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A Little Book for the Christmas Trade

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By Dan Sullivan He wrote it for the money. Not just for the money, of course: Charles Dickens was no Grub Street hack. Still, his family was growing, he was behind on his bills and his latest novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, wasn’t selling as expected. “A little book for the Christmas trade” might be just the […]

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A stage scene depicts a Victorian setting with Scrooge kneeling in front of a girl in period costume. The cast of A Christmas Carol watches on.

By the numbers: A Christmas Carol over 32 years at the DCPA

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Did you know: In 22 productions of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ the DCPA Theatre Copany has employed seven Scrooges, 17 Tiny Tims, 45 actors as ghosts…

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