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Article: Halberstam takes page from Dickens.(Time Out!)(On theater)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2005
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Byline: Jack Helbig
Lots of theaters do Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." But only Michael Halberstam of the Glencoe-based Writers Theatre reads the story to audiences.
That's the way Dickens performed his stories. One reader, one book, alone on stage in front of an audience eager to be read a story.
He got paid good money in the mid-nineteenth century for it, too.
It's a good guess Halberstam makes considerably less money for his readings (considering inflation), but Halberstam never did it for the money alone.
"We started doing these readings in the early days of Writers Theatre to encourage subscriber support," ...