Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol at Fox Theatre - Detroit

Scrooge owns the town. The ghosts have other plans. Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol takes Dickens's famous miser out of Victorian London and drops him into a 1930s East Tennessee mining community, where the man holding the purse strings also holds power over his neighbors' lives.

That change of setting makes the old question feel personal again: how much does a man's wealth matter if he's lost every human connection worth having? His dead business partner and three Christmas spirits force him to confront the choices that brought him here. Dolly Parton's original music and lyrics bring a distinctly mountain-country voice to the reckoning, with a book by David H. Bell. If you love Parton's storytelling, this is an opportunity to hear her musical sensibility wrapped around one of the season's most enduring tales.

There's pleasure in knowing the story and still wanting to see the hard-hearted man face the truth. There's also something satisfying about sharing that journey with a friend or partner who believes people can change. On a Saturday night, the Fox Theatre offers more than another holiday movie on the couch: live voices, live music, and Scrooge's choices unfolding in front of you.

See Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol in Detroit on December 12, 2026, at 7:30 PM. Look into tickets and make the evening a celebration of second chances.