‘A Sherlock Carol’ Opens the Curtain On An Instant Holiday Classic

(l to r) Dan Domingues, Isabel Keating, Mark Price and Anissa Felix in ‘A Sherlock Carol.’ (Photo: Evan Zimmerman/MurphyMade)

Solve the mystery of what show to take your family to see this winter with New World Stages’ production of A Sherlock Carol, written and directed by Mark Shanahan. In this spirited holiday production, two beloved classics come together, with some mystery and music thrown in for good measure.

In this mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens, a grown-up Tiny Tim (a jovial Dan Domingues) approaches a past-his-prime Sherlock Holmes and asks him to investigate the death of his benefactor, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Lestrade (Anissa Felix in a gender-blind casting) believes Scrooge died of old age, but a missing will and a priceless stolen gem cloud things a bit for both Cratchit and Holmes.

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