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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry

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This is a reread because I found the Tim Curry narration included with audible, so I gave an audio edition a shot this year. 
The audio is good, less noticeably Tim Curry-y than I expected, but he weirdly does a VERY ‘him' voice for all the women that was a bit jarring. 
I recently saw a production of the play at the Geva Theatre here in Rochester, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much of the actual dialogue was used and true to the original. It was also just a lovely production FYI. 
I also recently watched Scrooge: A Christmas Carol done by Netflix. Aside from being a kind of wild adaptation in general, I starting thinking about how a lot of different adaptations kind of have Scrooge not really moved by the first two ghosts, and then having a huge change at the third. It always makes me think about how unbelievable it makes it. And the source material is so different to that! 
I love the story of a bad man being shown the error of his ways and changing for the better. It's such a classic story, and the use of the spirit of Christmas to get the character there is obviously my favorite part. I love the tidbits of Scrooge wishing he had handled things different during each ghost, it shows him changing, wanting to be better, therefore the final ghost pushing him ultimately over the edge is super believable. 
Personally a constant 5/5*. 

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