Tag Archive: A Christmas Carol

CSC’s second ‘Carol’ is both light and dark

By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Peace on earth, and goodwill towards men. It was in short supply in Charles Dickens’s London in 1843, and perhaps it is still lacking in the here and… Continue reading →

‘An Irish Carol’: Dickens’ piece does a pub crawl

By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – The Irish pub has long been a staple in literature, theater, and the movies, and it mattered not whether that pub was in Ireland itself or any one… Continue reading →

Dickens and Doyle team up in ‘A Sherlock Carol’

By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Through the decades, the works and characters originated by Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been bent, folded, spindled, mutilated and twisted every which way, until… Continue reading →

Look out, Grinch: Here comes CSC’s ‘Christmas Carol’

By Rich Fahey BOSTON – The competition is keen. Just up the street at the Wang Center, the Grinch and his dog Max are terrorizing The Whos. On Washington Street at the Citizens… Continue reading →

35 years later. it’s time to sing ‘Carol’s’ praises

By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – For everyone involved with North Shore Music Theatre’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” it is a time to celebrate. The show has known nothing but success since… Continue reading →

Many hands have kept NSMT’s ‘Christmas Carol’ singing

By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – Jon Kimbell recalls there was a lot riding on that first performance of “A Christmas Carol” at the North Shore Music Theatre on Dec. 7, 1989. “The entire… Continue reading →

In NSMT’s ‘Carol,’ Coffee’s Scrooge sets the tone

By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – The Texan sets the tone, just as he has for almost three decades. And everyone seems to follow. And the result is a theatrical explosion of Christmas spirit that… Continue reading →

An ever-growing family helps this ‘Carol’ sing

By Rich Fahey BEVERLY —  Hundreds of actors may have come and gone since the North Shore Music Theatre started performing its own adaptation of Charles Dickens’  “A Christmas Carol” in 1989, but… Continue reading →

Like Old Man River, NSMT’s ‘Carol’ rolls along

BEVERLY – It was 45 minutes before the start of a recent production of  “A Christmas Carol,” and the lobby of the North Shore Music Theatre was already crowded. There were grandparents in reindeer… Continue reading →

A Christmas toast: Long live Coffee, this ‘Carol’

BEVERLY – When you’ve been performing the same role many hundreds of times over a three-decade period, it’s the little things that count. David Coffee has long since mastered the role of Ebenezer… Continue reading →