The Denver Center For Performing Arts

Christmas is one of the most magical times of the year, for me, and the many stage and film versions of Dickens’ masterpiece offer many opportunities to experience the joy and revelation of A Christmas Carol. Pick from Alastair Sims version, Patrick Stewart, Bill Murray’s Scrooged, The Muppets and the 3-D masterpiece with Jim Carrey, just to name a few. It’s safe to say it is a very popular show done an infinite number of different ways. That is why as a director I would create a contemporary staging of A Christmas Carol in New York City. Now, at first glance this may seem unoriginal, but for me it is a perfect setting to honor the story in its original form.

This show can be seen on TV every Christmas season. Then Ron Howard takes this short film and draws it out to be a two and a half-hour long movie. The worst aspect of the movie is that it makes a mockery of Seuss's main message: “Christmas doesn't come from a store.” This movie is all about selling, from those furry talking Grinch dolls to endless fast-food tie-ins.

“Audiences today want a real experience in their live performance, because they can get great script based entertainment at home, through various new media sources. Traditional theatre, which appeals on a mental, and hopefully also emotional level, has not been enough to compete with other media, and audiences have been declining. Physical theatre, by contrast appeals to the audience on a physical and emotional level, providing a much more immediate experience than traditional theatre” ~ (Artmedia Publishing in Zen Zen Zo’s “The Tempest” Teacher’s Notes)

Ebony was a Diva, a famous solo singer artist. Like no other diva, she is verbally abusive to her employees, comes to the attitudes of my way or highway, cheap and selfish. Always wanted to be treated like no less than a superstar. Ebony Scrooge constantly craved for fame and fortune. Because of her craving, she keeps her workers away from their families during Christmas and pushes them to work long hours to perfect her image as a diva. The Christmas ghosts of Past, Present, and Future paid her a friendly Christmas visit and time traveled with her to see how she treats her associates. The Ghost of Christmas Past brought her back to the good old days when the band was complete and the audience was all hyped due to their sensation. She showed no signs of greed, hunger for power, fortune, and fame during that time. After one of the members, Marli Jacob passed away the band started to fall apart.The greed of fortune and fame starts to take over her. She didn’t show interest in others and only paid attention to herself. Ghost of Christmas Present walked along with Ebony to her employee's hotel room. She overheard their conversation in the broken down room regarding how miss treated they were. She rented a luxury suite hotel while her employees all cramped into a tenement suite. Finally but not the least, the Ghost of Christmas Future imprisonment Ebony into her room to force

Throughout the drama, “A Christmas Carol”, the playwright, Charles Dickens, tells a story of a man who is irritable and only cared about money. He realized his mistake before it was too late. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is able to change his life when he meets various ghosts. Three events that caused Scrooge to change includes visits from The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

In 2014, NCShakes had to stop production for a season because of insufficient funds. This upset many people. You are encouraged to support local theatre so things like this don’t happen and so theatres don’t have to shut down for a season. This is why the trustees are so important when it comes to theatre. They truly are what make it happen. Traditionally, NCShakes play A Christmas Carol every year. That makes them different than everywhere else. They have done this play every year since 1977.

“Bah! Humbug!” (Dickens, Page2) Is what Ebenezer scrooge has to say about Christmas. Scrooge was a rich miser who hisses to everyone he meets, Giving off a miserable eerie feeling to others. Written by the Famous novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, is a Well Known christmas story about The greedy, ungrateful, lonely man who doesn't Enjoy the activities of christmas. In the past few weeks we read the play as well as watched the 1984 Movie Of A Christmas Carol.

In A Christmas Carol there are more similarities than differences. One of many differences is the people begging for money on the streets. One of the many similarities are the happiness of the music that is being sung by the people. The past, present, and future have some similarities but also some differences. In the play past says to take her hand (Dickens, 12) and in the movie she tells Scrooge to touch her robe (Video 1984).

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been a staple story relating to Christmas since the 1840’s. Due to this, it has inspired others to make movies similar to this beloved tale. Namely, “A Muppets Christmas” from 1992 and “A Christmas Carol” from 2009. These two recreations may have similarities to the original story, but they share quite many differences. One major contrast is that they are not all similar in telling the tale: Charles Dickens’ original story was a book, while the other two were movies from not long ago.

The title of the musical movie is no other than The Christmasaurus. Tom Fletcher is the best-selling author of this one of a kind Christmas novel and may turn it into a musical movie like no other. He said that writing a novel alone isn't enough for him to showcase his masterpiece. This is why he wanted his novel to turn into a Christmas musical movie. Not only that, he's going to be the one who writes all of the songs in this movie. This is going to be pretty fantastic for his fans out there. He wants his novel to be epic when the movie comes out.

They work very, very hard and with a wonderful spirit. JC Voices sang songs from different time periods and in different languages. At A Jingle Jazz Christmas, they performed the majority of their songs from this time period. They performed eighteen Christmas Carols such as Sleigh Ride, The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Do Not Be Late ), Breath of Heaven, Away in a Manger, What Child is This, Silent Night, Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire, Let it Snow, Some Children See Him, Christmas Angel, Silver Bells, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, White Christmas, Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep, The Prayer, Thankful, Jingle Bells, and Gettin’ in the Mood! Each Christmas song had a different tempo. Not only did the choir perform excellently, but the conductor did as well. Dr. Susan Smith conducted with great posture! Dr. Smith also had her choir under great control and acknowledged the audience well.

These are just some of the differences of the Christmas Carol and all I’m going to say. Although there are differences there still has to be similarities here are some. You have to have all the characters the same; you have to have all the spirits and the

In the words of Gay McAuley, “for an activity to be regarded as a performance, it must involve the live presence of the performers and those witnessing it…” (McAuley, 2009, cited in Schechner, 2013, pp.38). This statement recognises the importance of both the actor and the audience for something to truly function as a performance. In addition, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones highlights the significance of the theatrical space and how it can influence an audience stating that “on entering a theatre of any kind, a spectator walks into a specific space, one that is designed to produce a certain reaction or series of responses” (Llewellyn-Jones, 2002, pp.3). The relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space is no less important today than it was at the time of theatre during the Spanish Golden Age and the creation of Commedia dell’arte in Italy. Despite being very close geographically with theatre thriving for both in the same era, sources that explore the social, cultural and historical context of these countries and the theatre styles will bring to light the similarities and differences. This essay will analyse the staging, the behaviour of the audience as well as the challenges the actors faced, and how this directly influenced the relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space.

My whole class was involved in this performance. I played Mrs Claus and the Mother, Greg played the Father, Rachel played the Daughter and Lewis had the part of the Son. The elves were played by Ben G, Kieran and Paula, Luca as the Villain

The above example illustrates not only how the theatrical performance affects the audience, but also how the audience influences its dynamics, development and the characters within it. The actors feel a certain level of acceptance from the viewer, who demands a certain way of depicting the character. Theatre is not just entertainment, itís something much more than that ñ itís education. Theatre should always represent things, rather than