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Auditions for







Adapted by Michele L. Vacca, presented by the Gingerbread Players.


Show dates: December 4 - 7, 2008
Audition dates: September 21 & 22, 2008.


A new version of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly old man,
who receives a Christmas Eve visit from the ghost of his partner, Jacob
Marley, warning him to mend his selfish ways. During the night three
spirits appear before Scrooge, showing him visions of Christmas Past,
Christmas Present, and Christmas Future, finally revealing the possible
results of his unloving, uncaring life. He promises to change; he's not the
man he was. Upon awakening Christmas morning he joyfully flings open
his window, and cries out: "Oh, Jacob Marley and Christmas time be
praised! I'm still here! I don't know what to do! I'm as light as a feather,
I'm as happy as an angel, I'm as merry as a school boy!  A Merry
Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world!" He then
proceeds to amaze one and all with his newly found Christmas spirit.  
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Roles and Notes

EBENEZER SCROOGE

BOB CRATCHIT

MRS. CRATCHIT

TINY TIM

MARTHA CRATCHIT, 19 or 20 years old

PETER CRATCHIT, 15 or 16 years old

ANNIE CRATCHIT, 10 years old

GHOST OF JACOB MARLEY

YOUNG JACOB MARLEY

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE

FRED, Scrooge’s nephew

ELIZABETH, Fred’s wife

CHARITY COLLECTOR, a lady

CHARITY COLLECTOR, a gentleman

FEZZIWIG, Young Scrooge’s employer

MISTRESS FEZZIWIG, his wife

YOUNG BOY SCROOGE

YOUNG MAN SCROOGE

MRS. DILBUR, a Cockney laundress

LUCY McDOUGAL, a Cockney charwoman

WILLIE HAGGARTY, a Cockney

CHRISTOPHER SLY, a Cockney shopkeeper

FAN, Scrooge’s young sister

DAVID, a young husband

CAROLINE, his wife

BELLE, Young Scrooge’s sweetheart

CATHERINE, Belle’s friend

A BOY

All 30 roles in this play are based upon characters found in the Dickens short novel.  Some roles have been
expanded, such as those of Mr. Sly and Mrs. Dilbur, as well as those of Caroline and David.  The number of
Cratchit children has been reduced to 4.  Dialogue has been somewhat Americanized, eliminating or
simplifying terms and expressions foreign to modern Americans.