âChristmas Carolâ Review: Brooding Scrooge Gets Ghosted
An elaborate production streamed live from London makes a miser out of Andrew Lincoln and the rest of us rich with holiday cheer.
Andrew Lincoln makes for a particularly charismatic, if obstinate, Scrooge in the Old Vic production of “A Christmas Carol.”Credit.Manuel Harlan
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020
I woke up with the sight of snow banked against my windowsill, so perfectly even and untouched that it was as if each flake had been placed by hand. Then the mug of hot oatmeal and the donning of the baggiest, fuzziest â and, thus, comfiest â lounge pants I own. What better way to prepare for a matinee performance of âA Christmas Carolâ?