That's the title of the Christmas show at Dream Theatre, which opened today at a matinee performance.
It's performed with 3 actors on a fairly bare stage, and its claim to your attention is that all the words you hear were written by Charles Dickens. The emphasis is on the literary quality, rather than special effects, and you never actually see Tiny Tim - unless you see him in your mind's eye, which I guess I did.
(Yes, there are special effects, but they are of the understated sort that ask you to use your imagination.)
This is a labor of love on the part of Rachel Martindale, who adapted it, directed it, and acts in it. And that love comes across. John-Paul Kostecki is a great deal of fun as Scrooge, and Mason Pain plays the other male parts with skilled enthusiasm.
It's ghostly and slightly scary,
but ends up sprightly and merry.
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