an Activist Adaptation
December 14 - 29, 2024
At Z SPACE, Steindler Stage
450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE IN COOPERATION WITH
PRESENTS
Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Adapted for the Stage by Michael Gene Sullivan
Six people,
telling the story,
playing all the roles,
in an abandoned industrial space.
This isn't your average, feel-good Christmas tale.
But it was never supposed to be.
We all know the story: The redemption of a cranky miser at Christmas, a ghost story designed to let an audience feel good about themselves for not being heartless.
But Charles Dickens wasn't trying to make people feel good, he was trying to show them a stark reality, scaring them into being more human. He wrote A Christmas Carol to shake up society, and with A Red Carol we are re-establishing his story as the revolutionary call-to-action he intended.
With music, joy, and plenty of harsh truths about his time and ours, A Red Carol is the demand for economic and social justice Dickens wanted then, and we need now.
"People always think this story is about you,” Bob Cratchit tells Scrooge.
“But it ain’t about you, it’s about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, its you steppin’ over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it’s us lettin’ you turn our government into a casino, listenin’ while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin’ up and shouting "NO!"'
“It ain’t about you," Cratchit says. "It’s about us.”
~
Director's Note
I feel it’s important to reclaim Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from the corporatists, and present it as the progressive, activist tale he intended. Especially now - as those at the economic top push for our society to increasingly devolve into an anti-worker, elitist, 18th century rich/poor structure - we must remind ourselves that his great story wasn’t created to be a feel-good tale of one greedy man redeemed. It was about a philosophy of economic oppression that Scrooge represented, and how society itself had to be changed. It wasn’t about him - it was, and is, about us.
The first reading of A Red Carol was at Occupy Wall Street/Oakland on Christmas Eve, 2010, and it has taken all these years for the Mime Troupe to raise the money and find the right partner in Z Space for us to produce it - and unfortunately the issues of almost 25 years ago have only deepened. The goal of this production is to show us, again, the humanity we share, our commonality as workers, and how - if we work together - we can change the world - just like Dickens intended.
— MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN
Cast
Mike McShane
MIKE MCSHANE*
Mike McShane is an award-winning veteran film, television, and theatre actor who has performed on stages from London to Broadway. Mike got his start with Faultline - a groundbreaking improv troupe based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mike was a company member of Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, and the SF Shakespeare Festival, and hiis West Coast stage credits include - Henry IV Part 1, Hamlet, King John, Alls Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale (California Shakespeare Festival), Waiting For Godot, You, Nero (Berkeley Repertory Theater), A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to The Forum, Golden Boy,(American Conservatory Theater) A Bright Room Called Day, The Stick Wife (Eureka Theater), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, Cousin Bette, The Seagull, and Tonight At 8:30 (The Antaeus Theater Company) Broadway credits include: La Cage Aux Folles, and Taller Than A Dwarf. In London West End he appeared in: Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors, and La Cage aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory). In film Mike achieved peak nerdom by being a villain in Doctor Who, driving the Batmobile whilst dressed as a Klingon, and as Friar Tuck kicking Kevin Costner in the face in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Other film credits include Richie Rich, Tom & Huck, Office Space. His TV credits include Seinfeld, ER, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle, Wayward Pines, Doctor Who, NCIS:LA and NCIS, he is a past nominee for a Daytime Emmy, and was honored with a Cable Ace Award. Mike is extremely happy to be joining old friends and new comrades in a great American institution, The SF Mime Troupe. Keep Kicking.
Brian Rivera
BRIAN RIVERA*
BRIAN RIVERA last performed with the Mime Troupe in parks around the Bay in Treasure Island (2019), Posibilidad, or Death of the Worker (2010), and Doing Good (2005). He made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning revival of The King & I at Lincoln Center, playing The King of Siam on occasion. Last year, Brian officially played The King in the West End UK & Ireland Tour of The King and I. Online, he can be heard in Mime Troupe's Tales of the Resistance 2020 & Vol. 2, a series of radio play episodes available to hear at www.sfmt.org. Brian's other Bay Area credits include the US Premiere of The Orphan of Zhao at ACT & La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Yellowjackets, and California Shakepeare Theater's American Night. He is a proud member of Campo Santo Theatre Company, residents of The Magic Theatre. Brian was part of the cast of Luis Alfaro's Travelers, which recently won the Will Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area in 2023. He also recently won the Charles Dean Award for Excellence in Bay Area Theatre Performance. Brian is a graduate of SFSU's Drama Department, and is a proud member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA. Brian can be seen next summer playing Jerry Garcia in The Magic Theatre's premiere of Richard Montoya's Jerry Garcia in The Mission.
Jed Parsario
JED PARSARIO*
Jed Parsario (AEA) is excited to return SFMT! He is an Oakland-based, TBA-nominated actor, and teaching artist. He is a company member of PlayGround, Red Ladder Theatre Company, and a collective member of Analog Theatre. He was last seen in CenterRep’sThe Legend of Georgia McBride (Jason/Rexy) dir. by Elizabeth Carter. Other credits include American Conservatory Theater (Sweat), Magic Theater (various), Marin Shakespeare Company (various), SF MimeTroupe (Breakdown), Shotgun Players (White), and SPARC (Complete Works of William Shakespeare). He is proud to give back to the community through his work as a teaching artist and facilitator of workshops with underserved communities throughout the Bay Area through his work with Red Ladder.
Velina Brown
VELINA BROWN*
Velina Brown is thrilled to be a part of the long awaited premier of A Red Carol. Velina started working with SFMT as an actor, singer and collaborator in 1992. She began directing SFMT projects in 2020 with the radio series Tales of the Resistance. She then co-directed the 2021 Season of Tales of the Resistance II. The Troupe created this radio series in lieu of our usual park tour during quarantine for which we won Best of the Bay. She most recently directed the Mime Troupe’s critically acclaimed Summer 2024 musical political satire American Dreams. As a principal performer in the Troupe Velina has played the Devil in Deal With the Devil, Veronique in Veronique of the Mounties, she's played Condoleeza Rice three times, and was both an actor and Contributing Lyricist on GodFellas and Making a Killing. Velina's most recent shows with the Troupe include Tales of the Resistance, A Red Carol, Walls: No Human is Illegal, Schooled, Ripple Effect, For The Greater Good: Or the Last Election, Red State, Too Big to Fail, and Posibilidad: Or Death of the Worker for which she won a Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Principal Actress. www.velinabrown.com
Lisa Hori-Garcia
LISA HORI-GARCIA*
Lisa Hori-Garcia is an actress, director, and teaching artist who regularly works between San Francisco and Denver. She was most recently seen performing in the world premiere of Andrew Rosendorf's play "Stockade" in Colorado. Back in San Francsico, Lisa co-directed Word for Word's production of Murakami's "A Strange Library" with fellow Mime Troupe comrade Keiko Shimosato Carreiro. Lisa has been a collective member with SFMT since 2004 as an actress, producer, director, and serving as the program director of SFMT’s Youth Theater Project. Lisa is grateful for the opportunity to perform in the fully staged version of SFMT’s “Red Carol” after being part of the development process from its very beginnings. Lisa received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and her MFA in Acting from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She is a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro
KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO*
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro is a Collective Member, actor, designer, co-writer, and director with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. She has performed at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory, The Magic Theater, San Jose Stage, The Aurora Theater, Word for Word, Oakland Theater Project, Center Rep., and Marin Shakespeare Company. In 2020 Keiko Co-founded Kunoichi Productions (Female Ninja productions) innovative, multidisciplinary theater combining Eastern and Western Theater Traditions.This fall she will be Co-Directing an Immersive Production of A Strange Library by Haruki Murakami for Word for Word at Z-Below..
* THE ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGER EMPLOYED IN THIS PRODUCTION ARE MEMBERS OF ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Musicians
DANIEL SAVIO
Daniel Savio started his professional theater career playing keyboards for the Mime Troupe in 2006, and since 2020 he has been the Troupe's resident composer/lyricist. This year Daniel led the band, was co-arranger, and composed additional music for SFBATCO's original musical Sign My Name To Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin. He was recently musical director for the Marin Mountain Play production of Kinky Boots. Daniel has been MD of numerous community and children's productions at theaters in the North and East Bay. He has a BA in music from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
GUINEVERE Q
In addition to singing and playing bass with multiple bands, including Grammy Award winning artist Fantastic Negrito, The Wyatt Act, SUNQ, and many more, Guinevere Q also produces original story-based electronic music and has recently become a foley artist, inspired by a project for this production of “A Red Carol” to build a wind machine entirely from scraps!
JASON YOUNG
Jason Young, aka Young Sun, grew up acting in musical theater, commercials, and film since the age of 6 and is a Bay Area native. After studying theater and music at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA, Young Sun went on to record over a dozen albums as a singer and multi-instrumentalist. He has toured with stage-show-focused bands, such as The Wyatt Act, SUNQ, Doctor Striker, and Revolushn. Young Sun has performed with many notable musicians, including members of DEVO and Village People. Young Sun's original compositions were nominated for a Theater Bay Area Award for his work as composer and drummer in the play Shiner with FaultLine Theater. Young Sun joined The San Francisco Mime Troupe in 2022 with the musical Back To The Way Things Were. He hopes to bring his love of theater, performance, music, activism, and political avant-garde art to the collective.
Creative Team
Michael Gene Sullivan
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN
Michael is an Actor/Writer/Director/Activist based in San Francisco. He is an alum of the Playwrights Foundation, and has been awarded both a Djerassi Arts Center Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship as a dramatist. Michael is also Resident Playwright for the Tony and OBIE award-winning (and always revolutionary, never ever silent) San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has written or co-written over 30 plays, including 1600 Transylvania Avenue, Too Big To Fail, Freedomland, Making a Killing, Back To The Way Thing Were, the Tales of the Resistance radio/podcast series. This past season, in addition to writing SFMT’s summer hit American Dreams, his play Sign My Name To Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin opened to critical-acclaim at the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, and his stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 - already translated into six languages and performed in fourteen countries on five continents - was produced by The Aurora Theatre. Michael’s other plays include The Great Khan, which premiered at San Francisco Playhouse, San Diego Rep. and Chicago’s Red Twist Theatre. Michael has taught playwriting at the American Conservatory Theatre, SFMT’s Young California Writers Project, has guest lectured on play creation or taught playwriting workshops at Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, and USC. For ten years Michael was also a Contributing Writer for The Huffington Post. Michael’s directing credits include work with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Marin Shakespeare Company, the African American Shakespeare Company, Mystic Bison Theatre, TheatreFirst, and a dozen productions with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. As an actor Michael has performed at theaters throughout the Bay Area (including at all four of the Bay Area’s Tony-winning theaters), has toured nationally and internationally - including off-Broadway and at the Kennedy Center.
Daniel Savio
DANIEL SAVIO
Daniel started his professional theater career playing keyboards for the Mime Troupe in 2006, and since 2020 he has been the Troupe's resident composer/lyricist. This year Daniel led the band, was co-arranger, and composed additional music for SFBATCO's original musical Sign My Name To Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin. He was recently musical director for the Marin Mountain Play production of Kinky Boots. Daniel has been MD of numerous community and children's productions at theaters in the North and East Bay. He has a BA in music from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
JIM CAVE
Jim Cave is a Core Company Member of Word for Word Performing Arts Company. He has designed lights for Word for Word, Campo Santo, the Magic and Eureka Theater companies, Intersection for the Arts, Z Space and Second Evening Arts, among many others. He’s happy to be working with The San Francisco Mime Troupe. He occasionally cooks for the Troupe when they visit Oakland and Berkeley.
Jim Cave
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro
KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO
Keiko is a Collective Member, actor, designer, co-writer, and director with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. She has performed at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory, The Magic Theater, San Jose Stage, The Aurora Theater, Word for Word, Oakland Theater Project, Center Rep., and Marin Shakespeare Company. In 2020 Keiko Co-founded Kunoichi Productions (Female Ninja productions) innovative, multidisciplinary theater combining Eastern and Western Theater Traditions.This fall she will be Co-Directing an Immersive Production of A Strange Library by Haruki Murakami for Word for Word at Z-Below..
Taylor Gonzalez
TAYLOR GONZALEZ
Taylor has been working with the Mime Troupe since he was 16 years old. His work began with the Youth Theater Project (YTP) as a student. Since then he has been an intern, assistant as well as taught and designed lights and sound for YTP. He was the lead audio editor, engineer, and designer of Tales of the Resistance. Other work includes time as a studio and live audio engineer for local bands and music artists, as well as a sound designer for various theaters and dance companies around the bay area.
Marie Cartier
MARIE CARTIER
Marie has been working with the Mime Troupe since 2012. Born and raised in San Francisco, where she is honored to fulfill many duties from event producer to writer to prop designer. Favorite jobs at the Mime Troupe include props and scenic painting for 2019's Treasure Island, writing on 2023's Breakdown and the 2021 radio play Hobos in Space, as well as working with the brilliant young minds of SFMT's Youth Theater Project. She is a founding member of Bow & Arrow Circus, also playing many roles including writer, lighting designer, acrobat, and clown. Most recently, she has been producing "Artists Unite for Palestine" events to raise funds for emergency relief for Gaza with @sf.artists.for.palestine. Marie received her Masters in Social Work in 2021 and currently works full-time as a clinical social worker.
Karen Runk
KAREN RUNK*
Karen moved to SF with the intention of only staying for a few months... Well over two decades later she's still here! This is largely due to the talented folks at the SF Mime Troupe and thanks to Golden Thread Productions where she has been a Resident Artist since 2018 (aka the before times) - but mostly it's due to rent control! Runk first experienced the Troupe by stage managing two '97 youth projects, Revenger Rat Meets the Merchant of Death and Inside Out. After which she ran screaming into the arms of the Magic Theatre and there she stayed, contently for two years. The Troupe then wooed her back for their '99 Summer Production City For Sale. Still under the Troupe's wooing spell she's stage managed a plethora of their summer shows. Runk has also stage managed with Word For Word, Magic Theater, SFShakes, Intersection for the Arts, and African American Shakespeare Company.
Production Team
Brooke Harbaugh
BROOKE HARBAUGH
Brooke is a creative producer, production manager, and coordinator for theater, art exhibitions, film, and site specific entertainment. She has presented new works at The Music Center, REDCAT, and Automata. Recent credits include Grand Ave Arts: All Access, BBC (Big Black Cockroach) by Paul Outlaw, and INTO ACT!ON 2024. She holds a MFA in Creative Producing and Management from California Institute of the Arts. Brooke is based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. www.brookeharbaugh.com
Pietro Calogero
PIETRO CALOGERO
Dr. Pietro Calogero studied Commedia Dell’Arte at Blue Lake in 1996; produced l’Imago for SF Fringe in 1997 and has been Technical Director for the past three Mime Troupe summer shows. He’s a big fan of prototyping: typeface fonts, masks, clothes, furniture, and demountable sets. Plus he’s an urban scholar and housing rights advocate in California and Afghanistan. Teacher at SF State, USF, and San Jose State. Kind requests: 1) Abolish segregated land use zoning; it is racist. Nuisance-law for isolation of hazardous uses has sufficed for 500 years. 2) Enact the Right to Housing in your city. Shelter needs to pre-empt private privilege. 3) Abolish density limits, or cap no lower than 60 units per acre. 4) Index minimum hourly wage to monthly cost of living in each city. 5) Revisit incorporation legislation in your state, and ask for seizure and dissolution of any corporation that intentionally harms the health, safety, or general welfare of any jurisdiction. We have the right and obligation to do this.
Sydney Blake
SYDNEY BLAKE
Sydney is an emerging stage manager, excited to return to the San Francisco Mime Troupe for A Red Carol, after assisting on the workshop of A Red Carol in 2022. Recently, she worked as Assistant Stage Manager for the closing weeks of Torch Song at Marin Theater Company. Sydney holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University (2023), with credits including Feeling Home with Fuse Theater and Marisol with SF State. After taking a year break to focus on managing Toy Boat by Jane in the Richmond district, Sydney is excited and honored to work in the theater world once again!
Additional Production Staff
MIGUEL WACHER
LANCE O'DELL
CINDY RAE BRAMAN
PARKER MAGPAYO
ASHWIN RAJ
LAWRENCE HELMAN
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN
ADAM CHIN
MIKE MELNYK
A1 SOUND
LEAD PRODUCTION TECHNICIAN
STITCHING ASSISTANT
INTERN (DESIGN TECH HS)
INTERN (DESIGN TECH HS)
PUBLICIST
POSTER DESIGN
VIDEO TRAILER
PHOTOGRAPHER
Office Staff
ELLEN CALLAS
SYNERGY WORKS BETTER
ADAN GONZALEZ
MORRIS OLDER
GENERAL MANAGER
GRANT WRITERS
IT SUPPORT, GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN
BOOKKEEPER
Artistic & Managing Collective
ROTIMI AGBABIAKA
ANDRE AMAROTICO
MICHAEL BELLO
VELINA BROWN
ELLEN CALLAS
MICHAEL CARREIRO
MARIE CARTIER
LISA HORI-GARCIA
TAYLOR GONZALEZ
KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO
DANIEL SAVIO
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN
Board Members & Officers
ANDRE AMAROTICO
GENIE CARTIER
MARIE CARTIER
MARA MATSUMURA
SUSAN SEGAL
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN
The San Francisco Mime Troupe is proud and excited
to be presenting A Red Carol in cooperation with
ABOUT Z SPACE
Z Space empowers artistic risk, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst artists, audience, and community in the service of creating, developing, and presenting new work. Operating out of an old can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space now activates two venues, an 85-seat intimate theater and a 236-seat flexible performance space, with a warehouse aesthetic and an adventurous edge. Eschewing traditional theater models with fixed seasons and a singular artistic vision, Z Space strives to embrace a multitude of artistic voices through a variety of programs and partnerships.
Z LEADERSHIP TEAM
SHAFER MAZOW
NIKKI MEÑEZ
JOANNE WINTER
VANESSA FLORES CHACKO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CURATORIAL DIRECTOR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WORD FOR WORD
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WORD FOR WORD
Z STAFF
HILLARY BRAY
ANDREW BURMESTER
CLARA FULKS
DANIEL HALL
NEIL HIGGINS
GENDELL HING-HERNÁNDEZ
COLM McNALLY
REGINA MORONES
LANCE O’DELL
AMY PROSSER
JUSTIN SCHLEGEL
JESSIE WONG
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE MANAGER
LEAD PRODUCTION TECHNICIAN
BUSINESS MANAGER
DIRECTOR OF YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMMING
DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION
PROGRAM MANAGER, YOUTH ARTS
LEAD FACILITIES TECHNICIAN
DIRECTOR, YOUTH ARTS
PRODUCTION MANAGER, WORD FOR WORD
DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR
This Production Made Possible With The Generous Support Of
ANONYMOUS, ADAM CHIN, HAROLD VARNER, THE LEO J. AND CELIA CARLIN FUND, THE RHE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THEATRE BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES
Special Thanks!
AMOS GLICK, ANNE HALLINAN, ARIELA MORGENSTERN, BERT VAN AALSBURG, BECKY NESTLE, BRUCE BARTHOL, COMMUNITY PRINTERS, DAVIDALLENSTUDIO.COM, THE ESTATE OF CONSTANCE BERNSTEIN, FRANK AND MAE YUEN, GREGORY'S GOURMET DESSERTS, HOWARD BROWNSTEIN, JANET KOIKE, JANNA ULLREY, JOHN RUSKIN, KAREN BREWSTER (DESIGN TECH HS), LIZZIE CALOGERO, MARISSA ELLISON, MELISSA HILLMAN, MICHAEL SHIPLEY, MIKE MELNYK, MICHAEL SUENKEL, PAIGE WEISSENBURGER, PATTY SILVER, SUSAN SHAY, REED HINCKLEY-BARNES, VICKIE ROZELL, WOOF KURTZMAN, Z SPACE STAFF
Song Credits
"THE RED CAROL (THE INTERNATIONALE)"
COMPANY
LYRICS BY DANIEL SAVIO, MUSIC BY PIERRE DE GEYTER
"MARINER'S HYMN"
CAROLERS
LYRICS AND MUSIC BY ANONYMOUS
"DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS)"
CAROLERS
LYRICS BY JOHN BRILL, MUSIC BY CHARLES CROZAT CONVERSE
OH CHRISTMAS TREE (OH TANNENBAUM)
BOY CAROLER
LYRICS AND MUSIC BY ANONYMOUS
"I WANDER UP AND DOWN THE STREET (LOVE ME AND THE WORLD IS MINE)"
WOMAN IN THE SNOW
LYRICS BY AUGUST WALQUIST, MUSIC BY ERNEST R. BALL
"THERE IS POWER IN A UNION"
COMPANY
LYRICS BY JOE HILL, MUSIC BY LEWIS E. JONES
"AWAKE, MY SOUL, TO JOYFUL LAYS (AWAKE, ARISE AND HAIL THE MORN)"
LABORERS
LYRICS BY ANONYMOUS, MUSIC BY MACK WILBERG
"WE WILL SING ONE SONG (MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME)"
JOE THE FENCE
LYRICS BY JOE HILL, MUSIC BY STEPHEN FOSTER
"THE BANKS ARE MADE OF MARBLE"
WOMAN WITH GUITAR
LYRICS AND MUSIC BY LES RICE, ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY DANIEL SAVIO
"DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK REPRISE"
BOY CAROLER
LYRICS BY JOHN BRILL, MUSIC BY CHARLES CROZAT CONVERSE
"A RED CAROL FINALE"
COMPANY
LYRICS BY DANIEL SAVIO, MUSIC BY PIERRE DE GEYTER
Song Lyrics
"The Red Carol", Lyrics by Daniel Savio
WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPINESS THIS COMING YEAR! GOOD TIDINGS WARM YOU ALL THE WINTER AND KEEP YOU IN GOOD CHEER! NO MORE SHALL DARKNESS WEIGH UPON US, NO MORE THE COLD SHALL CHILL OUR BONES. THE JOY OF OLD AND NEW TRADITIONS REMINDS US WE ARE NOT ALONE! HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR, A YEAR FOR US TO SEIZE OUR RIGHTS! ARISE AND HAVE NO FEAR! HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR, A YEAR FOR US TO SEIZE OUR RIGHTS! ARISE AND HAVE NO FEAR!
"Mariner's Hymn", Lyrics by Anonymous
HAIL YOU, AND WHERE DO YA COME FROM? HALLELUJAH! HAIL YOU, AND WHERE DO YA COME FROM? HALLELUJAH! OH, I’M COME FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT HALLELUJAH! OH, I’M COME FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT HALLELUJAH! HAIL YOU, AND WHERE ARE YA BOUND FOR? HALLELUJAH! HAIL YOU, AND WHERE ARE YA BOUND FOR? HALLELUJAH! OH, I’M BOUND FOR THE LAND OF GLORY HALLELUJAH! OH, I’M BOUND FOR THE LAND OF GLORY HALLELUJAH!
"Dump the Bosses Off Your Back", Lyrics by John Brill
ARE YOU COLD, FORLORN AND HUNGRY? ARE YOU LIVING IN A SHACK? IS YOUR LIFE MADE UP OF MIS'RY? THEN DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK! ALL THE AGONIES YOU SUFFER YOU CAN END WITH ONE GOOD WHACK! STIFFEN UP AND JUST GET TOUGHER, THEN DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK!
"I Wander Up and Down the Street", Lyrics by August Walquist
I WANDER UP AND DOWN THE STREET, 'TIL I HAVE BLISTERS ON MY FEET. MY BELLY'S EMPTY, I'VE NO BED, NO PLACE TO REST MY WEARY HEAD. THERE ARE MILLIONS LIKE ME WAND'RING, WHO ARE DEEPLY POND'RING, OH, WHAT MUST WE DO TO LIVE? SHALL THE WORKERS FACE STARVATION, MIS'RY AND PRIVATION, IN A LAND SO RICH AND FAIR? UNITE, MY COMRADES, YES, UNITE! TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM AND YOUR RIGHT! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE NOW, WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
"There is Power in a Union", Lyrics by Joe Hill
THERE IS POW'R, THERE IS POW'R IN A BAND OF WORKING FOLK, WHEN THEY STAND, HAND IN HAND! THAT'S A POW'R, THAT'S A POW'R THAT MUST RULE IN EV'RY LAND, ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION GRAND! COME ALL YE WORKERS, FROM EVERY LAND, COME JOIN IN THE GRAND INDUSTRIAL BAND, THEN WE OUR SHARE OF THIS EARTH SHALL DEMAND, LET’S UNITE AND TOGETHER TAKE A STAND! THERE IS POW'R, THERE IS POW'R IN A BAND OF WORKING FOLK, WHEN THEY STAND, HAND IN HAND! THAT'S A POW'R, THAT'S A POW'R THAT MUST RULE IN EV'RY LAND, ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION GRAND! WOULD YOU DREAM OF MANSIONS OF GOLD IN THE SKY, WHILE LIVING IN A SHACK, WAY IN THE BACK? WHY DREAM OF WINGS UP IN HEAVEN TO FLY, WHILE STARVING HERE WITH RAGS ON YOUR BACK? THERE IS POW'R, THERE IS POW'R IN A BAND OF WORKING FOLK, WHEN THEY STAND, HAND IN HAND! THAT'S A POW'R, THAT'S A POW'R THAT MUST RULE IN EV'RY LAND, ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION GRAND! ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION GRAND!
"Awake, My Soul, to Joyful Lays", Lyrics by Anonymous
SEE HOW THE ANGELS WING THEIR WAY HALLE - HALLELUJAH TO USHER IN THE GLORIOUS DAY HALLE - HALLELUJAH LET PEACE AND LOVE ON EARTH ABOUND HALLE - HALLELUJAH WHILE TIME REVOLVES AND YEARS ROLL ROUND HALLE - HALLELUJAH! SO TIME REVOLVES AND YEARS ROLL ROUND HALLE - HALLELUJAH!
"We Will Sing One Song", Lyrics by Joe Hill
WE WILL SING ONE SONG OF THE MEEK AND HUMBLE SLAVE, THE HARD-HANDED SON OF THE SOIL, HE'S TOILING HARD FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE, BUT HIS MASTER REAPS THE PROFIT FROM HIS TOIL. ORGANIZE! OH, WORKERS! COME ORGANIZE YOUR MIGHT, THEN WE'LL SING ONE SONG OF THE WORKERS STANDING STRONG, WITH DIGNITY AND LOVE, WHAT A SIGHT!
"The Banks Are Made of Marble", Lyrics by Les Rice,
Additional Lyrics by Daniel Savio
I'VE TRAVELED ROUND THIS COUNTRY FROM SHORE TO SHINING SHORE, AND IT REALLY MADE ME WONDER THE THINGS I HEARD AND SAW. I HEARD THE LONGHAUL TRUCKER, SCRIMPED AND SAVED TO BUY HIS TRUCK. I HEARD HE COULDN'T MAKE THE PAYMENTS, HE'S OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. BUT THE BANKS ARE MADE OF MARBLE, WITH A GUARD AT EVERY DOOR, AND THE VAULTS ARE STUFFED WITH SILVER, THAT THE TRUCKER LABORED FOR. I SAW THE TEACHER PAYING, OUT OF POCKET FOR SUPPLIES, I SAW THE WEARY WAITRESS, WITH HUNGER IN HER EYES. BUT THE BANKS ARE MADE OF MARBLE, WITH A GUARD AT EVERY DOOR, AND THE VAULTS ARE STUFFED WITH SILVER, THAT THE TEACHER AND THE WAITRESS LABORED FOR. BROTHERS AND SISTERS WORKING THROUGHOUT THIS MIGHTY LAND, I PRAYED WE'D GET TOGETHER, AND TOGETHER MAKE A STAND. THEN WE'D OWN THOSE BANKS OF MARBLE, WITH A GUARD AT EVERY DOOR, AND WE'D SHARE THOSE VAULTS OF SILVER, THAT WE ALL HAVE LABORED FOR! YES, WE'D OWN THOSE BANKS OF MARBLE, WITH A GUARD AT EVERY DOOR, AND WE'D SHARE THOSE VAULTS OF SILVER, THAT WE ALL HAVE LABORED FOR!
“A Red Carol is a leftist's dream wish for the Holiday season, and every other day of the year. It hits hard at people who 'weigh everything by profit,' ... ruling class propaganda, and the idea that ignorance and want will keep the poor entrenched in the stations."
"Seasonal charity is a great concept, but SF Mime Troupe can't be satisfied with any trickle-down economics, Christmas time or not. Bravo comrades!”
