A Tale of Charles Dickens

An exhilarating epic by Paul Lazarus and Janet Dulin Jones. A co-production with the Award-winning Antaeus Theatre Company, with sixteen actors portraying more than one hundred and thirty characters. The setting is London in the 1830’s—the most colorful and chaotic city in the world—and young journalist Charles Dickens is uncovering a dark conspiracy of arson and murder. A fanciful look at the man before he became the iconic author we know today.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

John Apicella as Squeak/Elias Goodwood Anne Gee Byrd as Barnabus Billingsley/Lord Mayor/Phoebe Farehorn Jane Carr as Matchseller/Lady De Bolter/Mrs. Bob/Mrs. Wilson Josh Clark as George Beadnell/Mr. Bob Angela Goethals as Willie Bruce Green as Pennyworth/Hamlet/Osgood Joy Jacobson as Jemima/Daisy Michael Kirby as Brixy/Beard/Pockets Jeremy Lawrence as Mister Pen/Danvers Fogel/Dr. Rounswell Bill Mendieta as Edward Cogswell Rebecca Mozo as Maria Beadnell/Cecile John Prosky as Jeffrey Goodwood/Fire Brigader John Sloan as Charles Dickens Devon Sorvari as Ellen Goodwood/Jane Janellen Steininger as Hacker/Rails Peter Van Norden as Fosterbridge/Fenton/Lord Nordling

Original musical direction and arrangement by Jan Powell.

Directed by Paul Lazarus. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 2005.

© 2006 L.A. Theatre Works (Audiobook): 9781580815208

Release date

Audiobook: 1 June 2006