Returning for the fourth consecutive year, the smash-hit Old Vic production is fast becoming a Melbourne festive season tradition. Based on Dickens’ immortal classic, the Old Vic stage adaptation was conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, with a script by Jack Thorne. The immersive production, which won five Tony Awards on Broadway, brims with music, merriment and mince pies. This year, Lachy Hulme plays the mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge.

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The five-time Tony Award®-winning production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this festive season with Lachy Hulme, one of Australia’s most recognisable stage and screen actors stepping into the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Celebrated by audiences around the world, The Old Vic’s joyous and heartfelt production of A Christmas Carol is conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus (Groundhog Day, Matilda the Musical) and adapted for the stage by playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Netflix’s Enola Holmes).