We live for now in socially distanced times, but the collective skills of these musicians, not to mention their cast, prove capable of crossing even the most pandemic-intensive divide.
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There’s even snow. You might miss the grit; but after a year like this one, its feelgood fun factor is hard to resist.
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Alan Menken’s score (lyrics by Lynn Ahrens) often has the feel of photocopied Lionel Bart. Nothing Scrooge sings can match (the oddly comparable) Fagin.
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The chorus is terrific and the entire evening whips along...All in all, an excellent entertainment for a Christmas season.
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This is, in short, one of those musicals where you tend to forget the melodies as soon as you’ve stepped out into the street, but as a Christmas spectacle it does the business.
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The Dominion’s big stage creates an intriguing double illusion that renders the production epic in its rousing or revelrous scenes yet intimate in the drama of Bob Cratchit’s family story and Scrooge’s vulnerable moments.
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