A Christmas Carol

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hambur it it hurs still he I won't believe [Music] [Applause] [Music] it of is [Applause] oh my [Music] [Applause] [Music] of comfort and joy comfort and joy [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh o [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well it was a cheap enough funeral I'll allow Mr Scrooge and rightly so what uses finery to Jacob Marley now but he was your partner and friend was Sir was and I I expect you'll be wanting payment too oh thank you sir [Music] sir it's not too much is it I have [Music] change ah yes ebener Scrooge drove a hard bargain at his only friend's funeral but hard Bargains is his stock in trade and he has become cold older and harder still over the seven years that have passed between the funeral and this Christmas Eve is it big enough for a family of nine this turkey man would feed good key torch his entire coat hambur afternoon sir [Music] bye out of my way [Music] oh us with you all of you oh out the [Music] way hello sir I employ you to work cratchet not to sit there chattering get on with it [Music] a Merry Christmas Uncle [Music] huh B hug Christmas a hug Uncle you don't mean that I'm sure I do Merry Christmas what right have you to be merry you're poor enough come then what right have you to be dismal what reason have you to be morose you're rich enough I have always thought of Christmas time each year when Christmas comes around as a kind forgiving Pleasant time when love and charity abound when men and women freely say God bless you all on this Christmas [Music] day and it costs them plenty for no return When will the idiots ever learn that it's just another day in the year and not an excuse for confounded good cheer well you not profit from Christmas one bits you'll make no money and this I admit But If You observe it and I think you should for your soul say christas will do you good here here let me hear another here here from you cret and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation don't be angry Uncle come dine with us tomorrow bad never and especially at Christmas but why why good afternoon I am sorry with all my heart to find you so Resolute we've never had any quarrel to which I've been a party but I have asked you in the spirit of Christmas and I'll keep my Christmas humor to the last so a Merry Christmas uncle and a happy New Year good good afternoon and a Merry Christmas to you sir and to you sir there's another fellow cratchet with 15 Shillings a week and a wife and family talking about a Merry Christmas I'll retire [Music] to Scrooge and mares I believe have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge or Mr Marley Mr Marley has been dead these seven years years he died seven years ago this very night we have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner at this festive season of the year Mr Scrooge it is more than usually desirable that we make some slight provision for the poor and the destitute who suffer greatly at the present time are they know prisons plenty of prisons and the Union workhouses are they still in operation they are still I wish I could say they were not the treadmill and the poor law are in full Vigor then both very busy sir oh I was afraid from what you said at first that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course I'm very glad to hear it we choose this time because it is the time of all others when want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices is what shall I put you down for nothing you wish to be anonymous I wish to be left alone since you ask me what I wish gentlemen that is my answer I don't make Merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make people marry I help to support the establishments I have made ition they cost enough and those who are badly off must go there many can't go there and many would rather die if they would rather die they'd better do it and decrease the earthless population besides I don't know that but you might know it it's not my business it's enough for a man to understand his own business and not interfere with other people's mine occupies me constantly good afternoon [Music] gentlemen I but there's one man to whom Christmas tide brings no joy they say he's so tight fisted he can't get his gloves off at night [Music] you want all day tomorrow I suppose if quite convenient sir it's not convenient and it's not fair if I was to stop half a crown for it you'd think yourself ill used I'll be bound and yet you don't think me ill used when I pay a day's wages for no work Christmas is but once a year sir a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December but I I suppose you must have the whole day be here all the earlier the next morning yes [Music] sir [Music] sallyo Merry Christmas B and to you Peter it looks better on you than on me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hbag it it hamburgs still I won't believe it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I who are are you in life I was your partner Jacob Marley [Music] Mery Dreadful Apparition why do you travel me man of worldly mind do you believe in me or not I do I must but why do you spirits walk the earth it is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow man and if that Spirit does not go forth in life it is condemned to do so after death it is doomed to wander through the world oh it's me and witness what it cannot share but might have shared on Earth and turn to happiness you are feted tell me why I wear the chain I forged in life I'm made it on Earth link by link and yard by yard now I must wear it as proof of my foolishness do you feel the weight of the chain you yourself bear it was as heavy and long as this seven Christmas EES ago you have added to it since it is a pous chain [Applause] oh if only you could realize that Christmas spirit is an opportunity to make the chain lighter I didn't and look [Music] I but you were a good man of business Jacob business mankind was my business the common welfare was my business charity Mercy forbearance and benevolence were all my business my time is nearly gone I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate a chance and hope of my procuring [Music] eler you were always a good friend to me thanky you will be haunted by three Spirits is that the chance and hope you mention Jacob it is is then um I think I'd rather not without their visits you cannot hope to shun the path I led expect the first one tomorrow when the bell TOS one couldn't I take them all at once and have it over Jacob expect the second at the stroke of two oh and the third at the 3 of the clock now look to see me no more and look that for your own sake you remember what has passed between us [Music] b h back [Applause] [Music] 1:00 and no ghosts I must have dreamed up [Music] Marley are you are you the spirit sir who whose coming was for told to me I am who and what are you I am the Ghost of Christmas Past rise and walk with me but sir is hardly the hour all the all the weather for pedestrian purposes it is below freezing and I am but lightly clad I'm mortal don't forget and and likely to fall bear but a Touch of my hand there and you should be upheld in more than [Music] this you recollect this place remember it I walked these streets as a boy [Music] these are but Shadows of things that have been though we are actually here no one can see us or hear us you know this place know it was I not apprenti here ah such loneliness that's what made me what I am today lonely no successful comfortably off because I chose to spend my time at more useful Pursuits than pleasure and enjoyment well bless my soul it's all is we alive again you there I believe that Wilkins well bless my soul y my boys no more work tonight Christmas Eve dick Christmas 7 let's have the shatters up and get ready to make m h ho clear the wads and let's have lots of room here H dick get up paper the rightous sir even sir oh the Fiddler I hope you're going to make a St this night and that I am sir come in come in my friends a Merry Christmas Mr fewi hello Mr fewi oh Tony don't it look exciting [Music] [Music] ho ho [Music] oh well done come on everyone now help yourself well dick Mr pewi has done as proud this evening bet he has happa he's a kind generous gentleman to be sure they seem happy enough on Christmas Eve ah it takes little to make these silly fools so full of gratitude you yourself were one of those folks I was young but I've grown older and wiser now have you though I have no use for making people happy that's hotb my time grew short I have one more thing to show you quick it doesn't matter to you it doesn't seem to matter at all I love you ebena but you love something more than me I take only second place in your life what do I love more than you a golden idol which you seemingly worship money well B if she'd had more sense and stayed with me she'd be well off now you have a cold heart deaner Scrooge and a cold Body Spirit haunt me no more take me back [Music] have you learned anything this night only that as a youth I was an irresponsible fool you've made me regret it however and I'm grateful ghosts I have been dreaming there's nothing here especially [Music] G come in come in and know me B man I am the Ghost of Christmas present look upon me well Spirit take me where you will I will already been forth this night or last night and I'm anxious to end this ordeal touch [Music] [Applause] Meo this is where my Clark lives F called Bob cratchet four rooms and 15 Shillings the week that's why I'm here to bless this lonely place of course because what seems lowly to you and lowely to me are obviously different things oh mother we were just outside the bikers and we smelled a goose cooking and we knew it was ours because it smelted so delicious that is good dear Peter out of there and wait but mother it smells so fine whatever got your precious father then and your brother Tarney [Music] Tim did you enjoy going to the church this morning Tiny Tim oh yes Father you sang well in the church lad and it has made me hungry so do worry [Music] father tell me Spirit why is it that this wretched snap won't produce a sneeze to clear my head you're too mean to give away a good sneeze hiona Scrooge ah your values are confused take that Sovereign you constantly R between your fingers this is the first Sovereign I ever made well soon it will be worn completely away and you'll have lost it then what use is it to you unless it is used for good and not hoarded and admired well I oh hi's Father and Tiny Tim quick hide MAA [Applause] [Music] hide why where there our Martha not coming not coming not coming on Christmas day [Music] oh Merry Christmas Father my darling girl and how did Tiny Tim behave this morning as good as gold he'll see many a Christmas yet I'm sure sh Bob right now Tiny Tim you sit there and get warm Peter take the little one to the Bakers and collect the goose and no tasting it yet mind bye father well tidy jtim this will be the finest Christmas dinner we've ever had I know it will be father [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] tell me Spirit how is it that cratchet a usually rational dull fellow or so I've always observed as his employer at my Counting house become so irrational this night he is with his family and they make him happy they make him poor that's for certain yet that poverty seems to weigh light enough on him it is Christmas but they have nothing to celebrate Christmas with sa a sad inadequate dinner it is the spirit of the evening that makes small things seem great and inadequate things Bountiful I don't understand you that is why you're here to understand to understand what Spirit of course and the meaning it gives to things but I have found no need for Spirit to give things meaning now take money you do that often enough and I don't want to hear about it harah it must be the greatest goose in the world yes it is I'm the tenderest will you pass the applesauce Belinda if you pass me more [Music] stuffing it's delicious everything is delicious well bless my soul that is Our intention eona Scrooge and I think we might be achieving it slowly well a Merry Christmas to you all my dear may God bless us God bless us everyone God bless us everyone I'll give you Mr Scrooge the founder of the feast the founder of the feast indeed I wish I had him here now I'd give him a piece of my mind to Feast upon and I'd hope he'd have a good appetite for it my dear the children Christmas Day it should be Christmas Day I'm sure and which one drinks the health of such an odious stingy hard on feeling man as Mr Scrooge you know he is Robert nobody knows it better than you do poor fellow my dear Christmas Day I'm sure Mr Scrooge is a good man under his hard front after all he is a businessman and his business seems to be making people unhappy still I'll drink to his health for your sake and the days not his long life to him a merry Christmas and a happy New Year he'll be very merry and happy I've no doubt and are you very merry and happy after that I have cause to be but I'm not why is that so young child Tiny Tim tell me if Tiny Tim will live I see a vacant seat in the poor Chimney Corner and a crutch without an owner carefully preserved if these Shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die is there no chance he'll live if these Shadows remain unaltered by the future none other of my race will find him here what then if he be likely to die You' better do it and decrease the Surplus population you use my own words against me you use the words only you can undo them there's nothing I can do there is but you'll have to find out the hard way the hard way my time is n come [Applause] [Music] what did you mean when you said I'd have to learn the hard way you don't seem to respond to kindness and generosity so there are other ways but what will I respond to and from whom those questions will be answered by the next vit I pity you in his unmerciful hands heon a scro no no don't leave me kindly light don't leave me oh no no please no [Music] no no [Music] mercy tell me Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come you you were about to show me Shadows of things that will happen in the future is that so [Music] ghost of the future I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen before will you not speak to me then lead on lead on [Music] Spirit no I I don't know much about it all I know is is dead well when did he die last night I believe why what was the matter with him I thought he'd never die who knows maybe you try to eat some of his money now why should he do that to get closer to it is there no reverence for the dead in this time of yours Grim Spirit can they be so despised is death so meaningless there ain't nothing wrong with robing this dead he was a wicked old screw it's the truest word that was ever spoken it's a judgment on him and it would have been an heavier judgment if I could have laid me hands on anything else now old Joe open the bundle I always give too much to the ladies it's a week some on now we to ask for another Penny I'll repent of me foolishness and I'll knock off half crown now open my bundle Joe what do you call this bed curtains bed curtains you don't mean you took him down with him lying there yes I did why not you was born to make your fortune and that's a fact you won't find an owl in that shirt or a threadbear place it's the best he had and a fine and too they'd have wasted it all if it weren't for me what do you mean they would have wasted it putting it on him to be buried in someone was fully luck to do it but I took it off again well it's Justice for you both he made hardship for our CRI when he was alive and now we profit from his death ghost I see I see the lot of this unhappy dead man might be my own my life is like his even now [Music] sh all Heaven what is this I can't look spirit I can't but is there no one in this city who feels some emotion for this dead man if there is show me that person I beseech [Music] [Applause] you you must be near home by now time but you walked slower now mother I've known him to walk with to walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder very fast indeed and so have I Tim was very light to carry your father loved him sir it was no trouble to him and there is your father at the door don't grieve father don't mind it no I I'll try oh you've nearly finished your work there you'll be done before Sunday certainly Sunday then you went there today Bob I it's a beautiful place so green but you'll see it often I promised Tim that I'd walk there on a Sunday try not to think so much about it father no now and whenever we all part from one another I am sure that we must not and will not forget poor Tiny Tim shall we or this first parting that was amongst us you promise me yes father Yes dear spirit I hate your domain everywhere is death and misery return me to my own time but before you do tell me what man man that was whom we saw lying [Music] dead before I draw near to the stone answer me this are the Shadows we have seen of things that will be or might be [Applause] am I the man who lay upon the bed who was robbed and scorned oh no no Spirit no Spirit hear me I am not the man I was I will not be the man I have been you and your companion Spirits have shown me my errors I shall change I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year I will not shut out the lessons you have taught and I shall sponge the writing from this Stone oh tell me that I [Music] may they are not torn down they are here I am here here I don't know what to do I'm as light as a feather I am as happy as an angel I am as giddy as a drunken man and as merry as a school boy a Merry Christmas to everyone a Happy New Year to the whole world hello there woohoo you ah [Applause] got hey hey what day is this he today my fine fellow what is it what Christmas day it's Christmas Day I haven't missed it the spirits have done it all in one night oops hello lad do you know the pteras in the next street but one what yes sir an intelligent boy a remarkable boy do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there what the one near as big as me no sir they ain't what a delightful boy now listen lad cut down there and buy it and bring it here thought you are I need some money money there's your money lead but how do you know I won't run off with it because I trust you boy and because it's Christmas hurry now thank you spirits of Christmas [Music] it isn't off heav sir good good you're a fine lad thank you sir I need you change H what change oh no you keep that cool thank you sir on the contrary thank you lad a Merry Christmas to you now [Music] Mr scroot Sir is everything all right I mean am am I a Merry Christmas Bob may I come in uh oh oh yes yes are you feeling well sir better than you'll ever know Bob my boy why it's Mr Scrooge isn't it indeed it is Mrs crit and at my most ill-mannered but I've come to invite myself to dinner well whatever we have is yours and what I have is yours a merry Christmas to all of you what's got into him I wonder the Christmas spirit I'd say look at the turkey for the look of him was more than just one [Music] [Music] [Applause] Spirit bless you ah yes I truly have been we wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas our dear [Music] PR for [Music] you and love and brother each other now and PR his holy time of Christmas all of for Tidings of and joy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Andy the the God all Heaven his The Wonder of his way Merry Christmas to [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]