The Christmas Carol Analysis

This past Sunday I attended the school play, which was a comedy based along the storylines of The Christmas Carol. I noticed many people from the community brought their children along for the comedy. For someone who doesn’t really care for plays, or Christmas it was somewhat interesting to go into the play having doubts beforehand and coming out of it with a different view. The exposition started off the same as The Christmas Carrol. Scrooge was being his typical self, hating everything about Christmas, while everyone else was enjoying and being thankful for the holidays. It all started to change when the ghost came to tell Scrooge he was the one to save Christmas. To change up the story a little, instead of having a ghost take Scrooge around, Frosty the Snowman was the one to guide Scrooge through his adventure of saving Christmas. The narrator was on the side giving side notes, to what was going on. Throughout the play Scrooge and Frosty meet all of the Christmas characters, like Rudolf, who joins along for their adventure. They also meet the little Drummer Boy, and the Candy Cane King. The play is all about how Scrooge has the box to save Christmas and must keep it safe, and away from the evil X-Mas who is going around and destroying all Christmas villages, and such things. In the end, Scrooge saves Christmas, and all of the other Christmas characters, and villages after they found out the evil X-Mas who was destroying Christmas was in fact the narrator of the story. Scrooge ended up saving Christmas by taking the book the narrator had written the story in and changing the story to where, the evil X-Mas lived a good life, and everyone cared about him as well, and not just the other characters. As I had said earlier, I am not one who particularly like plays. When I was younger my grandma would have me go with her to plays, which I thought were all weird and boring, so since then I have avoided them. Going into this play my thoughts were “Great another Christmas play”, also I thought how many times can I watch or hear The Christmas Carol. I really enjoyed that they changed the story line up. As I was waiting for what happens next, and when I thought I knew what was going to happen, they changed it. For example, one of the ghosts of Scrooges happened to be portrayed as Bob Marley. It was different, but it caught the audience attention, and that’s what plays need. The other attention grabber for me that I really appreciated was that the play had very detailed scenery and props. I could tell that they took their time making the background props, to make it look more real. In plays I know it’s difficult to have a whole house set up, or a forest, so the audience is left to use their imagination. Overall I thought they did a great job on their lighting and use of props, and changing sets quickly. The other plays I have been too I have never seen that many different scenes and backgrounds used. The play was kid friendly, which helped keep the audience in tuned. I saw handful of kids everywhere, so when they gave out the bags of …show more content…
They had the main idea of Scrooge trying to save Christmas, but even that was a little confusing. I have no clue if they wanted the only idea of Scrooge hating Christmas but gaining the Christmas spirit in the end, to be the only part of the plays that connect to one another. There was parts in the play that I was a bit confused as to why they were even in there. I remember watching Rudolph do this dance, and it just cut of one scene and went into that. So the transition there was pretty rough. Also when Frosty stopped at the Candy Cane palace, I wasn’t sure why that par was in there. I’m making the assumption that stopping there was just another part of his journey, but I also feel that that was another scene just thrown together last minute and stuffed into the