![]() This reviewer is often not merry and bright. All of this adds to the experience - and the fun. Reid adds to the experience in so many ways: bells chime, children play, horses trot, voices screech. We see Mays in shadow, delicately lit windows, glowing illumination under doors, and streaming rays that are practically blinding. Stanton makes brilliant use of light and darkness. View Gallery: Radio City Christmas Spectacular animals blessed by Cardinal Dolan At the Cratchit household, Mays wonderfully transforms - sometimes at the speed of light - from the poor man's wife to teenage Peter to the daughters to the little Cratchits to Tiny Tim. The Ghost of Christmas Past is a cross between a child and an old man. Mays may be at his best, though, in the loud and echoing voice of the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's former business partner, who lets him know he will be visited by three spirits. ![]() ![]() He easily moves from the cold-hearted Scrooge to the good-natured clerk Bob Cratchit. Mays changes his voice and expressions throughout, sometimes subtly. For this limited run at the Nederlander Theatre, he serves as narrator (identified as "The Mourner") while going in and out of characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim (Danny Gardner is "The Spectre"). ![]() He won a 2004 Tony Award for the one-man show "I Am My Own Wife," Doug Wright's play based on conversations with trans woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. ![]() That Mays puts on a master class should not be surprising. ![]()
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