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The holiday spirit – at least the kind measured at the box office – seemed to arrive on Broadway last week, for some shows anyway. Obvious case in point: A Christmas Carol, starring Jefferson Mays in his tour de force as every last ghost, miser and Cratchit in the story, was up a bountiful 34% in…

There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flights over ye olde town and all the witnessing of things past, present and future. And there’s the miracle of one man…

A busy week on Broadway saw three official openings (including the Take Me Out return) and three additions to the line-up of previewing productions, with grosses for the 34-show roster jumping by 8% (to $32,314,920) over the previous week. Attendance for the week ending Nov. 13 was up 11% to…

Jefferson Mays' one-man A Christmas Carol is coming to Broadway this holiday season, with a 66-performance engagement previewing at the Nederlander Theatre on Tuesday, November 8 with an official opening night set for Monday, November 21. The production runs through Sunday, January 1, 2023. "After everything we've…

Olivia Colman, Luke Evans and Jessie Buckley are to lead Netflix’s animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from Stephen Donnelly (Lost in Oz). Evans will play Scrooge in Scrooge: A Christmas Carol while The Lost Daughter stars Colman and Buckley are the Ghost of Christmas Past and Isabel Fezziwig…

PREVIOUSLY on Dec. 21: Bradley Whitford is among those among the A Christmas Carol cast and company who recently contracted Covid. “I tested positive for COVID,” wrote Whitford on Twitter today. “But I'll be fine because I am fully vaccinated. If you want to take care of yourself, the people you love, and the lovely…

EXCLUSIVE: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree. This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s…

Here’s the featurette for a hybrid re-telling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, featuring a voice cast of Simon Russell Beale, Siân Phillips, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman and Leslie Caron. The film opens on a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of A …

FX is keen to stay in business with Steven Knight with the network hopeful for more Charles Dickens' adaptations and a second season of Taboo. The cable network talked up its relationship with the Peaky Blinders creator and British public broadcaster the BBC, which co-produces both shows. This comes after A Christmas C…

The BBC’s streaming service iPlayer enjoyed its best-ever Christmas period after it was boosted by shows including Dracula, Gavin & Stacey and A Christmas Carol. The online video player, where BBC shows are available to view for 12 months after they have been broadcast on television, racked up a total of 203M requests…

The BBC and FX’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol scared off nearly a third of its audience in the UK — but it still just about beat the competition on other channels. The second episode of Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker’s reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale was watched by 3.34M viewers on BBC One on…

Broadway’s West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, the 34 Broadway productions climbed 5% to a $40,645,773 box office total. The figure pushes Broadway’s season-to-date total past…