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REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 4:34pm

Tonight at 9pm EST on NBC, A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL airs. It stars Kelsey Grammar as "Scrooge."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/89774.html
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#3

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 6:42pm

I just want to see how hysterical its going to be. Its a tough call as to which is funnier: housewives, or casting directors putting Kelsey as Scrooge. Love him, but BAD choice.
Don't make me brag. ;)
#4

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 6:44pm

Maybe it is the same casting director who so poorly miscast ABC's THE MUSIC MAN remake.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#5

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 6:44pm

Desperate Housewives or A Christmas Carol? Hmmm, desicions desicions. it took me a full 10 seconds but I decided i'm gonna go with the lovely women of Wisteria Lane.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

Updated On: 11/28/04 at 06:44 PM

#7

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 6:55pm

So true Priest! It was a shame too--all of them in that movie are great...just COMPLETELY wrong roles! Like obviously wrong roles! Oy...don't get me started...made for T.V. musicals are not my friends.
Don't make me brag. ;)
#9

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 6:58pm

Made for T.V. musicals COULD be great.

If they wanted to use Broderick so badly they could have done a H2$ remake. And then to really bring in the ratings cast Megan Mullally. i mean she did well in the revival opposite Broderick.


But in THE MSUIC MAN people keep saying that Broderick was atrocious. But I think he did as good a job as possible in a role he should never have played.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#11

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 8:25pm

Because I'm the ONLY one who does NOT watch Desperate Housewives, my TV's gonna be on NBC tonight!!
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled." (Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#13

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 8:28pm

I'm recording Housewives AND Carol, but watching Carol live. 'Cause I want to support musicals on TV! Because this is a good thing, in one way or another for our community.

Looking forward to it! Link by link.
Hamlet's father.
#16

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 9:28pm

I'm watching it and just saw Jesse L.Martin, and maybe I am loosing it but the little bit he just sang sounded nothing like him? Anyone else notice?
"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"
#17

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 9:42pm

i just got back to my college and missed the first half hour.. is jesse still gonna be in it? or did i miss him completely..anyone know?
"maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away" -sex and the city
#20

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 9:48pm

Its not great, but its not awful either. Some of the songs are a tad irritating. I kinda feel like its Oliver! at Christmastime.
And whoa the hair on Jennifer Love Hewitt!
"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"
#22

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 9:51pm

This isn't Susan Stohman's choreography is it? Fezziwig's ball was much more imaginative on stage.

I suffered through Kelsey Grammar's Macbeth. This is decent by comparison.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#23

re: REMINDER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE MUSICAL on TV tonight!!

Posted: 11/28/04 at 9:52pm

i agree, so far falling somewhere in the middle of all the other christmas carol renditions.

sigh.. krakow could do anything and i'd adore her.

glad im not alone in thinking martin sounded different. hmmm...

sigh...
""the gays love their presents. just wave something shiny in front of their faces, you can get whatever you want. Thats how we got manhattan from the gay indians" -Karen (W&G)"

Updated On: 11/28/04 at 09:52 PM

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