"This 'Carol,' is a lonelier affair. The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail."
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"This splendid production is a Christmas miracle: The most theatrically fulfilling account of 'A Christmas Carol' that I have ever seen."
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"Another holiday season, another take on 'A Christmas Carol.' Like other theatrical versions of the classic, this one ends with the same words credited to Tiny Tim...a production this taut and well-told is its own sort of blessing."
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"This is a grimmer take on Dickens’s story, full of fog and shadows."
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"The staging is almost absurdly—and perhaps unnecessarily—lavish, although children and adults now accustomed to television series and movies that pour on the atmospherics with a ladle must, I suppose, be catered to."
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"The true miracle of this production is that it, or rather, he (as in Mays) has us believing we’re encountering an entirely new work, with all the familiar beats and words and Dickensian lessons but layered with an honesty that makes the parts we’ve always told were scary genuinely scary."
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"A cautionary tale for families with young kids: Christmas Eve nightmares may be caused...Nothing wrong with a good shudder at the holidays. Gets you in practice for the new year."
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"For all its dizzying charms, the overstuffed show doesn’t quite deliver on what really counts — the three Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future."
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