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Scrooge - the Musical

The Lowry, Salford
From: Monday, 12th December 2011
To: Saturday, 7 January 2012

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Synopsis

Ebenezer Scrooge repents his past life when visited by three successive Christmas spirits. Baa Humbug!!

Our Review:

14 December 2011

Tommy Steele loves playing Scrooge so much he’s on his sixth tour with the Bill Kenwright musical. Audiences love watching him transform from mean to magnanimous in this great musical with live orchestra.

On the night I attended the packed audience in the Lyric Theatre give such a long ovation he has to tell them to go home.

This is not bad for a 74 year old. Yet his age doesn’t affect his energy levels especially vocally.

Charles Dickens story, first published in 1843, is as popular as ever and gives the Special Effects Department a field day, especially when the three ghosts appear to teach Scrooge the errors of his anti-Christmas ways. Paul Kieve is the clever illu...

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