When a friend heard I was going to see a musical called Hats!, she wondered if it was some spin on Broadway’s Cats. Meowing milliners perhaps? No, this play has more in common with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

For the miser Scrooge, substitute MaryAnne (Debbie Mobley), a woman determined to postpone her 50th birthday and all the baggage that number has come to represent. Instead of ghosts of Yuletide past, present and future, MaryAnne is beset by members of the Red Hat Society, a group of unsinkable Molly Brown-types (imagine “The View” set to music), as determined as Ebeneezer’s ghosts to reform their charge.