This is a show that I look forward to every year! It always brings me into the holiday spirit.
The songs are wonderful and heartfelt.
This year was especially great! Mr McLean changed and updated the production. There was a new song too! I was happy the previous songs were still there, but I loved the new way they were shown. This is a wonderful production!
‘THE FORGOTTEN CAROLS’ Playing in 11 Cities
this Holiday Season
-The 28th
Year Brings a New ‘Re-imagined’ Version of the Holiday Tradition to the Stage-
Salt Lake City – The Forgotten Carols, a Holiday
season tradition marking its 28th year of consecutive performances,
is coming to your home town! This year signals the introduction of a new,
“re-imagined” version of the musical with 19 performances covering 11 cities in
Utah, Idaho and Arizona. For a list of locations and to buy tickets, visit www.forgottencarols.com.
Michael McLean, a well-known performer, composer, songwriter,
author and director initially developed The
Forgotten Carols as solely a theme-driven album of new Christmas music. But
he soon realized he needed a story to connect all the songs together. McLean
wrote the interweaving story of a nurse named Connie Lou who cares for John, an
elderly patient who shares the songs about those people he claims to have lived
with 2,000 years ago. For his initial performances, McLean played all the parts
to give people a sense of how families could present the narration at home
hoping it would become a family tradition.
Over the years, McLean’s modest one-man show has evolved into
a full scale theatrical production performed for more than a million people
throughout the United States and abroad, including shows in Ireland, Germany,
England and the Ukraine. And now, after 28 years, McLean is surprising his
audiences with significant changes to his classic story!
“People who have been coming for years will be thrilled, I
believe, with the changes we’ve made this year,” remarked McLean. “For a few
years now, my son and I have been thinking about updating the story, and this
year we decided to dive in and do it. Fans will hear the same songs, see the
same characters, but experience the story in a completely new way!”
McLean is currently working on adapting the stage version of The Forgotten Carols as a feature film,
and it was this process that inspired the story changes. “After we wrote the
screenplay for the film, there were so many elements we fell in love with that
just had to be in the stage version,” said McLean. “And the changes we’ve made
just feel right. They make the characters deeper, the story more spiritual, and
the experience that much richer.”
So, if you’ve been
coming for years – come again! And if you’re a new fan – you won’t want to miss
your chance to see what we are calling The
Forgotten Carols – Reimagined!” quipped McLean.
The Forgotten Carols 2019 concert schedule includes performances in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah.
Performance tickets are on sale now. For a complete listing of concert dates
and locations or to purchase tickets visit the website at www.forgottencarols.com.
SYNOPSIS
This season, we invite you to join us for this
beautifully re-imagined telling of Michael McLean’s holiday tradition THE
FORGOTTEN CAROLS. Touring since 1991, this timeless Christmas tradition brings
to life the story of Constance Louise Chamberlain, a nurse who hasn’t laughed
or cried in over 30 years. But that all
changes when she meets, and cares for, a homeless man with dementia (Uncle
John, as he likes to be called) who insists he’s been alive for over two thousand
years. Uncle John recounts the story of
Christ’s birth through these Forgotten Carols sung from the perspective of his
“friends” the Inn Keeper, a Shepherd, Handel and others, taking Connie Lou on a
life-altering journey. As Uncle John
struggles to remember all the reasons why he feels compelled to share these
unknown carols with his nurse, she discovers what her heart has forgotten about
the true power and meaning of Christmas!
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