"A Christmas Carol"

Presented by Stormy Weather Players

December 14, 15 and 16

Cornwall Central High School

Cornwall, New York

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Scrooge (Brian Fiorio) struggles to make sense of the things that are appearing before his eyes. Was Marley really there with him in his bedroom, or was it a ghost?

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Jacob Marley (Tom Cardinal), the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge who died on Christmas Eve seven years before, appears to Scrooge to tell him that he will be visited by three ghosts.

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The Ghost of Christmas Past (Melissa Cardinal) shows Ebenezer his sister Fan, who died in childbirth, and shows him the girl he once loved.

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The Ghost of Christmas Present (Michael Schwartz).

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The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the grieving Cratchit family after the death of Tiny Tim, and throws back at Scrooge his remarks about decreasing the “surplus population.”

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Scrooge’s nephew Fred (Christian Trella) makes fun of his Uncle Scrooge in a parlor game on Christmas Eve, in a scene shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Present.

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Mrs. Cratchit (Anne Powers) sets the Christmas pudding on the table.

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Bob Cratchit (Kevin McDonnell) and his family gather around the table as Scrooge watches. Tiny Tim (Sam Gleason -- at far left) is growing weaker.

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"I am not the man I was," Scrooge says to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Richard B. DeKay). This spirit, a phantom with no face and no voice, frightens Scrooge more than all the others.

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Scrooge watches as men on the street joke after his death in a vision shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

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Scrooge puts a guinea in the hand of his maid Mrs. Dilber (Wynn Klosky). “It’s for a present. A Christmas present,” he says. “For me? Shall I go and get the doctor sir?” she stutters.

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And then he proposes to raise her salary.

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 Elizabeth Klosky, Emma Zyla, Kylie Powers and Brendan Zyla sing carols in one of the last scenes of the night.

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Mary Cratchit (Megan Smith), Mrs. Cratchit (Anne Powers) and Ensemble singer (Elizabeth Klosky) sing “The Holly and the Ivy.”

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Chorus members join in at the end, filling the theatre with their carols.

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Ebenezer Scrooge (Brian Fiorio) with Martha Cratchit (Brittany Ransbottom, left), Tiny Tim (Sam Gleason), Boy in the Street (Jonathan Vargo), and chorus member (Deborah Flynn) in the opening night curtain call for “A Christmas Carol.”