Christmas Pudding time with Dawidziak

"The Christmas Pudding: A Largely Literary Christmas" will be presented by the Hudson Players at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13 and 14, at the Barlow Community Center. The cast includes PD and former BJ television writer Mark Dawidziak, his wife Sara Showman, Tom Stephan, Emma Picht and Alex J. Nine.

The "Pudding" recipe is poems by Shakespeare, Poe, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, G.K. Chesterton and Ogden Nash and stories by Twain, Andersen, J.M. Barrie and Frank Stockton.

Retired Stow-Munroe Falls High drama and English teacher Tom Stephan and Alex J. Nine appear regularly in Dawidziak’s productions involving Poe, Twain, Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. Akron native and University of Akron graduate Nine has acted or directed at most of the theaters in the greater Akron area.

Emma Picht appeared in Magical Theatre Company's “Peter and the Wolf” and Weathervane Playhouse's production of “The Taming of the Shrew,” Actors' Summit production of “Woody Guthrie's American Song” and in Ohio Shakespeare Festival's “Richard III” and “Love's Labours Lost.”

Picht, a Hudson resident, is a high school freshman and a graduate of the Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Akron. She plays classical violin and Irish fiddle and is a member of the Miller South Orchestra and Akron Youth Philharmonic. She sang solo Broadway tunes for Akron's First Night at Actors'  Summit.