fran Opheim, senior theatre education major who will be performing in the show as Belle. “This is focusing on our voices and playing with the dialect and making sure everyone has a really specific character voice.”