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Article: A Theatergoer's Seasonal Allergy; Annual 'Carol' Brings Out One's Inner Scrooge
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 26, 2000
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Two days ago, for the 19th year, the Ford's Theatre curtain rose
on "A Christmas Carol." Nineteen years of little Tim bleating,
Scrooge snarling and mufflered Victorian extras blowing on their
hands to pretend it's Brrrr! Cold!
The damn show won't die. It won't go on the road and get lost on
the way back to 10th Street NW. The tired old sets have not yet been
incinerated by theater grouches driven mad by the Lazarus-like
resurrection of this moldy old chestnut every ding-dong year.
Chestnuts! I forgot the chestnut vendors onstage in the first act.
Lives there yet a cliche that this production has not clasped to its
dusty bosom?
The ghost of John Wilkes Booth is giggling hideously in the ...
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