MONTPELIER â Perhaps no story drives home the spirit of Christmas more than Charles Dickensâ âA Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story.â And there isnât a much better storyteller than Vermontâs own Willem Lange.
On Friday, Lange read the tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the nocturnal apparitions that helped him discover Christmas, live-streamed from the Lost Nation Theater stage in City Hall Arts Center. Nearly 300 people tuned in to the resident professional theater companyâs first live-streamed production, which remains available online through 10 a.m. Dec. 26.
Dickensâ 1843 novella recounts the story of Scrooge one Christmas Eve. The elderly miser meets the ghost of his late business partner Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future who compel him to see the man he has been, is, and will become. The tale has been a Christmas tradition for nearly 200 years, with translations into over 40 languages and countless fil