An American Christmas Carol

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    "In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans."

    "Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man."

     
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    It's not every day you see the Fonz play Scrooge... Henry Winkler talks about being asked to star in this incarnation of the classic Charles Dickens tale of Christmas, ghosts and greedy misanthropes! No shark-jumping included.

     
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    Ten Fun Facts about A Christmas Carol

    2. It only took six weeks to write.
    Dickens started writing obsessively in October 1843 and finished his novella at the end of November–just in time for Christmas. If you look at our production calendar for the show, we’ve had almost the same amount of time to mount this production!
     
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    A Christmas Carol - A New Musical - Complete Show
     
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    South Coast Repertory founding artist Hal Landon, Jr. returns as Ebenezer Scrooge
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    Joe, don't you think Hal Landon Jr. resembles this British actor, Mark Rylance? I sure do.

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    Keep your distance....he looks like a spitting image!
     
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    Right, Joe? Actually when I saw your photos of Hal Landon I thought it was Mark Rylance and you must have gotten the name wrong! So, I checked. Twins separated at birth?
     
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    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in 6 minutes!
     
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    Christmas Spirit with Bob Cratchet - Gene Lockhart, 1938

     
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    It warms me 'art!;)
     
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    Meet Tiny Tim | Milwaukee Rep's "A Christmas Carol"
     
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    A Christmas Carol with Lionel Barrymore, 1947 (Play video and scroll back up to picture, to listen)

     
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