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How Can A Wealthy Greedy Man Who Loathes Christmas Ever Change His Ways?
Aimee Richards Performance Review Paper # 2 Theater Appreciation

A Christmas Carol

Can a wealthy greedy man who loathes Christmas ever change his ways? This question is answered in the ever popular play by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol follows Mr. Ebezenar Scrooge on a journey over the course of a few days. Mr. Scrooge is a very greedy and angry gentleman who absolutely despises Christmas. He makes his employee Mr. Cratchit work late on Christmas Eve and even wants him to work on Christmas as Mr. Scrooge does not feel that they should take the day off. Mr. Scrooge is rude to everyone that passes him by or even offers him a Merry Christmas and is best known for the phrase bah humbug. As it turns out Mr. Scrooge was not always this way he used to be a friendly and happy young lad. The play follows Mr. Scrooge over the course of a Christmas Eve night. He is visited …show more content…
Upon taking our seats we realized just how good they were not to close but not too far away. We took our seats about 7:15 in the FAQ’s on the Alliance theaters website it says to be there 15 minutes before show time it specifically states that if you are late they will seat you in special seating for late comers then you will be moved after intermission to your specific seats. Well the show was supposed to start at 7:30 and at 7:40 they were still seating people which I thought should not have happened that way. The show started at approximately 7:50 which was about 20 minutes late. Most people didn’t seem to mind except for the people like me who brought kids with them you could tell they were a little aggravated as the kids were sitting there for about half an hour doing
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