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No wonder the Ghost of Christmas Past is toting a skateboard: Ebenezer Scrooge enjoys an unusual amount of freewheeling travel in the Second City's "Twist Your Dickens," now at the Kennedy Center's Theater Lab. A hilariously impudent spoof of the holiday season in general, and "A Christmas Carol" in particular, the show journeys not only through Scrooge's past and future, but also to the heyday of barbershop quartets, a nickel-and-diming gift-planning session by the Bethlehem-bound Three Kings, and the cutting-room floor where (we learn) an uncharacteristically pugnacious segment of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" met its off-the-record end. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
