"The pop-culture hallmarks of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol are ghosts, a boy on crutches and a mean old man. And while those are all central elements of the story, most people forget that the transformation of the most famous miser in literary history, Ebenezer Scrooge, hinges on an incident with a young caroler that Scrooge recalls fairly early in the 1843 novella. The key to the classic holiday tale an actual Christmas carol is right there in the name, and yet almost everyone overlooks it."
"Returning for its second year, and running through Dec. 24 at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Cruz, A Christmas Carol is once again packed with more than a dozen Christmas carols sung throughout, about half of which are new this year. While the biggest draws for the holiday show might be local favorite actor Mike Ryan as Scrooge and an elegant stage adaptation of the story from SCS Artistic Director Charles Pasternak that's remarkably faithful to Dickens' text,"
Santa Cruz Shakespeare presents A Christmas Carol at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Cruz through Dec. 24, in its second annual staging. The production includes more than a dozen Christmas carols sung throughout, about half of them new this year. Mike Ryan stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in an elegant stage adaptation by Charles Pasternak that remains remarkably faithful to Dickens' text. Music director Luke Shepherd, a UCSC music lecturer and self-identified "Christmas carol nerd," curated the repertoire and narrowed selections from a long carol tradition. The production emphasizes the carol that catalyzes Scrooge's transformation in the novella.
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