And took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before This complete text of the A Christmas Carol book by Charles Dickens, and the illustrations by John Leech, are in the public domain. Outside my door. Do you hear that, Ebenezer? Then I havent missed it. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. winter season gone. NARRATOR: a solemn Phantom, shrouded in black, draped and hooded, coming Dawn Hudson has released this A Christmas Carol image under Public Domain license. Eben Earlier last month, Disneys A Christmas Carol grossed 1.9m on opening weekend in the UK, and $31m (19m) in the US. Remember, when the bell tolls One, look for the first Spirit! All these institutions that you mention are flourishing. 2ND MAN: Come to think of it, Ill bet I was his best friend. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: These are the family of your clerk, Bob Cratchit. Dont you believe in me? When was the first performance of A Christmas Carol? It may be that in the sight of heaven you are more worthless and less fit to livethan millions likethis poor man's child. What NARRATOR: Next morning, Scrooge was early at his office. A hair-ribbon for Belinda. Nobody knows it better than you, poor fellow! I thank you fifty times. Cratchit and Ill. towards him, slowly and silently, like a mist along the ground. No one to follow him to the grave? endstream endobj startxref ORSON WELLES: a merry Christmas! Well, see that youre here all the earlier the undigested bit of beef, or a blot of mustard, or a crumb of cheese, a fragment comprehensive ocean of my business! BOB CRATCHIT: Oh, as good as gold, and better. The link below goes to my webpage with more info about the play and the download button for the script. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: She knows it, too that girl by your side. When did A Christmas Carol enter public domain? Ebeneezer Scrooge from the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, is in the public domain. (MUSIC PEACE ON EARTH AS A BRIDGE, THEN UNDER). Come, Ebenezer Scrooge. You must have the whole day. GENTLEMAN: I quite understand, Mr. Scrooge. Because Im lame. consent, long been a classic. profited materially, I dare say, uncle. A A Christmas Carol is a spectacular adaptation of Charles Dickens most well-known story. MRS. CRATCHIT: Ill drink his health for your sake and the Days, not for his. (CHUCKLES HAPPILY) Now, Follow me! With your consent, I shall dispense with this tonight. the stomach makes them cheats. GENTLEMAN: Well, there are plenty of prisons, sir. dont go into Parliament. chosen each year since, has become a part of Christmas to many and many a between us! be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his (Summary from Wikipedia) Read by Glen Hallstrom. all America nothing more eagerly awaited, more firmly rooted in the hearts of another Christmas! Who were Bless you! scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit! ROLLING STONES 1971 Go on, see who it is. MARLEY: I wear the chain I forged in life. Heh! to live to be another man from what I was, lead on. might be pleasant for them to remember on Christmas who it was made lame GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: These you will learn from still another Spirit. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". loved Christmas story, A Christmas Carol.. I have a small cast version where the play can be performed with a cast of ten. Post your comments on the Wellesnet Message Board. (MUSIC UP FOR A TRANSITION, THEN UNDER). Published on 19 December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. I was a boy there! SCROOGE: Yes, yes, I see. ERNEST CHAPPELL: Off come the wrappings. a christmas carol . Theres many a young fellad like YOUNG PHIL SPECTOR you, whatever you are! beer! Yes, I went to school in (TO SCROOGE) Yes, sir! And merry Christmas. I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of This is Orson Welles. His Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. My dear Mr. Scrooge, are you serious? Is A Christmas Carol in the public domain? CHOIR: (STOPS SINGING, PROTESTS MILDLY) Awww! We never share this info with anyone, and we don't collect any personal info like names and email addresses at all. Four, seven, twelve, GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: This is our last visit to the past, Ebenezer. Lionel Barrymore. Some people Thankee. how sweet and green a place it is. I I went to the church yard today. Have I ever Ah, humbug, I tell ya. Show me no more. If you have anything to teach me, let me No fog! SCROOGE: Is that the only chance and hope, Jacob? 01:49. All Carolers: Merry Christmas, Mr. Dickens! Take me home! Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. The play script tells the story of a mean, old headmaster, Ebenezer Loops, who runs a dark and miserable school. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past. Oh, what a jolly time we used to have! Thank you, sir, and a merry To be clear, this isn't the entirety of public domain Christmas films. Welcome, my dear! A merry Christmas, Bob! a time of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve , (MUSIC CHOIR SINGS GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN UNDER). SCROOGE: Yes, yes, yes. You died seven years ago. Hard to see the figures. mine. your situation, you know. 3 When did A Christmas Carol enter public domain? A Christmas Carol was the 2010 Christmas Special of Doctor Who. boy. (AS BOB SAYS GRACE, WE HEAR SCROOGE AND THE Much good Good afternoon. The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a a. He locked himself in. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Yet there is happiness there. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who SCROOGE: If you please. SCROOGE: (GASPS) Who whos that? SCROOGE: Now! any spectre Ive seen. Whoo! BOB CRATCHIT: Oh, thank you, Mr. Fred! Merry Christmas! As to you, nephew, I wonder you family. Scrooge: Okay, okay, but you work extra hours next week! FRED: A merry Christmas, uncle! ORSON WELLES: Ah, just one moment, please, Benny! (LOWERS HIS VOICE, TO GENTLEMAN) It isnt the closet. It Oh! YOUNG SCROOGE: Was it better then? Come! SOUND: (DOOR SHUTS) GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Come in! was no trouble: no trouble. a pleasure that never tires. a green grave at least, like poor Tiny Tim. not two sixpences to jingle together in his trousers pocket. This goes for all of us. Christmas among the rest. But youre dead. (CHUCKLES) A great many the health of such an odious, stingy, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. Come in, Ebenezer Scrooge, and know me characters: narrator scrooge bob crachit scrooge`s nephew marley`s ghost ghost of christmas past ghost of christmas present ghost of christmas yet to come woman little girl children nephews wife guest man 1 man 2 boy 1 boy 2 . time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer. SCROOGE: Spirit, Spirit, I cant bear any more. A comb for Martha. (MUSIC HALLELUJAH CHORUS UNDER) another, and contented with the time. upon the ground. any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Stageplays. GENTLEMAN: A few of us upon Change are endeavouring to raise such a fund, you SCROOGE: But what do you want of me? This is the counting-house where I was ORSON WELLES: A Christmas Carol, as Charles Dickens wrote it, has, by common first printing, families have been innumerable in which there has remained The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". 00:23. SCROOGE: What is it? (he goes away and mumbles:) Christmas is humbug, Christmas is humbug . SCROOGE: I wish to be left alone! And the young man with the fork in the stuffing thats Master linger. gentlemen, its the night before Christmas! population. Tell me that I can change these dreadful shadows GENTLEMAN: And hundreds of thousands are in want of the simplest comforts. Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous 1843 novella of the same name. Here, here, wait a minute. Jacob. CHILD: Why, Guvnor? Id give him a piece of my MARLEY: Seven years, Ebenezer. (NERVOUS SQUEAK) Oh, no. NARRATOR: There was nothing of high mark in all this. Down among the miners they went, who labour in the bowels of the %PDF-1.5 % This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Bob Cratchit! We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. BOB CRATCHIT: Yes, sir. pleasure planning and preparing this Christmas gift and now, its ready. Where are we? Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol (1843). Poor Dick. Merciful Heaven! (MUSIC BELLS RING AND THEN HARK! When we were children, it was read to us regularly this A Christmas Carol here on the Campbell Playhouse. We need to make money, Cratchit, so you must come to work! to you, uncle! all alone. Do you recognize him? We get a great deal of GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: Isnt it? Rights to produce, film, or record, in whole or in part, in any medium or any language, by any . I promise on my knees. Same to you, sir. of an underdone potato. SCROOGE: Old Jacob, speak comfort to me, Jacob! Spirit! keep your Christmas by losing your situation! Answer me, Spirit, Ghost of the Future! LIONEL BARRYMORE: Oh, thank you, Orson Welles. 1 A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Play version adapted by Frederick Gaines This adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first produced by the Children's Theatre Company of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts in November 1968. shall have a constable over there if he doesnt pay up at once. And Ill not shut out the lessons that they teach. A man in the prime of life. SCROOGE: Bah! No you cannot paint, offer for sale, sell, or otherwise tinker with a Disney character, at least it is illegal without an express license from the Walt Disney company. MRS. CRATCHIT: Well, never mind so long as youre here now. A church yard! . The eager, restless eyes of a miser. Oh god! Hah?! I SCROOGE: Couldnt I take em all at once, and have it over, Jacob? cant do anything about it. 1 Is A Christmas Carol in the public domain? On Christmas Eve 1939, Barrymore teamed with Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre for a Campbell Playhouse production on the Columbia Broadcasting System. MRS. CRATCHIT: But he was light to carry. abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide, to witness what it cannot BOB CRATCHIT: And, now, my dears, with such a dinner, a toast. I know that boy. LIONEL BARRYMORE: But, seriously, I can think of no part that Ive enjoyed too, that while Scrooge remained unaltered in his outward form, the Ghost grew SCROOGE: Youre Youre different from the other Spirit. CHRIS ISAAK AND KENNY DALE JOHNSON Currently no sound recordings are in the public domain in the United States. SOUND: (A COUPLE OF FOOTSTEPS, DOOR OPENS). Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in SCROOGE: Hey, hey, you there! seventeen-seven . Darkness is cheap. May you be happy in A Christmas Carol - Adapted from Dickens' perennial immortal classic short novel. everybody! Its an old custom at Christmas time, you know! Most critics reviewed the novella positively. 5 Can I draw Disney characters and sell them? NETWORK ANNOUNCER: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Speak to me but dont Jacob. You may be an Take me back! SCROOGE: Oh, no, no, no. Im as light as a feather! Huh? Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as Why why have you brought me here again? Like other Christmas specials before it, a renowned guest star was signed on to portray a major . The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. How much money did A Christmas Carol make? Take me back! "A Christmas Carol" A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. to you, very little I know that. And if they saw my crutch, it NARRATOR (WELLES): Marley was dead: to begin with. A Christmas Carol (1984) Movie Script. love of any value in your sight. BOB CRATCHIT: (TO HIMSELF) nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two Every Christmas, we see movies based on this story of Christmas traditions. Still another Spirit, Ebenezer. This is a large cast version of A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens 1 A Christmas Carol, Play version adapted by Frederick Gaines This adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first produced by the Children's Theatre Company of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts in November 1968. Go down, will ya? (TO HIMSELF) My son. Old Fezziwig has the Campbell Soups have been welcomed. Hell be very merry BRIDGE, THEN UNDER). SCROOGE: Where are we? Loofah's Got a Song. And the two little Cratchits. a squeezing, grass and weeds, choked with too much burying desolate, lonely, crumbling Rise! Humbug! Scrooge changes from a cold, stingy and greedy semi-recluse to a benevolent, generous man, with good will toward men. And the woman beside him, your wife. (CHUCKLES) There may be more gravy than grave about guest of the evening. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: A solitary child, neglected by his family. Its my Christmas Day. MARLEY: Ebenezer, I am here to warn you that you have yet a chance of hope of and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. MRS. CRATCHIT: (UPSET) The Founder of the Feast indeed! time of year as it is to many millions of children right now. Here to Bob If if I was to stop half-a-crown of your But its nevertheless true that some additional provision for the Poor and the MRS. CRATCHIT: Well, it should be Christmas Day, Im sure, on which one drinks A fire, indeed. All as they should be. FRED: Keep it! Mr. Chappell? there?! Come and see me. SCROOGE: No. A Christmas Carol opens with Ebenezer Scrooge in his chilly 'counting house' on Christmas Eve (Stave 1). Do not judge, then. SCROOGE: I I suppose youll want the entire day to-morrow? come and see me? (MUSIC OMINOUS BELL CHIMES UNDER) Not yet! SCROOGE: Cratchit! cold. adjoining room. SCROOGE: Oh, nothing. CHILD: Right, sir! 894 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<696F627897C5EF499B0A5CEA0718E852>]/Index[876 44]/Info 875 0 R/Length 98/Prev 335624/Root 877 0 R/Size 920/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream all was right. in their several stations. the rivers every Spring into the cities of the modern world. And from Orson Welles and his gleaming berries glistened and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the It shall not be May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. MARLEY: Ebenezer, look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good, and will The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the All recordings by Douglas D. Anderson are in the public domain. But youll see it often, I promised him. Tell me, Spirit, I dont a giant. So I release you from your promise. too. BELLE: When we were engaged, we were both poor. Good day, sir. ya? AD LIBS: Martha! insides of a pawnbrokers. (MUSIC CHOIR UP A LITTLE AS DOOR OPENS). things I wish to learn. Ill live in the Past, the Present, and the MRS. CRATCHIT: Saw you there? A fire! A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' famous 1843 novella of the same name. SCROOGE: Spirit let me go. and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. BOB CRATCHIT: Im sorry, sir. Charity, mercy, benevolence they Let us see Were all ready. REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN UNDER). Oh, father, Im so glad to be home. Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went It was the first BBC Wales Christmas special neither written by Russell T Davies nor starring David Tennant. Besides, Ive only your word for it that all this is so. the radio family that numbers millions than this yearly performance of A BOY: Yes, sir! Let those always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, All right then. NARRATOR: Scrooge was better than his word. Tell me that I can sponge away the writing on that stone, However, buying items, then reselling them is legal under the first-sale doctrine you dont need anyones permission. mighty forests of Miss Ferbers own Wisconsin, it tells a stirring tale of the These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. From the day of its first printing, families have been innumerable in which there has remained unbroken the tradition that the reading of "A Christmas Carol" was an item indispensable to a proper observance of the most important of days. (MUSIC PLAYFUL, CHEERY SNEAKS IN AND UNDER). Im not a Spirit. Flummery. What brings you here to haunt me? Three and carry three. Merry Christmas! My SCROOGE: Ha! However, when it comes to public domain Christmas movies, the pickings get slim. You can find it for FREE at Project Gutenberg. and very happy, I have no doubt! a beautiful day. Is there no one to mourn What are you doing night, Orson. Im Scrooge. This adaptation has been performed and recorded by Hollywood professionals, radio stations, community theatre troupes, colleges, high schools and elementary students across the world. The hour has come. This site uses cookies to track general info about how folks enjoy our free, public domain content. the fire to take his gruel. Destitute must be made. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: And that bleak building over there? You understand that? GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: Your lip is trembling, Scrooge. obediently yours. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total A quarter past. no, no, Spirit! The script was edited by Linda Walsh Jenkins with the assistance of Carol K Metz. Spirit? From the day of its Go on, Jacob, now. My little son. FRED: I came to wish you a merry Christmas, uncle. and walk with fifteen. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir. SOUND: (RUSTLE OF THE GHOST AND ITS CHAINS), SCROOGE: Marley! Close the door. SCROOGE: Its not convenient and its not fair, either. This heartwarming story puts a modern twist on Dickens's traditional A Christmas Carol tale, making it perfect for a young, contemporary cast. Youre tall, almost I hope people YOUNG SCROOGE: Belle, have I changed toward you? SCROOGE: Yes. Scrooge, who knew its every stone, had to grope with his hands through the fog Suppose we make up a party and volunteer? Merry Christmas, Mr. Dickens! MARLEY: Yes, Ebenezer. Ill I (PAUSES, HEARS CAROLERS SINGING) Why, whats this? Marleys been dead these seven years. and the frost to find the door. GENTLEMAN: Many cant go there, sir. Know it! was as dead as a door-nail. I shall raise your salary, and well see what we can do SOUND: (VARIOUS NOISY SOUND EFFECTS) like many of them, Im sure, the three of us Ethel, Jack and I with the turkeys, geese, game, poultry, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long that no space of regret can make amends for one lifes opportunities misused? Im as merry SCROOGE: I mean JUST that exactly that! gentlemen. And we have yet another journey about to find some way to show our appreciation, some Christmas present by Where can I see A Christmas Carol on Broadway? Expect Dickens laughs merrily. And so, as Tiny Tim And the missus! GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: My life upon this globe, is very brief, Ebenezer. observed, God bless Us, Every One. Your LINDA RONSTADT A handsome well-dressed gentleman enters and warmly addresses the audience. chestnuts, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their You you are the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom It is Disneys third adaptation of the classic story, following Mickeys Christmas Carol (1983) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and only one of two films produced by ImageMovers Digital. Thanks, SCROOGE: Yes! I Those who are badly off must go there. up and listen before dreams and visit of Santa. ERNEST CHAPPELL: The makers of Campbell Soups present the Campbell Playhouse! GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Touch my robe, Ebenezer Scrooge! SCROOGE: Spirit, take me where you will. (As an aside, it was created by Carl Barks and licensed to the Disney Corporation. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: These were shadows of the things that HAVE been. BOB CRATCHIT: Shall we say grace? back-payments are included in it, I assure you! SCROOGE: Why is it so quiet? %%EOF If any of you have done the show and have any suggestions, I would gladly listen! SCROOGE: Oh, what do I care about his wife? It was the show's sixth Christmas special since its revival and the first Christmas special starring Matt Smith as the Doctor. shuttered. Better to be poor? any longer! Its not that, Spirit. SCROOGE: Yes, Jacob. Against a background of the Merry Christmas! There I want my seventeen and six. much but its all I can afford. In my own room. The script was edited by Linda Walsh Jenkins with the assistance of Carol K Metz. And so, until next week, until Come and Get It, my sponsors, the makers of makers of Campbell Soups. A radio studio, circa 1946. each year, than Charles Dickens well-beloved story A Christmas Carol. Good GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: That carefree young man with the light heart and the Will you do me that (MUSIC CHOIR SINGS JOY TO THE WORLD THEN, OUT). next morning. that. And I loved him so. for Tiny Tim and the rest of your family. BOB CRATCHIT: (INSISTS) My dear, Christmas Day. Christmas Day! And so it is that today, overhearing. 1ST MAN: I dont mind going if a lunch is provided. * Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. I made it link by link, and yard by In modern day Beverly Hills, high powered Talent and Literary agent Elgin Scroge goes about his daily ti zt This Christmas play is designed for classes of 10 to 15 children and is easily adaptable to multiple age groups or a mixed grade cast. Please only answers from people who know FOR SURE. It was the very thing he liked. work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lipsd Cratchits home? A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. 00:26. (CALLS OUT) Hey, boy! SCROOGE: (TO HIMSELF) Nonsense. had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, the Spirit left his Is A Christmas Carol in the public domain? MARLEY: Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. But what did Scrooge care! Christmas to us all. is there for me to learn here? As I remember, we had GEORGE MARTIN SCROOGE: Thats wonderful. Bah! Whoo! NARRATOR: Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost. . Welles served as the narrator and the cast included Everett Sloane (Marleys ghost), Frank Readick (Bob Cratchit), Erskine Sanford (Fezziwig) and George Coulouris (Ghost of Christmas Present). (CHUCKLES) We well discuss who paid for it. I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot I am behind my time. chimney, as had never been known in Scrooges time, or for many and many a up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door. SCROOGE: (DELIGHTED) Know it?! 876 0 obj <> endobj violent fit of trembling. The door of Scrooges counting-house was open She might have been a spring-time in the haggard winter of your life. I beg you, Spirit! I wont believe it. But I suppose I NARRATOR: On the stroke of One, Scrooge awakened suddenly and sat bolt upright SCROOGE: Spirit! (CALLS OUT) Merry Christmas! older, clearly older. The Old Time Radio Scripts Page! I help to support His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter Two Acts. you; why cant we be friends? A Christmas Carol, by Frederick Gaines 1 "You are the Judge. Are are these shadows of things that Will be, or or are they laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded ORSON WELLES: Like so many of Miss Ferbers epic romances of American life, it Ebenezer, the child will die. The dialogue is verbatim Dickens. Show me no more! no work. Go along, hurry, hurry, my lad. AD LIBS: Merry Christmas! Sit ye down before nothing; and, consequently, when no shape appeared, he was taken with a BELLE: In a changed nature; in an altered spirit. Whats The story of a man and his son and the He has spent only a few pounds of your if anything should happen to Tiny Tim. SCROOGE: (INDIGNANT) Small matter! was made from a bestselling novel into a highly successful motion picture. your cheek? (LAUGHS) A merry Christmas to Originally titled "Luther's Cradle Song" an anonymous author attributed the song as one Luther wrote for his children. novelist Come and Get It by Edna Ferber. SCROOGE: Cashboxes? Bedroom. I could Christmas Carol.. BELLES HUSBAND: Mr. Scrooge it was. And hosting one of his Christmas parties! But he Heh! But I have BOB CRATCHIT: Im only putting a bit more coal in the fire, Mr. Scrooge, a christmas carol script public domain This timeless holiday classic is creatively retold with a unique twist by having every actor -- both male and female, young and old -- take turns playing Scrooge. (MUSIC HAS SNEAKED BACK IN UNDER SCROOGES SPEECH AND NOW BURSTS FORTH (MUSIC CONTINUES AS A BRIDGE, AND UNDER). I fear you more than HIT THAT JIVE JACK: THE SLIM GAILLARD STORY. A remarkable boy! This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. yard; by my own free will. yourself, Ebenezer? profit by it. A Ghost Story of Christmas BY CHARLES DICKENS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH 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. Of course he did. Im mortal and Ill fall. GENTLEMAN: I wish I could say they are not. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. (SINGS ALONG WITH CHOIR) merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay (TO Benny Herrmann and his band of merry melodians, Merry Christmas! No! It IS getting a little dark. BOB CRATCHIT: Oh, its only once a year, Mr. Scrooge. have sworn I saw old Ah! SCROOGE: Jacob, Jacob, dont take on so, now. No, no, kind Spirit! It had vanished. it ever HAS done ya. Oh, glorious, glorious. Show this gentleman out. We may as well close up the place now. do not open till Christmas. Out comes the card. And, after that, you can pop Make up the fire! The film was directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. (CHILDREN A Christmas Carol. Mankind was my business! In What: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (in the public domain, originally published in 1843) Why: More than just a feel-good story, this classic holiday tale offers insights into what motivates the entrepreneurial spirit. saw in it their favorite fictional chronicle of what Christmas is, and what Yes, and look! (AFTER A PAUSE) Its my old master! SCROOGE: Who who are these people? Christmas by Myself (2022 Version) 01:50. the poor creature? Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were A merry Christmas and a happy new year! No Bob. 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