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Charles Dickens’ descendant visits local restaurant
Westborough :: MA :: USA | about 2 hours ago
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Owners Sara and Anthony Scerra welcome Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of famed author Charles Dickens, to Stephen Anthony’s Restaurant where he performed a one-man adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” the holiday classic written by his great-great-grandfather.
Tags: Westborough, Christmas films, Dinner, Hospitality Recreation, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Marlborough, A Christmas Carol
Even Scrooge will be merry now
Beirut :: Lebanon | about 8 hours ago
Credibility This is the time of year you hear a lot of bah-humbugs around the Looking Glass Playhouse in Lebanon -- and we're not talking just about lines from the script. "It's the usual pandemonium," laughed Don Urban when asked how preparations were going for...
Tags: Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Lebanon, Beirut, Christmas films, Tiny Tim, Charles Dickens, Scrooge, Entertainment Culture, A Christmas Carol
Stay tuned for holiday radio play
Olympia :: WA :: USA | about 9 hours ago
Credibility The production is a re-enactment of the 1939 Campbell Playhouse broadcast of the story, which was narrated by Orson Welles and starred Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. The theater will be set up like an old recording studio, and the actors will be dressed...
Tags: radio plays, Rick Rishel, holidays radio, Olympia, The Campbell Playhouse, Christmas, Christmas music, Charles Dickens, Campbell Soup Company, Olympia Washington, Music radio, Entertainment Culture, Radio drama
Antioch Children's Theatre presents new adaptations of 'Humbug!' and 'Nutcracker'
Walnut Creek :: NC :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility So, instead of presenting a nearly-three-hour pageant of the Scrooge-centered play, he's scaled it back to a more realistic 90-minute drama, which opens tonight at the Virginia J. Calisesi Studio Theatre in downtown Antioch. "We've had the same props,...
Tags: Antioch Children, Joe Ballesteros, Frank J. Ballesteros, younger casts, older casts, untold story, calisesi studio, studio theatre, Walnut Creek, Christmas films, Humbug, The Nutcracker, Charles Dickens, Scrooge, Entertainment Culture, A Christmas Carol, Ghost of Christmas Past
Spirit of 'Christmas Carol' relevant year-round
Pleasant Hill :: CA :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Pleasant Hill resident Claire Toaspern, the show's producer and a church member, joins her husband, Bill, in bringing the holiday classic to the church's social hall, where its last drama production, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," was...
Tags: christmas carol, Bill Toaspern, Charles Dickens, church member, Carol, walnut creek, Claire Toaspern, Pleasant Hill, Christmas films, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Christmas music, Bob Cratchit, Scrooge, Religion Belief, A Christmas Carol
Criminal Bar Association And Bazley Report
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 21 hours ago
Credibility I believe this attitude has been encouraged by politicians, as the system which has had too little money spent on it has creaked under the weight of a larger and more diverse population, and failed economic models and probably the dislocation of the family...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Lawyers, Social Issues, Joseph Addison, Charles Dickens, Criminal defense lawyer
Lit Moon Brings Humbug! Back to Center Stage
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Back to Center Stage John Blondell Directs New Take on a Christmas Classic Tuesday, December 8, 2009 If the fact that the word “Disney” is now attached to Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol has got you down, chin up. Even latter-day Scrooge...
Tags: lit moon, centers staging, John Blondell, Santa Barbara, Christmas films, Tiny Tim, Humbug, Charles Dickens, Scrooge, Entertainment Culture, A Christmas Carol
Debutants flop as Paranormal Activity snatches UK box-office crown
Antananarivo :: Madagascar | 2 days ago
Credibility As executives gathered at the annual British independent film awards in London on Sunday night, the talk was of how all the new films targeting adult audiences had flopped – the only differences were the degrees of failure. Flop #1 Bottom of the pile...
Tags: Madagascar, Antananarivo, Entertainment Culture, Welles, films, Charles Dickens, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Cameron Diaz, Zac Efron, Orson Welles, The Box, Coen brothers, James Marsden, The Descent, Law Abiding Citizen, Projection screen
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Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility A Christmas Carol at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. With all the adaptations of this much-loved novella out there, why in the Dickens am I excited about this one? Well, the always intelligent Peter Hinton is directing, Stratford Shakespeare Festival...
Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Christmas films, Stephen Ouimette, Charles Dickens, Scrooge, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture, A Christmas Carol
'Mother Goose' a new take on 'Carol'
Marysville :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Adaptation still maintains messsage about meaning of the holiday season December 04, 2009 12:59:00 PM Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a universal enough story to lend itself to many different versions. The Magic Theater's latest production is...
Tags: christmas carol, goose christmas, Holly Trent, John Trent, Marysville, Christmas films, Mother Goose, British films, Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas, Charles Dickens, Fantasy films, Entertainment Culture, A Christmas Carol
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