Registration

• Admission for this program is $65.

• Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email rsvp@rosenbach.org.

• This program is for those 21 and older.

• Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, September 12, for Rosenbach members on Friday, September 19, and for the general public on Friday, September 26. Registration opens at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Description

Celebrate the holiday season in the style of Charles Dickens: with good fellowship, music, and punch! The conviviality of the Dickensian world is nowhere more apparent than in Dickens’s Christmas books and stories. From Mr. Pickwick celebrating at Dingley Dell to Scrooge offering Bob Cratchit a talk over a bowl of smoking bishop, Dickens knew that Christmas was “the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness.” Dickens, himself, always celebrated the holiday with parties, feasting, games, and a brimming bowl of punch.  

We’ll begin the evening with punch made from the author’s own recipe and visit a selection from the Rosenbach’s Dickens holdings in the Treasures galleries, followed by a reading from A Christmas Carol by Mr. Dickens, as portrayed by Brian McCann. Wearing your finest Victorian clothing is welcomed (but not required). 

About the Performer

Brian McCann began his love of all things Dickens at the age of 10, by not only reading the novels but by being cast in the perennial favorite, A Christmas Carol. McCann has gone on to act in 22 different productions of this Christmas classic. He has played the lawyer Jaggers from Great Expectations at the Arden Theater Company, to critical acclaim. He has twice played Charles Dickens for the Lantern Theater Company and their two productions of "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens & Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord." Mr. McCann has also presented as Charles Dickens for numerous tours and speaking engagements in and around Philadelphia.