The reviews are in and Provision Theater‘s Christmas Carol at the Victory Gardens Theater is a big hit! Check out this online review! Go ahead and make your plans to see this great family-fare in the Christmas season. Tickets are available online for shows Weds-Sun through Dec 30th
Here is what one critic says
“Amazingly, Tim Gregory and David H. Bell’s adaption of the Dickens holiday classic contains a walloping emotional impact unlike any other production of A Christmas Carol. This is a polished, efficient production with fine musical underscoring, rich in traditional English Christmas songs sung in smooth harmonies. The show has its center in the hope that a person can indeed change for the better simply if he truly seeks it.
We see Jeff-nominated Bradley Armacost as the ”everyman’s” Scrooge in that Armacost (a brilliant character actor) plays Scrooge first a befuddled, nasty anti-social money hoarding, heartless businessman. Armacost’s Scrooge is pessimistic, lonely tired old man whose only purpose is to make more money. He hates people, hates Christmas and hates himself. Surrounded by a first-rate ensemble, we see Scrooge’s epiphany in a series of nicely stage scenes that combine emotional renderings, authentic English holiday songs with the classic dream sequences that propel the Dickens morality tale.
This is an emotionally centered yet hopeful show that clearly sends the message that spiritual change is available to those who sincerely seek it. The lesson is that if a nasty guy like Scrooge can be redeemed then there is hope for all of us. The spirit of Christmas fosters the good will we all potentially possess. The show has a warm heart and is family-friendly that dramatically delivers the important message of Christmas. Provision Theater Company’s A Christmas Carol has fine family values in a tightly produced show that will melt the coldest heart. The spirit of Christmas lives on.”
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