This has been a GREAT show for the last two years. Great special effects, a very fun Scrooge played comically, interesting ideas for the ghosts, a nice script that has the cast saying lines that are taken directly from the classic text all make this show one not to miss. I’ve brought my kids the last two years and we will be going again this year.

One VERY MINOR criticism: there should not be a Christmas tree anywhere in this play. Christmas trees would not have been common in England in 1843 when the book was written and when the story is set. The Christmas tree became a mainstay of English Christmas celebrations later. It’s a trivial matter I know, but it bugged me. Certainly the Cratchits wouldn’t have had one.

I do not know if that is a valid criticism. Please read what I found on the web:
“In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III’s Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 1800s, but the custom hadn’t yet spread much beyond the royal family. Queen Victoria as a child was familiar with the custom. In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, “After dinner…we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room…There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments. All the presents being placed round the trees…”. After her marriage to her German cousin, Prince Albert, by 1841 the custom became even more widespread throughout Britain.[8] In 1847, Prince Albert wrote: “I must now seek in the children an echo of what Ernest [his brother] and I were in the old time, of what we felt and thought; and their delight in the Christmas-trees is not less than ours used to be”.

I would like to know what days the Christmas Carol is playing in Portland Oregon. And I would like to purchanse so me tickets for Dec.