Acting troupe to perform “A Christmas Carol” at Carmel retirement home

On Christmas Day, a troupe of the area’s best actors will leave their Christmas celebrations at about 1:30 p.m. and spend the next couple hours to perform a shortened version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at a Carmel retirement home – just to be nice.

They won’t be paid a nickel. They won’t know anybody in the audience. They are simply artists who want to give others their gifts.

Earlier this month, Westfield resident David Muller sent out word that he was seeking actors to perform in a staged reading of A Christmas Carol. (Muller wrote the script.) Delighted with the positive responses, he assembled seven other actors, himself playing Dickens, as he had done in the past.

The company will perform the show, about an hour long, as a gift to the residents. The cast will get back to their other activities after a couple hours of giving to the seniors the cast’s precious time on Christmas Day.

“I could not be more grateful for my cast’s huge generosity,” Muller said. “They will give to others selflessly, on Christmas Day – in the middle of the afternoon – and to total strangers. Nobody could be kinder. They have rehearsed diligently, giving hours of their busy December already. They will give our seniors a fantastic presentation of Dickens’ classic story of the goodness of Christmas, through their artistry and from their hearts. Each actor reminds me of Tiny Tim – God bless us all, every one!”