See it if You want to be blown away by great acting and incredible stagecraft.
Don't see it if You’re easily upset by loud noises and don’t care about Christmas shows.
See it if You want to see a gorgeously acted technical miracle that shakes all the dust off this old story.
Don't see it if You don't want a creatively reimagined staging of a classic.
See it if you want to be absolutely spellbound by masterful theatrical stagecraft & magic, and want to witness unparalleled acting & direction.
Don't see it if you can’t sit through a 90-minute one-man retelling of a classic holiday ghost story.
See it if Jefferson Mays is exquisite at all Dickens' characters here. The phenomenal set, surprising, projections and sound make this a must see.
Don't see it if The only thing I didn't like was the constant up and down of the audience.
See it if you want to see a tour de force by one of the best actors on Broadway. This production has to be seen, as words cannot describe it.
Don't see it if A one-man show with no intermission is not your cup of tea; there are lots of dark moments and a few parts that made me jump so not for kids
See it if you love the story and enjoy masterful, mesmerizing, absorbing acting. Fabulous production!!!
Don't see it if you don't enjoy one-person shows.
See it if "A Christmas Carol" is a Yuletide tradition in your house...and the more spectacular it is--even as a solo piece--the better.
Don't see it if one-man shows--even remarkably inventive ones--and Charles Dickens' very special brand of holiday schmaltz turn you off. Read more
See it if You want to see a fantastic actor in an amazing production. A one man rendering of the timeless Dickens classic
Don't see it if You don’t like one man shows
"This 'Carol,' is a lonelier affair. The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail."
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"This splendid production is a Christmas miracle: The most theatrically fulfilling account of 'A Christmas Carol' that I have ever seen."
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"Another holiday season, another take on 'A Christmas Carol.' Like other theatrical versions of the classic, this one ends with the same words credited to Tiny Tim...a production this taut and well-told is its own sort of blessing."
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"This is a grimmer take on Dickens’s story, full of fog and shadows."
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"The staging is almost absurdly—and perhaps unnecessarily—lavish, although children and adults now accustomed to television series and movies that pour on the atmospherics with a ladle must, I suppose, be catered to."
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"The true miracle of this production is that it, or rather, he (as in Mays) has us believing we’re encountering an entirely new work, with all the familiar beats and words and Dickensian lessons but layered with an honesty that makes the parts we’ve always told were scary genuinely scary."
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"A cautionary tale for families with young kids: Christmas Eve nightmares may be caused...Nothing wrong with a good shudder at the holidays. Gets you in practice for the new year."
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"For all its dizzying charms, the overstuffed show doesn’t quite deliver on what really counts — the three Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future."
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