![]() "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - The Company "Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming/Begone, Dull Care" - Orchestra Scene 2-The Street Outside Scrooge's Chambers Scene 1-Scrooge's Bedchamber Later, The Street Scene 1-Scrooge's Bedchamber Later, A Tavern STAVE FOUR: THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" - Fred, Meg and Guests "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - The Cratchits "The Gloucestershire Wassail" - The Ghost of Christmas Present and Company "Boar’s Head Carol" - The Ghost of Christmas Present and Company STAVE THREE: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS "Here We Come A-Wassailing" - The Fezziwigs and ensemble. "Ding, Dong, Merrily On High" - Villagers "A Dream Within a Dream" - The Ghost of Christmas Past ![]() STAVE TWO: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS Scene 2-The Street Later, Scrooge's Chambers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" - Street Boys, Fred "The Coventry Shepherd's Carol" - Orchestra Scene 1-A London street later, Scrooge's Counting House STAVE ONE: MARLEY'S GHOST-Christmas Eve, 1843. "The Welcome Wassail" – Narrator, Company and Orchestra In his Stave IV nightmare, Scrooge sees the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come personified as his younger self at the pivotal point in his life, when he rejected his only love, Belle. Gentleman 1, a philanthropist collecting money for the poor, will become the Spirit of Christmas Present, symbol of generosity and abundance in Stave III. Cratchit, symbol of memory, home, motherhood and love, will become the Spirit of Christmas Past in Stave II. In the first street scene, which takes place in London on December 24, 1843, we meet all of the dream characters as their mortal counterparts. Scrooge's magnificent transformation comes about as a result of three spirits who visit him in his dream. Three are quite large, and figure prominently at the beginning and end of each stave. Fantastic images of clocks are everywhere. As the story unfolds and the Narrator takes us back in time, settings include a London street, Scrooge's chambers and counting house, and locations which appear in Scrooge's dream. The initial setting is London in the early 1860s, roughly 20 years after Dickens wrote his story.
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