This festive musical, based on Dickens’ much-loved A Christmas Carol, started life as the memorable 1970 film starring Albert Finney before transferring to the stage. The Scottish première production - featuring a large cast and live band, spectacular sets and costumes, and spooky special effects - promises to be one of the most memorable Christmas musicals ever staged at PFT! Read more …
Christmas Eve, 1843: the cruel money-lender Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge that he faces damnation unless he mends his ways. Can Scrooge be redeemed? All will be decided by the three spirits who visit him in the course of the night.
Leslie Bricusse's rollicking feel-good musical.
A gorgeous, lavish, traditional production.
It is a good looking and sounding production overall with justice done to the musical telling of the classic story.
A confident, assured and, in Scrooge’s final, energetic transformation, totally heart-warming staging of a justly celebrated work of musical theatre.
Thankfully, Richard Baron’s production makes a good fist of restoring some of the darker, spookier edges of Dickens’s famous morality tale.
Leslie Bricusse--Scrooge the Musical
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Friday December 2, 2016, until Friday December 23, 2016. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk
RSS feed of Theatre reviews