'A
CHRISTMAS CAROL'
Scene
– England in 1800s
Narrator: Jacob Marley was dead…
Chorus: (Loud at first, then fading to a whisper)
Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.
Narrator: Seven years dead on that Christmas Eve. Ebenezer
Scrooge, his living partner, never painted out old Marley's name on
their sign. There it stood years afterward -
Chorus: 'Scrooge & Marley, Counting House'.
(The Chorus form a street scene and Scrooge arrives to stand in
downstage centre)
Narrator: Scrooge was tight-fisted.
Chorus: (Broken up and said by section of the Chorus)
A squeezing… grasping… covetous…
Narrator: …old sinner. No wind blew that was
bitterer than he. Nobody ever stopped him on the streets to say…
Chorus Member: (Greeting Scrooge) My dear
Scrooge, when will you come for dinner?
Narrator: But what did Scrooge care? He edged his way
along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to…
Scrooge: Keep your distance!…
