I would love to have copies if you still have them. Dickens Fair is coming fast. Sharon C.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruth Anne Baumgartner Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:10 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT....another Christmas Carol My theater did a costumed (impressions only, ca. 1860--no budget!) reading of excerpts from SEVEN Dickens holiday things--Christmas Carol, The Chimes, two of the Sketches by Boz (Christmas Dinner and The New Year), Mr Pickwick's "Good Humoured Christmas Chapter," and the description of Christmas preparations in "Edwin Drood." We interspersed seasonal music from Dickens' time, including a melodramatic piece he wrote lyrics to called "The Ivy Green." VERY good time was had by all, and many said it was a shame that the only Dickens usually mentioned at Christmas was CC. I had flirted with branching out to include "Birds' Christmas Carol" too--yes, a wonderful tear-jerker--and "The Little Match Girl"--but one can do only so much, and it was nice to keep the focus on Dickens anyway. I'd be happy to share my script and song list with anyone wanting to recreate a Victorian parlour and present these terrific pieces--hearing them read aloud demonstrates that Dickens wrote for that very possibility--they're very dramatic and lively in the mouth of a good actor....several of the audience, not relatives, came up and HUGGED the cast members afterward....! --Ruth Anne Baumgarter scholar gypsy and amateur costumer On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Speaking of Christmas Carols....as a literary genre... > > Anyone ever read "The Bird's Christmas Carol"? > > I remember it being a real tear jerker from my childhood. It's from > the 1890's I believe. Lemme look up the author.... > > Kate Douglas Wiggin > > > Whoa! You can read the whole thing here: > > _http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2? > id=WigBird.sgm&images=images/mod > eng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=teiHeader_ > (http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2? > id=WigBird.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/tex > ts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=teiHeader) > > Very sentimental. Someone should dramatize and do it....just for a > change. > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
