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Article: A tale of three Scrooges Dark and scary, for the kids or by the book, Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' takes on different looks this holiday season.(Time Out!)(Main event)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- December 5, 2003
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Byline: Jack Helbig Daily Herald Correspondent
From the moment it was published in 1843, Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol" has been recognized as the Christmas story. The work has literally never been out of print. And from the beginning, audiences were willing to pay good money to see actors, and even Dickens himself, perform in it.
And why not? Dickens packed a lot into that short novel: laughter, tears, comedy, melodrama. We get to see a man acting crabbier than most of us allow ourselves to be. Then we see him bullied around by a series of increasingly hostile ghosts from the great beyond. And then we see him transformed into a giddy, fun- ...