Vashon Repertory Theatre will present Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” starring renowned actor Allen Fitzpatrick in his acclaimed solo show, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Vashon Center for the Arts.

The show is a return engagement for Fitzpatrick to Vashon — Vashon Rep staged the show in 2023, as well.

“We are thrilled to bring Allen Fitzpatrick to Vashon audiences,” said Charlotte Tiencken, the theater company’s producing artistic director. “His performance of this story is known for keeping even unruly youngsters enraptured from start to finish.”

In his remarkable performance, Fitzpatrick plays all 26 characters from Dickens’ novella.

He has mesmerized audiences in multiple venues with the solo show every Christmas season since 2021, when Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre, in Port Townsend, commissioned him to create it.

In the production, Allen follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens who, a few years after writing the novella, began public readings of it which he continued to perform until his death. Dickens’ novella captures the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday, popularizing many aspects of Christmas celebration — including family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.

And it also shows the path by which selfish, acquisitive men can redeem themselves. Its most profound theme is to shine a light on the mistreatment of the poor: Dickens wrote the novella in response to British social attitudes towards poverty.

Allen Fitzpatrick, a well-traveled theater artist, is especially qualified to enthrall audiences, especially children, in this one-hour telling of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the ghost of Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim, and his family.

Fitzpatrick spent 50 years on Broadway and in professional theater sharing the stage with such notables as James Earl Jones, John Lithgow, Jerry Lewis, Marlo Thomas, and Patti LuPone.

He debuted on Broadway in “Les Miserables.” Among his eight other Broadway credits are “Driving Miss Daisy,” “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” “Damn Yankees,” and “42nd Street.”

The show is in keeping with Vashon Rep’s mission — to produce “thought-provoking, intimate, story-driven theatre that brings to light issues meaningful to our time and place on earth.”

Find out more about the show and Vashon Rep, and get tickets, at vashonrepertorytheatre.org.