{"id":7951,"date":"2011-11-12T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2011-11-12T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:00:46","slug":"james-taylor-to-play-bob-crachit-in-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/james-taylor-to-play-bob-crachit-in-a-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"James Taylor to play Bob Crachit in A Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hail-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"James Taylor joins cast of A Christmas Carol\" title=\"James Taylor joins cast of A Christmas Carol\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5936\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/james-taylor\/\">James Taylor<\/a> who has been a resident of <strong>the Berkshires<\/strong> for several years and a frequent summertime attraction at <strong>Tanglewood<\/strong> will become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/pittsfield-ma\/\">downtown Pittsfield<\/a> attraction when <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em> opens on December 17 for a two week run at the <strong>Colonial Theatre<\/strong>. Taylor will appear in the role of Bob Cratchit, joining a cast that already includes wife Kim and sons Henry and Rufus who were in the cast last year too.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire Theatre Group, formed in 2010 with the merging of the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Colonial Theatre, is producing the play under the co-direction of <strong>Eric Hill<\/strong> and <strong>E. Gray Simons III<\/strong>. The cast includes four graduate students from BTG&#8217;s partner academic institution, Brandeis University, Sarah Elizabeth Bedard, Sam Gillam, Brandon Green and Eddie Shields; three of Berkshire Theatre Group&#8217;s Artists-in-Residence, Rachael Balcanoff, Jacob Gold and Lauren Stanek; in addition to 20 children, representing nine schools and seven towns in the Berkshires.<\/p>\n<h3>The Colonial Theatre tickets contact information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>111 South St. &#8211; Pittsfield, Mass 01201<\/li>\n<li>413-997-4444<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecolonialtheatre.org\/\">TheColonialTheatre.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Photo of James Taylor in 2007 One Man Band concert at the Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, by Jaime Goldenberg &copy; BerkshireLinks.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Taylor who has been a resident of the Berkshires for several years and a frequent summertime attraction at Tanglewood will become a downtown Pittsfield attraction when A Christmas Carol opens on December 17 for a two week run at the Colonial Theatre. Taylor will appear in the role of Bob Cratchit, joining a cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-outdated","tag-james-taylor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}