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WHAT THE DICKENS?(continued popularity of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol)(Brief Article)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20001101
Author:WEEKS, JEROME

Theatres have been staging it since it was published in 1843. It has been musicalized and updated and re-Victorianized and turned into l3 film versions, 17 made-for-TV movies, dozens of sitcom spoofs and one Mr. Magoo cartoon.

Surely, if anything can be said about A Christmas Carol, it is this: We know it--we know it in our bones. Why, wonders theatre critic Jerome Weeks, does it still work? Why, with just a couple of ghosts, some kids and a muttering old miser (Raye Birk, for example, as Ebenezer Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco's 1999 production, in ...

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