Premiere of a New Performing Version with baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Tom Joad, sopranos Deanna Breiwick as Rosasharn and Katharine Goeldner as Ma Joad.

Premiere of a New Performing Version with baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Tom Joad, sopranos Deanna Breiwick as Rosasharn and Katharine Goeldner as Ma Joad.

Premiere of a New Performing Version with baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Tom Joad, sopranos Deanna Breiwick as Rosasharn and Katharine Goeldner as Ma Joad.

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

American Lyric Theater presents excerpts from The House Without a Christmas Tree on January 14, 2018 at 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center