While lacking the proper precision and passion, production of the Tony winner captures the loveliness of the music and the likability of the characters.
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In Larry Yando's hands, it's Scrooge’s transformation from hardhearted miser into “as good a friend … and as good a man, as the good old city knew” that makes makes this a classic.
Indeed, when we hear Tim say at the play’s end, “May God Bless us everyone,” it feels as though we have been personally touched and blessed by Charles Dickens and the Goodman Theatre.
In Goodman Theatre’s 45th anniversary year run of “A Christmas Carol” adapted from Charles Dickens’ prose and directed for a third year by Jessica Thebus, there are a few lines inserted when Bob Cratchit is in the marketplace purchasing the goose that will be roasted for the family’s holiday dinner.