71: Five Completely Different Versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’
This week we put you in the holiday spirit with a special episode dedicated to the story that started it all…A Christmas Carol. Ok, ok…the other story that started it all. Originally published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is considered to have popularized many of our holiday traditions such as family gatherings, using the phrase […]
Interview with Paul Kerr, Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Opening at The Fox Theatre December 9!
“A Christmas Carol” returns to the fabulous Fox Theatre from December 9 – 12. Paul Thomas Kerr has appeared throughout the country in national tours of Pirates of Penzance, Can-Can, Pajama Game, Tintypes, and 1776, and Nebraska Theatre Caravan’s A Christmas Carol as Christmas Present. Regional credits include director and actor at Cornwell’s Theatre, Derby […]
Robert Zemeckis Doing “Wizard of Oz” Remake?
In what may go down as the most boneheaded remake of all time, or the most inspired, Robert Zemeckis is in talks with Warner Bros. to shoot a remake of the legendary Judy Garland film, The Wizard of Oz. This is no ordinary remake either, it is said to use the original script from the […]
Colin Firth “A Single Man” – 2010 Best Actor Oscar Nomination (Video)
Veteran British Actor is up for his first Academy Award nomination for the Tom Ford directed picture, A Single Man. Set in 1962 A Single Man tells the story of George Falconer an openly gay professor who is dealing with the death of his partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). The film is told through a single […]
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Chapter 5 – The End of it
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in! “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. “The Spirits of […]
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Chapter 4 – The Last of the Spirits
The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save […]
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Chapter 3 – The Second of the Three Spirits
Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of […]
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Chapter 2 – The First of the Three Spirits
When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the hour. To […]
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Chapter 1 – Marley’s Ghost
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead […]
Read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens Online
Preface I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. […]
