'A Christmas Carol': It's not just a movie

Londoners are in for a treat this winter: A Christmas Carol as told by "Christmas-hating Sidney and his nephew Danny . . . two out-of-work actors, the resident theatre cat and a mouse suffering from stage fright." And "the foyer of the venue will be transformed into a Victorian experience offering Dickensian treats." Fun!

And right here in the U.S.A., not that far from me, check out this amazing Christmas Carol cast: F. Murray Abraham (impressive!), Stockard Channing (haven't seen her in much, but she's supposed to be impressive), Timothy Hutton (loved him in Nero Wolfe Mysteries), Wayne Knight (meh -- I was never a Seinfeld watcher), George Wendt (Norm!), and . . . "James Garner as Dickens"! SQUEE! I adore James Garner. I am SO going to this. I don't even know whether he can do a British accent, but who cares? I wouldn't mind if he did it with a Texas accent (well, not much). Garner as Dickens -- wow. That just makes my life.

Comments

[24601]

That's a once-in-a-lifetime lineup. Now here's hoping they live up to their billing and provide more than obscure theatre trivia (Breakfast at Tiffany's, the musical, anyone?) decades hence.

[Gina]

It's so weird that you said that, because I actually have the cast album of "Breakfast at Tiffany's, the musical"! :-) (I just bought it because I like the performers, though!)

[24601]

Well, to my knowledge the only cast recording issued on CD for that show was a 1995 studio cast w/ John Schneider, Faith Prince, et al. (http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=3395). But the show had a legendarily brief (a literal handful of preview performances) run on Broadway in the mid-60s: http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=12867. Somehow, Richard Chamberlain, Mary Tyler Moore, Larry Kert, and a book by Edward Albee couldn't even get the show to opening night!

[movies twitter]

What made me enjoy A CHRISTMAS CAROL was the fact that, despite having been filmed literally hundreds of times, the story still managed to suck me in.