2 The Hampton Roads Messenger NAUTICUS PRESENTS


CHRISTMAS Towne


Dickens’


Unwrapping an ALL NEW


magical experience this holiday season!


BY CITY OF NORFOLK region’s most unique


Norfolk, Va.—This season, the holiday


stage


concept premiers at Dickens’ Christmas Towne. Nauticus partnered with a team of professional entertainers to produce and deliver a first-of-its-kind variety performance that incorporates marching gingerbread men, a nutcracker army, a life-sized


jack-in-the-box, and a


rag doll aerialist suspended high atop the town. Nauticus’ magical holiday experience has become a seasonal favorite and a “must attend” event in Hampton Roads. It opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 23.


November 23 - December 31 | DickensChristmasTowne.com


“We wanted to create something totally new this season,” said Nauticus


Executive Director, Stephen E.


Kirkland. “It all started with a simple, exciting concept back in the spring: Have you ever wondered what your toys do when no one is looking?”


the production with a set designed to


A new stage has been built for look


like a Victorian paper


puppet theater. Other new additions to Dickens’ Christmas Towne this season include a talking reindeer (Randy, the Plain-Nosed Reindeer), animated pelicans, ducks, and even a talking London rat that resides in the floorboards of Scrooge’s house!


Nauticus has also partnered with a local inventor and Steampunk


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Volume 14 Number 3


December 2019


Original New Stage Production Debuts at Dickens’ Christmas Towne


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