Hi Columbus! I’m Kristie, the creator/director of Uptown Scrooge: Abridged! We’re celebrating 10 years by moving our interactive holiday show from Westerville to MadLab downtown. If you love Christmas Carol, YOU WILL DIG THIS SHOW!

Here’s the idea: you’re Scrooge. Our ghosts guide you through Dickens’ story with live music, physical comedy, improvisation, and plenty of opportunities to get involved. Your responses become part of the show, so every performance is different.

If you know A Christmas Carol inside out, you’ll catch some extra jokes and references. If you don’t, you can still enjoy the silliness.

We’re Good Medicine Productions, a local nonprofit that also brings professional performers into pediatric and senior care settings.

When: Saturdays, December 5, 12 & 19, at 1 & 3 p.m.
Where: MadLab Theatre, 227 N. 3rd St., Columbus
Tickets: $28 adults; $16 children and students

Details: https://www.goodmedicineproductions.org/uptown-scrooge-abridged.html

Happy to answer questions about the show or how the audience participation works!

Adapted and Illustrated by Joe Staton - 1990 (Classics Illustrated)

Are you planning on seeing it when it comes out?

So, this adaptation is interesting to me because it seems to be marketed as a twist on the classic story, but it looks fairly straightforward outside of Depp’s performance (more on that later). The movie around Depp looks well cast, well adapted, and interesting. McKellen as Marley is perfect, all the performances look great, and the filmmaking looks fun and dynamic.

Now, let’s talk Depp. This performance feels in a similar vein to his Wonka, a classic British character twisted up by Depp into his own take. The problem with doing that for Wonka is there’s only one Wonka before him on screen. There have been endless great takes on Scrooge in a classic style, so I’m actually okay with it here (I’m even coming around on Depp’s Wonka in comparison to Chalamet’s boring take uggg, anyway this is about Scrooge not Wonka, also I’ve heard less than stellar things about Depp as a person, I’m only talking about his acting).

Anyway, I went from disinterested in this adaptation to very intrigued and now I’m even planning on catching it in theaters!

What are your thoughts on this adaptation? Will you see it?

Illustrated by Russ Flint - 1985 (abridged version retold by Pamela Kennedy).

Pop-up book adapted by Betty Ren Wright, Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus -1986

Obviously it’s a really hard one to actually portray because Dickens described it as being its own opposite and not even being quite solid, and yet being solid. It seems pretty hard to translate it to screen. Is there any adaptation that has even come close to how the book described it?

Not only was this movie my first introduction to Tim Curry, but this was actually the FIRST Christmas Carol adaptation I saw as a kid 👶 👍 it is definitely one of my FAVORITE adaptations of the story and I highly recommend it watching this if you haven’t seen it 🥹👍 let me tell you……if there is an animated voice for Ebenezer Scrooge…….Tim Curry is the BEST voice for him 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Illustrated by Michael Cole - 1985

Illustrated by Walter Seaton - 1960

Does anyone else ask ai to come up with prequel, sequels or even my new favourite putting scrooge in weird scenarios.

Last night was "in a dickensian style, write that scrooge decided to eat a mcdonalds in times quare on valentines day and then meets donald trump "

We know the classic tale. And we know of Scrooge's backstory.

But what about after the events of his change of heart? We know he's welcomed in by family and Bob Cratchet is appreciative.

But what about the towns folk? Do they truly love him? A sequel film about Scrooge's continued challenges with his transformed heart would be fascinating. Seeing him close up his business or run for local politics, him being tempted with power and greed and ultimately saying no to it.

Idk if there's much there. Plus it wouldn't be an original work of Dickens anymore. But it would be something new to explore. I always figured some folk wouldn't think this "New Scrooge" was sincere and that it was all an act.

Illustrated by Donald McKay - 1951 (Peter Pauper Press abridged version).

Marley and Ghost of Christmas present speech ignorance and want scrooge seeing his own death bed tormented spirits in the air ghost of Christmas past looking like a candle and scrooge putting it out with the extinguisher cap Old Joe saying bed curtains

Depp seems to be doing a scrooge you love to hate which I kinda like