Old Globe Adds ‘Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays’ for Holiday Season

The Old Globe has announced that it added the one-man show Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Told by Jefferson Mays to the 2024 calendar. 

The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge will be brought to life by Tony-winner Jefferson Mays (Broadway’s I Am My Own Wife and the Old Globe’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), with direction by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein.

The engagement, 10 performances only, from Dec. 12-22, will be hosted in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Prebys Theatre Center in Balboa Park.

Subscriber and donor priority pre-sale starts at noon Sept. 6, and single tickets for the general public will be available at noon Sept. 18. Purchases can be made online or by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623).

Mays returns to the Old Globe after his performance in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, which won a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award in 2013.

In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, Mays portrays over 50 characters, from Scrooge and Marley to Tiny Tim and the three Ghosts.

“It’s a great delight to share with San Diego a show that I know will be a special holiday gift and a memorable evening in the theater,” Edelstein said.

He added of Mays, that the play “rejoices in the versatility, range and singular talent of one of America’s finest actors.”

Mays recently appeared in Broadway’s revival of The Music Man as Mayor Shinn opposite Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, while also performing his Tony-nominated  A Christmas Carol, directed by Michael Arden in the same season. A Christmas Carol also was mounted in Los Angeles.

In addition to his Tony win in 2004 for I Am My Own Wife, Mays was nominated in 2017 for his role in Oslo and in 2014 for the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

On television, Mays can be seen as entitled talk show host Albert Duhamel in HBO Max’s “Julia.” He also plays the dyspeptic antique shop owner T. L. Gurley in “Hacks,” currently streaming on HBO Max. Some of Mays’s other television credits include recurring arcs on FX’s “The Americans,” Cinemax’s “The Knick,” and NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU.”