Join me this Thursday night, December 17, for the one sure-fire thing I know for getting in the Christmas spirit. If you want to carpool, meet at my house at 7:00.
 A CHRISTMAS CAROL:
A Solo Performance
by Mark Cabus
Mark Cabus returns with his critically acclaimed one-man performance of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
There are four performances, Thursday through Sunday, December 17-20, at Belmont's Black Box Theatre (1575 Compton Ave.).
Curtain time: 7:30 p.m., except Sunday, Dec. 20 (4 p.m.).
Purchase tickets at TicketsNashville.com:
$15 Adults at the Box Office (Cash or Check only); $12 in advance
$10 Actors Equity members
$5 Students and Seniors (with ID)
Bring a non-perishable and/or canned good for the Second Harvest food basket, and receive $3 off a full-price adult ticket at the box office.
Cabus' interpretation avoids sugary sentimentality as he portrays all 34 characters from Ebenezer Scrooge to Tiny Tim.
Former TENNESSEAN critic Kevin Nance was effusive in his praise of Cabus' work on this holiday classic: "Cabus delivers a tour de force, acting out all the parts in Charles Dickens' Holiday classic and making it seem as if that's the only way it should be done ... This CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the smallest yet most sensational shows of the year. Don't miss it. "
This performance is appropriate for the whole family but suggested for children 12 and over.
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Quote of the Week
Life, as Buddha told us, is as brief as a lightning flash; yet, as Wordsworth said: "The world is too much with us: Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." It is that laying waste of our powers-that betrayal of our essence, that abandonment of the miraculous chance that this life, the natural bardo, gives us of knowing and embodying our enlightened nature-that is perhaps the most heartbreaking thing about human life. What the masters are essentially telling us is to stop fooling ourselves: What will we have learned, if at the moment of death we do not know who we really are?
- Sogyal Rinpoche
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