As Mitch Glazer, who co-wrote “Scrooged,” put it: “Dickens hits us with the setup: regret, loss, mistakes, missed love, wasted life, and then the punchline: ‘It’s not too late!’”
David Weekes, left, plays Ebenezer Scrooge, visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley , in Hale Centre Theatre's production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" — which has been shot on video, and will screen at several Megaplex Theatres locations in Utah starting Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.I had always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas.
Dickens became an outsider looking in when his middle-class life got disrupted by cold, grinding reality: His father went to debtors’ prison and, at 12, Dickens had to leave school to work in a bootblacking factory in London. In “A Christmas Tree,” Dickens wrote, “I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.” As Tatar explained: “She is the child in the woods who is the ultimate victim of the predatory. She is an innocent, powerless girl preyed upon by the rich and powerful. So you can think of Dickens as the first charter member of the MeToo movement.”
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