January Meme: Favorite version of "A Christmas Carol"

[selenak]

Everyone else seems to reply to this question with the Muppets version. Now, I like the Muppets version and admire its cleverness, but my favourite Christmas Carol adaption is actually not any of the film versions, but the audio recording of Patrick Stewart's stage performance. Not, I emphasize, the made for tv 1999 adaption where Stewart plays

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[herself_nyc]

YES YES YES. He brought this to Broadway a couple of times, and I went twice. I like my Dickens unfiltered and untampered with.

Though I have to admit I've never seen the Muppet version of ACC, or the muppet version of anything, actually, as not a fan of muppets.

[selenak]

I definitely love some Muppets, but neither their Christmas Carol nor their Treasure Island adaptions really do it for me. Gimme Stewart reciting Dickens, any time! :)

[kathyh]

I saw it on stage and still have the audio tapes too :)

I haven't seen the Muppets version but I do like Alistair Sim in "Scrooge", which unsurprisingly always crops up on TV at Christmas and frightened me half to death the first time I saw it when I was little.

[selenak]

I envy you the stage experience, and share the tape love!