{"id":453078,"date":"2025-12-17T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:13:13","slug":"i-dont-want-to-screw-it-up-an-amateur-actor-takes-on-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/453078\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t want to screw it up\u2019: An amateur actor takes on \u2018A Christmas Carol\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                    <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/curious-city\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765969993_144_\"  width=\"300\" height=\"63\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                    WBEZ\u2019s Curious City answers questions from listeners about Chicago and the region. We include the public in our storytelling, making journalism more transparent and interconnected.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>Chicago celebrates the holidays with all kinds of traditions: the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/things-to-do\/2025\/11\/18\/christkindlmarket-daley-plaza-aurora-wrigleyville-mug\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christkindlmarket<\/a>, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/curious-city\/2023\/12\/07\/the-history-of-the-chicago-cta-holiday-train\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CTA holiday train<\/a>, and even Chicagoan Donny Hathaway\u2019s classic tune \u201cThis Christmas.\u201d Another tradition to add to the list? The Goodman Theatre\u2019s production of \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d While it\u2019s not a distinctly Chicago tradition, the Goodman has been running this annual show for nearly half a century, which has to count for something.<\/p>\n<p>This year, our Chicago Sun-Times colleague Stefano Esposito got the opportunity to play a cameo role in the production. Curious City follows him as he prepares and takes to the stage. Will he do this holiday tradition justice? <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/theater\/2025\/12\/17\/goodman-theatre-a-christmas-carol-chicago-cameo\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to read Esposito\u2019s story and press play to listen to his journey into \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBEZ\u2019s Curious City answers questions from listeners about Chicago and the region. We include the public in our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-453078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115734617009196804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}