Let Nary You'ns Dismay
Christmas Eve, 1921, is just another day to make a profit--for Ebenezer Scrooge, leastwise. He reckons Christmas is a humbug, and anybody aimin' to spread Christmas cheer aint' got a lick o' sense. That all changes with a visit from what Parson Wackerhager calls a "providential" rattlesnake.
In Scrooge's pizen-induced delerium, he dreams that his former bidness partner comes a-callin'. Jacob Barleycorn offers to send 'round three friends to help Scrooge recollect the chices that made him the feller he is. Although Scrooge's heart is torn apart, in the end he settles his eternal account with the only One who can heal our bygone Christmases and give 'em meanin', make our Christmas nowadays new and merry and bring hope to our Christmases a-comin'.
SCROOGE: Thar, thin. An’ tree cint is yore cheenge. Ye wantin’ sompin’ ilse, thin, marm? MAUDE: Tin pound o’ flahr an’ a bit o’ seenomim. Oh! An’ a lil tech o’ Creesmas chare shore wouln’t hort nothin’, nuther. SCROOGE: Bah, humbug! Creesmas chare! Humbug! MAUDE: Mirry Creesmas to ya, Mr. Scrooge, an’ iffen ya don’ lahk hit, ya kin jest put hit in yore pahp an' smoke hit anyhoo!
SCROOGE: Iver’boda allus a-spinnn’ some sed story. DISTRAUGHT: We ain’t got nothin’ but a poke o’ beans an’ two taters lift in the tater ben. Ah figger ah kin pay a lil sompin’ on our account in tree, fo’ week tops, wunct... SCROOGE: Ye ain’t a-gittin’ ary a rid cint wuth o’ cridit ‘til this heya done says ZIRRO! DISTRAUGHT: But...the chillern...Plaze fer the lev o’ God... SCROOGE: Oh, boo hoo hoo. Ye stendin’ in a bidness istoblishmint, Medam. Hain’t no charrity house!
SCROOGE: "Gloray to God in the hahyis'. Pase on arth, Good weel toward min."
SCROOGE: Thar, thin. An’ tree cint is yore cheenge. Ye wantin’ sompin’ ilse, thin, marm? MAUDE: Tin pound o’ flahr an’ a bit o’ seenomim. Oh! An’ a lil tech o’ Creesmas chare shore wouln’t hort nothin’, nuther. SCROOGE: Bah, humbug! Creesmas chare! Humbug! MAUDE: Mirry Creesmas to ya, Mr. Scrooge, an’ iffen ya don’ lahk hit, ya kin jest put hit in yore pahp an' smoke hit anyhoo!
Did you know...
"Let Nary Youn's Dismay" was scripted and performed in antebellum Appalachian Mountain dialect. Thank you to all the actors who worked so hard to transport the audicence back to a bygone era.
CAST
Billy-Bob Scratchit - BJ Merrymon
Maude - Jennifer Mannan
Girl - Heidi Ueeck
Distraught Woman - Heather Ueeck
Ebenezer Scrooge - George Hosier
Jedediah “Jed” Plemmons - Daniel Mannan
Louisa Mumper - Rebekah Holbrook
Lucy Snodgrass - Melody Holbrook
Reveler 1 - Liya Dyachuk
Reveler 2 - Martin Hosier
Reveler 3 - BJ Merrymon
Parson Johannes Wackerhager - Josiah Holbrook
The Haint of Jacob Barleycorn - Philip Dove
Bygone Christmas - Gaylene Hosier
Scrooge’s Mother - Rebekah Holbrook
Boy Scrooge - Daniel Holbrook
Wilma Sue - Joanna Holbrook
Young Scrooge - Josiah Holbrook
Colonel Joab Fuzziwig - Daniel Mannan
Docia "Belle" Tweedy - Heather Ueeck
Christmas Nowadays - Josiah Holbrook
Teeny Tim - Reuben Merrymon
Clarabelle Scratchit - Rebekah Holbrook
Rosalee Gawkroger - Brittany Chaffin
Jeremiah Gawkroger - Philip Dove
Ellie Scratchit - Jessica Helkenn
Meg Scratchit - Heidi Ueeck
Clem Scratchit - Daniel Holbrook
Bonita Plemmons - Jennifer Mannan
Anna May Whaley - Tiana Shawver
Ezekiel “Zeke” Dunwoody - Martin Hosier
Christmas A-comin’ - Joanna Holbrook
Woman 1 - Gaylene Hosier
Woman 2 - Rebekah Holbrook
Debtor Husband - Martin Hosier
Debtor Wife - Heather Ueeck