Last week, Mrs. Cratchit opened her White Plains home to the Fezziwigs, Scrooge, Marley and all those ghosts for chicken, sushi and pasta.

Last night, The Ghost of Christmas Past was set to serve Italian favorites.

Next week, it’s Mrs. Fezziwig’s turn and she’s thinking of whipping up a homemade Chinese feast and wondering if there might be a non-alcoholic wassail recipe on the Internet somewhere.

After all, they all have to be back for the evening curtain.

This holiday season, the cast of Westchester Broadway Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Carol” includes a handful of local actors who picked Christmas plum roles and are opening their homes to their fellow cast mates.

– Paulette Oliva, of White Plains, plays Mrs. Cratchit and Mrs. Brownlow; – Christine DiTota, who grew up in Yonkers and now lives in Harrison, plays the Ghost of Christmas Past, Fred’s wife, and a homeless woman; – Ann-Ngaire Martin, who is known to her theater students at Pleasantville High School as Ann Shankman, lives in Chappaqua. She nearly stole this season’s WBT production of “Gypsy” as the balletic stripper Tessie Tura. Here, she plays Mrs. Fezziwig, Old Sally and a party guest; – Michael J. Farina of Port Chester is in his 12th show at WBT, playing Mr. Fezziwig, the Ghost of Christmas Present, a charity gentleman, a merchant and a poulterer.

For DiTota, it’s her first go-round at the Elmsford dinner theater. For the others, it’s like going home, close to home.

Farina loves the commute.

“Living in Port Chester, zipping over and zipping back, it’s not always that case when you’re in a show,” Farina says. He recalls playing Fezziwig in Syracuse several Christmases past and driving home through the snow to make it home for the holidays.

Martin says doing a show during the holidays puts her in the spirit, especially “A Christmas Carol,” which gets a dancing, singing rewrite by WBT regular George Puello.

This is the first time Martin, Oliva and DiTota have performed the Dickens classic, but it’s not the first time some of these folks have shared the stage.

Oliva played Grace, opposite Martin’s Hannigan, in a production of “Annie” at Yorktown Stage.

Martin and Farina, who appear to be having too much fun playing the fun-loving Fezziwigs, were in a production of “42nd Street” at the Gateway Playhouse on Long Island.

“We just instantly jumped into this with an ease and a comfort to be opposite each other,” Farina says.

Oliva is a fixture in community theater in Westchester, appearing at Yorktown Stage, Irvington Town Hall Theatre and the now-defunct Asbury Summer Theatre.

By day, DiTota plays a princess and a pirate, and a long list of other parts, for the children’s entertainment company Dave’s Cast of Characters.

But it’s unlikely she plays a character as sparkly as her Ghost of Christmas Past, who appears with a glittering, lighted umbrella to help Scrooge change his wicked ways. She also sings the show’s first notes, as a homeless woman clutching her babe in the snow.

The Purchase College graduate is working toward earning her Equity card – which will make her a full-fledged professional actor – a rite of passage that Farina achieved in 1989 when he did “Camelot” at the dinner theater and Oliva did when she went from waitress to actress in “Meet Me in St. Louis” in Elmsford in 1982. DiTota won’t get her card for this show – the run is too short – but if she were to land another role, she could.

“It’s a family tradition to be here,” says Oliva, whose daughter, Caitlin, is a hostess at the theater.

“This place is old home,” says Farina, who played Al/God in the Broadway production of “In My Life” and was in the original production of “Seussical” and revivals of “My Fair Lady” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

“I grew up here. I got lots of experience here. I’ve been lucky enough to do Broadway shows and be there and back and there and back. It’s always here. And it’s always nice to come back.”

He also met his wife, Heidi Giarlo, in Elmsford. She’s now in charge of the theater’s group sales.

“It’s just heavenly to do a show this close to home,” says Martin, a veteran of Broadway and national tours. “We went to Paulette’s for dinner between shows today.”

“She set a bad precedent, feeding us so well,” Martin continued, with a laugh. “I was going to order pizzas.”

A professional acting job at Christmas means a paycheck on the day before Christmas Eve.

“Then it’s mad crazy shopping, one day,” Martin says.

“Oh my God, one day,” agrees Oliva.

“We’ll be those last-minute ones,” Martin concludes.

And those Cratchits can spend it.

‘A Christmas Carol’
What: A musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic with book, music and lyrics by George Puello.
Where: Westchester Broadway Theatre, 1 Broadway Plaza, Elmsford.
When: Through Dec. 23. Wednesdays and Thursdays: lunch, 11:30 a.m., show at 1 p.m.; Thursdays through Saturdays: dinner at 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m.; Sundays: lunch at noon, show at 1:30; and dinner at 5 and show at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $60 to $73, including a served meal and a show. Discounts for children, students and senior citizens at selected performances.
Call: 914-592-2222.

(PHOTO by Dave Kennedy/The Journal News: Local actors in Westchester Broadway Theatre’s musical “A Christmas Carol,” from left, Christine DiTota, Harrison, Paulette Oliva, White Plains, Michael Farina, Port Chester and Ann Martin, Chappaqua.)