A Christmas Carol

November 16 - December 28, 2025

A Christmas Carol

November 16 - December 28, 2025

Hubbard Theatre

From the novella by Charles Dickens
Originally directed by Rob Melrose
Remount directed by Amber D. Gray
Choreography by Christopher Windom

Houston's Holiday Tradition

Rediscover the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation as he encounters the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Be transported into Victorian England with dazzling costumes and stunning sets. Join us for a Dickensian celebration of love, redemption, and the true spirit of Christmas!

The run time is 2 hours and 15 minutes long, including one intermission.

Children under 6 will not be admitted into the theatre.

Strobe, Flashing, and Revolving Lights will be used during the performance.

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Watch as the cast brings the spirit of Christmas to life with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."

Caroline Austin

Chris Hutchison and David Rainey in A Christmas Carol

Jacob Marley Transformation

Did you know Resident Acting Company member Chris Hutchison only has ten minutes to transform into Jacob Marley?

Caroline Austin

Step into the joy of the Fezziwig party!

Watch as the cast of A Christmas Carol brings festive cheer with “The Holly and the Ivy.”

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Special Performances

Captioned Performance

Sunday, November 16

6:30 PM

Best Seats: Section 5, Rows L-O

Audio Described Performance

Sunday, November 16

6:30 PM

This service can be accessed from any seat location upon checking out a headset device.

David Rainey

Ebenezer Scrooge

David Rainey

Ebenezer Scrooge

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David Rainey is in his 25th season as a Resident Acting Company Member recently appearing in Primary Trust and Noises Off. He has also performed with The National Actors Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, among others. He received the Juilliard Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize. He is also the owner of Studio for Actors Houston.

Chris Hutchison

Marley

Chris Hutchison

Marley

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Chris Hutchison is in his 20th year as a member of the Resident Acting Company. Recent: Primary Trust, Seared, Noises Off, Jane Eyre, The Nerd. Past favorites include: Quack, Constellations, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. A 30-year career has taken him from Los Angeles to NYC to Houston and many points between. BA Lafayette College, MFA University of Washington. Proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Michelle Elaine

Mrs. Fezziwig

Michelle Elaine

Mrs. Fezziwig

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Michelle Elaine is a Resident Acting Company Member. Michelle originated the role of Miss Scarlet in the First National Tour of Clue: A New Comedy. Favorite Alley Theatre credits: Primary Trust, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sense and Sensibility, Sweat, and Quack. Michelle was awarded the Houston Press Awards Best Supporting Actress for her role as the title character in Clyde’s at The Ensemble Theatre. Stages: POTUS. Check out Michelle’s web series @castmedammit on YouTube! @michelleelaineofficial

Christopher Salazar

Fred

Christopher Salazar

Fred

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Christopher Salazar is a Resident Acting Company Member. Alley Theatre credits include Seared, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, The Servant of Two Masters, and Little Comedies. Select regional credits include: three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the world premieres of The Copper Children, The Way the Mountain Moved, and Off the Rails; 11 productions at The Old Globe. On TV: Robert Torres on Jane, The Virgin. MFA: Old Globe Theatre/ USD, BA: UNC-Chapel Hill. Love always to Amy.

Melissa Molano

Belle

Melissa Molano

Belle

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Melissa Molano is a Resident Acting Company Member. Recent Alley shows include Noël Coward’s Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and Jane Eyre. Other previous roles include: The River Bride (Belmira), Man of La Mancha (Antonia), I and You (Caroline), The Book of Maggie (Maggie). She’s also a voice and film actor featured on streaming platforms HiDive, Netflix and Prime. Instagram/X: @melissacmolano.

Dylan Godwin

Bob Cratchit

Dylan Godwin

Bob Cratchit

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Dylan Godwin is a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Actor 2), The Glass Menagerie (Tom), Noises Off (Garry Lejeune). National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: Born with Teeth (Guthrie Theatre and Asolo Rep); Miller, Mississippi (Dallas Theatre Center); Beauty and the Beast, 110 in the Shade, Reefer Madness, The Music Man, First Date, Bonnie and Clyde, Oliver, Sweet Potato Queens (Theatre Under the Stars); Life Could Be A Dream, AltarBoyz (Stages).

Elizabeth Bunch

The Ghost of Christmas Past

Elizabeth Bunch

The Ghost of Christmas Past

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Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d is Elizabeth’s 100th Alley Theatre production. She feels so lucky and so grateful. Thank you to all the brilliant Alley Artists that built and maintain this theater and its reputation. And thanks to you for valuing live theater.

Amber D. Gray

Director

Amber D. Gray

Director

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Amber D. Gray is a theatre Producer, Director, Performer, and Administrator. She received a BFA in Musical Theater at Rockford University. Her first major performances began at a very young age performing around Houston including the Opening of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Superbowl XXXVIII Pre-game show with Josh Groban, for previous Presidents, and much more. Amber previously performed in the Chicago area receiving her Equity Membership Candidacy. Amber then returned to Houston and began directing, choreographing, teaching Musical Theatre, and later becoming a Dance Studio Director. Amber’s career led her to Washington DC where she was the Company Manager at Arena Stage Theater. Following DC, Amber found herself in NYC as the Assistant Line Producer at The Public Theater. She has now returned to Houston Assistant Directing (Alley Theatre’s High School Play, A Nostalgia Fest; Stages Repertory Theatre: upcoming, cullud wattah) and recently performed in Stages Repertory Theatre’s Putnam County Spelling Bee as Marcy. She is currently the Associate Artistic Director for New York’s Reading Series BlackBoard Plays, Artistic Producer for the national Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival, General Manager for Detroit’s Obsidian Theatre Festival, and the Senior Producer for GhostLight Productions, Inc. For more information about Amber, please visit her website at amberdgray.com.

Christopher Windom

Choreographer

Christopher Windom

Choreographer

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Christopher Windom choreographed the feature film Respect for MGM, starring Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin. Off-Broadway: Choreographer, Kid Victory (The Vineyard Theatre). Alley Theatre: Choreographer, A Christmas Carol. Regional Theaters: Director, Fairview; Choreographer, Melancholy Play; Director/Choreographer, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); Director/ Choreographer, Light It Up! (Cleveland Play House); Director, Annie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Choreographer, Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center); Choreographer, Frozen: Live at the Hyperion for Disney Resorts. Christopher has performed on Broadway and in National Tours of Fosse and Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis.

Charles Dickens

Author

Charles Dickens

Author

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was born into a lower-middle class family in Portsmouth, England. When Dickens was 12, his father was imprisoned for debt and Dickens was forced to work in a boot factory. He never forgot this humiliation and fictionalized it in some of his novels. Inspired to write a Christmas story to encourage people to help those in need and to lessen his own financial woes, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks. The book was an instant best-seller that not only introduced a new Christmas story genre, but also, according to some scholars, invented the modern form of the Christmas holiday in England and America. A prolific novelist once described as “a writer who could reveal the very pulse of life,” Dickens’ most famous works include The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times: For These Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among others.

Rob Melrose

Adaptor and Original Director

Rob Melrose

Adaptor and Original Director

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Rob Melrose is the Artistic Director of Alley Theatre where he has directed productions of The Janeiad, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, Pictures from Home, The Servant of Two Masters, Born with Teeth, Sweat, The Winter’s Tale, 1984, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and adapted and directed A Christmas Carol. He was formerly the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. He has directed at The Public Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, Black Box Theatre, as well as Actors’ Collective, The Gamm Theatre, and Crowded Fire, among others. He has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, USF, the University of Rhode Island, and Marin Academy. He has a BA in English and Theater from Princeton University and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Rob directed Strindberg’s Svarta Handsken (The Black Glove) in Stockholm, Sweden at Strindberg’s Intimate Theater. His translations of Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, and Pelleas & Melisande have been published by EXIT Press. He has written a number of plays including: Helen of Troy, The Flat Earth, Divorsosaurus, When Human Voices Wake Us, Asylum, and Serpentyne and has written a rock musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz.

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