Just before Christmas I watched many movies with Christmas
themes with my wife.
One of which was my favorite version of A Christmas Carol from 1951 with Alistair Sim.
It has been several years since I had watched the whole
movie and even though it was the "colorized" version I still enjoyed.
Because of the movie I thought back to the several stage
versions of the played that I have worked on.
Three years ago I wrote in my Blog about the first the production
of A Christmas Carol that I worked on
back in December of 1980.
I have also worked on three productions of it since I came
to Brockport and will write more about them as I continue my Blog through the
years.
In additions to the three traditional productions we also
did a spoof version of A Christmas Carol.
Our department had planned to do the show every other year, any
even though the show tends to make a lot of money it put too much of a strain
on the technical staff.
The play calls for many costumes and sets.
Our original plan called for reusing the same set each year the
same way that our local professional theatre does, but with different directors
and new script each time it did not work out.
To really do the play right, special effects such as fog,
snow and other visual effects are needed.
It got to be too much for us to do and we stopped producing A Christmas Carol.
I will write about these productions as they are coming up
soon when I get back to my chronological review of my career.
Have a Happy New Year.
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