From the Street Theatre Company
Don’t Be a Scrooge, See A VHS Christmas Carol
The Street Theater Company have produced arguably one of the best shows of the holiday season. Originally written and performed by the theater company Team StarKid, A VHS Christmas Carol takes the classic story from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and infuses it with music, humor, and 80’s nostalgia. Due to the ubiquity of the source material, A VHS Christmas Carol leaves out much of the exposition one might come to expect from the traditional telling, focusing more on audio and visual excitement than leading the viewer through a myriad of minor plot details. The play opens with neon lights, synthesizer, and an array of CRT TV screens. The narrator introduces us to our main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, followed soon thereafter by his nephew Fred and his employee Bob Cratchit. We then are rewarded with our first full cast number, “Bah Humbug.” It is here where Ebenezer’s miserable and miserly nature is established. We see him refusing to donate to the poor, rejecting Fred’s invite to a Christmas party, and granting Bob only a single day off of work for Christmas. From there, the play jumps straight to his first spectral visit by his former business partner Jacob Marley. Marley,Read More
