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A Christmas Carol is a short novel written by English author Charles Dickens and first published by Chapman & Hall and first released on 19 December 1843. The story narrates of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, moral, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future.
The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. This story was adapted by many directors of film industry. A lot of movies and plays are prepared based on the story of the novel, A Christmas Carol, for entertaining the world.
Here is the brief introduction of one the plays based on the story of Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol is Tony Palermo's very realistic stage play version of Charles Dickens' traditional story of Christmas, memory, and redemption.
The dialogue is verbatim Dickens. This version has been performed by professional theaters, community theatre troupes, colleges, high schools and elementary students all over the world. The play runs 60 minutes without intervals. There is a natural place to insert one, just after Scrooge returns from the visit with the First Spirit. Changes of gender for characters are allowed as is trimming lines and even whole scenes.
While the play makes use of pre-recorded music for scene transitions and as dramatic underscoring, this is not a Broadway-style musical. However, it is possible to employ a choir to serve within scenes as the poor child carolers dispelled by Scrooge and as Marley's colleagues, the moaning phantoms. You can select to insert carolers at Nephew Fred's parties, the Cratchit household and elsewhere.
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