There will be a knock at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts door just before Christmas. Carolers will wait outside in the cold, singing Christmas songs in hopes the holiday cheer will warm them. They will be invited in for an evening of song, reveling and holiday merriment. It will be the second serving in as many years of “Figgy Pudding” at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.

The Saratoga Chamber Players and Sing!Chronicity will lead holiday music, caroling and storytelling Dec. 19 and 21. On the set of “A Christmas Carol,” the program is a play-within-a-play sure to be a memorable musical eve.

“The set is a Victorian living room and we the carolers are invited in to spend the evening there as entertainment,” said Sing!Chronicity director Bill Humphreys.

The house is host to a party that evening, and entertainment is an orchestra ensemble of familiar Saratoga Players.

Once in the door, the singers delight their hosts — and the theater audience — with musical stories like “A Mummer’s Play” and “Brother Heinrich’s Christmas.” For the children of the house, the orchestra will strike up Hadyn’s “Toy Symphony.”

All of the selections will be songs from the Renaissance and Victorian period, with a few newly composed pieces by Randy Hudson.

“We really tried to give a traditional flavor to the music and the house,” said Shelley Hartle, Sing!Chronicity member and “Figgy Pudding” stage director.

The singing will “Deck the Halls” until the last “Fa-la-la-la-la” has echoed through the building. The entire WICA audience will be enveloped in the production and invited to join the caroling of some traditional Christmas songs.

“It’s cheerful, heartwarming and when you put the two groups performing together — it’s a bomb,” Hartle said.

Last year, all the “Figgy Pudding” shows sold out, said WICA director Stacie Burgua.

As for the concert’s name, “Figgy Pudding,” Humphreys credits its simple creation to WICA marketing director Shelley Sharp.

“That was a strike of creativity and play on words on her part,” he said.

Before heading home, audience members will even be able to fill their bellies with a little figgy pudding.

At present, when Christmas seems to have little to do with tradition, singing carols remain a Christmas tradition because of the origins of the people who sing them, according to Humphreys.

“If we didn’t do carols at Christmas, what other time of the year would everyone get together and sing,” said Saratoga Players member Michael Nutt.