About the Album: A Carol Christmas is a brand new musical, a feminized, modernized version of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. It’s a funny, fresh, tuneful musical that’s just the antidote for these crazy times. In this version, Scrooge is Carol, the busy, non-stop workaholic star of a home shopping-network type show who expects and demands that her employees work themselves until they drop, and that includes the holidays and even the day before Christmas. All the usual male roles are women in this version of the story, and the ways in which Carol visits the past, present, and future are completely unique and fun.
A Carol Christmas has a book by Doug Haverty, the author of many plays and musicals, including the off-Broadway musical Inside Out (cast album available on Kritzerland). The music and lyrics are by Bruce Kimmel, the writer/director of the cult film The First Nudie Musical and many musicals for the stage, as well as a MAC award-winning songwriter.
The world premiere production, directed by Kimmel, opened on November 16, 2018 at the Group Repertory Theatre. The show has a cast of twenty, eighteen songs, and the musical director and orchestrator is Richard Allen.
So, get in the holiday spirit early this year – this new cast recording is the perfect Christmas present and a great way to ring in the holiday season.
Label: Kritzerland
Review: Teto Maranatha's Production of A Christmas Carol Melts Hearts
by Rakaputra Paputungan
- January 18, 2024
What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Teater Topeng Maranatha? A Christmas Carol is Teater Topeng’s latest show and their first major one after the pandemic. Adapted for the stage by script writer and director Jessica Nangoi, it tells the timeless story of one Ebenezer Scrooge and how he learns the meaning of Christmas, with some notable additions.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Will Return to The Old Vic
by Aliya Al-Hassan
- January 05, 2024
Ahead of tomorrow’s final performance, The Old Vic announces that Matthew Warchus’ much-loved, Tony Award-winning A Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack Thorne, will return for its eighth consecutive year, from 09 Nov 2024 – 04 Jan 2025.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL With Guy Masterson Opens Tonight at SoHo Playhouse
by Stephi Wild
- December 21, 2023
The New York premiere of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, performed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson (Broadway's The Shark is Broken), and adapted and directed by Nick Hennegan, opens tonight at SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam St.) and runs through December 30.
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Avatar
by Natalia Jarczynska
- December 19, 2023
What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Avatar? It’s a delicious mishmash of dance, classic literature, and Christmas spirit. This adaptation of a great classic, complex and revised is a difficult show to summarize. Rather, it is a trigger to reflect, rethink and adapt. The first surprise was the skill level of the non-professional actors. Scrooge (Marcin Dawiec), Marley (Katarzyna Pawarska), and the entire dance and acting troupe were very convincing.
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Crescent City Stage
by Tara Bennett
- December 18, 2023
In a festive and spirited adaptation of Charles Dickens’s timeless tale, the iconic miser Ebenezer Scrooge takes center stage in Crescent City Stage’s latest production, A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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