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Toby's of Columbia's 'A Christmas Carol' is rich with holiday cheer
A favorite holiday tradition has come to Toby's Dinner Theater of Columbia for the first time in a musical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Toby's has chosen the version by Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, known for his work in...Tags: Madison Square Garden, Charles Dickens, Music, Helen Hayes, Holidays
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'A Christmas Carol' ends Palmer's 32-year run at Stevens Forest
For 32 years, Barry Palmer has directed the musical at Stevens Forest Elementary School in Columbia. Now, the curtain is closing on the physical education teacher's career — he plans to retire at the end of the school year — and Palmer...
Tags: Music Theater, Teaching and Learning, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Music
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A Cerberus Carol?
Paging Mr. Fezziwig. One might get the notion that Charles Dickens' good-hearted fictional employer was back in business after the announcement this week by a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, that it intends to sell Freedom Group Inc.,...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Values, Civil Rights, Investments, Charles Dickens
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Russell Matthews, actor
A faulty blackboard sealed Russell Matthew's acting fate. As he took the prop on stage during a skit, it immediately fell apart. "I took a chance to save face and ad-libbed a lament on the funding of our public school system," the Silver Spring...Tags: William Shakespeare, NBC (tv network), Community (tv program), Aaron Paul, Fleet Foxes (music group)
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Finding Fezziwig in the 21st Century
What makes a great workplace? A bit of Old Fezziwig. That's a reference to one of the characters from Dickens' novella, "A Christmas Carol" — the corpulent, jolly man who ran the London business where Ebenezer Scrooge apprenticed. Fezziwig threw the...
Tags: Holidays, Values, Employees, Linda Brown, Ethics
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Home for the holidays in Monkton
It is not often that a visitor receives a Dickensian welcome at the front gate of a historic Monkton home decorated for the holidays. Dressed to the nines in fresh greenery, this circa 1840, white-washed brick structure wears red bows and pine cones on...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Holidays, Culture, Holiday Vacations, Customs and Tradition
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Season of 'Nutcracker,' 'Messiah' starts early
The holiday season wouldn't be the holiday season without colorful music and dance events. And, just as department stores break out the Christmas decorations earlier and earlier, some performing arts organizations get into the swing before Thanksgiving....
Tags: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Dance, Poetry, Moscow (Russia), Irving Berlin
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You know the holiday cliches. Shun them
The Baltimore SunThe repetitions of ritual are the point. They establish continuity and reassurance through familiarity. So you can be sure that you will hear "O Come, All Ye Faithful" at the late-night service on Christmas Eve, that you will eat the same holiday dinners,...Tags: Holidays, Religious Festivals, Christmas, Judaism, Hanukkah
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BSO to premiere concert version of 'Christmas Carol'
Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile.
He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...Tags: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore City College, Marin Alsop, Charles Dickens, Music
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Marbella: Layaway returns at Walmart, at just the right time
In the annals of holiday nostalgia, it's hardly up there in "Christmas Carol" territory. Still, the news that layaways are back has me feeling less Scrooge-like than I usually do when the holiday spend-a-thon season approaches. Major retailers like...Tags: Holidays, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Consumer Confidence, Credit and Debt
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'Christmas Carol' classic brought to life by Pasadena Theatre Company
It's time to kindle our Christmas spirits by catching a performance of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" — a classic that first appeared in 1843 and is now a perennial theater favorite each holiday season. Pasadena Theatre Company is renewing...Tags: Comedy (genre), Christmas Music (genre), Charles Dickens, Literature, Music
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John Caird brings blockbuster cred to L.A. Opera's 'Tosca'
John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...
Tags: Music Theater, William Shakespeare, Cinderella (movie), Les Miserables (movie), Literature
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