This Christmas, Manchester’s small but mighty musical powerhouse, Hope Mill, has been gifted a larger space. Far from being out of their depth, the Lowry’s Quays theatre allows their characteristic ...
All of which meant that despite the casting of Scrooge as a woman, Evelina (Claire Moore, who played Mrs Fezziwig in the 2004 TV version of this show), Christmas Carol: The Musical felt old ...
But they peak halfway, with the high-kicking spectacle of the music hall-set Abundance and Charity, led in animated style by James Hume’s gregarious thespian Ghost of Christmas Present.
The Musical Box Theatre is presenting “A 1940’s Radio Christmas Carol” from December 12th to 14th under the direction of Shana Christine McCoy. This musical was written by Walton Jones ...
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate ...
There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” and ... and the sound of merry music mingles with the ...
So, Steve Maler and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company take a different approach to “Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol,’” creating a pastiche of sumptuous holiday music and suggestive ...
One Christmas I found myself on London ... Many of our best-known carol texts have had many musical partners over the years. Different tunes sometimes represent differences between one ...
It’s hard to imagine Christmas without Christmas carols. Here are some of the history and traditions, as well as recommendations for your Christmas playlist.