In this outrageously funny parody of Dickens’ Christmas classic, award-winning playwright Christopher Durang focuses on one of A Christmas Carol’s most insignificant characters: Bob Cratchit’s wife. Between her 21 children, her useless blob of a husband, and that whiney Tiny Tim, Mrs Cratchit has had enough. One day she flips, takes to drink, and tries to throw herself off a bridge, but she’s “touched by an angel.” Sound familiar?

Meanwhile, Ebenezer Scrooge gets his usual visits from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. But this time around it seems that something is wrong with the Ghosts’ mystic powers, putting Scrooge on a hilarious collision course with other Christmas classics such as It’s a Wonderful Life and The Gift of the Magi.

In spite of all this mayhem, Mrs Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge is safe and fun for the whole family while taking on some of the holiday season’s most sacred cows.

TheatreWorks New Milford is currently staging a production of Mrs Bob Cratchit, but the NHS benefit performance will be Sunday, December 14, at 2 pm. In addition to the performance, the afternoon will include hors d’oeuvres, dessert, open bar and soda beginning at 1.

Tickets are $40, and all proceeds will support conditioning, training, emergency transportation, emergency indoor practice fields and deposits on winter space.

The theater is at 5 Brookside Avenue, off Route 202. For tickets or additional information contact Laura Brophy at 364-9990 or SeniorNewtownLAXGirls@earthlink.net.