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Dickens original motivation for
writing the story was financial. His last book didn't sell well and he
needed to generate some income quickly. He hit upon an idea and began
formulating the story in his mind as he walked the poor streets of London at
night. He wrote to a friend that, as he was writing the story, he laughed
and cried. Dickens loved the book so much that he invested his own money
into the publication and included a lavish cover and color illustrations.
Despite it's tremendous popularity it lost money in it first printing.
Our version has always tried to
remain faithful to Dickens original work and the love he had for it. This
year more than ever that will be so. We have gone back to the book, and
using Story Theater to tell the tale, we will have a more faithful
production than ever before and using this style of theatre we will be able
to bring the voice of Dickens himself, through his words. like never before.
Every year we change production aspects from the previous year but, this
year we hope to bring you a more faithful telling of this classic story than
you have ever seen before. Make this, the longest running production of "A
Christmas Carol" in Nashville, a holiday tradition for your family, and God
bless us everyone.
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When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend,
Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his
sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can
tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her
daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems
arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge
of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's
hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta
instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood
and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for
his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion
has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end
does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.
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