‘Herod characters’ began to appear in Christmas and New Year rituals, in reference to the story of Herod the Great massacring the innocents. The words of old carols reflect folk apocrypha and contain ...

ALLEYWAY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL has Roger VanDette as Christmas Present ... “Marley was dead: to begin with… old Marley was as dead as a doornail…” and we’re off!

Others prefer to blast Rocking Around The Christmas Tree while putting up their decorations. These songs are bound up in old and new memories and traditions. Even if carols aren't your thing ...

They are interspersed with carols old and new, sung by the world famous Chapel Choir who also lead the congregation in traditional Christmas hymns.

A joyful, bravura piece of stagecraft, laced with carols and lit with lanterns ... Taking the role of Scrooge at the Old Vic is now a badge of honour for character actors, and a year after ...

Christmas carols have been sung in towns and ... "They composed hundreds of new carols and made some of the old carols more modern, so that today we can understand better what they mean." ...

The melody was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the early 20th century, and Vaughan Williams included “Sussex Carol” in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols from 1912, even before it was ...

In one haunted evening, embittered old miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who has soured on the world and his fellowman, learns the true spirit of Christmas from three ghostly visitors. After moving visions ...

Embittered old miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas from his former business partner and three ghostly spirits who must convince him to change his ways and become more ...

The return of "A Christmas Carol" and the entire 62nd season of performances ... the curmudgeon Scrooge finds himself face to face with the ghost of his old friend Marley. Through a supernatural ...

Both charitable efforts are at least decades old. Christmas Carol is the oldest, in its 48th year this holiday season, and WALY Warmth celebrates its landmark year in 2019, reaching its 30th ...

Wearing a sparkling red dress, the Princess of Wales appeared in a promo for the upcoming second annual Christmas carol special, Royal Carols: Together at Christmas Glenn Garner is a form writer ...