Press Release

December 10, 2002

Special Benefit Showing of 
"Nicholas Nickleby"

The Garden of Reflection and The Newtown Theatre are pleased to announce a special benefit showing of  "Nicholas Nickleby". 

 Staring: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Alan Cumming, Edward Fox, Anne Hathaway, Nathan Lane,
Christopher Plummer, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall 

 Directed by: Douglas McGrath

 Synopsis

Based on Charles Dickens' novel, the story, set in 19th-century England, follows the titular character and his family. Their comfortable life turns cold when Nicholas' father dies, leaving the family broke. Nicholas, his mother, and his sister set off to London to live with their wealthy but mean Uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), who keeps the three apart. Nicholas is sent off to work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where a cruel headmaster named Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent) mistreats the orphans. Nicholas befriends one student, the particularly picked-on Smike (Jamie Bell), and the two become friends, eventually escaping Squeers' wrath and plotting a way to get Nicholas' family back together. 

Saturday December 28th, 2002 12:00 Noon

Admission $15.00

On September 11, 2001, nearly 3000 innocent people perished at the hands of terrorists. Bucks County lost 17 of its finest community members.  This Special Benefit Showing benefits the planned memorial to those we lost.

Tickets available at:
Newtown Theatre Box Office, nightly during regular show times,
or by calling (215) 504-5569

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