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Share this: Twitter Facebook. Or even from a decidedly non-Jedi ghost. Surely love is the reason for the season, wherever one takes it from there. Maybe because a carol is a song of joy. And what greater joy this season- and every season- than the transforming power of love? The power to transform even an Ebeneezer Scrooge. The power to transform a world. I set these questions aside as our director, Len Mozzi, calls the group to order.

I keep flashing back to Alec Guinness in the role, from the movie musical I had seen as a lad, so when we reach my grand entrance tonight, I sound uncomfortably like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Serviceable, I think to myself, for a Dickensian supporting spirit in a show, but little more. Fortunately, Len wants more. His only friend. I want you to try talking to him as his friend. A minor thing, really. A tweak.

No lines are changed- only voice, only inflection. Yet, for me at least, it makes all the difference. Len talks about his ideas for the direction of this production, and suddenly the rest of the show falls into place. The theme, simply enough, is love. Our Scrooge will not be changed by his fear of the supernatural, his regret for the past, or even the shock of seeing his own, future tombstone; he will not be dragged to his redemption this night by any form of self-interest, but drawn to it by the unconditional love of those all around him.

This is our take on this overdone story; this is our message to the audience. An odd epithet for an odd story that, one hundred and seventy years later, we take for granted as a holiday classic- and which we all know better as A Christmas Carol. As I look around the circle of actors tonight, the night of our first read-through rehearsal, I wonder how we can possibly breathe any new life into this old chestnut.

The script is good, somehow managing to both condense and flesh out the story and its many characters.