First Flight is devoted to presenting the plays of 20th century American playwright Maxwell Anderson as well as other playwrights who instill poetry in their writing.
First Flight Theatre Company and The Hermitage
present
Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol The Musical
Saturdays and Sundays, December 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2026
The First Flight Theatre Company will have two AUDITIONS for Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol The Musical in September & October. At our first audition we are looking for two actors who sing to play two roles, Charles Dickens and Ebenezer Scrooge. Auditions are on Sunday, September 20, 2026. from 12:30pm – 4pm at the Hermitage Museum, 335 Franklin Turnpike in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. All genders will be considered. Walk-ins are welcome. If interested in auditioning email firstflight2018@gmail.com with a half hour that works for you between 12:30pm and 4pm on 9/20. General auditions for other roles in this production will be on Saturday and Sunday, October 17 & 18.
Company photos follow from Declaration, First Flight's recent production of the new musical based on the Declaration of Independence presented for two performances on August 1, 2026, at the Hermitage. From left to right in first photo: Frank Farrell, Artistic Director, Actors: Rosario Rodrigues, Jordyn Grier-Parham, Shayla Quesada, Ben Archer, Amanda Nummy, Micaela Ramirez, and Lynn Manuell, play's Director.
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PICTURE US!
Photos below from past First Flight productions: VALLEY FORGE, LITTLE WOMEN, MINA, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DICKENS PRESENTS A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE MUSICAL,
and THE MAXWELL ANDERSON BIRTHDAY BENEFIT (2025).
More Photos from Past Productions of THE SCARECROW, and SATURDAY'S CHILDREN, followed by a Zoom video of the Prologue of Maxwell Anderson's 1923 Broadway play WHITE DESERT from our Zoom production in 2021 featuring Zander Kirby and Charlie Gillette. Toward the bottom is our BLOG section featuring full programs from our past productions.
The Cast of The Scarecrow at
The Hermitage
David Green, Lynn Manuell,
Alexa Elmy, Zander Kirby,
Charles Kennedy,
Julio Ramon, Richard Width,
Maddie Kirby and Frank Farrell
Maxwell Anderson's SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in Chicago 2023
Kevin Blair and Alexandra Jaymes as Rims and Bobby.
SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in NYC 2023
Danny Crawford and Haley Karlich
as Rims and Bobby.
WHITE DESERT Prologue 2021
WHITE DESERT Prologue 2021
BLOGS of Past Programs
Photo from First Flight's 2022 production featuring Jennifer Kim and audience members.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Where did the name First Fight Theatre Company come from? Pictured is a postage stamp called "First Flight Wright Brothers 1903." It's a cool stamp! But the company was not named after the Wright Brothers flight. It was named after Maxwell Anderson's third Broadway production called First Flight, about young Andrew Jackson when he was a frontier lawyer and how he was trying to convince the soon to be West Virginia territory to become part of the United States of America. Our company is devoted to producing plays by Maxwell Anderson, specifically poetic dramas where poetry is part and parcel of the language spoken in the play. First Flight is a good name for a company with that poetic theatre agenda.