Local Lemont Mail Carrier Delivers Scrooge in Local Production

A familiar face will accompany a familiar story as local Lemont mail carrier Jeff Sniegowski returns to play the iconic figure Ebenezer Scrooge in The Little Flowers Dance & Theatre Troupe’s production of “The Conversion of Scrooge”. The production, a Catholic take on the classic story by Charles Dickens, contemplates what the transformation Scrooge undergoes would look like if Scrooge and the other major characters live in a Catholic milieu.
The Little Flowers Dance and Theatre Troupe is often referred to as “The Best Catholic Theatre in Chicagoland”, and blends drama, comedy, dance and song to achieve the group’s distinctive and popular performance style.

How He Started

Sniegowski made his acting debut in one of the Troupe’s other well-known productions, “The Seven Last Words of Christ”, in the role of Simon of Cyrene, a role in which audiences were amazed at his moving portrait of the man who didn’t want to help carry the cross of Jesus, but was transformed by the experience. Familiar with personal transformations, Sniegowski had attended college as a young man, hoping for a career in sports radio, but left school when the mail carrier opportunity came along some 30+ years ago.

Sniegowski came to the group through his homeschooled daughter Grace, who was already participating in the Troupe. Since then, he and his wife Laura and teenaged son Lou have come to embrace the Troupe and the opportunities they provide to both act and to share their Catholic faith through the performances.

Not Just Scrooge

Not limited to the stage, the Sniegowskis, via the affiliated Little Flowers Performing Arts Center in Homer Glen, also recently were featured in the first weekly, Catholic sitcom on the internet, ”Hope’s Cafe”. In it, Jeff Sniegowski played Walter Kazmercyk, an unmarried, middle-aged plumber who after visiting the title café, sees a woman and immediately falls in love with her. His real-life wife Laura played the woman “Marty Ann”, and their slow and comically sweet discovery of each other was one of the major recurring themes in the sitcom, which is still available for viewing on YouTube.

Why You Should See This Scrooge

When asked what makes ”The Conversion of Scrooge” different than all the other versions of ”A Christmas Carol“ that are out there?, Sniegowksi says:

“The way I feel is that it brings out into the open what is only subtly implied in all the other versions of ’A Christmas Carol‘ - and that is the message of God’s Divine Mercy & Redemption.”

When he’s not acting, Sniegowski walks and drives the streets of Lemont delivering the US Mail and has enjoyed meeting the people on his mail route over the last decade or so, many of whom should recognize him even though he is much younger, and happier, than his Scrooge character, at least before his conversion.

“The Conversion of Scrooge” descends upon The Lemont High School Performing Arts Center on December 7.

LFT Performances are usually sell-outs. Don’t delay getting your tickets to professional theatre in your own back yard, a new holiday tradition!

Just the Facts:

When: December 7, 2014 at 3:00PM
Where: The Lemont High School Performing Arts Center

800 Porter Street, Lemont, IL 60439

When: December 14, 2014 at 3:30PM (Matinee) and 7:00PM (Evening) shows
Where: St. Mary Immaculate Parish
15629 S Rte 59, Plainfield, IL 60544

For Tickets and Information:

www.LittleFlowersTroupe.com
815-462-3809
Tickets@SaintPhilomena.com