The Night Before Christmas – A Staged Reading
The Night Before Christmas
A Filmed Performance
Online December 11-25, 2020
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Featuring Rob Christopher as Santa Claus
with Avery Mace as Santa’s helper
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
Clement Clarke Moore wrote his immortal poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, for his family on Christmas Eve, 1822. He never intended that it be published, but a family friend learned of the poem and submitted it to the editor of the Troy (New York) Sentinel where it first appeared in print on December 23, 1823. Soon, the poem began to be reprinted in other newspapers, almanacs and magazines, with its first appearance in a book in The New York Book of Poetry, in 1837.
Almost 200 years later, this is the most-published, most-read, most-memorized and most-collected of all Christmas tales.
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Produced by Mary Beth Anderson
Directed by Ginny Christopher & Mary Beth Anderson
Film Direction by Aaron Blas
Sound & Camera by Daniel Sabsay
Film Editing by Thomas Blas
.Set Construction by Roger Traverso
Lighting Design by Peter Mandel
Costumes by Mary Beth Anderson & Ginny Christopher
Thank You Gilroy Foundation
SVCT acknowledges and thanks the Gilroy Foundation for their 2020 grant that was used to provide a major upgrade to the lighting for our LImelight stage in Gilroy. This new lighting equipment was used for this production of The Night Before Christmas.
