scrooge - Tower Theatre Folkestone

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LIBRETTO VOCAL BOOK
Music by
Alan Menken
Lyrics by Lynn
Book by Mike
Ahrens
Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens
Based on the story by Charles Dickens
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Page 1
List of Scenes:
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
The Royal Exchange.
The Streets of London.
Scrooge’s Parlor.
Scrooge’s Bedroom. Night.
The Law Courts.
The Factory.
Mr. Fezziwig’s Bank.
Scrooge and Marley, Ltd.
A Starry Night.
St. Paul’s Graveyard.
Scrooge’s Bedroom. Christmas Morning.
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CAST
(In Order of Appearance)
A BEADLE
THREE CHARITY MEN
MR. SMYTHE
GRACE SMYTHE
SCROOGE
CRATCHIT
MARTHA CRATCHIT
MRS. CRATCHIT
TINY TIM
POULTERER
FRED ANDERSON
JONATHON
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT (SANDWICHBOARD MAN)
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST (LAMPLIGHTER)
BLIND OLD HAG
MRS. MOPS
SCROOGE’S DOUBLE
MARLEY
MARLEY’S FOUR ACOLYTES
JUDGE
SCROOGE AT 8
SCROOGE’S FATHER
SCROOGE’S MOTHER
MR. HAWKINS
SCROOGE AT 12
FAN AT 10
FEZZIWIG
YOUNG EBENEZER (SCROOGE AT 18)
YOUNG MARLEY
EMILY
MRS. FEZZIWIG
TWO GRANNIES
FOUR ABUNDANCE AND CHARITY ELVES
SALLY ANDERSON
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE (BLIND OLD HAG)
TWO UNDERTAKERS
OLD JOE
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ENSEMBLE:
BANKERS, STREET VENDORS, PANTOMIME GIRL, SAILORS, LOWER CLASS
LADIES, CRATCHIT CHILDREN, CHARWOMEN, GHOSTS, JAILERS,
FACTORY WORKERS, FEZZIWIG PARTY-GOERS, CLERKS, CREDITORS,
DANCING GIRLS, MONKS, CHILDREN, CHORUS OF CHILD ANGELS, ETC.
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SCENE 1.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
(In darkness, the OVERTURE plays. Lights come upon a group of
CAROLERS, standing beside a glorious Christmas tree, performing for
the wealthy BUSINESSMEN. A pair of old CHARWOMEN have
paused from mopping the floor to listen.)
LONDON TOWN CAROL
CAROLERS
HEAR THE BELLS ALL OVER LONDON TOWN.
HOW JOYOUSLY THEY RING.
SEE THE LAMPS AGLOW IN LONDON TOWN,
AND HEAR EACH CAROLER SING.
BRING A HAPPY HEART TO LONDON TOWN,
AND SPREAD YOUR KINDLY CHEER.
HARKEN WHILE YOU MAY
FOR CHRISTMAS DAY IS NEAR!
FOR CHRISTMAS DAY IS NEAR!
(A burst of laughter and applause from the BUSINESSMEN. The
BEADLE rings his bell.)
BEADLE
Gentlemen, the Royal Exchange closes for Christmas in 30 minutes.
A JOLLY GOOD TIME
SOLO BANKER #1
WHAT A GOOD TIME!
SOLO BANKER #2
WHAT A FINE SHOW!
BEADLE
JOLLY GOOD EVENING, GENTLEMEN!
RICH WOMEN
ISN’T IT NICE THAT ONCE AGAIN
IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE!
CHARITY MEN
FILLS A FELLOW WITH DELIGHT,
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ALL
EVERY ONE SING
FA LA LA LA!
RUP A BUP BUM!
HIP HIP HOORAH!
KNOWING WE’LL HAVE
A JOLLY GOOD TIME TONIGHT!
(WEALTHY WOMEN and CHILDREN bustle in, laden with gifts
after a day of shopping.)
RICH WOMEN
WHAT A GOOD TIME!
WHAT A FINE DAY!
GETTING A GIFT FOR EVERY ONE
GIVING OUT GIFTS IS SO MUCH FUN
ON CHRISTMAS EVE!
CHARITY MEN
FILLS A FELLOW WITH DELIGHT
WOMEN
EVERY ONE SING
FA LA LA LA
MEN
RUP A BUP BUM
HIP HIP HOORAH!
ALL
A JOLLY GOOD TIME TONIGHT.
BUSINESSMEN
THANK THE LORD OUR BUSINESS HAS BEEN KEEN!
(They tip the CHARWOMEN.)
CHARWOMEN
OH, WHAT A KIND EMPLOYER!
WE’LL WORK FOREVER FO’ YER!
BUSINESSMEN
THANK THE LORD AND BLESS AND KEEP THE QUEEN!
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ALL
Her Majesty! The Queen!
GROUP 1
WHAT A GOOD TIME!
GROUP 2
WHAT A GOOD TIME!
WHAT A FINE DAY!
WHAT A FINE DAY!
ALL
GIVING THE POOR A COIN OR TWO!
CHARITY’S WHAT WE WEALTHY DO
ON CHRISTMAS EVE!
CHARITY MEN
FILLS A FELLOW WITH DELIGHT
ALL
EVERY ONE SING
FA LA LA LA
WOMEN
RUP A BUP BUM
ALL MEN AND WOMEN
HIP HIP HOORAH!
ALL
A JOLLY GOOD TIME TONIGHT.
(MR. SMYTHE enters with his little daughter, GRACE SMYTHE.
They are respectable but poor.)
MR. SMYTHE
Excuse me, gentlemen, I’m looking for Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
(GRACE cries, and is comforted by her father.)
Don’t worry, my love, I’m sure he’ll be sympathetic.
BUSINESSMAN
Scrooge? Sympathetic?
(He laughs with his friends.)
This gentlemen’s looking for the sympathetic Ebenezer Scrooge!
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(The BUSINESSMEN all laugh at their own wit. Suddenly, every
one draws back as EBENEZER SCROOGE enters, followed by a
harried BOB CRATCHIT. A cold wind accompanies them almost as if
it emanated from SCROOGE himself.)
SCROOGE
Cratchit! Hurry up, dammit!!!
(CRATCHIT sneezes and drops a stack of deeds. He scrambles to pick
them up.)
CRATCHIT
Sorry, Mister Scrooge.
BANKER
(slyly)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge!
(The BANKERS snicker.)
SCROOGE
Merry Christmas? My dear sir, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his
lips should be boiled in his own pudding. And buried with a stake of holly through his
heart.
(The BANKERS laugh amongst themselves at SCROOGE’S ire.
CRATCHIT sneezes again.)
SCROOGE
Cratchit ...
CRATCHIT
Yes, sir?
SCROOGE
You’ll want tomorrow off, I suppose?
CRATCHIT
Well, if it’s quite convenient, sir!
SCROOGE
It is not convenient ...
(MR. SMYTHE approaches humbly.)
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MR. SMYTHE
I beg your pardon, Mr. Scrooge. May I speak with you a moment, sir?
SCROOGE
Speak swiftly. The Exchange is closing early.
MR. SMYTHE
MR. SCROOGE, MY WIFE HAS DIED ...
I need to pay her funeral expenses, and ...
(CRATCHIT hands over MR. SMYTHE’S deed.)
SCROOGE
And what, Mr…
(he checks the name on the deed.)
Smythe?
MR. SMYTHE
SIR, I NEED MORE TIME TO PAY YOU ...
SCROOGE
Am I a Charity? Am I the State? Your mortgage is due the twenty fifth of every month.
Tomorrow. 9 a.m.
MR. SMYTHE
PLEASE, SIR, WHAT ABOUT MY CHILDREN?
(SCROOGE walks away.)
BEADLE
(sternly)
SCROOGE SAYS PAY, SIR ...
(GRACE crosses to SCROOGE and pulls on his scarf.)
SMYTHE & GRACE SMYTHE
(To Scrooge)
CHRISTMAS DAY, SIR!
(SCROOGE turns back to the little girl.)
SCROOGE
You’ll learn soon enough, child, that Christmas is a HUMBUG!
(EVERY ONE reacts with horror. SCROOGE collects debts.)
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ALL
THANK THE LORD
OUR PROFITS HAVE BEEN HUGE!
SCROOGE
YOU OWE ME INTEREST TOO, SIR.
YOUR PAYMENT’S OVERDUE, SIR
THANK THE LORD WE’RE NOT
NOT A BIT LIKE SCROOGE!
IF YOU DON’T PLAN TO PAY, SIR,
THE LAW WILL FIND A WAY, SIR.
ALL (EXCEPT BEADLE)
NEVER MIND HIM
NEVER MIND THAT.
NOTHING AT ALL CAN SPOIL OUR DAY,
CHARWOMEN
EVEN IF SCROOGE BEHAVES THAT WAY
ON CHRISTMAS EVE!
ALL
LEAVE THE MISER TO HIS PLIGHT!
BEADLE
(Ringing his bell and exiting.)
The Royal Exchange is now closed! Merry Christmas, Gentlemen!
SCROOGE
(Calling CRATCHIT to HIM.)
Cratchit!
ALL
EVERY ONE SING
FA LA LA LA!
RUP A BUP BUM!
HIP HIP HOO RAH!
EVERY ONE HAVE
A JOLLY GOOD TIME TONIGHT!
(ALL exit, MUSIC continues as three kind-faced CHARITY MEN
approach SCROOGE.)
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CHARITY MEN
WE’RE COLLECTING SIR, THIS CHRISTMAS TIME
FROM GENTLEMEN IN TOWN.
FOR THE NEEDY POOR OF LONDON, SIR,
NOW, WHAT SHALL WE PUT DOWN?
SCROOGE
Nothing!
(A beat. The CHARITY MEN don’t quite understand his refusal.
And then, they come to a joyous realization.)
CHARITY MEN
YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ANONYMOUS,
YOUR KINDNESS LEFT UNKNOWN!
HE’D LIKE TO BE ANONYMOUS!
SCROOGE
I’d like to be left ALONE!!
FIRST CHARITY MAN
(Confused.)
Alone?
SECOND CHARITY MAN
But sir, it’s Christmas ...
THIRD CHARITY MAN
It’s Christmas eve ...
SCROOGE
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas. I can’t afford to make idle people merry.
FIRST CHARITY MAN
But the poor of London, sir ...
SCROOGE
Gentlemen. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
(The CHARITY MEN react.)
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NOTHING TO DO WITH ME
SCROOGE
IF THE POOR HAVE TO EAT,
LET THEM BEG UPON THE STREET
OR APPLY AT THE WORKHOUSE DOOR.
IF THEY REFUSE TO EARN,
THEN LET THEM LEARN
WHAT A PRISON’S FOR!
I ABHOR HOW THEY WHINE!
HOW THEY WANT WHATEVER’S MINE!
WHY SHOULD I GIVE A THING FOR FREE?
LET THEM BEG TILL THEY’RE BLUE!
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!
I say let them die, and decrease the surplus population! Good afternoon!
(THE CHARITY MEN depart in dismay.)
CRATCHIT
MR. SCROOGE, I’M SORRY,
BUT SIR, MIGHT I GO?
MIGHT YOU PAY ME EARLY,
JUST THIS ONCE ...
SCROOGE
Picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December!
CRATCHIT
MY TINY TIM IS ILL, SIR,
YOUNGEST SON, YOU KNOW.
WIFE AND CHILDREN NEED ME,
JUST THIS ONCE ...
SCROOGE
PEOPLE WANTING THIS,
PEOPLE WANTING THAT,
SPREADING BLOODY CHEER!
CRATCHIT
It’s only once a year, sir!
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SCROOGE
PLUCKING AT YOUR SLEEVE,
HOLDING OUT THE HAT,
SINGING IN YOUR EAR!
CRATCHIT
Sorry, sir, I didn’t mean ...
SCROOGE
TAKING OFF A DAY,
ASKING FOR THEIR PAY,
CRATCHIT
ONLY ONCE A YEAR.
SCROOGE
Only once a year!
WELL, YOU CAN TAKE CHRISTMAS
AND STUFF IT WITH BREAD!
AND IF THAT ISN’T PERFECTLY CLEAR-(SCROOGE sets off towards his home. CRATCHIT follows.)
I DO NOT NEED TO KNOW
OF YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR WOE.
I SUGGEST TINY TIM DRINK TEA!
CRATCHIT
He’s only six!
SCROOGE
GIVE HIM TEA. GIVE HIM STEW.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH ME!
(SCROOGE takes a coin out of his waistcoat pocket. He holds it out to
CRATCHIT.)
Here.
(SCROOGE withdraws the coin again.)
But be sure you come in early the next day.
(CRATCHIT sneezes directly at SCROOGE. SCROOGE recoils.)
And get rid of that cold!
(SCROOGE finally hands him the coin.)
CRATCHIT
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Goodnight, sir. Merry ... Achoo!
(CRATCHIT makes his way towards his house.)
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SCENE 2.
THE STREETS OF LONDON.
(Lights come up on a Cockney FISHMONGER.)
FISHMONGER
Ye-o-o! Ye-o-o! Fresh fish! Turbot, Turbot! All alive sardines! Here you are guv, hadhad- had- haddock! All fresh and good! Fine grizzling sprats! All large and no small!
Fine cock crabs, all alive, alive-o! Have the lot for a pound, guv’ner!
(A window opens and a WOMAN calls to her little boy.)
WOMAN 1
Nikolas! Come and get your tea!
NIKOLAS
Coming, Mum!
WOMAN 2
(To a drunk coming out of the pub.)
Harry! Don’t forget the chestnuts!
HARRY
Oh, for God’s sake!
(Music swells as the bustling streets of London are revealed. People
carry packages and Christmas trees; vendors tout their wares; shop
windows sport decorations. PANTOMIME GIRLS and a
SANDWICHBOARD MAN advertise the new show. A
LAMPLIGHTER goes about lighting the lamps as evening falls. An
OLD BLIND HAG begs for coins. A grizzled “rags and bones” man,
OLD JOE drags his laden cart behind him, ringing his bell.)
OLD JOE
Rags and bones! Rags and bones!
SANDWICH BOARD MAN
WHAT A CHILLY EVENIN’!
LONDON’S ALL AGLOW!
LAMPLIGHTER
DON’T IT FEEL LIKE IT MIGHT SNOW!
PANTO GIRL, CHILDREN, BLIND OLD HAG
CHRISTMAS EVE!
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BLIND OLD HAG
SUCH A MERRY SEASON
SANDWICH BOARD MAN
DON’TCHA LOVE IT SO?
LAMPLIGHTER
MERRY CHRISTMAS, DEARIE!
LAMPLIGHTER, HAG, PANTO GIRL, CHILDREN
DON’T IT FEEL LIKE IT MIGHT SNOW!!
GROUP 1
WHAT A CHILLY EVENIN’!
LONDON’S ALL AGLOW
MERRY CHRISTMAS DEARIE!
GROUP 2
DON’T IT FEEL LIKE
IT MIGHT SNOW!
IT MIGHT SNOW!
IT MIGHT SNOW!!
(CRATCHIT passes the music hall on his way home and meets the
SANDWICHBOARD MAN.)
CRATCHIT
What’s the play?
SANDWICH BOARD
It’s called “Mother Goose”.
CRATCHIT
We’ll try to make it. Happy Christmas!
SANDWICH BOARD
Happy Christmas!
(CRATCHIT approaches his own humble home. The door bursts open
and one of his children runs into his arms.)
MARTHA
Father! Father!
CRATCHIT
Ah, Martha, where’s our Mum? There she is. Hello, love.
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MRS. CRATCHIT
Did that old skinflint give you Christmas day off?
CRATCHIT
(Triumphantly)
He did.
MRS. CRATCHIT
And did he pay you early?
CRATCHIT
(Holds up coin)
He did!
MRS. CRATCHIT
And did he let you put any more coal on that office fire?
CRATCHIT
Achoo!
MRS. CRATCHIT
Oh dear. Well, best wrap up. At least we’ll be able to afford a little chicken for our
Christmas dinner.
CRATCHIT
Right! Now, then, where’s our Tiny Tim?
(She runs to the house, calling for her brother.)
MARTHA
Tim, Tim!
(TINY TIM hobbles out of the door on his crutch.)
TINY TIM
I’m here, Dad! Happy Christmas!
CRATCHIT
We’re off to buy the finest Christmas dinner in London, and I can’t do it without you.
(CRATCHIT and his wife bundle TINY TIM up.)
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YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
CRATCHIT
I DON’T NEED A FORTUNE
HIDDEN IN A SHOE.
MANY MEN HAVE FORTUNES
BUT THEY DON’T HAVE YOU.
WHEN I LOOK AT YOU
I’M RICHER THAN A KING.
YES, YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
THAN ANYTHING.
Up you go, son.
(CRATCHIT swings TINY TIM onto his own shoulders, an
accustomed gesture.)
MRS. CRATCHIT
Bye, love.
(CRATCHIT and TINY TIM make their way through the streets.)
CRATCHIT
WE SHALL BUY SOME APPLES.
TINY TIM
MUM WILL LOVE THEM SO!
(TINY TIM sees the MUSIC HALL.)
FATHER, LOOK! THE THEATRE.
CRATCHIT
WHEN WE’RE RICH, WE’LL GO!
BOTH
ALL THE JOYS OF CHRISTMAS
BUNDLED UP WITH STRING!
TINY TIM
BUT YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
CRATCHIT
YOU MEAN MORE
BOTH
YES, YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
THAN ANYTHING.
(They arrive at the POULTERER’S. The POULTERER comes out.)
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POULTERER
What’ll it be, sir?
CRATCHIT
Let’s see, Tiny Tim. We’ve got five shillings. Now what can we get ...
(The POULTERER holds up an enormous bird.)
POULTERER
Here’s a fine bird. My prize turkey!
CRATCHIT
How much is it?
POULTERER
I’ll take a sovereign. Fatten the little boy up a bit.
CRATCHIT
I’m afraid it’s a little out of our price range.
POULTERER
Something else, then?
TINY TIM
I DON’T NEED A FEAST, DAD,
ALL I’D GET IS FAT.
I DON’T NEED A TURKEY.
HOW’D I EAT ALL THAT?
I SHALL BE CONTENT
NO MATTER WHAT YOU BRING ...
POULTERER
Coupla chicken legs?
CRATCHIT
Chicken legs. No, make it a whole chicken. Well, a small one.
TINY TIM
YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
CRATCHIT
YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
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BOTH
YOU MEAN MORE TO ME
THAN ANYTHING!
(Scrooge enters, accosted by a FRUIT SELLER.)
SCROOGE
Get out of my way!
(SCROOGE’s pleasant young nephew,FRED ANDERSON enters.)
FRED
Merry Christmas, Uncle! I was just on my way to see you.
SCROOGE
Don’t bother.
FRED
COME TO CHRISTMAS DINNER.
WE’RE INVITING YOU.
BE WITH FAMILY, UNCLE,
JUST THIS ONCE.
SCROOGE
No thank you.
FRED
YOU’D ENJOY IT, UNCLE.
WE’D ENJOY IT, TOO
YOU’D MEET SALLY, UNCLE
JUST THIS ONCE.
SCROOGE
PEOPLE TAKING WIVES,
LIVING LITTLE LIVES,
COZIER THAN MICE!
FRED
We want nothing from you ...
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SCROOGE
MARRYING FOR LOVE!
PUSH WILL COME TO SHOVE,
YOU’LL BE THINKING TWICE!
FRED
I will not get angry, Uncle ...
SCROOGE
ASKING ME TO DINE,
BREAKING OPEN WINE,
TAKING NO ADVICE!
FRED
Good God!
SCROOGE
WELL, YOU CAN HAVE CHRISTMAS,
AND MARRIAGE AS WELL,
AND TO HELL WITH YOUR TREES AND YOUR RICE!
I WILL NOT FILL MY PLATE,
SOCIALIZE OR CELEBRATE
WITH A FOOL AND HIS FAMILY.
FRED
Well!
SCROOGE
LET YOUR LOVE SEE YOU THROUGH
BUT HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH ME!
FRED
Don’t be cross, Uncle.
SCROOGE
What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as you! What good is Christmas to
you but a time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.
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FRED
Christmas may never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, but I believe it is a good
time SCROOGE
Oh, bah!
FRED
A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. I believe that it has done me good and will
do me good; and I say God bless it!
SCROOGE
You’re quite a powerful speaker. I wonder you don’t go into Parliament! Good afternoon!
FRED
A Merry Christmas to you anyway Uncle!
SCROOGE
Bah, Humbug!
(FRED exits. SCROOGE is approached by JONATHON, a street
urchin. JONATHON wears a top hat nearly as tall as his small body.
He thrusts a tin cup at SCROOGE. SCROOGE stops and listens
hard.)
JONATHON
SEE THE LAMPS AGLOW IN ...
SCROOGE
For God’s sake, child! Shut up and let me pass!
(JONATHON kicks him. SCROOGE tries to grab him and
JONATHON runs in terror. The SANDWICH BOARD stops
SCROOGE.)
SANDWICH BOARD
HEY! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN HOW TO SMILE, SIR?
SCROOGE
Move aside.
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SANDWICH BOARD
COME AND BUY A TICKET TO THE SHOW.
SCROOGE
I don’t have time for nonsense.
SANDWICH BOARD
LIFE’LL PASS YOU BY IN JUST A WHILE, SIR,
AND IT MAY BE LATER THAN YOU KNOW!
(SCROOGE breaks away, only to be confronted by the
LAMPLIGHTER who falls from his ladder.)
LAMPLIGHTER
Ahh!
HELP A WORKIN’ FELLOW REACH THE LIGHT, SIR?
SCROOGE
That’s your problem, not mine.
LAMPLIGHTER
OTHERWISE I’M SURE TO GET THE SACK!
SCROOGE
Then it’s the workhouse for you, isn’t it?
LAMPLIGHTER
OUGHTA TAKE THE TIME FOR DOIN’ RIGHT, SIR!
SCROOGE
Good evening.
LAMPLIGHTER
YOU’LL BE SORRY, SIR, WHEN YOU LOOK BACK!
(SCROOGE hears the loud tap-tapping of a BLIND HAG’S cane.
Suddenly, she’s at his side.)
BLIND OLD HAG
SPARE A COIN FOR SOMEONE WHO IS BLIND, SIR?
SCROOGE
Devil take you, old woman. I have nothing for you.
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BLIND OLD HAG
(Grabbing his arm.)
NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE!
SCROOGE
Release my arm. Let go of me, woman!
BLIND OLD HAG
GO YOUR SORRY WAY, AND NEVER MIND, SIR!
COME THE FUTURE, YOU'LL REMEMBER ME!
(SHE calls after him.)
Look to yourself! Look to yourself, before it’s too late!
(SCROOGE reels away from her, and turns as a small funeral
procession enters. People remove their hats, and SCROOGE does, too.
TWO GRIM UNDERTAKERS carry a shabby coffin. A small bunch
of wild flowers is its only adornment. MR. SMYTHE and GRACE
SMYTHE follow behind. As they pass SCROOGE, little GRACE
turns and looks directly at him. Time seems suspended…)
GRACE SMYTHE
LET THE STARS IN THE SKY
REMIND US OF MAN’S COMPASSION.
LET US LOVE TILL WE DIE
AND GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE.
(The funeral procession exits, and the street activity resumes, but
SCROOGE is shaken.)
ALL
SUCH A MERRY SEASON
DON’TCHA LOVE IT SO?
AIN’T THIS CHRISTMAS CHEERY
MERRY CHRISTMAS DEARIE!
SCROOGE
DAMN THIS SILLY SEASON!
DAMN ALL HUMAN KIND!
MAKES YOU LOSE YOUR REASON!
MAKES YOU LOSE YOUR MIND!
NEXT THING YOU KNOW
I’LL BE DANCING IN SNOW,
THROWING COINS TO THE POOR,
AND THE LAME AND THE BLIND!
WELL, I WISH THAT THE WHOLE WORLD
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SCROOGE (CON'T)
WOULD JUST LET ME BE!
LET THE WHOLE WORLD BE DAMNED!
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!
ALL
WHAT A CHILLY
EVENIN’!
LONDON’S ALL
AGLOW!
IT MIGHT SNOW!
SCROOGE
Bah, Humbug!
(SCROOGE arrives at the door of his house. Two dimly lit upstairs
windows resemble eyes. As he fumbles for his key, the front of the
house magically transforms into the FACE OF MARLEY.)
MARLEY
(a ghostly, echoing voice)
Scrooge ...
SCROOGE
Yes ... ?
MARLEY
(louder)
SCROOGE ...
SCROOGE
Marley ... ?!
MARLEY
(terrifying)
SCROOGE!!!
(The vision fades, and the door flies open. MRS. MOPS, his
housekeeper comes out to find SCROOGE frozen in shock. She waves
her hand in front of his face to catch his attention.)
MRS. MOPS
Mr. S. Mr. S?! You look as if you’d seen a ghost!
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SCROOGE
I thought I saw ... Marley.
MRS. MOPS
Mr. Marley died, sir, seven years ago this very night. Maybe you need your eyes
examining...
SCROOGE
Stupid woman!
MRS. MOPS
(Offended)
Your gruel’s waitin’ in the pot, sir. And I’ll bring you a slice of turkey and a bit
o’puddin’ in the mornin’.
SCROOGE
Don’t bother!
MRS. MOPS
Suit yourself, sir.
(MRS. MOPS exits, muttering.)
Stupid woman, stupid man. And he calls me stupid!
(SCROOGE enters his house.)
SCENE 3.
SCROOGE'S PARLOUR. NIGHT.
(SCROOGE enters his house and changes into a dressing gown. He
lights the candles, checks the receipts in a cash box on the mantle.)
SCROOGE
(Sneezes.)
Damn, Cratchit!
(SCROOGE pokes the fire, then sits down with his gruel. Gradually,
nodding a bit, he begins to hear voices, reminding him of his day. He
shakes them off and returns to his meal. Suddenly, bells begin to ring
all over the house. Voices wail, books fall off shelves. Smoke billows
out from the fireplace and the GHOST OF MARLEY materializes
from within it in a puff of smoke. MARLEY is weighed down with
chains, safeboxes and large metal keys and wails piteously.)
SCROOGE
(Terrified, but caustic as ever.)
How now! What do you want of me?
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MARLEY
Much!
SCROOGE
Who are you?
MARLEY
Don’t you recognize me?
SCROOGE
No!
MARLEY
In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, my dear Scrooge!
(MARLEY crosses to SCROOGE and embraces him.)
SCROOGE
(Brushing himself off.)
Yuk, yuk ... Humbug!
MARLEY
I see you don’t believe in me! Do you doubt your senses?
SCROOGE
A little thing can affect the senses. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of
mustard, a crumb of cheese, an underdone potato! There’s more of gravy than the grave
about you, whatever you are!
(MARLEY levitates impressively, terrifying SCROOGE.)
I believe, I believe! Mercy, I believe! Dreadful apparition, why do you walk the earth,
and why do you trouble me?
(MARLEY descends.)
LINK BY LINK
MARLEY
IT IS REQUIRED OF EVERY MAN
THAT HIS SPIRIT TRAVEL FAR,
LENDING HELP TO THOSE HE CAN
NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE.
BUT IF YOU DON’T GO FORTH IN LIFE,
SPREADING JOY AND EASING PAIN,
YOUR SPIRIT WILL GO FORTH IN DEATH,
AND YOU SHALL WEAR A CHAIN!
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MARLEY (CON'T)
THESE WERE COINS I HOARDED FOR A RAINY DAY.
NOW, WITH EVERY JINGLE, I’M DISGRACED.
LOCKS AND KEYS I USED TO
KEEP THE POOR AWAY,
THAT’S WHAT PUT THESE LOCKS AND KEYS AROUND MY
WAIST.
LINK BY LINK,
MY CHAIN WAS GETTING LONGER.
LINK BY LINK,
I SHOULD HAVE HEARD IT CLINK.
LINK BY LINK,
EACH YEAR A LITTLE STRONGER!
LINK BY LINK BY HORRIFYING LINK!
STACKING UP MY SILVER AND MY BITS OF GOLD,
FILLING UP MY VAULT WHEN DAY WAS DONE.
VAULTS ARE MADE OF LEAD, AND CASH IS VERY COLD!
AND AROUND YOUR NECK,
THEY WEIGH A BLOODY TON!
LINK BY LINK,
YOU’RE ON THE BRINK.
IT’S WRITTEN HERE
IN BLOOD RED INK.
UNLOCK YOUR HEART.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
OR YOU’LL BE DRAGGING SOMETHING
MORE THAN TWICE THIS WEIGHT ...
(He weighs SCROOGE down with chains and safeboxes, giving him a
taste of what’s in store.)
SCROOGE
No, please!
MARLEY
EBENEZER SCROOGE?
SCROOGE
Y ... y ... yes?
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MARLEY
YOU WILL BE VISITED BY THREE GHOSTS.
SCROOGE
Uh ... No thank you!
MARLEY
WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES ONE,
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST.
SCROOGE
I prefer not to think about the past ...
MARLEY
WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES TWO,
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
SCROOGE
At present, I’d rather go to bed! Goodnight!
MARLEY
WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES THREE,
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO BE!
THREE GHOSTS WHO YET MAY STOP YOU
ENDING UP LIKE ME ...
(GHOSTS enter, moaning, dragging chains, a horrific sight. Each has a
particular “deformity” based on their greed. The closet door opens,
revealing a skeleton.)
Our colleague, Mr. Haines. Mean to the bone, he was!
SCROOGE
Oh, yes ...
SAFE-IN-THE-CHEST GHOST
I had no heart!
HAND-IN-THE-SAFE GHOST
I never lent a hand!
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MONEY BAGS GHOST
(The weight of the money bags stretches his arms.)
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
(Blood-curdling scream.)
GHOSTS, MARLEY
SEE THESE SORRY SPIRITS WHO WERE ONCE LIKE YOU,
DRAGGING CHAINS OF ALL THAT WE ACQUIRED.
ALL THE GOOD IN LIFE IT’S NOW TOO LATE TO DO,
NOT TO MENTION THIS CAN REALLY MAKE YOU TIRED!
(One GHOST carries his head under his arm. He rolls it to MARLEY
who picks it up and casually tosses it to SCROOGE.)
MARLEY
He wanted to get “a head”!
(SCROOGE screams and tosses it back to the HEADLESS GHOST.)
SCROOGE
AAH!
GHOSTS
LINK BY LINK,
MARLEY
YOUR CHAIN IS IN THE MAKING!
GHOSTS
LINK BY LINK,
MARLEY
NO WAY TO MAKE IT SHRINK!
LINK BY LINK,
ALL GHOSTS
JUST LISTEN TO IT SHAKING!
(The GHOSTS rattle and shake their chains.)
ALL GHOSTS, MARLEY
AHHHHHHHHHH ... ETC.
LINK BY LINK BY HORRIFYING-(A Dance Break.)
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LINK BY LINK BY ...
LINK BY LINK BY ...
LINK BY LINK BY ...
LINK BY LINK,
YOUR LIFE MUST BE CORRECTED!
LINK BY LINK,
AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK.
LINK BY LINK,
OR YOU SHALL BE CONNECTED,
LINK BY LINK BY HORRIFYING LINK!!!!
(SCROOGE ends up in the center of a “cobweb” of chains. And now
the GHOSTS exit, calling to SCROOGE as they go.)
ALL GHOSTS
(Exiting.)
NOT TOO LATE ...
NOT TOO LATE ...
AHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHH
MARLEY
(To departing ghosts.)
Thank you. Thank you for coming.
(To FLYING GHOSTS.)
Thank you for dropping in.
Thank you so much for materializing.
(To HEADLESS GHOST.)
Head off that way.
(Exiting.)
Remember Ebenezer. You will be visited by three ghosts. It’s never too late to change.
Never too late to change…
(SCROOGE is alone, back in his chair with his gruel.)
SCROOGE
Humbug! I must have been dreaming. I’m overworked. I’m overtired. I’m - I’m - I’m
going to bed.
(He blows out the candles, prepares for bed and goes upstairs. NOTE:
On Broadway, this sequence was accomplished with a SCROOGE
DOUBLE. As the double prepared for bed and went up the stairs, the
set changed to reveal SCROOGE already in bed, tossing and turning.
Time had leaped forward to 1a.m.)
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SCENE 4.
SCROOGE'S BEDROOM. NIGHT.
(SCROOGE tosses and turns in his bed, as the clock strikes ONE. The
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST magically appears. The GHOST is
a twinkly, spritely being; he is played by the same actor who plays the
LAMPLIGHTER in earlier scenes. He carries a very large book.)
SCROOGE
What the devil ... ?
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST
Hello.
SCROOGE
Don’t I recognize you? Aren’t you that …
No, no, no, my dear -- I’m the Ghost of Christmas Past! Ebenezer Scrooge. This is your
life!
(The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST opens the book, showing it to
Scrooge. A magical, twinkling light emanates from within.)
SCROOGE
My life?
THE LIGHTS OF LONG AGO/ PART 1
IT’S YOUR LUCKY NIGHT!
BROUGHT YOU SOMETHING BRIGHT!
SOMETHING WITH A TWINKLE AND A GLOW,
TO REMEMBER
THE LIGHTS OF LONG AGO.
REMEMBER
THE LIGHTS OF LONG AGO ...
GLIMMERS IN THE DARK!
HERE AND THERE A SPARK!
SUDDENLY A PICTURE STARTS TO GROW.
COME REMEMBER
REMEMBER
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A CHILD!
(Light comes up on SCROOGE AT 8 near the Law Courts.)
IS THIS WHO YOU USED TO BE?
A SCENE! SHINING FROM YOUR PAST.
THE VAST VISTAS OF YOUR MEMORY,
THE SHADOWS
YOU CAST ...
(FOUR “GHOST ACOLYTES” come tumbling into the bedroom.
They grab the bed and spin it across the stage.)
MR. SCROOGE, HOLD FAST ...
ONWARD THROUGH THE NIGHT,
ONWARD TOWARD THE LIGHT,
ONWARD TO A PLACE YOUR HEART WILL KNOW.
COME REMEMBER
REMEMBER THE LIGHTS OF LONG AGO.
SCENE 5.
THE LAW COURTS.
(The first of a series of tableaux in which SCROOGE revisits his past.)
JUDGE
John William Scrooge, you will go to prison for non-payment of debts. Three years!
Next case!
MOTHER
Please!
SCROOGE AT 8
Father, Father!
MOTHER
No, no! How will we live? Where will we go?
FATHER
(Being dragged away by two JAILERS.)
Learn this lesson, Ebenezer! Save your pennies! Make your fortune and keep it!
SCROOGE
Father!
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FATHER
(fading …)
Save your pennies. Make your fortune and keep it … Save your pennies …
(SCROOGE’S MOTHER gathers her children to her, but
SCROOGE AT 8 looks after his father, absorbing the lesson.)
MOTHER
(SCROOGE observes this scene.)
SCROOGE
That song. Mother!
Poor little Ebenezer. Tut, tut. What a sad, sad day. Your mother died soon after; you and
your sister were separated .
LIGHTS OF LONG AGO/ PART. 2
(cheerful as ever.)
POOR, PATHETIC LAD!
NO MORE MUM OR DAD!
NOT A BIT OF JOY OR MISTLETOE
TO REMEMBER
(The ACOLYTES now deliver SCROOGE, still on his whirling bed,
to the next scene from his past.)
SCENE 6.
A FACTORY, NEAR A GIANT MACHINE.
(We now see SCROOGE AT 12, working determinedly at a bootmaking machine. It’s the end of the day, and a group of workers are
hanging up their work aprons. MR. HAWKINS, the factory owner
pays out wages to the workers. The last person to be paid is
SCROOGE AT 12.)
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MR. HAWKINS
Pay Day! Pay Day! Pay Day!
(To boy worker.)
Merry Christmas, my boy!
(To other workers.)
Merry Christmas!
BOY WORKER
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins.
WORKERS
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Good-bye, good-bye!
A MOTHER
(Exiting.)
Happy Christmas, Ebenezer!
MR. HAWKINS
Here’s your pay, Ebenezer. Don’t spend it all at once!
SCROOGE AT 12
(Taking his joke seriously.)
No, I shan’t thank you. I intend to make my fortune and keep it.
MR. HAWKINS
(amused)
Well, a prosperous New Year to you, my lad!
(To others.)
Happy Christmas.
(MR. HAWKINS leaves SCROOGE AT 12 alone. HE finally puts
down his work, takes up his pen and begins writing a letter. We see
FAN reading it.)
A PLACE CALLED HOME PART 1
SCROOGE AT 12
My dear Sister Fan, I’ve been living and working in this terrible place for six months.
I miss you terribly. I often remember the way things used to be.
THERE’S A PLACE CALLED HOME
I CAN ALMOST SEE,
WITH A RED FRONT DOOR,
AND A ROARING FIRE
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SCROOGE AT 12 (CON'T)
AND A CHRISTMAS TREE.
IT’S A PLACE CALLED HOME
THAT I STILL CAN TRAVEL TO.
FAN
IT’S THE PLACE IN MY HEART
WHERE I STILL COME HOME TO YOU.
SCROOGE AT 12
(Signing the letter.)
Merry Christmas. Don’t forget me. Your loving brother, Ebenezer.
OLD SCROOGE, SCROOGE AT 12, FAN
JUST A PLACE IN MY HEART
I CAN STILL COME HOME TO YOU
(The light on FAN fades out.)
The years flew by. Fan married, then died in childbirth. The light went out on poor Fan!
But her child survived.
SCROOGE
My nephew, Fred. Yes, he survived and my sister died. I don’t see him. Why are you
showing me these miserable moments?
To understand the present, learn from the past!
SCROOGE
Humbug!
Dear, dear. Come now, give us a smile! It wasn’t all bad! Here’s something to cheer you
up!
(SCROOGE is whirled into the next scene from his past.)
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SCENE 7.
MR. FEZZIWIG’S BANK.
(A cheerful bustling place. CUSTOMERS are completing their
banking business. MR. FEZZIWIG, a portly, jolly man, helps every
one.)
SCROOGE
Oh look, it’s old Fezziwig in his bank! Bless his heart. I was apprenticed here so many
years ago!
And who is that handsome young fellow there, with the light still in his eyes?
SCROOGE
Why, it’s me! And my partner, Jacob Marley! How young we look ...
(A lovely young woman, EMILY, enters the bank.)
And who, may I ask, is this pretty young thing?
SCROOGE
Oh, Spirit, why do you delight in torturing me? It is Emily …
SCROOGE AND YOUNG EBENEZER
Emily!
MR. FEZZIWIG
Break out the fiddle, Charley, and no more talk of business! The bank’s made a healthy
profit this year so it’s Christmas bonus time lads. Line up!
(YOUNG EBENEZER is first in the line. EMILY watches him with
pride.)
Well done, Young Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge, good work! Here’s your bonus. Buy yourself
another suit.
YOUNG EBENEZER
No, I’m saving my pennies, sir. For a rainy day.
MRS. FEZZIWIG
A rainy day, my boy? This is England! It rains every day!
MR. FEZZIWIG
Oh, very funny, my dear, very funny. And now, clear away, my lads and let’s have lots of
room here!!
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(A VIOLIN PLAYER plays his fiddle. More guests enter as
employees bustle around and clear the dance floor. The guests are from
all three classes of society—upper, middle and workingclass. All are
welcome here! Tables with food and drink are brought in.)
SCROOGE
Christmas at Fezziwig’s! Why does it still linger in my memory?
Watch.
(MRS. FEZZIWIG, a plump, comical woman, bustles in bearing a tray
of drinks.)
MRS FEZZIWIG
Drinkies!
MR. FEZZIWIG
Thank you, my dear! Friends!
(He kisses two PRETTY YOUNG WOMEN.)
My dear, dear friends!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
(Pulling FEZZIWIG from the girls.)
Oi — Shove off!
MR. FEZZIWIG’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BALL
MR. FEZZIWIG
A toast!
WE’RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
POUR SOME WINE AND HAVE YOURSELVES A BITE!
MR. AND MRS. FEZZIWIG
HERE’S TO ALL WHO’VE COME TO PAY A CALL:
(The three classes clink glasses.)
MR. FEZZIWIG’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BALL!
RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. - HO!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
WHERE DO BANKERS GALLIVANT LIKE BOYS?
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MR. FEZZIWIG
WHY DO VICARS MAKE A HOLY NOISE?
MRS. FEZZIWIG
WHAT’S SO HOT YOU’VE GOT TO SHED YOUR SHAWL?
RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. - HO!
MIDDLE CLASS
RAT TAT TAT TAT TA ... ETC. - HO!
UPPER CLASS
RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT?
WORKING CLASS
NO! ... RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. - HO!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
WHAT MAKES NANNIES
LAUGH UNTIL IT HURTS?
MR. FEZZIWIG
WHAT GETS GRANNIES
KICKING UP THEIR SKIRTS?
WHERE DO BABIES DANCE BEFORE THEY CRAWL?
ALL
FOOD AND FRIENDSHIP,
WINE AND SONG,
LOWER CLASS
NO ONE TURNED AWAY!
4 MEN & 1 WOMAN
NO ONE TURNED AWAY.
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MIDDLECLASS
WE LOOK FORWARD
ALL YEAR LONG
ALL
TO CHRISTMAS EVE WHEN
MRS. FEZZIWIG
MR. F. PUTS EVERY PENNY
TOWARD THE JOY AND GOOD OF MANY ...
HABERDASHER + 12 MEN
HABERDASHERS DASHING DOWN THE BEER,
FRIENDLY TARTS & MAIDS
PORTERS COURTING ANY GIRL WHO’S NEAR,
ALL
MAIDS AND MASTERS DANCING WALL TO WALL,
MRS. FEZZIWIG
MR. FEZZIWIG
Here we go, darlin’.
(A Dance Break.)
(To SCROOGE.)
Remember?
SCROOGE
Oh , Yes!
WORKING CLASS
RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC.
ALL
HO!
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MIDDLE CLASS
ALL
HO!
(Three grannies attempt the dance step but can’t manage it.)
MRS. FEZZIWIG
Come on Granny Chuzzelwit, pick up your skirts, my dear!
GRANNY CHUZZELWIT
I can’t. It’ll give me a heart attack!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
No it won’t, we’ll show you!
JUNIOR CLERK
It’s the Fezziwig Jig!
GRANNY PICKWICK
I can’t do it!
MRS. FEZZIWIG
Let’s give them something easier!
(They demonstrate a short dance.)
Come on, Granny Chuzzelwit!
GRANNY CHUZZELWIT
It’s too difficult!
GRANNY PICKWICK
I’ve got it! I’ve got it!
(The GRANNIES dance. One of them gets carried away and does a
cartwheel! Every one cheers.)
ALL
FEZZIWIG’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ...
(UPPERCLASS COUPLES take the floor and dance elegantly.)
A small matter to make these silly folks so happy.
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SCROOGE
Small? The happiness Fezziwig gives is as great as if it costs a fortune. An employer has
the power to render us happy or unhappy.
(SCROOGE sneezes.)
I should like to say a word or two to Bob Cratchit now.
(gently, with meaning)
Bless you.
(He hands SCROOGE a handkerchief. The floor is relinquished to
the WORKING CLASS MEN.)
ALL
MEN
HERE’S TO ALL WHO’VE COME TO PAY A CALL!
ALL
(All begin to move in slow motion, as YOUNG EBENEZER and
EMILY dance. SCROOGE moves closer to them. YOUNG
EBENEZER and EMILY stop dancing. He is about to ask her
something.)
YOUNG EBENEZER
Emily, I ...
(YOUNG EBENEZER is interrupted by the resumption of the
energetic dance.)
ALL
RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT ... ETC. HEARTS ARE BEATING,
CHEEKS ARE TURNING RED!
DANCING, LAUGHING,
WELCOME AND WELL-FED!
HO!
HO!
HO!
HO!
SUCH A GLAD TIME HAD BY ONE AND ALL!
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SCROOGE
IT’S THE FINEST BALL I CAN RECALL!
(A moment of suspended time…)
AND FOR JOY, THE PRICE IS ALWAYS SMALL!
ALL
MR. FEZZIWIG’S
SCROOGE
FEZZIWIG’S
ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS
BALL!
ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS
BALL!
ALL
RAT TA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA ... ETC. - HO!
(MR. and MRS. FEZZIWIG end up surrounded by the happy
throng.)
MRS. FEZZIWIG
Turn down the lights! Bring in the candles!
(Beautiful candelabra are brought in. Guests react with "Ahhh".)
Food’s ready!
(THE GUESTS fade away toward the feast as EMILY and YOUNG
SCROOGE find a moment together.)
MRS. FEZZIWIG (CON'T)
(To EMILY and YOUNG EBENEZER.)
Come along then, you two lovebirds.
(SCROOGE watches his young self.)
SCROOGE
WE LOOKED FORWARD
ALL YEAR LONG TO
CHRISTMAS EVE…
(SCROOGE sees Emily and YOUNG EBENEZER as they almost kiss.
YOUNG EBENEZER pulls away.)
YOUNG EBENEZER
My dear Emily, I have something important to ask you.
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EMILY
Ebenezer ...
A PLACE CALLED HOME
EBENEZER
I CAN ALMOST SEE,
WITH A RED FRONT DOOR,
AND A ROARING FIRE
AND A CHRISTMAS TREE.
EMILY
YES, A PLACE CALLED HOME,
FULL OF LOVE AND FAMILY
YOUNG EBENEZER
THEN THE DOOR OPENS WIDE
AND YOU’RE WAITING THERE FOR ME.
(YOUNG SCROOGE shows EMILY a ring.)
Marry me, Emily!
EMILY
Oh, yes, Ebenezer.
(He kisses her.)
YOUNG EBENEZER
But we must wait a while. I’m going to work and save. Never get into debt, never ...
EMILY
Shh ... I need so little to make me happy.
(He places ring on her finger.)
JUST A PLACE CALLED HOME
AND A LIFE FOR TWO
YOUNG EBENEZER
YOU’LL HAVE EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT
EMILY
ALL I WANT IS YOU.
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EMILY, YOUNG EBENEZER
AND A PLACE CALLED HOME
YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE
EMILY
IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT
LET YOUR HEART COME HOME TO ME.
(EMILY and EBENEZER embrace.)
SCROOGE
(longingly)
THROUGH THE YEARS,
I’VE RECALLED THIS DAY
IN YOUR ARMS
WHEN I FIN’LLY FOUND MY WAY ...
TO A PLACE CALLED HOME
SCROOGE
TO A PLACE CALLED HOME ...
YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE
EMILY
IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT
LET YOUR HEART COME HOME TO ME,
TO THE PLACE IN MY HEART
WHERE YOU’RE ALWAYS HOME WITH ME.
(They kiss at last.)
SCENE 8
SCROOGE AND MARLEY, LTD.
Ah, Emily. Your old flame, ha ha!
WHAT A LOVELY NIGHT!
HAPPINESS AND LIGHT.
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GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST (CON'T)
EMILY WAS ALL YOU’D EVER NEED!
BUT REMEMBER THE WAY YOUR LIFE WOULD LEAD ...
Read, Ebenezer, read!
(THE GHOST holds out the book and SCROOGE looks deep into its
pages. ALL exit except YOUNG EBENEZER, EMILY, GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS PAST AND SCROOGE. YOUNG JACOB
MARLEY appears.)
SCROOGE
To my partnership with Jacob Marley.
(YOUNG EBENEZER and YOUNG MARLEY take up positions
behind two money windows.)
YOUNG MARLEY
Good morning, Mr. Scrooge.
YOUNG EBENEZER
Good morning, Mr. Marley.
WHAT A FINE DAY!
YOUNG MARLEY
LINE AT THE DOOR, SIR.
BOTH
READY FOR BUSINESS?
YES, INDEED!
YOUNG MARLEY
MONEY TO MAKE.
YOUNG EBENEZER
MONEY GALORE, SIR!
BOTH
MONEY FOR ALL WE’LL EVER NEED!
MARLEY AND SCROOGE
PERFECTLY SUITED,
GENTLEMEN WITH ONE GAME TO PLAY:
PROFIT, YES, AND NOTHING LESS,
AND HUMBUG! IF WE DON’T DO WELL TODAY!
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(Many CREDITORS enter with bags of cash and bundles of bank
note and approach YOUNG MARLEY and YOUNG EBENZER at
their windows as SCROOGE watches.)
Link by link, year by year, creditor after creditor, your partnership flourished, and your
fortune grew.
CREDITOR
I’D LIKE TO BORROW TEN, SIR.
I’LL PAY YOU BACK AGAIN, SIR.
YOUNG EBENEZER
Ten pounds, plus interest.
A GROUP OF CREDITORS
HERE’S HALF THAT I DID BORROW.
I’LL BRING THE REST TOMORROW.
YOUNG MARLEY
Kindly see that you’re prompt.
ALL
I NEED A BIT OF TIME, SIR!
YOU KNOW MY CREDIT’S PRIME, SIR!
YOUNG EBENEZER
Sign here.
(And now, MR. and MRS. FEZZIWIG approach the window.)
MR. FEZZIWIG
I’VE FALLEN DEEP IN DEBT, SIR.
I SWEAR I’LL PAY YOU YET, SIR!
I HELPED YOU BOTH GET STARTED!
WHAT’S MADE YOU SO HARD-HEARTED?!
Why, Ebenezer, why?
(MR. FEZZIWIG pays his debt. Mrs. Fezziwig pulls him away, and
they join the growing chorus.)
DO NOT TURN AWAY.
HERE’S THE PRICE YOU PAY.
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GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST (CON'T)
HERE’S ANOTHER SHADOW YET TO SEE ...
COME REMEMBER ...
SCROOGE
(EMILY moves toward YOUNG EBENEZER.)
Spirit! Show me no more! I spared no time for her!
EMILY
YOU LOVE
NOTHING QUITE SO MUCH AS GOLD.
WELL, I
HAVE SOME GOLD TO BRING ...
FROM DAYS LONG BEFORE
OUR DREAMS GREW COLD,
I GIVE YOU
YOUR RING ...
(She hands her engagement ring back to him.)
SCROOGE
Emily, no ...
EMILY
BLESS YOU, EBENEZER ...
(EMILY joins the crowd.)
SCROOGE
(To YOUNG EBENEZER.)
Fool! Fool!
(The GHOST of MARLEY suddenly appears, walking through the
creditors.)
SCROOGE
No, Jacob. No!
(GHOST OF MARLEY looms behind YOUNG MARLEY, who
clutches his heart. YOUNG MARLEY falls to the floor, and is
replaced by THE GHOST OF MARLEY.)
My only friend!
ALL CREDITORS
VOICES FROM THE PAST
CALLING YOU AT LAST,
VOICES OF THE ONES WHO LOVED YOU SO.
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ALL CREDITORS (CON'T)
COME REMEMBER
GROUP #1
GROUP #2
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
SCROOGE
No, No, Nooo…!
(The PEOPLE FROM SCROOGE'S PAST disappear as SCROOGE
tries to escape the clutches of the GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST.)
These are shadows of the things that have been. They are what they are! They are what they
are. Do not blame me. They are what they are ... Do not blame me ...
(SCROOGE manages to make the GHOST vanish the same way he
came. He checks cautiously to make sure THE GHOST is really gone,
but he pops out again, startling SCROOGE.)
“They are what they are!”
(SCROOGE finally vanquishes THE GHOST once and for all, but is
now left desolate and alone.)
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SCENE 9.
A STARRY NIGHT
SCROOGE
WELL, THE PAST IS THE PAST
AND THE GOOD THINGS NEVER LAST
SPIRIT, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME SEE?
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!
(A clock strikes TWO.)
When the clock strikes two ... the Ghost of Christmas Present.
(SCROOGE hears hearty laughter. The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS
PRESENT appears out of the mist, sitting in Scrooge's own chair,
holding Scrooge’s meager pot of gruel. He is large, jovial and wears a
long cape and a wreath on his head. He is played by the same actor who
plays the SANDWICHBOARD MAN.)
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Boo!
(The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT tastes the gruel and spits
it out.)
YOU CALL THIS CHRISTMAS DINNER?
THIS MEASLY POT OF GRUEL?!
YOU AREN’T JUST A SINNER,
YOU’RE AN OUTRIGHT FOOL!
WHY, THE PRESENT’S FULL OF PLEASURES!
THINGS TO SEE, ENJOY AND TASTE!
AND AT CHRISTMAS, NO ONE MEASURES
HIS WALLET OR HIS WAIST!
SO I’VE DONE YOU JUST A TEENY TINY FAVOR!
SCROOGE
Aren’t you ...
OH, DON’T THANK ME.
IT’S NOTHING AT ALL.
JUST A FEW DELICIOUS THINGS TO SAVOR.
DON’T WORRY.
I PROMISE ...
THEY’RE SMALL!
You have never seen the likes of me before!
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SCROOGE
Never.
(FOUR ELVES bring in a giant cornucopia of CHRISTMAS
GOODIES: fruit, turkeys, baubles, holly. etc.)
Ebenezer Scrooge, are you ready to go forth with me?
SCROOGE
Spirit, I will go with you freely. Conduct me where you will. If you have ought to teach
me, let me profit by it.
Excellently said, Mr. Scrooge. Touch my robe!
(The CHRISTMAS GOODIES come to life and begin to dance.)
ABUNDANCE! CHARITY!
GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN!
ENJOYMENT! HILARITY!
COME SHARE SOME,
SPARE SOME,
NO MATTER WHEN, BEN!
GET WITH THE SPIRIT
‘CAUSE YOU’RE GONNA HEAR IT AGAIN! AGAIN !
THERE’S A JOYFUL SPIRIT IN YOUR HEART!
MY FRIEND, THAT SPIRIT’S MINE!
DINE ON THE BREAD OF HUMAN KINDNESS,
MY FABULOUS FRUIT OF THE VINE!
A TREAT, SIR!
A SWEET, SIR!
A LITTLE INDULGENCE AND THEN,
ABUNDANCE! CHARITY!
(The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT rings the bell.)
Ebenezer, ring that Bell !
(A Dance break, during which the CHRISTMAS GOODIES reveal
that they are actually beautiful DANCING GIRLS.)
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GHOST
ABUNDANCE!
CHARITY!
DANCING GIRLS
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
DANCING GIRLS AND GHOST
ABUNDANCE! CHARITY!
ENJOYMENT! HILARITY!
COME SHARE SOME,
SPARE SOME,
NO MATTER WHEN, BEN!
GET WITH THE SPIRIT
‘CAUSE YOU’RE GONNA HEAR IT AGAIN!
(A Dance Break.)
FILL YOUR PLATE,
COME ON AND CELEBRATE
A VERY, MERRY TIME.
ALL THE JOYS YOU NEVER DARED
TO MAKE THE MOST OF
GIRLS
HE’S THE GHOST OF!
LISTEN, BROTHER, MOTHER GOOSE
IS PLAYING AT THE PANTOMIME!
ANY LITTLE PLEASURE,
BROTHER YOU CAN PICK IT!
LIFE’S A BALL,
AND I’M YOUR TICKET!
(A Dance Break. GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT does
softshoe.)
Your turn, Ebenezer! Take it, Ebenezer!
(SCROOGE stamps petulantly, not wanting to join in, but the GIRLS
stamp with him, and in a second he’s caught up in the dance. And
much to his amazement, he almost likes it!)
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That’s the way to do it!
SCROOGE
Spirit, this is very unlike me!
GHOST AND DANCING GIRLS
WHEN YOU GET THE SPIRIT
YOU ARE GONNA WANT TO CHEER IT
AND YOU’RE NEVER GONNA WANT
TO LET IT STOP!
DANCING GIRLS
ABUNDANCE!
CHARITY!
FROM PAUPER TO
MILLIONAIRITY!
GHOST
ABUNDANCE!
CHARITY!
GHOST AND DANCING GIRLS
COME SPEND SOME,
LEND SOME,
YOU’LL GET THE YEN, BEN!
GET WITH THE SPIRIT
'CAUSE YOU'RE GONNA HEAR IT ...
DANCING GIRLS
AGAIN !
AND AGAIN!
AND AGAIN!
GHOST
ABUNDANCE!
CHARITY!
DANCING GIRLS
AHHHHHHHHHH ...
AHHHHHHHHHH ...
(Handing SCROOGE presents.)
Merry Christmas, Ebenezer!
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GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, GIRLS
TOWARD MEN!
TOWARD MEN!
(The Cratchit House appears, a humble but cozy domicile. TINY TIM
leans from a window, singing. SCROOGE and THE GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS PRESENT see him.)
TINY TIM
LA LA LA LA ... ETC.
SCROOGE
That child, who is he?
Why that’s Bob Cratchit’s son, Mr. S. That’s Tiny Tim.
(SCROOGE and THE GHOST watch as TINY TIM hobbles across
his little upstairs room on crutches. His legs are in heavy leather
braces.)
Come with me, Mr. Scrooge. If only you’d open your eyes, Christmas Present is right
outside your window. Come.
SCENE 10.
CHRISTMAS TOGETHER
TINY TIM
OH, WHAT A DAY,
I DON’T CARE IF IT’S GRAY,
IF IT’S CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
PEOPLE WILL SAY
WE’RE THE LUCKIEST FAMILY IN TOWN.
MOTHER IS MAKING A PERFECT FEAST,
AND WEARING HER LOVELIEST GOWN!
AND FATHER WILL COME AND HE’LL CARRY ME DOWN
TO CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
(BOB CRATCHIT comes upstairs.)
SCROOGE
Cratchit never told me Tiny Tim was ill.
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He tried. You didn’t listen.
CRATCHIT
Come along then, Tiny Tim. Every one is waiting for you, my boy. Up you jump! On
our way then! Look who’s here!
(CRATCHIT carries him down stairs. All greet TIM noisily, lovingly,
and seat him at the head of the table.)
HERE’S TO THE LAD
WHO MAKES EVERY ONE GLAD
THAT IT’S CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
MRS. CRATCHIT
HERE’S TO THE ONE DAY
WE DON’T GIVE OUR WORRIES A THOUGHT!
(She proudly displays the Christmas pudding she has made.)
CRATCHIT CHILDREN
Pudding!
MR. AND MRS. CRATCHIT
CHICKEN, THE FINEST IN LONDON, CHILDREN!
CRATCHIT
LOOK WHAT YOUR MOTHER HAS WROUGHT!
MRS. CRATCHIT
AND LOOK WHAT SURPRISES YOUR FATHER HAS BROUGHT
MR. AND MRS. CRATCHIT
FOR CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
(They hand out Christmas “crackers” to the children.)
CRATCHIT KIDS
Crackers!
(They pop the Christmas Cracker, compare prizes and put on the small
paper crowns which fall out of the crackers.)
TINY TIM
BLESS THIS FAM’LY,
BLESS THIS FEAST AND
CHEERS!
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ALL CRATCHITS
Cheers!
TO THE JOY OF YOUR COMPANY!
TINY TIM
BLESS US ALL, FROM FIRST TO LEAST.
CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM
YES, HERE’S
ADD MRS. CRATCHIT
HOW THE WORLD OUGHT TO BE-ALL CRATCHITS
SHARING CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
Lucky boy!
(THE GHOST gives SCROOGE his own Christmas cracker as
DANCING GIRLS segue to The Streets of London. A GROUP OF
WEALTHY PEOPLE enter, followed by COOKS.)
DOWN EVERY LANE
EVERY TOM, DICK, AND JANE’S
OFF TO CHRISTMAS TOGETHER
LOOK, THEY’RE AS GLAD
AS CANARIES LET OUT OF A CAGE !
WEALTHY PEOPLE
NICE TO RELAX FROM THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
HAVEN’T HAD FUN FOR AN AGE!
COOKS
OR STUFFIN’
1 COOK
WITH ONIONS
1 COOK
AND RAISINS
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1 COOK
AND SAGE
COOKS AND WEALTHY PEOPLE
AND CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
(Four CONVIVIAL DRUNKS appear, coming down the alley.)
ALL DRUNKS
NICE TO HAVE GOT
SUCH A COMF’TABLE SPOT
FOR OUR CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
DRUNK
SHARIN’ A MORSEL OF BREAD AND A JIGGER OF GIN!
DRUNK
I love you!
SALVATION ARMY FOLKS
GIVING THE NEEDY A NICE HOT MEAL
AND SAVING THE SINNERS FROM SIN!
4 SAILORS, 2 LOWER CLASS LADIES
AND AIN’T IT A BLESSIN’
THE SHIP MADE IT IN
FOR CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
Look, Mr. S! All over London!
(THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT points out celebrations
all over London—on the streets, in lit windows, everywhere.)
ALL
BLESS THIS FAM’LY,
BLESS THIS FEAST AND
CHEERS!
TO THE JOY OF YOUR COMPANY!
BLESS US ALL FROM FIRST TO LEAST.
YES, HERE’S
HOW THE WORLD OUGHT TO BE -SHARING CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
(A DANCE BREAK. with SAILORS and LOWER CLASS
LADIES. Fred’s household appears.)
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FRED’S FAMILY
SCROOGE
(Hesitantly)
GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE.
FRED
A toast, friends! A toast to my wicked old Uncle Scrooge.
SCROOGE
Wot?
SALLY
(Over Fred’s family’s objections.)
Shame on him! He said Christmas is a humbug!
FRED
He’s a comical old fellow! But, he is family!
HERE’S TO HIS HEALTH
EVEN THOUGH HE PUTS WEALTH
OVER CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
FRED & FRED’S GUEST
SAD WHEN A FELLOW HAS NOTHING
TO LOVE BUT HIS GOLD.
SALLY
YEAR UPON YEAR, YOU INVITE HIM HERE!
FRED’S KID
I HOPE THAT HIS DINNER GETS COLD!
FRED
WELL, HERE’S TO THE YEAR
WHEN OLD SCROOGE MAY BEHOLD
ANDERSONS & GUESTS
A CHRISTMAS TOGETHER!
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FRED
My dear family, here’s to Uncle Scrooge, wherever he may be!
ALL OTHERS
GATHER AND SING
OF THIS GLORIOUS THING
KNOWN AS CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
FAM’LIES CREATED BY FRIENDSHIP
AS WELL AS BY BIRTH.
WOMEN AND TENORS
EVEN THE POOREST ARE RICH IN LOVE.
ALL
OF LOVE, THERE IS NEVER A DEARTH.
SO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS
FOR ALL THAT IT’S WORTH-MEN
TO FRIENDSHIP!
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
TO FAMILY!
MEN
TO CHRISTMAS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
TOGETHER!
ALL
TOGETHER!
ALL OVER
THE EARTH!
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GROUP 1
GATHER AND SING OF THIS
GLORIOUS THING
GROUP 2
GATHER AND SING OF THIS
GLORIOUS THING
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
TOGETHER
TOGETHER
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS
TOGETHER
TOGETHER
(People begin to exit in happy groups, their voices fading.)
CRATCHIT
I give you the founder of the feast, Mr. Scrooge.
MRS. CRATCHIT
I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon.
CRATCHIT
My dear, the children, Christmas day!
MRS. CRATCHIT
I’ll drink to his health for your sake but not for his. Mr. Scrooge ...
ALL FAMILY
Mr. Scrooge!
TINY TIM
God bless Mr. Scrooge!
SCROOGE
God bless Mr. Scrooge!
CRATCHIT
And now it’s bed time, Son.
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TINY TIM
Right oh, Father!
(CRATCHIT picks up TINY TIM and carries him upstairs.
SCROOGE and THE GHOST watch as CRATCHIT tenderly places
TINY TIM on his little bed and unbuckles his leg braces.)
SCROOGE
I NEVER KNEW
THERE WAS ANYTHING TO
SPENDING CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
EVEN THIS CHILD WHO HAS NOTHING
HAS SO MUCH TO SHARE.
WHAT IS THIS FEELING
THAT OVERWHELMS ME?
HE LOOKS AS FRAGILE AS AIR.
HOW GENTLY HIS FATHER
IS PLACING HIM THERE ...
Poor child.
Poor child. One of many.
(GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT pulls his robe open, revealing
two children in a desperate state, their hands outstretched for alms.)
SCROOGE
Spirit, are they yours?
They are Everyman’s. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, but
most of all beware this boy, for Ignorance shall be mankind’s doom!
SCROOGE
Have they no refuge, no resource?
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
CRATCHIT
(kissing his son)
Goodnight, son. Merry Christmas.
TINY TIM
Goodnight, dear Father. Happy Christmas.
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SCROOGE
And Tiny Tim? Will he live?
He’d be better to die and decrease the surplus population!
SCROOGE
You mock me with my own words ...
Who are you to decide who shall live and who shall die? If these shadows remain unaltered
by the future, the child will die!
SCROOGE
No, wait! What must I do? Tell me! What must I do?
(THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT leaves with the two
children. SCROOGE is left alone on an eerie, desolate street, his own.)
What is this? What have I done to be left so alone.
(SCROOGE tries his doorknob, bangs on the front door three times.
Three clock chimes echo.)
When the clock strikes three ...
(The BLIND OLD HAG taps her way towards him down the street.)
I know you. I’ve seen you before. I fear you more than any ghost I have seen. I hope to
live to be another man from what I was, but the night is waning fast and it is precious time
to me.
(The BLIND OLD HAG stops in front of him.)
SCENE 11.
ST. PAUL’S GRAVEYARD.
(Gravestones appear, looming through the mist.)
MONKS (chant)
AHHHHH ...
(The sound of shovels is heard as GRAVEDIGGERS appear, digging a
grave. Hooded MONKS enter, chanting.)
MALE MONKS
LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM OF
THE SHOVEL IN THE GRAVEL
AND THE MURMURS OF THE
SPIRITS THAT YOU FEAR,
DANCING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE FUTURE.
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MALE MONKS (CON'T)
YOUR FUTURE
LIES HERE!
LISTEN TO THE ECHOES
OF THE VOICES IN THE SHADOWS,
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO
YOU NEVER TRIED TO SAVE!
LISTEN TO THE FOOTSTEPS
OF THE PEOPLE WHO’LL BE
DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE!
(The BLIND OLD HAG transforms into the GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS FUTURE—a beautiful, terrifying wraith. She dances
as the MONKS and GRAVEDIGGERS continue to sing.)
ALL MONKS
LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM
OF THE HAMMER ON THE COFFIN
(The MONKS part to reveal a coffin. The GHOST dances on it.)
AND THE MURMUR OF THE PEOPLE DRAWING NEAR.
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE LIES HERE!
LISTEN TO THE ECHOES
OF THE VOICES OF THE FUTURE
AS THEY CURSE YOU FOR THE LITTLE
THAT YOU GAVE!
ALL MONKS AND GRAVEDIGGERS
LISTEN TO THE FOOTSTEPS
OF THE PEOPLE
WHO’LL BE DANCING ON YOUR
GRAVE!
SCROOGE
I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Be?
(SHE bows her head in acknowledgment.)
I know your purpose is to do me good.
LEAD ME TO THE FUTURE.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT HELLS AWAIT ME
BUT I KNOW I HAVE TO GO THERE TO RETURN!
TEAR ME INTO SHREDS AND RE-CREATE ME!
TELL ME THAT IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO LEARN!
I CAN FEEL THE SHIVER
OF A SHADOW PASSING OVER
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SCROOGE (CON'T)
AND I HAVE A PREMONITION IT’S FOR ME!
LEAD ME TO THE FUTURE!
SHOW ME EVERYTHING I’M TERRIFIED TO SEE!
MONKS (chant)
AHHHHHH ...
(TWO BUSINESS MEN—ones we have seen in the ROYAL
EXCHANGE-- and the BEADLE appear.)
BUSINESSMAN 1
DIDN’T HE DIE?
BUSINESSMAN 2
DIDN’T WHO DIE, SIR?
BUSINESSMAN 1
TERRIBLE, MEAN OLD WHAT’S HIS NAME?
BUSINESSMAN 2
COULDN’T CARE LESS!
BEADLE
NEITHER COULD I, SIR!
FUNERAL DAY, AND NO ONE CAME!
BUSINESSMEN 1
WHAT DID HE LEAVE?
BUSINESSMAN 2
NOBODY KNOWS AND
NOBODY CHOSE TO MOURN HIS FATE!
SCROOGE
I know those gentlemen from the Exchange! Of whom do they speak? What am I to learn
from this?
BUSINESSMEN 1 & 2
HAVE A NICE DAY.
BEADLE
HAVE A NICE CHRISTMAS!
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ALL
LOOK AT THE TIME, I’M LATE!
(A corpse on a bed is revealed. MRS. MOPS and the
UNDERTAKERS approach the corpse, and strip it of its clothes and
bedclothes. The corpse is dumped aside unceremoniously. Finally, the
bed itself is dismantled.)
SCROOGE
Who has died?
MRS. MOPS
SHAME TO LET A SHIRT LIKE THIS
GO IN THE GROUND!
2 UNDERTAKERS
GRAB THE SHEETS AND CURTAINS OFF HIS BED!
MRS. MOPS
WASN’T WORTH YOUR SPIT WHILE HE WAS STILL
AROUND,
ALL THREE
BUT JUST LOOK HOW MUCH HE’S
WORTH NOW THAT HE’S DEAD!
OLD JOE
(Entering with his cart which is now laden with surreal skulls and
bones.)
Rags and bones ... Rags and bones ...
(MRS. MOPS and the UNDERTAKERS bring their booty to OLD
JOE.)
SCROOGE
Oh, merciful heaven, what is this?
MRS. MOPS
Hey, Old Joe!
UNDERTAKERS
Whatcha think?!
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OLD JOE
THESE ARE NICE.
I’LL GIVE YOU THREE AND EIGHT, MUM.
THESE ARE NICE,
AND I’LL TAKE THESE BESIDES.
THESE ARE NICE,
AND THESE’LL FETCH A GREAT SUM!
ALL 4
WHAT A LOVELY PROFIT HE PROVIDES!
SCROOGE
I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own.
(We see BOB CRATCHIT and his family in the graveyard. They stand
before a grave with a small cross on it. CRATCHIT lays TINY TIM’S
crutch on the grave.)
CRATCHIT
NEVER HAD A FORTUNE
HIDDEN IN A SHOE.
MANY MEN HAVE FORTUNES.
ALL I HAD WAS YOU ...
(CRATCHIT breaks down over the coffin.)
CRATCHIT
We shall none of us forget you, Tiny Tim. My little child. My little child.
SCROOGE
Tiny Tim, dead?! No, no! His gentle spirit was from God! No!!
(Suddenly, with a giant roar, a huge tombstone rises. The MONKS
and GRAVEDIGGERS all exit.)
YESTERDAY, TOMORROW AND TODAY
SCROOGE
(Reads his own name on the tombstone.)
Ebenezer Scrooge. At last, I understand!
I HAVE SEEN A FUTURE FULL OF DARKNESS,
ALL THE DARKNESS OF MY HEART!
AT MY DOOR A WORLD IN NEED OF KINDNESS.
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SCROOGE (CON'T)
FROM MAN’S KINDNESS, I DEPARTED!
ALL THE HOURS AND DAYS AND YEARS I’VE WASTED!
ALL THE JOY AND LOVE I NEVER TASTED!
ALL THE ERRORS OF THE PAST REPLACED WITH
SOMETHING STRANGE....
GIVE ME TIME TO CHANGE!
I CAN SEE A FUTURE FULL OF BEAUTY,
AND MY SPIRIT STARTS TO FLY!
I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, YES, IT’S MY DUTY!
GOD FORGIVE ME!
LET ME TRY! I’LL
SPEND MY FORTUNE ON THE ONES WHO
NEED ME,
GO WHERE KINDNESS AND MY CONSCIENCE LEAD ME,
GIVE MY HEART AND SOUL TO ALL!
GOD SPEED ME
ON MY WAY,
AND TO GOD I PRAY,
LET THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT LIVE WITHIN ME,
YESTERDAY, TOMORROW AND TODAY!
(ANGELIC CHILD CHORISTERS appear, an epiphany for
SCROOGE.)
ANGELS
REMIND US OF MAN’S COMPASSION!
AND GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE!
ANGELS AND SCROOGE
REMIND US OF MAN’S COMPASSION!
AND GOD BLESS US EVERY ...
(The angels disappear as The GHOST of CHRISTMAS FUTURE
suddenly entangles SCROOGE in a white shroud. They struggle in the
“Sheet Dance.”)
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SCROOGE
(Screams)
AAHHHH ... !
SCENE 12.
SCROOGE’S BEDROOM. CHRISTMAS MORNING.
(SCROOGE wakes up on the floor, disoriented and unsure where he
is. At his front door he hears the small street urchin, JONATHON,
who knocks and begins to sing. SCROOGE runs to the door.)
JONATHON
SEE THE LAMPS AGLOW IN LONDON TOWN
AND HEAR EACH CAROLER SING.
SCROOGE
(interrupts him)
Boy, what day is this?
JONATHON
(nervous at seeing SCROOGE.)
Why, it’s Christmas Day, sir!
SCROOGE
Why it’s Christmas Day, sir! Then I haven’t missed it! The Spirits have done it all in one
night! They can do anything they like! Of course they can! Of course they can!
(SCROOGE babbles and dances, delirious with joy. JONATHON
watches him cautiously—the man is clearly mad!)
I will live in the past, present and the future. The Spirits of all three will strive within me.
Oh, Jacob Marley, heaven and Christmas time be praised for this! I don’t know what to
do! I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy. I
am as giddy as a drunken man. Boy, do you know the poulterers?
JONATHON
I should hope I did!
SCROOGE
An intelligent boy! A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize
turkey?
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JONATHON
Wot? The one as big as me?
SCROOGE
What a delightful boy! It’s a pleasure to talk to you! Yes, the one as big as you!
JONATHON
It’s hanging there still!
SCROOGE
How much is it?
JONATHON
Wot?
SCROOGE
How much is it?
JONATHON
About a sovereign, sir.
(SCROOGE runs and fetches his money box.)
SCROOGE
How much?!! Well, here are two sovereigns. Go buy it for me ... And ... and ... k ... k ... k
... k ...
(This is very hard for him to say.)
Keep the change!
JONATHON
Wot?
SCROOGE
And ... Merry Christmas!
JONATHON
Wot? Wot! Blimey!
(MRS. MOPS comes in with some Christmas fare as JONATHON
leaves.)
MRS. MOPS
(still indignant)
I brought you your slice o’ turkey and your bit o’ pudding.
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SCROOGE
Thank you, my dear, dear Mrs. Mops.
(SCROOGE kisses MRS. MOPS. A beat. SHE screams.)
And Merry Christmas!
(SCROOGE pinches her bum. MRS. MOPS screams again, but we
have a feeling she liked it! SCROOGE runs out of his house.)
SCENE 13.
(SCROOGE bounds down the street with joy.)
NOTHING TO DO WITH ME (REPRISE)
SCROOGE
WHAT A DAY, WHAT A SKY.
WHAT A HAPPY MAN AM I!
WHAT A JOY TO BE LIVE AND WELL!
GOD, WHAT A STREET!
WHAT FRIENDS YOU MEET!
WHAT A SOUND!
WHAT A LOVELY SMELL!
(He encounters the CHARITY MEN and gives them a donation.)
HERE ARE COINS
FOR THE POOR,
JUST THE FIRST OF MANY MORE,
AND A CHECK FOR YOUR CHARITY!
AND IF WE SAVE A FEW
LET IT ALL HAVE TO DO WITH ME!
(The CHARITY MEN can’t believe it.)
MRS. MOPS
(Running after SCROOGE with his hat and scarf.)
Mr. Scrooge your coat, your scarf!
(SHE sees the stunned CHARITY MEN.)
Oh my!
(THE SMYTHES see SCROOGE and try to avoid him. He catches
up with them.)
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SCROOGE
Smythe!
HEAR THE BELLS AS THEY CHIME.
MR. SMYTHE, YOU’RE OUT OF TIME!
AND YOU’RE NOW OUT OF DEBT AS WELL!
(He tears up their mortgage, gives them some money.)
GO BUY THE TOTS
A TOY. BUY LOTS!
HAVE A GOOD AND A FINE NOEL!
IF I’D KNOWN WHAT I KNOW
I’D HAVE DONE IT YEARS AGO!
I’M AS LIGHT AS A MAN CAN BE!
OH, THE WHOLE WORLD IS NEW
AND IT ALL HAS TO DO WITH ME
(He greets the SANDWICHBOARD MEN who stands amid a crowd
of children.)
Come on children! Follow me.
KIDS
Hooray!!!
(The LAMPLIGHTER, SANDWICHBOARD and BLIND OLD
HAG watch in wonder as SCROOGE goes by. SCROOGE goes out
into the audience, followed by CHILDREN and TOWNSFOLK.)
SANDWICHBOARD MAN
MR. SCROOGE WAS LAUGHIN’!
GAVE ME QUITE A FRIGHT!
LAMPLIGHTER
SOMETHING MADE HIM SEE THE LIGHT!
BLIND OLD HAG
MAYBE HE’S BEEN DRINKIN’!
GAVE ME QUITE A START!
ALL THREE
MAYBE CHRISTMAS TOUCHED HIS HEART!
(SCROOGE and TOWNSFOLK pass through the auditorium giving
candies and Christmas crackers to the children in the audience.)
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ALL (EXCEPT PAST AND PRESENT)
SEE THE LAMPS AGLOW IN LONDON TOWN
AND HEAR EACH CAROLER SING
BRING A HAPPY HEART TO LONDON TOWN
AND SPREAD YOUR KINDLY CHEER.
FOR CHRISTMAS DAY IS HERE
FOR CHRISTMAS DAY IS HERE
(A Dance Break.)
CHIMNEY SWEEPS
Knees up, Mr. Scrooge!
ALL (EXCEPT CHILDREN)
THERE’S A FIRE IN HIS SOUL,
AND A JOY HE CAN’T CONTROL,
FOR AT LAST HE HAS COME TO SEE ...
(SCROOGE returns to the stage.)
SCROOGE
EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU
WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO
WITH ME!
(Outside CRATCHIT’s house, SCROOGE is met by JONATHON
carrying the prize turkey.)
Oh look, the prize turkey! Well done, my lad ... follow me!
(SCROOGE knocks on Cratchit’s door. TINY TIM opens the door.
BOB CRATCHIT and the rest of the family come out as well.)
TINY TIM
Happy Christmas!
CRATCHIT
(upset to see his employer.)
Mr. Scrooge!
(MRS. CRATCHIT holds her children protectively.)
SCROOGE
(sternly)
Cratchit!
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CRATCHIT
What’s wrong?
SCROOGE
(Feigning anger.)
Where’ve you been? I thought I told you to come in early?
CRATCHIT
But, but ... that’s tomorrow! Today’s Christmas! It’s Christmas Day!
SCROOGE
Is it? Oh, dear. Well, silly me! Never mind. I’d better give you and your family a
Christmas present then!
(SCROOGE tosses the turkey to MRS. CRATCHIT who catches it
and nearly falls beneath its weight.)
MRS. CRATCHIT
The prize turkey!
(SCROOGE hands out gifts to the children and MR. CRATCHIT.
He picks up TINY TIM and kisses him.)
SCROOGE
A Merry Christmas, Bob! A merrier Christmas than I have given you for many a year! I’ll
raise your salary and endeavor to assist you and your struggling family from now on!
(BOB CRATCHIT faints!)
Bob, Bob?
(CRATCHIT comes to.)
Oh he’s all right!
CRATCHIT
(still stunned)
Oh yes…I’m fine!
SCROOGE
Come along children, follow me!!
(SCROOGE lifts TINY TIM onto his own shoulders, and followed by
the band of children, crosses to Fred’s house. On the way, SCROOGE
buys a bunch of violets. At the door, SCROOGE composes himself,
straightens his hat, takes a deep breath and knocks. FRED and SALLY
come to the door.)
FRED
Why, bless my soul, who’s this?
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SCROOGE
It is I, your Uncle Scrooge. I’ve come to Christmas dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?
FRED
THERE’S A PLACE IN MY HEART
WHERE YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN FOR ME.
(SCROOGE hands SALLY the violets. They’re meeting for the first
time.)
SCROOGE
Sally.
SALLY
We’re so very happy you’ve come.
FRED AND SALLY
WELCOME HOME, UNCLE SCROOGE,
WELCOME HOME TO FAMILY.
SCROOGE
Thank you.
TINY TIM
It’s snowing!
ALL KIDS
Snow! Snow!
(SCROOGE, TINY TIM and the CHILDREN build a snowman.)
CHRISTMAS TOGETHER (REPRISE)
ALL
GATHER AND SING
OF THIS GLORIOUS THING
KNOWN AS CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.
SHARE IN THE JOY OF THE SEASON
AND RING IN THE NEW!
EVEN THE POOREST ARE RICH IN LOVE
AND LOVE IS SO EASY TO DO.
HERE’S HOPING
THIS CHRISTMAS
YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
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MEN
FOR FRIENDSHIP
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
AND FAMILY
MEN
AND CHRISTMAS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
TOGETHER,
ALL
TOGETHER
FOREVER
FOR YOU!
TINY TIM
And God bless us, every one!
(The entire cast joins hands and sings.)
GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE (Full Version)
ALL (NO SOPRANOS)
AND GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE,
IN YOUR HEART THERE’S A LIGHT
AS BRIGHT AS A STAR IN HEAVEN.
LET IT SHINE THROUGH THE NIGHT
CHILDREN & 2 SOPRANOS
‘TIL EACH CHILD IS FED,
‘TIL ALL MEN ARE FREE,
ADD ALL
‘TIL THE WORLD BECOMES A FAMILY ...
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ALL (CON'T)
STAR BY STAR UP ABOVE
AND KINDNESS BY HUMAN KINDNESS,
LIGHT THIS WORLD WITH YOUR LOVE
GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE!
CHILDREN
GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE!
VOCAL BOOK
A Christmas Carol
–1–
No. 1
Overture
TACET
No. 2
Hear the Bells
Safety
& b 44
1
∑
2
.. Ó
Œ.
CAROLERS
œ œ ..
Hear the
? b 44
∑
.. Ó
4
b
& œœ œœ œœ œœ œœ
joy - ous - ly
they ring!
œ œ
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Œ.
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3
See the
‰ œ œ
œœ
bells all ov - er Lon - don Town, How
œœ œœ œœ œœ œ .. œœ
œ
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‰ œ œ
œ
5
œœ
lamps
œœ
œ
œœ
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a - glow
in
Lon - don Town
œœ œœ œœ œ .. œœ œ
œ
And
œ
œ
–2–
V/B
6
œ
b
& œ
œœ n œœ œœ n œ œ
œ œ
hear each car - o - ler
?b
&b
8
‰ œ œ
sing.
œœ
œœ
œœ œœ
œœ
œ œ
œ œ
?b
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˙
b˙
Day
is
near!
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˙˙
& b œœ
10
?b
12 œ
2
b
& 4 œ
Day
œ
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9
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11
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Heark - en
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44 13 ˙
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œ
œ
œ
while
you
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œœ
œ
heart
to
œœ
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œœ
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while
you
may,
œœ
œ
œœ
œ
œœ ..
œ.
œœ
Lon - don Town And
œœ œœ œœ œœ œœ .. œœ œ
Heark - en
is
œ
œ
hap - py
‰ œ œ
spread your kind - ly cheer!
œœ
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7
Bring a
œœ œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
œœ
#2—Hear the Bells
œœ . œœ œ
.
may,
œœ
œ
for Christ - mas
œ
œœ .. œœ œ
œœ
œ œœ
42
for Christ - mas
œ
œ
œ œ
œ œ
42
BEADLE: “Gentlemen,
the Royal Exchange
closes for Christmas in
30 minutes.”
U
Ó
14
∑
near!
44
˙
˙
U
Ó
∑
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Jolly Good Time
VOCAL BOOK
No. 3
–3–
A Christmas Carol
Jolly Good Time
A Tempo
SOLO BANKER #1:
b
& b b 44
1
SOLO BANKER #2:
¿
¿ ¿ ¿
¿
¿ ¿ ¿
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
What a good time! What a fine show!
Jol - ly good eve - ning, Gen - tle - men!
3 RICH WIVES:
&
3
bbb
œ
œ
œ
nice
that
once
œ œ œ
Is - n’t
it
CHARITY MEN:
bb 5 œ .
b
&
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J
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Fills
a
fel - low
&
7
bbb
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with
de
œ bœ œ œ
Ev’ - ry - one
sing
8
œ œ œ œ
Fa la la
la!
b
&bb
n œœœ
Œ
light!
œ œ œ
a bup
¿. ¿ ¿
¿
œ
bum!
Hip
hip
hoo - rah!
(Entrance of OTHER RICH WIVES)
j
œ ‰Œ Ó
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ. œ
Eve!
˙
-
˙
Christ - mas
6
Rup
10
9
œ
œ
it’s
œ.
ALL:
4
œ
œ
a - gain
œ
+ Celeste, Strs (pizz)
BEADLE:
2
3
11
b
Know-ing we’ll have a jol-ly good time to - night!
14
RICH WOMEN:
œ œ œ
&b
œ
What a good time!
&b œ œ œ
16
Giv - ing out
œ
œ œ œ
What a fine
15
day!
Get - ting a
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
gifts
is
so
much
fun
œ
on
17
œ
gift
for
œ
Christ - mas
ev’ - ry - one.
œ
Eve!
Œ
–4–
V/B
.
&b œ
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J
œ
Fills
a
fel - low
CHARITY MEN:
18
œ
œ.
œ
with
de
œ
& b œ bœ œ
Ev’ - ry - one
œ œ œ œ
sing
Fa la
ALL:
&b
22
24
la!
Rup
a
œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ.
Know - ing we’ll
have
a
jol - ly good
time
26
œœ
œœ
œœ
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the
Lord
our
Œ
Ó
j
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˙
-
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n œœœ
bup
œ
bus’
bum!
œ
to
-
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¿
¿.
¿ ¿
Hip
hip
hoo - rah!
j
œ ‰ Œ
23
œœ
25
Œ
light!
œ œ œ
21
BUSINESSMEN (NO FEMALE BANKERS):
&b
&b
la
19
MEN:
WOMEN (NO FEMALE BANKERS):
20
#3—Jolly Good Time
Ó
night!
œœ
œœ
œœ
ness
has
been
∑
27
keen!
CLEANING LADIES:
‰ nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
&b
Oh, what
a
kind
em - ploy - er!
BUSINESSMEN
(NO FEMALE BANKERS):
œœ b œœ b œœ
b
&b
œœ
28
Thank
the
Lord
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
‰J
b
Œ
&
(ALL:)
Ma- jes-ty,
&b
the Queen!
∑
29
and
31
‰ nœ
We’ll work
b œœ bb œœ n œœ n œœ
bless
and
œ œ œ œ œ
œ
keep
the
Í
œ œ œ œ ˙
What a goodtime!
Í
GROUP 2:
Ó
œ œ œ œ
What a goodtime!
˙
b ˙˙
30
fo’
33
¿
‰ J
Œ
Her
Í
œ œœ œ ˙
What a fine day!
˙
yer!
ALL:
Queen!
GROUP 1:
32
for - ev - er
,
Í,
œ œœ œ
What a fine day!
–5–
V/B
ALL:
& b œj œ
j
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the poor
a
34
Giv - ing
&b
>
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37
wealth - y
do
40 CHARITY MEN:
Fills
a
œ
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coin
or
two!
38
on
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35
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>
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¿ ¿. ¿ ¿
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b
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&
J
Rup a bup bum! Hip hip hoo - rah!
œ
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Cha - ri - ty’s
what
we
mas
n œœœ Œ
42
˙.
Œ
Eve!
ALL:
œ bœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Ev’ - ry - one sing
Fa la la la!
ALL:
+MEN:
43
œ œ œ
39
-
fel - low with de - light!
WOMEN
(NO FEMALE BANKERS):
36
˙
Christ
41
Œ
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . œ bbbb
44
Know - ing we’ll have a jol - ly good time to
-
MR. SMYTHE: "Excuse me, Gentlemen, I'm looking for Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.
Don't worry, my love, I'm sure he'll be sympathetic."
45
b
& b bb
j
œ ‰
Œ
Ó
3
46
night!
BUSINESSMAN: "Scrooge? Sympathetic? This gentleman's looking for the sympathetic Ebenezer Scrooge!"
b
& b bb
5
49
42
SCROOGE: "Cratchit! CRACHIT: "Sorry, Mr. Scrooge."
Hurry up dammit!"
(SCROOGE enters)
b b b 2 54
b
&
4
59
∑
55
U
∑
56
U
∑
57
U
∑
BANKER:
"Merry Christmas,
Mr. Scrooge!"
SCROOGE: "Merry
Christmas? ... "
58
U
∑
44
SCROOGE: (Cont'd) "My dear sir, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips
should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart." (CRACHIT sneezes)
b
& b b b 44
4
–6–
V/B
CRATCHIT:
SCROOGE: (cont'd) CRATCHIT: SCROOGE:
"You'll want tomorrow off, I suppose?" "Well, if it's quite convenient, sir!"
"Yes, sir?"
"Cratchit ... "
b
& b bb
4
63
MR. SMYTHE:
SCROOGE: "Speak swiftly, the
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Scrooge.
SCROOGE:
exchange is closing early."
"It is not convenient ... " May I speak with you a moment, sir?"
&
67
bbbb
Vamp
3
71
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∑
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72
Mis - ter Scrooge, my
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& b4
wife
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2
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nœ.
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I
need
more
77
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a
82
-
Tomorrow. Nine AM."
Christ
&
bbbb
-
89
Thank
the Lord our
∑
œ œ œ
.. 44
∑
90
œ
84
n˙
#˙ #˙
n˙
Scrooge says
pay,
sir…
SCROOGE: "You'll learn soon enough, child,
that Christmas is a HUMBUG!"
87
88 ALL: (Gasp!)
U
∑
#˙
n˙
Day,
ALL: (shocked)
bœ nœ œ
b bœ
b
& b bbb
86
mas
83
bout my child - ren?
GRACE SMYTHE &
MR. SMYTHE:
#˙
you…
BEADLE:
MR. SMYTHE:
b 85
& b bbb # ˙
pay
.. 4280 ..
81
Please, sir, what
to
œ
Vamp
2
œ
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J
time
SCROOGE: "Am I a Charity? Am I the State? Your
mortgage is due the twenty-fifth of every month.
b b b .78
b
& b .
42
has died…
MR. SMYTHE:
76
Sir,
b
& b b b b 44
SCROOGE:
"And what,
Mr. Smythe?"
MR. SMYTHE:
"I need to pay her
funeral expenses and … "
j
œ
MR. SMYTHE:
b
& b b b b 44 œ œ n œ .
.. b b b b b 44
∑
70
∑
sir!
œ œ œ
œ
pro - fits have been
∑
91
j
œ ‰ Œ
Ó
huge!
SCROOGE: (loudly)
‰ nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
You owe me in - t’rest too, sir.
–7–
V/B
&
bbbb
b
∑
92
ALL: (softly)
#œ nœ #œ
93
Thank
(SCROOGE:)
b
& b bbb ‰ n œ œ
œ
94
the Lord we’re
#œ nœ bœ Aœ
not
a
bit
∑
œ œ œ œ œ
like
∑
Your pay - ment’s ov - er - due, sir.
b
& b bbb
œ ‰ Œ
J
95
Ó
∑
96
97
Scrooge!
b
& b bbb
¥
bbb
(Gasp!)
‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ nœ
‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
(loudly)
If you don’t plan to pay, sir,
bbb
∑
the law will find a way, sir!
ALL (EXCEPT BEADLE):
98
b
&bb œ œ œ
œ
Nev - er mind him,
œ
œ œ œ
99
ne - ver mind that!
No - thing at
all
can spoil our day,
CHARWOMEN:
b b 100
b
&
œ œ œ
ev - en
&
bbb
ALL:
102
œ.
Leave
if
œ
Scrooge
œ
œ
be - haves
101
œ
œ
œ
that
way
on
œ
œ
Christ - mas
Eve!
BEADLE: (Ringing the bell)
"The Royal Exchange is now closed!
Merry Christmas, Gentlemen!"
SCROOGE: "Cratchit!"
œ œ œ
J
œ œ
the Mis - er
to
104
24 103
˙
his
œ
Œ
105
b
& b b 44 œ A œ œ œ
Ev’ - ry - one sing
œ œ œ œ
Fa la la
b
& b b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ. œ
Vamp
..
∑
.. 44
plight!
106
108
˙
107
la!
109
œ œ œ
¿ ¿. ¿ ¿
œ
Rup a bup bum! Hip
w
Ev’- ry-one have a jolly good time to - night!
110
Ritard
w
hip
hoo - rah!
CHARITY MEN:
U
Ó Œ ‰ bœ. œ
111
We’re col –
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Charity Men (Bar 8)
VOCAL BOOK
No. 3a
8
A Christmas Carol
–8–
Charity Men
A Cappella Vocal
non-legato
œ œ
b
V b b b b b 44 œ œ
(CHARITY MEN:)
œ. œ œ
œ
lect - ing, sir, this Christ - mas - time, from
œ œ
? bbb4 œ œ
bbb 4
œ. œ œ
gent - le - men in town.
œ
œ œ œ œ œ
? bbb4 œ œ œ œ
bbb 4
œ. œ œ
10
need - y
? bbb
bbb
of
Lon - don, sir,
now
œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ "nœ
need - y
? bbb
bbb
poor
poor
of
Lon - don, sir,
now
œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ " œ
need - y
poor
of
Lon - don, sir,
now
œ
‰ œ
For the
œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ " œ
For the
b
V b bbbb
9
11
œ
œ
what shall
œ
we
œ
what shall
we
Œ
œ
Œ
put down?
œ œ
we
œ
put down?
œ nœ œ
what shall
œ
œ œ
For the
œ
put down?
Œ
–9–
V/B
SCROOGE: "Nothing!"
b
V b bbbb Ó
12
Œ
A Tempo
(CHARITY MEN:)
‰ œ
œ
13
You would
? bbb Ó
bbb
Œ
‰ œ
œ
You would
? bbb Ó
bbb
Œ
‰ œ
œ
You would
b
V b bbbb œ œ œ œ
14
p
œ ‰ œ
J
kind - ness left un - known!
? bbb œ œ œ œ
bbb
#3A—Charity Men
He'd
p
œ ‰ œ
J
He'd
p
? b b b œ œ œ œ nœ ‰ œ
bbb
J
He'd
œ
œ
œ
œ
like
to
be
an - on
œ
œ
œ
œ
like
to
be
an - on
œ
œ
œ
œ
like
to
be
an - on
œ.
œ
œ œ
-
œ.
y - mous. Your
œ
œ œ
-
œ.
y - mous. Your
œ œ
-
œ
y - mous. Your
SCROOGE: "I'd like to be
left alone!!"
15
œ
œ œ œ œ œ. œ
16
U
˙
Ó
like to be an - on - y - mous!
œ
œ œ œ œ œ. œ
U̇
Ó
œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ
U̇
Ó
SEGUE
–10–
VOCAL BOOK
A Christmas Carol
No. 4-4e
Nothing To Do With Me
(Complete – Parts 1-6)
1st CHARITY MAN: “Alone?”
2nd CHARITY MAN: “But sir, it's Christmas ... ”
3rd CHARITY MAN: (overlap) “It’s Christmas eve ... ”
SCROOGE: “I don’t make merry myself at Christmas.
I can't afford to make idle people merry.”
A CHARITY MAN: “But the poor of London, sir ... ”
SCROOGE: “Gentlemen. Are there
In 2
no prisons? Are there no
workhouses?”
SCROOGE: (sings)
b 4 1 ..
b
& 4
U " 2
.. Ó
∑
U "
Œ
3
œ œ
If
j
b4
b
&
beg up - on
the street
b
&b œ œ œ œ œ
7
If they re - fuse to
or
8
ap
5
-
the
poor
œ œ œ
have
œ œ œ
œ
ply
œ œ œ œ
œ
at
to
eat,
6
œ
the work - house
let
them
Œ
b˙.
door.
9
earn, then let them
œ œ
10
œ œ œ œ œ
˙.
learn what a pri - son’s
for!
œ œ
I ab -
11
b
&b œ œ œ
œ
œ œ
hor how they whine! How they
b 14 ˙
b
.
&
free?
œ œ œ œ œ œ
12
œ œ
Let them
15
œ
want what-ever's mine! Why should
œ œ3
beg
13
œ œ3 œ
œ
'til they're blue!
It
has
16
œ œ œ œ œ
I give a thing for
œ œ3 œ œ
no - thing to
do
œ
with
SCROOGE: “I say let them die, and decrease the surplus population! Good afternoon!”
&
17
bb w
me!
18
4
24
Vamp
..
∑
.. n n
–11–
V/B
#4—Nothing To Do With Me
25
CRATCHIT:
& œ . œj œ
Mis - ter
&
29
26
œ
Scrooge,
j
œ œ
œ.
Might
j
œ œ. œ œ
I’m
œ
you
30
sor - ry,
but,
œ œ.
J
œ œ
me
ear - ly,
pay
j
œ
œ œ
.
œ
27
31
Sir,
Œ
& ˙.
34
Ó
Œ
j
œ œ
œ.
just
œ
œ.
My
&
j
œ œ
37
œ.
Young
-
est
œ.
& œJ
40
ren
43
&
œ
38
Ti
-
j
œ œ.
son,
ny
you
Meno
œ
œ
need
me,
œ.
œ
J
just
this
41
œ
36
32
j
œ œ.
Tim
know.
go?
w
once...
œ
39
˙
I
œ
this
j
œ œ
35
j
œ œ. ˙
might
SCROOGE: “Picking a man's pocket
every 25th of December!”
33
28
is
œ
ill,
Sir.
j
œ œ
œ.
Wife
œ
œ
œ
and
42
child
-
bbbb
w
once...
(SCROOGE:)
bbbb
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Peo - ple want - ing this, peo - ple
44
œ œ œ
œ œ œ
œ
want - ing that, spread - ing blood - y
45
w
cheer!
CRATCHIT:
“It's only once a year, sir!”
b
& b bb
∑
46
47
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ œ
Pluck - ing at your sleeve, hold - ing
b
& b bb w
49
ear!
48
out the hat,
sing - ing in your
CRATCHIT:
“Sorry, sir, I didn't mean ...”
50
∑
51
#œ #œ nœ #œ
Tak - ing
off
a
œ
day,
œ
œ
ask - ing
–12–
V/B
b
& b bb n œ # œ # œ
52
&
their pay,
55
bbbb œ
&
œ #œ
œ
œ
"On - ly
once
a
3
can
57
bbbb œ
take
that
œ
isn
-
’t
53
56
and
3
per - fect
bw
-
SCROOGE:
(sings)
Œ bœ
˙
Well,
3
bœ
œ
stuff
it
œ
œ
54
year!"
œ
bœ
Christ - mas
œ
3
bœ
3
œ
œ
bœ
you
SCROOGE: (speaks)
“Only once a year!”
CRATCHIT:
(SCROOGE:)
for
with bread!
˙
58
ly
œ
œ
Œ
clear—
œ
3
œ
And
if
œ
œ
I
do
59
b
& b bb
60
œ œ œ œ œ œ
not need to know of your
&
CRATCHIT:
"He's only six!"
62
bbbb
˙.
œ œ
tea!
Give him
63
61
fam' - ly or your woe.
3
I sug - gest Tin - y Tim drink
3
œ œ œ œ œ œ
tea. Give him stew.
It
œ œ œ œ œ
64
has
3
œ œ œ œ
no - thing to
do
œ
with
SCROOGE: "Here, but be sure to come in early the next day."
(CRATCHIT sneezes)
SCROOGE: "And get rid of that cold."
CRATCHIT: "Yes, Sir. Thank you, Sir. Goodnight, Sir. Merry ... Achoo!" (HE hands CRATCHIT a coin)
b
& b bb w
65
66
w
me!
70A
2
67
69
FISHSELLER: "Ye-o-o! Ye-o-o! Fresh fish!
Turbot, Turbot! All alive sardines! Here you are,
guv, had-had-had-haddock! All fresh and good!
Fine grizzling sprats! All large and no small!
Fine cock crabs, all alive. Alive-o! Have the lot
for a pound, guv'ner!"
In 1
b
& b b b 42
∑
70B
..
..
∑
71
WOMAN 2: "Harry! Don't forget
the chestnuts!"
HARRY: "Oh, for God's sake!"
&
73
bbbb
..
Vamp (9x)
∑
74
..
∑
..
∑
∑
70
U
∑
.. 42
WOMAN 1: "Nickolas!
Come and get your tea!"
NICKOLAS: "Coming, Mum!"
Vamp
..
∑
72
∑
..
RAGS & BONES MAN:
"Rags and Bones!
Rags and Bones!"
Vamp (8x)
75
2x
76
..
∑
..
77
∑
bbbbb C
SEGUE AS ONE
–13–
V/B
78
Part 2
b
& b bbb C
90
8
SANDWICHBOARD:
b
& b bbb
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
What
b
& b bbb
a
91
chil
j
œ œ. œ œ
-
ly
LAMPLIGHTER:
94
œ œ œ
J
œ.
Don't
it
b
& b bbb
95
eve - ning!
œ œ.
J
feel
j
œ
œ œ
œ.
92
Lon - don's
œ œ
like
it
∑
93
all
a - glow!
w
96
j
œ œ. œ Œ
97
w
might
snow!
KIDS, PANTO GIRL & BLIND OLD HAG:
∑
∑
œ
Ó
œ
Christ - mas
b
& b bbb
(KIDS,
PANTO GIRL
& BLIND OLD HAG:)
w
98
99
BLIND OLD HAG:
˙
Ó
œ.
Eve!
b
& b bbb
Such
SANDWICHBOARD:
102
j
œ œ
100
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
5
Don't - 'cha
a
j
œ œ.
œ
101
mer
-
LAMPLIGHTER:
j
œ œ. ˙
103
love
it
so!
104
ry
sea - son!
105
Christ
-
mas, Dear - ie!
+CHILDREN,
PANTO GIRL,
GHOSTS:
(OPT. UNISON)
b
&bb
∑
106
∑
107
108 1/2 of GROUP 1:
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
What
b
&bb
∑
∑
a
chil
∑
œ
œ œ . œ œ bbb
J
œ . œJ œ œ
Mer - ry
œ
œ œ. œ œ
J
109
-
ly
eve - ning!
2:
œ1/2 of GROUP
œ
Ó
Chil - ly
b
&bb
œ œ. œ œ
J
KIDS, PANTO GIRL, 3 GHOSTS:
œ . œJ œ œ
Don't
it
feel
like
it might
w
snow!
CUE
Ó
CHILDREN & PANTO GIRLS:
œ
œ
It
might
–14–
V/B
(1/2 of GROUP 1:)
j
b
& b b œ. œ œ œ
110
Lon - don's
b œ. œ
&bb
J
œ œ. ˙
J
111
all
112
a - glow!
(1/2 of GROUP 2:)
˙
œ
˙
eve - nin'
All
bbb w
(CHILDREN & PANTO GIRLS:)
&
˙.
Mer - ry
œ
a
-
&
Don't
&
bbb
œ.
it
œ œ. œ œ
J
like
œ ˙
J
Œ
Christ - mas,
&
bbb
And
w
˙.
116
it might
œ œ
it
118
w
w
it
œ
œ
œ
'Cause
it's
œ œ.
J
œ
œ
like
it
might
feel
w
ALL OF GROUP 2:
w
ALTO/BAR
117
SOP/TEN
w
œ
w
snow!
might
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
œ œ. œ œ
J
(CHILDREN & PANTO GIRLS:)
Œ
Don't
119
mas, Dear - ie!
snow!
snow!
b
&bb
-
˙
j
œ. œ œ
Œ
115
feel
Christ
glow!
Don't
j œ
œ
œ
.
œ
113
w
snow!
114
bbb
œ œ. œ œ
J
œ . Jœ œ œ
w
120
it
feel
like
it might
w
b b b b 44
121
b
&bb
w
w
w
w
b b b b 44
b
&bb
w
w
w
w
b b b b 44
snow!
–15–
V/B
MARTHA: “Father! Father! Happy Christmas!” (etc.)
122
œ
b
& b b b 44
Œ
Ó
bbb 4 œ
b
&
4
Œ
œ
b
& b b b 44
Œ
&b
CRATCHIT: “Ah, Martha, where's our Mum?
There she is. Hello, love."”
5
b
Ó
5
b
Ó
5
b
123
MRS. CRATCHIT:
“Did that old skinflint give you Christmas day off?”
A Tempo
# # 138
bbb
(vocal last x)
CRATCHIT:
b b141.
œ
b
& . œ œ œ œ œ œ ..
I don't need
but they don't
œ
œ œ œ œ ˙
hid - den in
145
have you.
œ
œ
you mean more
Poco Più
&
b
151
∑
152
œ
to
an - y
Poco Rit.
œ œ œ œ œ œ . œJ
ri - cher than
a king. Yes,
CRATCHIT: “Up you go, son.”
MRS. CRATCHIT: “Bye, love.”
œ œ œ œ
than
have for-tunes
146
at you I'm
148
149
150
w
-
CRATCHIT:
œ œ
œ œ œ œ
œ
We shall buy
Ma-ny men
œ
œ œ œ œ œ œ
When I look
me
143
a shoe.
A Tempo
147
œ
œ œ œ œ œ œ
142
a for - tune
b b 144
œ ˙
b
&
œ œ œ œ
b
&bb œ
##
TINY TIM: “I’m here, Dad! Happy Christmas.”
3
Vamp
bbbb
CRATCHIT: “He did.”
10
128
CRATCHIT: “We’re off to buy the finest Christmas
dinner in London, and I can't do it without you.”
&
some ap - ples
∑
thing.
TINY TIM:
153
œ ˙
œ œ œ œ
Mum 'll love
them so!
bbbbb
–16–
V/B
(TINY TIM:)
b
& b bbb œ œ
154
œ œ
œ
Fa - ther, look!
&
bbbb
CRATCHIT:
155
œ
The
œ
thea - tre!
CRATCHIT:
b œ œ œ œœ œ œ
156
All the joys
TINY TIM:
157
of Christ - mas
All the joys
b
& b bbb œ
œ
159
you
mean more,
b
& b bbb ˙ .
&
&
###
œ
œ
you
you
∑
158
œ œ
with string, but
œ
œ
go!
with string,
161
œ
mean more
œ
yes,
POULTERER:
“Fresh turkeys!”
###
yes,
œ
me,
162
œ
.
œ œ œ œ œ œ ‰
bundled up
160
˙
we'll
.
œ œ œ œ œ œ Jœ
of Christ - mas
œ
When we're rich,
bundled up
b
& b bbb œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
to
œ
mean more
me
œ
œ
to
me
œ œ
you mean more to
œ
than
œ
than
œ
###
œ
an - y
œ
-
œ
an - y
-
CRATCHIT: “Let’s see, Tiny Tim ... We’ve got five shillings. Now what can we get ...”
POULTERER: “Here’s a fine bird. My prize turkey” CRATCHIT: “How much is it?”
Meno
163
8
bbbbb
8
bbbbb
#w
thing.
#w
thing.
POULTERER:
“Somethin’ else then?”
Rit. If Necessary
&
bbbb
b
171
∑
172
TINY TIM:
œ
œ œ
I don't need
b 174
& b bbb œ œ
I
###
œ
don't need
œ œ œ
a
œ œ œ
œ
a
Dad,
feast,
175
œ
tur - key.
œ ˙
œ œ œ œ
173
all I'd get
œ œ œ
How'd I
eat
œ
is
œ
all
fat.
˙
that?
–17–
V/B
POULTERER: "A couple o'
chicken legs?"
CRATCHIT: "Chicken
legs. No, make it a whole
chicken. Well, a small one."
(TINY TIM:)
b
& b bbb œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
176
I shall be
con - tent
177
no
Uœ U "
œ
œ
œ
Œ
œ œ
mat - ter what
TINY TIM:
b
& b bbb œ
œ
179
&
BOTH:
183
b œ
You
186
180
œ œ
œ
mean
to
Œ
˙.
181
me...
œ
œ
more
to
œ
œ
˙
184
˙
me
182
œ œ
You mean more
to
˙
### C
˙
an
-
y
-
FRED: “Merry Christmas, Uncle!
I was just on my way to see you.”
SCROOGE: “Don’t bother.”
Part 3
n 4 Vamp
.. n n 187
4 ..
## C . w
.
&
Œ
˙.
me...
185
than
(SCROOGE enters)
SCROOGE: “Get out of my way!”
Faster - In 2
4x
#
you bring...
CRATCHIT:
You mean more
bbbb
∑
178
..
∑
thing!
188
FRED:
j
œ
œ œ
.
œ
&
Come
192
& œ.
Be
&
œ.
200
Christ
j
œ œ œ
with
196 FRED:
You’d
&
to
œ.
j
œ œ. œ œ
189
-
mas
œ œ.
J
193
fam
-
'ly,
j
œ œ.
197
œ
en - joy
it,
j
œ. œ œ œ
You’d meet
Sal
din - ner.
œ œ
Un - cle,
œ œ
Un - cle.
œ œ. œ œ
J
201
-
ly,
We’re
194
Un - cle,
in
-
We’d
en
-
˙
Ó
j
œ œ.
˙
195
199
joy
œ. œ œ œ
J
this
you.
once.
Meno
just
ing
œ
j
œ œ œ
œ.
-
SCROOGE:
“No, thank you.”
this
198
191
vit
j
œ œ
œ.
just
202
j
œ œ. ˙
j
œ
œ œ
.
œ
190
once.
it,
˙.
203
too.
Œ
bbbb
–18–
V/B
204
SCROOGE:
b
& b bb œ œ œ œ
Peo - ple
œ œ
œ
tak - ing wives,
œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
lit - tle lives,
co - zi - er than
205
liv - ing
206
w
mice!
FRED:
“We want nothing from you ...”
b
& b bb
Ó
207
˙
208
œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ
209
Mar - ry - ing for love! Push will
œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ
come to shove! You’ll be think - ing
FRED:
“I will not get angry, Uncle ...”
b
& b bb
210
#œ #œ nœ #œ
Œ
211
w
˙.
212
twice!
Ask - ing
b
& b bb n œ # œ # œ
213
o - pen wine,
&
216
bbbb
3
219
œ #œ
œ
œ
tak - ing
no
ad
œ bœ œ œ bœ œ
&
220
œ œ
rice!
222
bbbb
I will
fool
œ œ œ
break - ing
215
˙.
bw
-
217
Well,
3
œ
not
fill my plate,
221
œ œ
soc - ia
˙.
œ œ
ly.
Let your
223
œ
and his fam - i
-
218
mar - riage as well, and to
œ œ œ
bœ
vice!
-
FRED:
"Well!"
œ
dine,
214
3
bœ œ œ œ œ œ
3
˙.
to
œ
œ
FRED: “Good God!”
you can have Christ-mas, and
b
& b bb
me
œ
224
œ b œ3 œ œ œ3 œ
hell with your trees and your
œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ
lize or cel - e - brate with a
3
œ œ œ
love
see
œ
3
œ œ
you through, but have
–19–
V/B
FRED: "Don't be cross, Uncle."
SCROOGE: "What else can I be when I live in such a
world of fools as you! What good is Christmas to
you but a time for finding yourself a year older and
not an hour richer."
FRED: "Christmas may never put a scrap of gold or
silver in my pocket, but I believe it is a good time– "
SCROOGE: "Oh, bah!"
FRED: "A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
I believe that it has done me good and will do me
good; and I say, God bless it!"
8x - Rit. after 4th time
Ó
226
.. w
(SCROOGE:)
b
& b bb œ
225
3
œ
no - thing
œ
œ
to
do
œ
with
‰
(last x)
U‰
Œ
..
me!
1st CUE:
SCROOGE: "You're quite a
powerful speaker. I wonder you
don't go into Parliament! Good
afternoon."
FRED: "Merry Christmas to you
anyway, Uncle."
&
bbbb
This Bar
is Not
Conducted
2nd CUE:
SCROOGE: "Bah, humbug!"
2x
U
∑
227
228
U
Œ
.. Ó
JONATHON: (last x)
œ
œ
Hear
.. b b b
the
Part 4
229
b
&bb
b
&bb
In 2
(JONATHON:)
œ
œ
œ
bells
all
o - ver
œ
j
œ œ
œ
don town.
How
œ.
Lon
-
231
œ
œ
œ
joy - ous - ly
œ
they
SCROOGE: "For God's
sake, child! Shut up
and let me pass!"
(JONATHON kicks
SCROOGE in the shin)
232
œ
Œ
Œ
œ œ
ring.
235
230
See the
233
œ
lamps
Freely
Hey, have you
for - got - ten how
œ
a - glow
to
236
œ
œ
smile, Sir?
234
U
∑
bbbb
in ...
A Tempo
SANDWICHBOARD:
b
& b bb ¿
œ
œ
SCROOGE: "Move aside."
Ó
237
∑
42
44
–20–
V/B
SANDWICHBOARD:
b b b 4 238 œ
b
&
4
SCROOGE: "I don't have time for nonsense!"
Come and buy
b b b 4 241 œ
b
&
4
œ
Life - ’ll
a
tick - et
to
œ
œ
œ
pass
you
by
in
just
LAMPLIGHTER:
OPT.
WOMAN’S
LYRIC:
]
œ
œ
Help
a
Would you
œ
œ
work - in'
kind - ly
œ
œ
b
&b
253
b
&b œ
256
sir,
&b
get
œ
Ought - a
259
to
œ
when
you
œ
a
while,
42
#œ
248
the
the
Spare a
coin for
Ó
Sir,
44 246 ∑
∑
bb
SCROOGE:
"That's your problem, not mine."
œ
Ó
Sir?
Sir?
251
Œ
œ
Ó
∑
252
sack!
SCROOGE:
"Good evening."
254
œ Ó
œ
257
œ œ œ œ
255
right, Sir!
look
∑
249
SCROOGE: "Then it's the
workhouse for you, isn't it?"
You’ll be
sor - ry,
b
258
w
w
back!
SCROOGE: "Devil take you, old woman.
I have nothing for you."
BLIND HAG:
œ œ œ œ
44
(LAMPLIGHTER falls)
245
œ
light,
light,
the
take the time for do - in’
œ
œ
242
œ
fel - low reach
help us reach
sure
œ
œ
know!
b 250 œ œ œ œ œ
b
&
œ œ œ
Oth - er - wise I’m
24 240 ∑
œ Œ Ó
244
and it may be lat - er than you
Ó
Œ
show.
œ
b
& b bb œ œ œ œ œ œ œ n œ
b
& b Nœ
the
œ
243
247
239
260
œ œ œ œ
some - one who
is
261
˙
blind,
˙
Sir?
262
w
263
w
–21–
V/B
SCROOGE: "Release my arm. Let go of me, woman!"
(BLIND HAG:)
&b
264
œ
None
&b œ
268
Go
&b
272
œ
œ
so
blind
265
your
266
267
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
w
as
those
who
will
not
see!
269
œ
œ
sor - ry
270
œ
œ
way,
and
œ
273
œ
œ
œ
Come
the
fu - ture,
œ
w
œ
˙
œ
nev - er
mind,
œ #œ
œ
you’ll
re - mem - ber
w
Sir!
274
œ
271
˙
(To 277)
w
Ritard
w
277
me!
"Look to yourself! Look to yourself, before it's too late!"
&b
###
4
278
SEGUE
282
&
296
###
Part 5 Lento
bbbbbb
14
Più Mosso In 2
b
& b bbbb
GRACE SMYTHE:
2
298
w
w
299
the
Let
b
& b bbbb ˙
˙
301
sky
re
b
& b bbbb w
-
˙
mind
us
307
Let
308
us
b b b b 311
b
& b ˙
-
ry
-
of
˙
love
312
˙
303
œ œ
w
306
ev'
302
Ritard
w
one.
˙
man’s
œ œ
till
313
300
we
309
˙
die,
œ œ
stars
˙
com
˙
304
pas
,˙
and
3
the
305
w
-
in
w
-
310
sion.
˙
œ œ
God
bless us
bbbbb
–22–
V/B
316
&
In 2
bbbb
œ œ. œ œ
J
œ . œJ œ œ
ALL:
b
Such
b
& b bbb
320
a
317
mer
-
ry
sea - son!
Don't - cha
321
Christ
-
322
mas cheer - y,
œ œ. ˙
J
œ . Jœ œ œ
318
œ œ. œ œ
J
œ . œJ œ œ
Ain't this
319
love
so?
œ œ. œ œ
J
œ . œJ œ œ
Mer - ry
it
323
Christ
-
mas, dear - ie!
Part 6
324
&
bbbb
j
œ œ. œ œ
SCROOGE:
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
b
Damn this
b
& b bbb
328
sil
332
œ . œj œ œ
336
coins to
sea - son!
330
your rea - son!
333
œ . œj œ œ
know, I’ll
337
the
be
poor, and
338
the
-
your mind!
335
in
œ . œj œ œ
snow, throw
œ. œ œ œ
J
kind!
331
lose
œ . œj œ œ
lame and
an
j
œ œ. ˙
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
danc - ing
œ. œ œ œ
J
327
hum
Makes you
334
j
œ œ. ˙
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
Damn all
j
œ œ. œ œ
you
œ. œ œ œ
J
ly
326
329
lose
Next thing
b
& b bbb
-
j œ
œ
œ
œ.
Makes you
b
& b bbb
325
339
the
-
ing
œ. œ œ œ
J
blind! Well,
I
340
b
& b bbb
œ.
wish
b 343 .
& b bbb œ
be!
œ œ
J
œ
that
the
œ œ
J
œ
Let
the
œ.
œ
J
whole
world
341
œ.
œ
J
whole
world
344
œ
œ
342
would
œ
œ
be
œ.
just
345
œ.
damned!
œ œ
J
œ
let
me
œ œ
J
It
œ
has
–23–
V/B
(SCROOGE:)
b b b 346 œ .
b
& b
œ
J
no
-
œ
w
œ
thing
347
to
348
do
w
with
349
&
bbbb
(SCROOGE:)
w
b
w
350
me!
b
& b bbb
j
œ œ
ALL:
œ.
What
b
& b bbb
j
œ œ.
œ
a
351
chil
-
œ
ly
Ó
œ
Chil
353
j
b
& b bbb œ œ .
a
˙
-
(OPT. GROUP 2:)
˙
&
bbbb
b
355
ly
eve
w
www
w
Don't
œ
œ
a
w
356
œ
it
˙
nin'
œ œ.
J
œ
like
it
feel
w
-
-
all
w
œ œ
J
œ.
glow!
j
œ
œ
354
ALL:
All
b
& b bbb
œ.
(SCROOGE:)
b b b 352w
b
& b
b
& b bbb
Lon - don's
œ
-
j
œ œ
œ.
eve - nin'
OPT. GROUP 2:
∑
œ
w
œ
might
w
glow!
œ ‰ Œ
J
357
SCROOGE:
"Bah, humbug!"
Ó
Ó
358
U
Œ
Œ
www
www
œœœ
U
‰
Œ
Œ
J
Œ
ww
w
ww
w
œœ
œ
J
Œ
snow!
&
bbbb
b
ww
w
‰
Œ
U
Œ
Snow!
APPLAUSE SEGUE
VOCAL BOOK
–24–
No. 5
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge’s House
Tacet
Moderato
(SCROOGE goes
to his door.)
1
∑
4
&4 ‰
œ œ œ œ œ Œ
J
2
1ST TAPE CUE: “Scrooge!”
(ominously)
∑
U
∑
3
SCROOGE: "Yes?"
(to 9)
9
& ‰
œ œ œ œ #œ œ
U
∑
4
‰ œ œ œ œ #œ œ
J
‰ œ œ œ œ œ Œ
J
WW, Tbns,
Kbd 1
5
∑
(HE senses
something
mysterious.)
‰ œ œ œ œ œ Œ
J
####
2
#
J
11
&
&
19
####
# 15
#
2ND TAPE CUE: "Scrooge!"
(louder)
3RD TAPE CUE: "Scrooge!"
(loudest)
2
Lightly
SCROOGE: "Marley?"
4
(MRS. MOPS
opens door.)
Ritard
Ob
21
&
10
Cls
37
42
œ œ œ œ œ
˙.
23
Œ
∑
MRS. MOPS:
"Suit yerself, sir. Stupid
SCROOGE:
woman, stupid man. And
"Don't bother!"
he calls me stupid."
Harp, Tbns, Horn
# 36 ‰ œj œ # œ œ œ œ œ
&
∑
U
∑
18
∑
34
(MRS. MOPS runs off)
22
∑
SCROOGE: "Stupid woman!"
MRS. MOPS: "Your gruel's waitin' in the pot, sir. And I'll bring you
a slice of turkey and a bit o' pudding in the morning."
# 24
..
∑
MRS. MOPS:
"Mr. S! Mr. S! You look
as if you've seen a ghost."
MRS. MOPS:
"Mr. Marley died, sir, seven years ago this
very night. Maybe you need your eyes examining."
SCROOGE:
"I thought I saw ... Marley."
# 2 Œ œ 4 20 œj ‰ œ œ œ œ
œ
œ
& 4
4
∑
∑
..
A tempo
17
#
ww
# ww
∑
35
ww
ww
∑
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ
œ
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ
œ
œ œ
∑
bbbbb
–25–
V/B
Slowly, in four
Moderato
U
w
&
bbbb
b
(SCROOGE'S house opens.) (HE enters)
38
39
∑
40
Chimes
Œ
˙
∑
b b b 43 œ
œ
b
& b
œ œ
∑
b
&bb
44
œ
œ
∑
œ
42
œ
œ
œ
œ
∑
3
45
(HE lights candle
SCROOGE: (sneezing)
…walks to fireplace.) "Damn, Cratchit!"
Slower
œ
∑
(HE hangs coat and scarf.)
Molto Rit.
U
∑
48
bbb
(... lights candles. HE unlocks box
on mantle…and puts papers in box.)
bbbbbbb
8
b b b b 57
b
& bb
(to 65)
bb
4
Poco Più
(SCROOGE stokes fire. Clock ticks)
&
41
œ
∑
(HE puts papers on the table.)
49
#5—Scrooge's House
j
j
(to 69) (Sound montage #1)
œ #œ œ œ
#
œ
j
j
‰
‰
65 œ
‰
œ
‰
69
œ œ œ
bœ
œ
?
bb
œ #œ œ
#
œ
œ œ
#œ œ
∑
WW, Kbd 2, Vc, Bs in 8vs
? bb
73
70
(End of montage.)
œ #œ œ œ
#
œ
71
2
œ œ œ
œ #œ œ
#
œ
œ
œ &
#œ œ
Tempo
(Sits with gruel)
2
&
83
75
∑
76
Œ
Tpts, Chime
˙.
(to 81)
81
∑
Faster - in 2
&C
∑
∑
(Sound montage #2)
œb œ œ n œ n œ # œ
#œ #œ
Hn, Kbd 2, Vla, Vc
84
œnœ œnœ bœbœ œ
bœ
+Vlns
85
#œ œ œ œ œ bœ œ
œ
∑
86
Ritard
Vamp
..
(HE dozes)
∑
nn
(to 83)
.. C
# œ œ # œ œ œ n œ œ (to 89)
œ
∑
–26–
V/B
Ob, Cls, Hn, Tpts, Kbd 2
&
&
89
(Bells ring) (Books fall off)
3
œ #œ #œ
œ #œ œ œ #œ œ #œ
3
Ritard
∑
101
4
97
In 4
b
& b 44
WW, Strs
œ #œ #œ œ #œ œ
œ
#
œ
#
œ
œ
#
œ
#œ
b b 44
∑
3
3
(MARLEY enters the room)
w
bœ
œ
œ
œ
œ
104
∑
105
œ
œ
bœ
œ
∑
Allegretto, ma non troppo
bb 106 w
3
3
3
3
102
œ #œ #œ œ #œ œ
œ
#
œ
#
œ
œ
#
œ
#œ
3
103
114
(to 97)
3
90
∑
3
&
#5—Scrooge's House
#œ
∑
SCROOGE: "How now!
What do you want of me?" SCROOGE: MARLEY:
"Who are you?" "Don't you recognize me?"
MARLEY: "Much!"
5
107
2
112
∑
b
&b
SCROOGE: MARLEY:
"No!"
"In life, I was your partner, Jacob
Marley. Scrooge, my dear Scrooge!"
SCROOGE: "A little thing can affect
the senses. You may be
119
an undigested bit of beef,"
b
& b 42
∑
5
SCROOGE:
"Yuk, yuk, yuk…
Humbug!"
MARLEY:
"I see you don't believe in me!
Do you doubt your senses?"
42
Dictated — Dialogue, then chord
44 120
¿
Œ
U
Ó
"... a blot of mustard..."
121
¿
Œ
U
Ó
"... a crumb
of cheese..."
122
¿
Œ
U
Ó
(Sight cues on SCROOGE's gestures)
"There's more of
gravy than the
grave about you,
whatever you are!"
"... an underdone potato!"
b
&b ¿
123
Œ
U
Ó
A tempo, con moto
b
& b bbb
126
124
Broadly
(MARLEY levitates) 125
∑
∑
bbbbb
SCROOGE:
"I believe, I believe! Mercy, I believe! Dreadful apparition,
why do you walk the earth, and why do you trouble me?"
4
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Link By Link
VOCAL BOOK
–27–
No. 6
A Christmas Carol
Link By Link
Freely
last two vamps)
Vamp (vocal
MARLEY:
3
b b b b 1 1 .. ‰ œ œ œ .. 4 2 œ œ œ œ œ
2
œ
b
n œ œ b œ œ 44
œ
& b 4
4
4
Ò
J
It is re
bbb b 4 4
b
& b 4 ˙
-
Œ œ œ
far,
lend - ing
bbb b 4 7 j ‰ Œ ‰ œ œ œ
b
& b 4 œ
J
are.
In 8
b
& b bbbb
10
œ
help to those he can,
will
go
13
∑
no
tra - vel
9
don't go forth in life, spread-ing
>j "
œ œj
>
œ
forth
in
death,
44
mat - ter who they
8
œ b œ b œ>
œ
spi - rit
œ œ œ œ œ . œ 42 6 n œ œ b œ œ
J
5
But if you
spi - rit
12
quired of ev - 'ry man that his
œ n œ n œ œ œ œjoy and eas-ing pain, your
In 4
11
and
œ
œ
œ
you
shall
wear
nœ
a
A Tempo
b
& b bbbb
˙.
Œ
14
chain!
œ ˙ Œ
œ nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ nœ
15
These were coins I hoar - ded for a
b b b b 16 n œ œ œ œ œ b œ
b
& b
œ œ
17
œ ŒÓ
Now with ev- 'ry jin - gle, I'm dis - graced.
b 19
& b bbbb n œ œ ˙ œ
œ
poor a - way, that's what
20
œ ∫œ
18
rai - ny day.
œ nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Locks and keys I used
œ œ œ œ œ
nœ
put these locks and keys a - round my
21
to keep the
œ Œ Ó
waist.
–28–
V/B
22
(MARLEY:)
b
& b bbbb
œ nœ œ ‰ œ
J
Link
b
& b bbbb
25
by
link,
should have heard it clink.
b
& b bbbb
28
œ n œ œ ‰ œj
26
Link
by link,
œ nœ œ ‰ œ
J
24
chain was get - ting long - er.
œ œ œ Œ
œ nœ
œ
œ nœ œ œ œ
23
my
#6—Link By Link
Link
27
each
link
by
hor - ri - fy - ing
I
œ nœ œ œ œ œ
year
a lit - tle strong - er!
Cut
œ œ n œ (To 34) 34
œ œ œ
œ
œ
œ Œ Ó
Link by
by link,
35
Œ Œ Ó
link!
36
b
& b bbbb
37
Stack - ing up my silver and my
b
& b bbbb
39
œ Œ Ó
40
done.
round
56
your
38
bits of gold,
fil -ling up my vault when day was
œ
œ
œ
neck,
they
weigh
Link
b
& b bbbb
59
œ
blood
by
œ
link,
41
nœ œ ˙
are made of lead and cash is
œ
a
œ
‰ œj
57
bœ nœ
you're
œ
œ.
œ
J
red
ink.
Un
60
-
on
the
œ
œ œ
ve - ry cold!
(To 51) 51
It's
œ
œ
œ.
œ
J
lock
your
heart,
it's
(To 56)
ton!
‰ œj
brink.
And a -
Ó
˙
nœ
blood - y
Più Mosso
b
& b bbbb b œ n œ
nœ œ œ œ œ bœ œ œ
Vaults
b b b b 42 œ ∫ œ
b
& b
nœ œ ˙.
58
œ œ œ.
writ - ten
61
here
œ nœ nœ.
not
too
late!
œ
J
in
œ
J
Or
–29–
V/B
b
& b bbbb
#6—Link By Link
SCROOGE:
"No, please!"
(MARLEY:)
œ œ œ œ œ
62
œ
63
œ œ
you'll be drag - ging some - thing more than
65
Freely
b
& b bbbb œ n œ
(MARLEY:)
˙
66
ne - zer Scrooge?
b
& b bbbb
Œ "
Eh ...
œ
œ œ
b b b b 4 71
b
& b 4 ˙
Ó
Ghost of Christ - mas
42
∑
72
Ó
(MARLEY
stops him) MARLEY:
Œ
œ œ
When the
b b b b 2 74 Œ ‰ œ
b
& b 4
J
44
∑
œ
75
nœ œ bœ
œ
ghosts who
œ
œ
œ
clock strikes
44 76 œj
œ. Ó
Ghost of Christ - mas
˙
79
Œ ‰ Jœ
Ó
clock strikes three,
œ
73
42
Œ
two,
SCROOGE:
“At present, I'd rather
go to bed. Goodnight!”
The
b 81 œ
& b bbbb
œ
clock strikes one, The
past.
œ
70
œ . œ 42 n œ œ b œ œ 44
J
No thank you!
SCROOGE: (Trying to get away again)
“I prefer not to think
about the past.”
(MARLEY:)
In 8
∑
¿ "Œ
¿ Œ¿ ¿
J J
78
˙
vis - i - ted by three ghosts.
Ó
When the
(SCROOGE tries to crawl away)
SCROOGE:
b
& b bbbb
œ œ œ œ œ
67
You will be
(MARLEY magically stops him)
MARLEY: 69
Ó
b
& b bbbb
Eb - e -
Y...y...es?
(It doesn't exist in
the orchestra parts)
68
U
˙ Œ œ œ
twice this weight ...
‰ œ œ œ
J
U"
Œ ¿
THIS BAR IS NOT
CONDUCTED
b
& b bbbb
œ œ
64
In 8
U"
Œ Œ
SCROOGE:
∑
˙
œ
œ
œ
yet
may
stop
you
Ó
Œ œ œ
Pre - sent.
80
The
œ
77
œ œ œ œJ " œ
J
œ nœ nœ
Ghost
œ
When the
œ
end - ing
of Christ - mas Yet to Be! Three
82
j
42 œj ‰ œ ‰
up
like
b b b 44
–30–
V/B
Più Mosso
83
b
& b b 44
(MARLEY:)
Skeleton in Closet
MARLEY:
“Our colleague! Mr. Bones!
w
∑
84
#6—Link By Link
3
85
me ...
Remember him?”
b
&bb
SCROOGE: “Oh, yes!”
GHOST W/ SPILLING GUTS: “Scrooge!!!”
nnn
3
88
French Ghost
Ghost’s Guts Spill Out
&
100
Chains From Holes
2
94
3
2
96
Pull Back (Rit. Molto)
Flying Ghosts
103
(EXTRUDING GHOST screams)
7
2
110
bbb
A Tempo
+ MARLEY 8va
MARLEY & GHOSTS:
non-legato
b
&bb œ
nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
#œ œ ˙ Œ #œ œ œ œ œ nœ œ œ
113
See these sor - ry spirits who were
b
&bb
Ó
115
˙
116
quired.
118
men - tion
the good
œ œ
this
can
real - ly
Œ ‰ nœ
J
your
b
&bb
GHOSTS:
œ nœ œ.
Link
by
in
life
drag-ging chains of all that we ac -
link,
‰
122
˙.
Not to
MARLEY:
“He wanted to
get ahead!”
120 SCROOGE:
Œ
tired!
œ nœ œ œ œ
is
late to do.
Œ
119
make you
chain
#œ œ œ Œ œ œ
117
it's now too
œ œ œ
nœ
MARLEY:
Ó
once like you,
Head Roll
121
bbb
114
All
b
& b b œ bœ
&
Scrooge Runs
SAFE GHOST: “I never lent a hand!”
2
∑
91
&
112
Scrooge Runs
92
¿
Ó
(Scream)
œ
123
Ó
Œ
in the mak - ing!
∑
‰ nœ
J
no
GHOSTS:
œ nœ œ.
Link
by
link,
‰
–31–
V/B
(Scream on stage)
(MARLEY:)
¿
b b 124 œ n œ œ œ œ
b
&
way
&
#6—Link By Link
œ # œ œ . œœ
nœ
J
125
Link
to make it shrink!
127
bbb
2
MARLEY & GHOSTS:
by
link,
(MARLEY & GHOSTS:)
129
126
just
œœœ # œœ œœœ œœ œœœ
nœ œ
list - en to it shak - ing!
œ œ œ œ œœ n œ œœ œ
œ #œ œ œ
œ
nœ
W.(8vb) & TEN: AH
BARI & BS: OO
b b 130 œ œ œ œ œ n œ œ œ
b
&
œ #œ œ œ œ œ œ nœ
AH
OO
132
OO
EE
b
œ
& b b 42
Link
140
œ #œ
&b
Link
&b
143
by
œ
œ
146
by
link
link
Presto
&b
148
w
link!!!
œ
by
link
œ
by
link
44 139 œ
your
link
141
œ
.
œ
by
link
w
149
œ nœ
¿
hor - ri - fy - ing
œ
by
by
link
link
œ
œ #œ œ œ œ
144
œ # œ œ ‰ œj
Link
œ
by link,
147
142
by
hor
w
150
-
by
145
link
œ. # œ
Link
or
œ
42
∑
œ nœ #œ
nœ
life must be cor - rec - ted!
œ ‰Œ
J
¿ n¿
Screaming
by
œ. ‰ ‰ œ
J
J
œ #œ œ œ
œ
œ
In 8
œ
¿
(spoken)
137
soon - er than you think.
&b
OO
EE
5
MARLEY & GHOSTS:
138
œ
link
Coffee grinder
b
&bb
131
œœœ
b
by
œ. ‰ ‰ œ
J
J
by
link,
and
,
œ
œ #œ œ œ œ
you shall be con - nec - ted,
œ
Poco Rit.
ri
-
#œ
fy
˙
151
-
œ
ing
Ó
APPLAUSE SEGUE
VOCAL BOOK
–32–
A Christmas Carol
No. 6A
After “Link By Link”
b 41
b
& 4
ALL GHOSTS & MARLEY:
(WOMEN & TENORS) (delayed slide)
2
œ #œ
3
Not
b
& b 44
˙
too
∑
4
late... (no "t")
(BARITONES & BASSES)
2
œ
œ
˙
Not
too
(delayed slide)
∑
late... (no "t")
As soon as SCROOGE is released from Fly lines, he exits and is replaced by Double.
MARLEY: “Thank you. Thank you for coming…
b5 œ
b
&
not
b
& b bœ
not
nœ
˙
too
late...
œ
˙
too
late...
6
∑
7
œ
#œ
#œ
nœ
œ
#œ
#œ
Ah!
∑
œ
Ah!
Thank you for dropping in. Thank you so much for materializing. Head off that way. Remember, Ebenezer,
b
&b
8
œ. #œ #œ nœ
J
9
œ nœ #œ
œ
10
œ
bbbbbb
j
#œ. nœ #œ nœ
bbbbbb
œ. nœ #œ
J
Ah!
j
b
& b #œ. nœ #œ #œ
#œ nœ #œ nœ
Ah!
you will be visited by three ghosts. It's never too late to change. It's never too late, etc.”
11
b
& b bbbb
w
b
& b bbbb N w
12
3
3
(MARLEY exits.
SCROOGE nods off)
–33–
V/B
#6a—After “Link By Link”
(Chime)
b
& b bbbb
∑
15
16
b
&b
&b
b
Ó
Œ
SCROOGE (on tape): “Humbug! I must have been
dreaming. I'm overworked, I'm overtired. I'm ... I'm ...
bb
5
17
∑
... going to bed!”
22
¿
¿
(HE wakes)
Opt. Vamp
..
∑
..
∑
23
5
24
Opt. Vamp
..
∑
29
..
∑
30
Vamp
5
31
..
..
∑
36
(SCROOGE DOUBLE walks up stairs)
37
b
&b
bbbbbb
4
Poco a poco accel.
(Scrooge's house revolves)
41
b
& b bbbb
&
[to 49] 49
Œ
Œ
¿
52
¿
Œ
∑
Œ
¿
¿
53
¿
Œ
¿
cut
∑
..
..
#
cut
68
bbbbb
2
(GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS
PAST appears)
∑
(to 64)
∑
# 64
Safety
67
Œ
(to 62)
2
Œ
∑
4
b
& b bbb
&
50
∑
Allegro
66
Œ
¿
The Clock Strikes One
Œ
¿
62
#
¿
∑
¿
b
& b bbbb
#
Œ
(Clock ticks)
4
51
55
(SCROOGE tosses and turns in bed)
U
∑
SCROOGE:
“What the devil…”
GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS PAST:
“Hello!”
∑
DIRECT SEGUE
VOCAL BOOK
No. 7
–34–
A Christmas Carol
The Lights of Long Ago
Part 1
SCROOGE:
"Don't I recognize you? Aren't you that...?"
CUE: GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:
“No, no, no, my dear!”
CUE:
"I'm the Ghost of
Leggiero
Christmas Past!"
bbb 4 1
b
&
4
8
∑
"
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:
"Ebenezer Scrooge…
…this is your life!"
2
(To 5)
∑ "
2
7
b œ œ œ œ œ ‰ Œ
& b bb
J
10
œ
œ
b
& b bb
lights of
b
& b bb
a twin - kle and
œ œ œ
œ
13
long
a
lights of
22
b
& b bb
œ
long
a
Œ ‰ œj
Ó
go.
18
-
23A
24
j
œ œ Œ ‰ œ
16
the
‰ œj
œ ˙
Re - mem - ber
œ Œ Ó
the
3
19
go ...
œ œ œ œ ‰Œ
J
∑
12
to re - mem - ber
22A
∑
23
Glim - mers in the dark!
b
& b bb
some - thing bright!
glow,
15
w
œ œ œ
œ
17
˙
U
Œ Œ
Ó
j
œ ‰ Œ
œ
Œ œ œ
11
a
14
-
œ
œ
Brought you
œ œ œ œ œ œ
Some - thing with
œ
9
It's your luck - y night!
b
& b bb
SCROOGE:
"My life?...
Grandioso
5
Sud - den - ly a pic - ture starts to
œ œ œ œ œj ‰ Œ
Here and there a spark!
25
˙
grow.
Ó
Ó
25A
Œ œ œ
Come re -
–35–
V/B
b
& b bb
b
& b bb
26
j
œ œ Œ ‰ œ
mem - ber
the
˙
‰ œj
30
œ
mem - ber
b
& b bb
b
& b bb
40
lights
child!
Is this who you
˙.
The
a
long
a
29
w
-
go.
32
-
used
to be?
33
w
vis - tas
Ó
Œ œ
A
36
A
scene!
of
œ
œ œ œ
˙
œ œ œ œ
vast
Re -
(Lights up on YOUNG
SCROOGE AT 8,
discovered reading.)
go.
j
œ. œ œ œ
35
Œ ‰ œj
Ó
39
your
Shin - ing from your
œ œ
J
œ.
mem
-
o - ry,
œ
the
(THE ACOLYTES tumble in)
œ
˙.
41
sha - dows
b
& b bb ˙
44
Mis
of
˙
38
œ
long
28
œ œ œ
œ
31
˙
past.
b
& b bb
lights of
œ œ œ œ
34
37
œ œ œ
œ
27
the
#7—The Lights of Long Ago—Part 1
45
˙
-
ter
œ
˙.
you
cast ...
œ
œ
Scrooge, hold
2
42
˙
52
w
53
###
w
fast ...
54
## œ œ
& #
œ œ œ Œ 55 œ œ
On-ward through the night,
&
# # # 57
know.
&
# # # 60 w
go.
Come re
61
˙.
56
on-ward toward the light,
œ œ
˙.
œ œ œ Œ œ œ œœ œ œ œ œ
œ
-
‰ œj
˙
58
mem - ber
‰ œj
62
œ
on-ward to a place your heart will
œ
the
˙
Re - mem - ber
œ
59
lights
‰ œj
the
63
of
œ
œ
long
a
-
œ œ œ
œ
lights
of
long a SEGUE AS ONE
VOCAL BOOK
–36–
No. 7a
Old Bailey
CUE TO CONTINUE:
JUDGE: "John William Scrooge ... "
Slow 4
& 44
1
A Christmas Carol
(no bar 2)
3
(GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:)
w
bbbbb C
∑
—go.
SCROOGE AT 8: “Father, Father!”
MOTHER: “No, no! How will we live?
Where will we go?”
JUDGE: (cont'd) “ ... you will go to prison for
non-payment of debts. Three years! Next case!”
4
b
& b bbb C
6
FATHER: (Being led to prison)
“Save your pennies… Make your fortune
and keep it!… Save your pennies!”
FATHER: “Learn this lesson, Ebenezer!
SCROOGE: “Father.”
Save your pennies! Make your
fortune and keep it!”
b 10
& b bbb
9
&b
24
sky
&b w
29
Let
MRS. SCROOGE:
2
19
&b ˙
Safety
21
Gently
˙
25
re
-
30
w
us
b
˙
mind
31
.. 22 w
Let
the
26
œ œ
us
.. w
of
˙
man's
˙ œ œ
love
˙
till we
32
27
die
˙
œ œ
stars
in the
28
w
com
˙
23
˙
and
-
pas
33
˙
w
-
œ œ
God bless us
sion.
34
˙
˙
ev' - ry
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Lights – Part 2
VOCAL BOOK
–37–
A Christmas Carol
No. 7b
The Lights of Long Ago
Part 2
SCROOGE: "That song! Mother!!"
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: "Poor little Ebenezer. Tut, tut. What a sad, sad day.
Your mother died soon after, you and your sister were separated."
bb
&bb C w
1
7
U
∑
œ
œ
Œ
or
dad!
5
2
one.
8
&
Allegretto, In 4
bbbb
œ œ œ œ œ
Poor,
pa - the - tic
Œ
œ
9
lad!
No
œ
œ
more mum
Opt. cut to 16
b
& b bb œ
10
Not
b
& b bb
12
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
a
bit
of
joy
or
‰ œj
˙
mem - ber
b
& b bb ˙
15
the
‰ œj
Œ
16
œ
œ
mis - tle
13
œ
lights
18
& bw
go.
œ
œ
of
long
‰ œj
˙
Re - mem - ber
Vortex
Furioso
œ
the
11
-
œ œ
˙.
toe
to
œ ‰
J
a
17
œ
lights
re -
14
w
-
go.
œ
œ
œ
of
long
a
nnnn
-
CUE TO CONTINUE:
(Factory doors open revealing
YOUNG SCROOGE at work)
19
3
26
Vamp
..
∑
..
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
The Factory
VOCAL BOOK
–38–
A Christmas Carol
No. 7C
The Factory/
A Place Called Home – Part 1
In 3
# 71
& 8
OPT. Cut To Bar 5
2
2
3
MR. HAWKINS: "Pay Day! Pay Day! Pay Day! Merry Christmas boy!"
BOY WORKER: "Thank you, Mr. Hawkins."
WORKERS: "Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Good-bye, good-bye!"
A MOTHER: "Happy Christmas, Ebenezer!"
&
#
&b
2
5 (Lights up)
OPT. Cut To Bar 11
2
9
29
28
∑
4
b
b
œ
& 4
œ œ œ
Cls
∑
30
Œ œœœ œ
WWs, Kbd 1, Vln
& b 78
&
# # # 39
œ
œœœ
15
∑
31
32
Œ œœœ œ
∑
Œ
44
œœœ œ
78
∑
WWs, Vln
SCROOGE AT 12: “My dear Sister Fan,
[MUSIC] I’ve been living and working in this
terrible place for six months.”
Ritard
œ
33 b œ
Œ
b
13
2
11
In 4
2
7
œ
œœ
œ
œ œ œ œœ
∑
4434
35
U
w
w
Andante
###
4
∑
41
SCROOGE AT 12: (sings)
∑
40
Œ
œ œ œ
There's a place
œ
called
42
w
home
Œ
œ œ œ œ
I can al - most
–39–
V/B
&
# # # 43
(YOUNG SCROOGE:)
44
w
see.
&
# # # 46
&
œ œ œ
and
&
###
door,
œ
48
w
œ
œ œ œ
and
Œ
a
roar - ing
œ
œ œ œ
tree.
It's
a place
called
FAN:
w
51
œ
œ œ œ
That
place
&
œ
front
50
# # # 53 œ
œ œ œ
&
###
red
a Christ - mas
home.
57
œ
œ œ œ
a
45
47
œ
###
Œ
With
fire
49
#7C—Factory/Home
I
œ œ
still
54
in my heart, where I
˙
œ
˙
can
tra
œ
œ
52
-
vel
to.
It's the
SCROOGE AT 12:
“Merry Christmas.
œ . œj
still come home
œ œ
˙.
55
to
∑
56
w
you.
Don’t forget me… Your loving brother, Ebenezer.”
3
60
Ó
FAN:
Œ
œ œ
Just
SCROOGE AT 12(loco)
+ SCROOGE (8vb) :
3
Ó
Œ
œ œ
Just
&
&
# # # 61 (FAN:)
œ
###
place
œ œ œ œ œ
in my heart,
I can
62
œ
still come home
(S. & Y.S:)
œ œ œ œ œ œ
place
in my heart,
I can
œ
œ . œj
œ
œ
to
œ . œj
still come home
to
a
a
GHOST: “The years flew
by. Fan married...then
died in childbirth.
63
w
64
U
∑
nnn
∑
nnn
you.
w
you.
–40–
V/B
#7C—Factory/Home
... But her child survived.”
SCROOGE: “Hmmm. My nephew, Fred! Yes, he survived and my
sister died. I don’t see him. Spirit, why are you showing me these
…The lights went out on poor Fan!…
miserable moments?”
&
U
∑
65
U
∑
66
CUE: GHOST: “To understand the present,
learn from the past.”
GHOST: “Dear, dear…
Giocoso
68
Oh, come now, give us a smile.”
SCROOGE: "Humbug!"
# Ó
&
U
Œ Œ
69
U
Œ Œ
Ó
&
#
2
70
(Lights up on Fezziwig's Bank)
Vamp
Furioso
4
Fezziwig
73
Expansively
b
& b bb
Cut to bar 73
SCROOGE: "Oh look, it's
old Fezziwig in his bank,
bless his heart. I was
apprenticed here so many
years ago!”
∑
74
U
∑
∑
78
.. b b b b
∑
GHOST: “And who is that handsome
young fellow there, with the light
still in his eyes?”
75
Emily Ritard
77
.. 72D
Young Ebenezer
SCROOGE: "Why, it's me! And my partner, Jacob Marley!
How young we look!"
b
& b bb
#
GHOST: “It wasn’t all bad! Here’s
something to cheer you up.”
Vortex!
72
U
∑
67
∑
U
∑
76
SCROOGE: “Oh, Spirit, why do you
delight in torturing me? It is Emily.”
SCROOGE & YOUNG SCROOGE:
“Emily!”
In 8
3
81
U
∑
DIALOGUE
VOCAL BOOK
No. 8
–41–
A Christmas Carol
Fezziwig's Annual
Christmas Ball
WARN: MRS. FEZZIWIG: "A rainy day, my boy? This is England! It rains everyday!"
CUE: MR. FEZZIWIG: "Oh, very funny, my dear, very funny.
(MUSIC) And now, clear away, my lads and let's have lots of room here!!"
# # 6 1.
& 8 .
Violin Solo
8
Raucous & Playful
SCROOGE: "Christmas at Fezziwig's! What happened here? Why does it still linger in my memory?"
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: "Watch!" MRS. FEZZIWIG: "Drinkie!"
&
15
## 9
MR. FEZZIWIG:
"Thank you, my dear. Friends!
My dear, dear friends!"
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
"Oi! Shove off."
(MUSIC OUT) CUE: "A toast!"
Rubato
#### 4
& #4
U
∑
U
œ œ
MR. FEZZIWIG:
17
We're
&
####
œ
&
####
####
so
œ
œ
glad
to
18
œ œ œ ˙
œ.
have you here
to - night!
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
#
19
œ
Pour
&
#
.. # # # # 44
6
some
œ
wine
(MRS. FEZZIWIG:)
#
20
œ
and
have
œ
œ
all
who've
MR. FEZZIWIG:
œ
œ
Here's
all
21
œ
œ
Here's
to
œ
œ
#
to
œ
œ.
who've
22
œ
your - selves
œ. œ
come
to
œ. œ
come
to
œ
˙
a
bite!
œ
œ
pay
a
œ
˙
call:
œ #˙
pay
a
call:
A Tempo, Bright 4
&
####
MR. & MRS. FEZZIWIG:
# Ó
23
Œ
œ œ
Mis - ter
24
œ œ œ
Fez - zi - wig's
œ œ œ
An - nu - al
25
œ
œ
Christ - mas
œ
Ball!
Œ
–42–
V/B
&
####
&
####
# œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
œ
#
Where
&
####
&
####
&
&
####
&
#
œ
œ
do
ban
∑
œ
-
&
œ œ
œ œ
#
&
tat
tat
tat
tat
kers
gal
-
œ œ
œ
˙
li - vant
like
boys?
#
do
got
to
vic - ars
make
Ho!
œ
œ
What's
so
œ
œ
hot
you've
∑
a ho - ly noise?
œ œ
œ œ œ
34
shed your shawl? Mis - ter
Œ #œ œ
Ó
#
∑
32
˙
œ. œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ œ
33
œ œ œ
Fez - zi - wig's An - nu - al
œ œ œ
œ œ Œ
35
œ
Christ - mas Ball!
œ œ #œ
œ œ Œ
œ
Christ - mas Ball!
36
# œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
37
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
MIDDLE CLASS:
38
# œ
Rat
####
tat
œ.
31
MR. FEZZIWIG:
Rat
####
œ œ œ œ œ
29
Mis - ter
####
27
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
30
Why
####
¿
(MR. & MRS. FEZZIWIG:)
26
Rat
28
#8—Fezziwig’s…Ball
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
39
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
Ho!
¿
Ho!
WORKING CLASS:
UPPER CLASS:
40
# nœ
Rat
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
41
nœ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
¿
No!
bbbbb
–43–
V/B
&
bbbb
+ UPPER CLASS:
Oh!
(WORKING CLASS:)
b
42
43
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
Rat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
Ho!
44
b
& b bbb
œ
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
œ
œ
What makes
&
bbbb
45
œ
nan - nies
laugh
un - til
∑
b
∑
46
œ. œ œ œ ˙
it hurts?
MR. FEZZIWIG:
œœ
∑
œ
( )
œ
œ
OSSIA:
What gets
b
& b bbb
∑
47
œ œ œ œ
48
Where do ba - bies
b
& b bbb
œ. œ œ œ
b
& b bbb
(Sop/Ten:)
50
œ
œ
œ
Fez - zi - wig's
&
bbbb
œ
(Alt/Bs:)
b
œ
&
&
bbbb
bbbb
S.&A.:
b
˙˙
n ˙˙
Food
and
˙˙
œ
b ˙˙
Food
œ
œ
˙˙
œ
51
Christ
˙˙
n ˙˙
b ˙˙
and
friend - ship,
-
œ
Christ
,54
,
œ œ
œ œ
A.&B.:
dance be - fore they crawl? Mis - ter
œ
friend - ship,
T.&B.:
b
œ
An - nu - al
53
œ. œ œ œ œ
Where do ba - bies
An - nu - al
œ
Fez - zi - wig's
52
œ
ALL:
S.&T.:
dance be - fore they crawl? Mis - ter
œ œ œ œ
œ Œ
kick - ing up their skirts?
œ. œ œ œ œ
49
gran - nies
-
˙˙
>
˙˙
wine
and
œ
œ
mas
Ball!
œ
œ
mas
Ball!
55
>
˙˙ ..
song,
˙˙
,
˙˙
wine
and
song,
>
˙˙ ..
Œ
Œ
Œ
Œ
–44–
V/B
WORKING CLASS:
b
& b bbb ˙
˙
56
no
&
&
bbbb
bbbb
˙
57
one
˙
turned
∑
b
b
b
& b bbb
58
a
-
Œ
˙
œ
We
look
(4 MEN:)
61
˙
˙
˙
˙
no
one
turned
a
˙
œ
for
w
4 MEN:
-
Œ
62
ward
Ó
˙
59
w
way!
∑
MIDDLE CLASS:
60
˙
˙
all
year
∑
-
∑
way!
(MIDDLE CLASS:)
&
bbbb
b œ
ALL:
Œ
63
64
˙
long
65
˙
to
˙
Christ
-
mas
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
bb
& b b b œ. nœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
66
puts
Mis - ter F.
68
ev - 'ry
˙
˙
Eve
when
67
pen - ny
,
t'ward the
joy
and good
of
man - y.
HABERDASHER & STAGE RIGHT MEN:
b
& b bbb œ
Hab
œ
-
er
69
œ
-
œ
œ.
dash - ers
dash
-
Œ
œ œ
œ
œ
ing down
the
beer.
TARTS & MAIDS:
b
& b bbb œ
70
Port
-
71
œ
œ
ers
court
-
œ
œ.
ing
an
œ œ
-
y
girl
œ
who's
˙
near.
–45–
V/B
&
bbbb
b
∑
ALL:
b
& b bbb
S:
73
œ. œ œ œ œ Œ
œ œ œ
œ
b
& b bbb
T/A:
b
& b bbb
b
& b bbb
79
U
˙
danc - ing wall to wall.
Promenade
81
w
Christ - mas
MR. FEZZIWIG: "Here we go, darlin'."
w
88
&
&
Gallop (Line moves to horizontal)
97
Ó
Œ
¿
98
∑
99
Ó
Ho!
100
&
Polka 2
#
4
# 106
¿
Lift the girl
2
104
Girl
2
Œ
Ho!
Solo Couple comes through
Spin
&
#
∑
3
93
Polka S.L.
∑
89
Hop/Step/Ball Change
Chassé
3
# 96
∑
Ball!
Tempo Primo
#
∑
Meno Mosso
80
˙
Polka 1
∑
œ. œ œ œ nœ Œ
Maids and mas - ters
(MRS. FEZZIWIG:)
∑
œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ. œ œ œ œ Œ
B:
78
œ bœ œ
œ
Œ œ œ
Ó
Mis - ter
90
œœ œ
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
72
108
Boy
3
b
–46–
V/B
Polka Circle
111
Turns
3
&b
∑
114
Mr. Fezz. attitude Step
&b
4
115
Young Scrooge & Emily
&b
123
4
119
q. = q
Violin Solo
œ
6
&8
j
œ #œ
‰
#œ œ #œ œ #œ
j
œ
∑
n 68
j
œ
œ ‰ œ œ
124
125
∑
∑
126
#œ œ œ œ.
∑
Fouette Turns
&
135
8
127
Vicars
& Poet
& Mr. Fezziwig
143
b
&bb
4
œ œ
n
œ
151
œ
bbb œ œ
∑
Paddle turn
2
147
152
153
∑
2
149
œ œ œ œ œ œ
Fl, Ob, Cl, Kbd 2
&
bbb
8
&
œ
œ œ œ œ
‰
Œ.
154
∑
ALL:
¿.
Ho!
GHOST: ..."Remember?"
SCROOGE: "Oh yes!!"
b
&bb
155
4
158
4
44
–47–
V/B
162
WORKING CLASS:
ALL:
b
& b b 44 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Rat
tat
tat
b
& b b bœ œ œ œ œ œ œ
œ
164
tat
tat
tat
tat
MIDDLE CLASS:
Rat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
œ
#6
& 8
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
Ho!
#6
8
tat
tat
Ho!
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
"Come on, Granny Chuzzlewit,
pick up your skirts, my dear!"
Awkwardly
8
170
bb
GRANNY PICKWICK: "I can't do it!"
œ œ œ
œ œ œ
Kbd 2
tat
bœ œ œ œ œ ‰ ¿
J
4
b ‰ bœ œ œ œ bœ œ
b
&
∑
tat
ALL:
MRS. FEZZ: "No it won't! We'll show you!"
178
tat
165
Granny Section/Flea Hops
166
j
œ œ œ œ œ ‰ ¿
163
179
180
˙.
∑
2
181
∑
MRS. FEZZIWIG:
b
& b Œ.
‰
183
2
¿
J
184
Let's
¿
give
2
¿
¿
them
2
some -
¿
185
thing
¿
¿
2
¿
‰
eas - i - er!
MRS. FEZZIWIG: "Come on, Granny Chuzzlewit!"
GRANNY CHUZZLEWIT: "It's too difficult!"
Cakewalk
186
3rd Granny
b
&b
4
Slower q. = h.
b
&b
192
198
Acro Granny
&
2
194
accel.
3
A Tempo
197
4
ALL:
210
œ 2 œ œ.
Fez - zi - wig's
211
œ 2 œ œ.
An - nu - al
∑
#
bb
8
206
&
GRANNY PICKWICK: "I've got it! I've got it!"
#
bb
2
190
212
˙.
Christ
213
-
˙.
mas ...
42
(To 218)
–48–
V/B
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: "A small matter to make these silly folks so happy."
SCROOGE: "Small? The happiness Fezziwig gives is as great as if it cost a fortune.
An employer has the power to render us happy or unhappy..."
Debs (elegantly)
218
Chassé
b
& b 42
8
#### #
#
8
226
Soutenu
SCROOGE: "I should like to say a word or two to Bob Cratchit now. Achoo!"
Heavier
234
#### #
& #
5
GHOST: "Bless you!"
# # # # # 239
& #
7
Pas de Bourée
# # # # 246# œ œ œ
& #
Picc
œ
œ œ œ
247
∑
œ
248
j
#œ
œ
b b 44
(To 250)
œ
∑
∑
New Tempo
250
b 4 ALL:
b
& 4 #œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Rat
b
& b bœ
252
Rat
b
&b
254
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
251
œ
tat
#œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
MEN:
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ.
255
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
œ
tat
tat
œ œ œ œ œ ‰ Œ
J
253
tat
œ
tat
œ
tat
œ
tat
tat
ALL:
œ,
œ
(œ
œ
œ
(Ossia for men)
Here's
&
256 œ
bb
œ
to
œ
œ
œ
Fez - zi
all
œ)
-
wig's
who've
œ
come
œ
œ
An - nu - al
to
257
pay
a
˙˙ (S.)
S.&T.:
˙˙
A.&B.:
Christ
call:
(A.)
-
mas
Mis - ter
b b b b b b 43
–49–
V/B
Young Scrooge & Emily Waltz "Slow-Motion"
f
bb b b b 3 ˙ .
& b 4 ˙.
258
ALL:
T.&B.:
long fade
259
˙.
˙.
260
˙.
˙.
261
˙.
˙.
S.&A.:
(all in same octave)
Ball!
b
& b bbbb
12
262
274
b
& b bbbb
YOUNG SCROOGE: "Emily,..."
16
b b b b b 44
He is interrupted by the dance
Tempo 1º
b
& b b b b 44
8
"Click In"
Table slides
b
& b bbb œ
300
&
####
&
&
299
nœ bœ nœ œ
nœ
####
3
3
∑
#œ œ œ
∑
Fiddler on benches
ALL:
# #œ
301
œ
œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
Ho!
4 Men on bench
302
# œ
Rat
####
œ nœ œ
œ nœ œ œ
Rat
####
3
3
298
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
303
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
Ho!
9 People on bench
304
# nœ
Rat
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
305
nœ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
Ho!
#
–50–
V/B
&
####
(ALL:)
306
# #œ
Rat
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
307
œ œ œ œ œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
¿
tat
Ho!
Allemande Circle
308
&
####
S.&A.:
œœ
#
œœ œœ œœ
Hearts are
&
####
&
beat - ing,
œœ
#
beat - ing,
&
œœ
cheeks are turn - ing red.
# œœ .. œœ œœ œœ œœ Œ
311
œ œ œ œ
Such
313
a glad time
# œœ .. œœ œœ œœ œœ Œ
œœ
œœ
œœ
œœ
œœ
œœ
Danc - ing, laugh - ing,
312
œœ
Danc - ing, laugh - ing,
œœ .. œœ œœ œœ œœ Œ
œœ œœ œœ
wel - come and well fed!
####
310
cheeks are turn - ing red.
T.&B.:
Hearts are
####
œœ .. œœ œœ œœ œœ Œ
309
œ. œ œ œ œ Œ
had by one and all!
∑
∑
wel - come and well fed!
&
####
SCROOGE:
314
# œ
œ
It's
the
œ
fin
œ
-
315
est
œ.
ball
GHOST:
# # # #316
& # œ œ œ œ
And
for
œ
I
re - call!
can
"Click In"
"Click Out" Freely
joy,
the
317
œ œ œ œ
price is
œ
œ œ
( U˙ )
al - ways small!
Freeze
Œ
A Tempo
318
Ó
ALL:
Œ œ œ
Mis - ter
–51–
V/B
319
&
####
ALL:
# œ œ ˙.
320
˙.
œ œ ˙.
321
Œ
An - nu - al
Fez - zi - wig's
&
####
œ œ ˙.
SCROOGE & GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:
∑
#
∑
Fez - zi - wig's
&
####
# ˙.
323
Œ
322
S:
A.
T.
B:
wwww
324
Christ
&
####
# œ
-
œ ˙.
ww
ww
mas
∑
∑
An - nu - al
325
&
(ALL:)
####
ww
ww
w
#
ww
ww
w
ww
ww
w
326
˙˙ ..
˙˙ ..
˙.
327
328
Œ
Ball!
&
####
329
Rat
&
####
330
# œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
331
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
# œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
tat
œ
332
tat
tat
tat
Œ
tat
Œ
tat
tat
¿
Ho!
VOCAL BOOK
No. 9
–52–
A Christmas Carol
A Place Called Home
CUE: MRS. FEZZIWIG: "Turn down the lights! Bring in the candles! Food's ready!"
Briskly
MRS. FEZZIWIG: "Come along, then, you two lovebirds!"
b 41
b
& 4
4
2
5
Freely
U
∑
(Not Conducted)
&
7
bb
SCROOGE:
8
œ
œ
œ
œ
24 10 œ
œ œ œ œ
9
We looked for - ward
all year long
to
## 4
4
œ
Christ - mas
YOUNG SCROOGE: "My dear Emily, I have something important to ask you."
11
## 4 ˙
& 4
Ó
4
12
42
Eve.
Vamp
EMILY: "Ebenezer ... "
# # 2 16
& 4
YOUNG SCROOGE: (Vocal Last X)
.. Œ
∑
17
œ Ò œ
œ
There's
a
place
œ
.. 44
called
18
#
& # 44
19
w
Œ œ œ œ œ
home,
&
# # 22
œ
door,
&
# # 25
Œ
20
I can al - most
œ œ œ
and
a
Yes,
a
œ
place
w
œ
with a red
œ
called
fire
26
and
w
home
w
a Christ - mas
27
Œ
front
24
œ
œ œ œ
œ
Œ œ œ œ
see,
23
roar - ing
EMILY:
œ œ
œ
21
tree.
œ œ œ
full
of love
œ
and
–53–
V/B
&
YOUNG SCROOGE:
# # 28
∑
#
& # ˙
&
# # 31
#
& #
&
Ó
29
(EMILY:)
˙
fam
i
-
Œ
30
˙.
-
œ œ
œ
Then the
door
œ
œ œ
o - pens
Œ
-
∑
"Marry me, Emily?"
j
œ
œ.
ing
there
EMILY:
"Oh yes, Ebenezer."
32
w
for
me.
YOUNG SCROOGE:
"But we must wait awhile. I'm going to work and save. Never get into debt, never."
4
# # 38
3
# # 42 (EMILY:)
&
w
41
43
EMILY:
Œ
# # 45 Œ
and
œ œ œ
You'll have ev - 'ry
##
life
for
place
46
-
œ
thing
œ œ
(œ œ œ )
you could ev
-
∑
∑
w
two.
er
47
œ
Œ
&
Ó
want.
Œ
EMILY:
œ œ œ
All
# # 48
called
OSSIA
YOUNG SCROOGE:
œ
a
a
44
œ
œ
œ œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ
home
&
∑
33
Just
&
and you're
ly.
œ
œ
œ
œ
wide
(YOUNG SCROOGE:)
wait
34
#9—A Place Called Home
I want
œ
is
(YOUNG SCROOGE:)
∑
#
& # w
49
Œ
œ
and a place called
(EMILY:)
you
œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ
and a place called
50
w
home.
w
home.
51
œ œ œ œ œ
You and
I
will
œ œ œ œ œ
You and
I
will
–54–
V/B
(YOUNG SCROOGE:)
&
# # 52 ˙
˙
al
&
&
˙
-
&
in
be
ways
œ
œ
come
56
œ
the
dark
of
∑
j
œ
w
home
to
me.
œ
œ
œ
night
let
your
œ œ
Poco Rit.
œ.
the
57
SCROOGE:
Ó
œ
œ
Through
the
Œ
œ
Ó
(Slower)
##
(SCROOGE:)
Œ
˙.
59
Œ
# # 62
Œ
60
years
&
∑
54
œ œ
∑
heart
58
˙.
# # 55
##
Œ
be
al - ways
(EMILY:)
#
& # ˙
˙.
53
œ œ œ
œ
˙.
I've re - called
this
day
61
œ œ
Ó
in
your
Più Mosso
63
w
Œ
arms
œ œ
œ
when
(SCROOGE:)
&b œ Œ
65
Rit.
I
66
Ó
Œ
way
fi
YOUNG SCROOGE:
to
a place
œ
w
called
home.
EMILY:
Nœ
œ
b
Œ
A
œ
œ
&
to
a place
called
w
home.
-
œ
˙
˙
n'lly
found
my
œ œ œ
to
& b Œ œ Aœ œ
64
œ
a place called
67
˙
b
Ó
home.
Œ œ œ œ œ
You and
I
will
Œ œ œ œ œ
You and
I
will
–55–
V/B
(YOUNG SCROOGE:)
˙
˙
&b
68
al
-
˙
&b
&b
-
Ó
∑
70
be
ways
˙
˙
ways
be
(EMILY:)
al
˙
69
Œ
In
∑
71
œ
œ œ
dark
the
∑
72
œ œ œ
œ œ
of
let
73
the night
your
SCROOGE &
YOUNG SCROOGE:
Ó
Œ
œ œ
to
(EMILY:)
œ
&b
heart
œ
come
œ.
j
œ
w
home
to
me
&b
œ
place
Rall.
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
in
my
heart
where
you're
&b
Ó
˙
(OLD & YOUNG SCROOGE:)
74
∑
75
œ
al
Ó
-
œ
(U
œ .)
ways
home
EMILY:
, œJ
with
(U
œ .)
, œJ
home
76
A Tempo
w
b
&
77
w
78
w
the
79
with
∑
me.
&b
w
w
w
∑
me.
APPLAUSE SEGUE
VOCAL BOOK
–56–
A Christmas Carol
No. 10
Money Machine Montage
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: “Ah, Emily. your old flame, ha! ha!”
5
1
4
&4
6
œ œ œ œ ˙
&
7
What a love - ly night!
& ˙.
need!
12
&
10
But re
Furioso
-
mem - ber
# # 22
23
..
∑
BOTH:
œ œ œ œ
Rea - dy
&
the
7
20
œ
way
œ
œ
œ
your
life
would
Poco Rall.
##
2
Vamp – vocal last X
YNG. EBENEZER:
a
YNG. MARLEY:
œ
œ œ œ
What
# # 26
11
SCROOGE: “To my partnership with Jacob Marley.”
YOUNG MARLEY: “Good morning, Mr. Scrooge.”
YOUNG EBENEZER: “Good morning, Mr. Marley.”
A Tempo
&
j
œ
œ.
Em - i - ly was all you’d ev - er
GHOST: "Read, Ebenezer, read!"
w
# # 24
œ
œ
13
lead…
&
8
Hap - pi - ness and light.
œ œ
9
œ œ œ œ ˙
fine
day!
œ nœ œ œ
25
Line
Mo - ney for all we’ll
ev - er need!
27
œ
the
door,
sir.
YNG. EB.:
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ œ
Mo - ney to make.
Mo - ney ga - lore, sir!
BOTH:
œ nœ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
at
YNG. MAR.:
for bus - ’ness? Yes, in - deed!
œ
œ œ œ
œ œ œ
œ
Mar - ley and Scrooge,
spoken
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
per - fect - ly
suit - ed.
..
–57–
V/B
&
# # 28
(BOTH:)
œ œ œ
œ œ
œ œ œ
Gen - tle - men with one game
&
# # 30
¿ bœ
¿
hum - bug!
if
to
œ nœ
œ
we
#10—Money Machine Montage
don’t
do
spoken
29
play:
Pro - fit,
œ. #œ
well
œ ¿J
œ œ œ œ œ œ
-
no - thing less, and
œ Œ Ó
31
to
yes, and
bb
∑
32
day!
Debtors' Entrance
GHOST: “Link by link, year by year, creditor after creditor, your partnership flourished, and your fortune grew.”
b
&b
# # # 39.
.
&
2X
CREDITOR (THE BEADLE):
.. ‰ j
∑
40
.. ‰ œj œ œ œ œ œ b œ
∑
2X
49
ALL:
.. ‰ œ œ b œ œ œ œ b œ
J
∑
47
Here’s half that I did bor - row.
I need
YOUNG EBENEZER:
“Sign here!”
&
I'll pay you back a - gain, sir.
46
YOUNG MARLEY:
“Kindly see that
you’re prompt.”
& ..
51
50
54
œ
& ‰ # Jœ œ # œ œ œ œ
55
You know
I
& ‰
œ
J
swear
I’ll
pay
œ nœ œ
What’s made
you
so
you
yet,
‰ # œJ
sir!
œ
œ bœ
hard
heart - ed?!
I
my cred - it’s prime, sir!
œ #œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
fal - len
deep
in
debt,
sir.
œ #œ
œ
œ
œ #œ
helped you
both
get
start - ed!
MR. FEZZIWIG:
‰ # œJ
56
"Why, Ebenezer, why?"
58
œ bœ
‰ œJ œ b œ œ œ
a bit of time, sir!
3
‰ œj œ œ œ œ œ b œ
I'll bring the rest to - mor - row.
I’ve
57
nnn
‰ j
5 CREDITORS:
2X
& ..
48
41
I’d like to bor - row ten, sir.
YOUNG EBENEZER:
“Ten pounds, plus interest.”
45
###
6
33
2
bb
–58–
V/B
60
GHOST:
bb œ œ œ œ ˙
&
Do not turn a - way.
&
œ
61
œ œ œ ˙
Here’s the price you pay.
œ œ
˙.
see…
64
œ
Come re
-
œ œ
œ œ
˙.
b
&b ˙
love
71
˙.
bring…
b œ ˙.
b
&
&
###
&
91
&
####
much
œ
as gold.
70
Well,
œ œ œ œ
days
long be - fore our
œ ˙.
76
your ring...
(The GHOST OF MARLEY appears)
A Tempo
# # # 87
j œ
œ
.
œ
SCROOGE: "Fool! Fool!"
Slower
EMILY:
Ó
Œ œ
˙
œ
I
dreams
˙
˙
Bless
you,
œ
J
œ
grew cold,
œ
I
#### #
#
E - be - ne - zer...
###
3
SCROOGE: "No, Jacob, no!"
2
####
SCROOGE: "My only friend!"
Marley's Heart Attack
8
œ œ œ œ
6
n n n 89
2
77
œ œ
have some gold to
œ.
73
œ
SCROOGE: “Emily, No!”
75
give you
#### #
& #
67
You
˙
72
From
74
78
69
no - thing quite so
œ
2
65
mem - ber…
68
84
Here’s an - o - ther sha - dow yet to
SCROOGE:
“Spirit! Show me no more! I spared no time for her!”
63
bb
b
&b
62
Rall.
99
2
nnnn
–59–
V/B
A tempo
101
6
&
111
Rall. molto
4
107
###
A tempo — Slower
# # # SOPRANO:
œ œ œ
&
Voi - ces
# # # ALTO:
œ œ
&
Voi - ces
&
Doughnut spins
(YOUNG SCROOGE is alone counting his money)
# # # TENOR:
œ œ
œ
œ.
from
the
past
œ
œ
œ.
from
the
past
œ
œ.
the
past
œ
œ
œ.
from
the
past
œ
Voi - ces from
BARITONE:
? ### œ
œ
Voi - ces
‰
112
œ
œ
call - ing
‰
œ
œ
call - ing
œ
‰
œ
call - ing
œ
‰
œ
call - ing
œ
œ
œ.
you
at
last,
œ
œ
œ.
you
at
last,
œ
œ
œ.
you
at
last,
œ
œ
œ.
you
at
last,
‰
‰
‰
‰
poco a poco accel. thru m. 126
&
# # # 113
œ œ œ œ œ œ
voi - ces
&
###
&
of
of
of
œ
œ
œ
the ones who loved you
? ### œ œ œ œ œ œ
voi - ces
œ
œ œ œ œ œ œ
voi - ces
œ
œ œ œ œ œ œ
voi - ces
###
of
œ
œ
œ
˙
114
GHOST, GROUP 1 & GROUP 2:
Œ œ œ
so.
˙
Come re -
115
. j
œ œ œ œ
mem - ber
the
Œ
∑
Œ
∑
Œ
∑
so.
˙
so.
˙
so.
–60–
V/B
# # # 116
(GHOST, GROUP 1 & GROUP 2:)
&
œ
œ
lights
&
of
###
œ
œ
long
a
117
‰ œj
˙.
w
-
GROUP 1:
118
go.
Re -
∑
∑
Ó
Œ
GHOST:
‰ œj
Re -
119
&
###
(We see Old Bailey)
GROUP 1:
(We see YOUNG SCROOGE and EMILY)
. j
œ œ œ œ
mem - ber,
&
&
###
###
120
. j
œ œ œ œ
re - mem - ber,
Œ . œj œ œ
121
re - mem - ber,
Re-mem-ber,
re- mem-ber,
.
œ ˙
mem-ber,
re- mem-ber,
œ ˙.
˙.
re -
(We see SCROOGE AT 12 in shoe factory)
re - mem - ber,
### œ . j # œ
&
œ œ
&
###
re-mem-ber,
.
œ #˙
re - mem-ber,
re-mem-ber,
re-mem-ber
w
bbbbbb
re - mem-ber
SCROOGE: “No, No, Noooo!!!”
Gavel (onstage)
bb b b b ¿ Œ ¿ Œ
& b
œ. bœ œ nœ b b b
bbb
J
re-mem-ber,
n˙.
‰ œj b œ
˙.
bbbbbb
re - mem-ber
œ. bœ œ nœ
J
œ . œj œ # œ
mem-ber,
127
‰ œj
re - mem-ber,
# # # 123 # œ œ . j 124 # œ œ . j 125b œ n œ œ . œ 126b œ n ˙ .
&
œ
œ œ
œ
J
mem - ber,
re -
œ . œj œ œ
re - mem-ber,
‰ œj
˙.
(GHOST:)
re - mem - ber,
œ . œj œ œ
œ . œj œ œ
GROUP 2:
j 122 œ œ . j
œ
œ
.
œ
œ œ
œ
128
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
129
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
130
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
–61–
V/B
GHOST: “These are shadows of the things that have been. They are what they are!
They are what they are! Do not blame me. They are what they are…”
b
& b bbbb
131
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
132
b b b b135 ¿ Œ ¿ Œ
b
& b
139
&
136
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
133
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
137
GHOST: (reappearing)
"They are what they are!" (etc.)
###
4
&
Ritard
# # 154
134
138
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
###
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
SCROOGE: "The past!"
6
143
##
2
149
Freely
151
#
& #
¿ Œ ¿ Œ
∑
œ
œ
Ó
Œ
152
œ œ œ
œ œ
good things nev - er last,
# # 2 157
& 4 œ
place
œ
44
Spi - rit,
SCROOGE:
153
œ œ
œ
Well, the
past
155
œ œ œ
is
œ œ œ œ
œ
why did you make me
the
œ œ
past
and
˙.
2
œ œ 4
156
see
the
there’s a
suddenly angry
158
called
159
˙.
œ œ
home
that has
œ
œ œ œ
no - thing to
do
œ
with
SCROOGE: “When the clock strikes two, the Ghost of Christmas Present…”
&
# # 160
161
w
me?
2
VOCAL BOOK
–62–
A Christmas Carol
No. 11
Abundance and Charity
(Scrim rises. The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT is revealed!)
## 4 1
& 4
4
(The GHOST tastes
SCROOGE's gruel...
GHOST OF
CHRISTMAS PRESENT: “Boo!”
#
& # Ó
Œ
9
4
5
Œ
...and spits it out.)
U
∑
10
11
U
Œ
Ó
GHOST:
œ
You
12
Rubato (in two)
#
& # œ
call
œ nœ bœ
13
this Christ - mas
Tempo
&
# # 16
œ œ nœ œ
are - n’t just
17
a
din - ner?
# nœ œ œ œ
& #
pre - sent’s full of
A tempo
&
# # 24
œ
œ
Christ - mas
&
# # 27
one
˙
So I’ve
28
of
19
you’re an out - right
plea - sures!
no
pot
œ Jœ œ .
22
Things to
œ
nœ œ œ œ
œ
mea - sures
his
done you just
a
tee - ny
œ
œ
wal - let
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
ti - ny
œ
gruel?!
You
Rit.
˙
23
see, en - joy and
26
˙
˙.
œ œ œ
fool!
opt. 8va
25
15
œ œ œ œ
meas - ly
œ
j
œ œ. œ œ œ
21
œ
œ ¿ ¿
18
sin - ner,
œ
(loco)
14
this
j
#œ œ. ˙
A tempo
20
Rit.
j
œ œ œ œ
.
Why, the
˙
Rit.
œ œ œ
taste!
And at
j
œ œ
or
his
j
œ
waist!
SCROOGE:
“Aren’t you…”
29
¿
o¿
fa - vor!
œ œ
Oh, don’t
–63–
V/B
&
(GHOST:)
# # 30
œ
œ œ œ œ
J
œ
J
thank
me. It’s no - thing
at
# 33
& # œ
˙ "
sa - vor.
36
&
##
œ
34
Don’t
31
˙
In 4
œ
32
Just a
˙
œ
œ œ œ œ
œ œ
all.
few
œ
wor - ry.
35
I
œ œ
de - li - cious things to
œ
œ
˙
pro - mise…
they’re
GHOST:
"You have never seen
Entrance of sleigh the likes of me before."
A tempo, in 4
Œ Ó
œ
Rit.
#11—Abundance and Charity
37
∑
SCROOGE:
"Never."
7
38
42
small!
CUE TO CONTINUE:
GHOST: “Ebenezer Scrooge, are you
ready to go forth with me?”
SCROOGE: Spirit, I will go with you
freely. Conduct me where you will."
# # 2 45.
& 4 .
Vamp
48
CUE TO CONTINUE:
SCROOGE: (Cont'd)
If you have ought to
teach me, let me profit
by it.”
Vamp
.. ..
∑
46
Cornucopia Shakes
In 2
CUE TO CONTINUE:
GHOST: “Excellently said,
Mr. Scrooge. Touch my
robe!”
Vamp
.. 41 ..
∑
GHOST:
7
&C
.. n n C
∑
47
55
Ó
Œ
œ
A
-
56
& œ.
j
œ Ó
57
bun - dance!
œ . œj Ó
58
Chari - ty!
j
& œ. œ Œ œ
60
joy - ment!
Hi
61
-
Œ œ
Good
œ . œj Ó
lari - ty!
62
Œ œ
Good
œ
œ
59
œ
will
t’ward men!
œ
œ
will
œ
Ó
Œ œ
En -
63
Œ œ
Ó
t’ward men!
Come
64
.
& œ
share
œ Ó
J
some,
65
œ.
spare
œ Ó
J
some,
66
Œ
œ
No
œ
œ
mat - ter
–64–
V/B
(GHOST:)
&
˙
˙
when,
Ben!
67
68
œ œ
œ #œ œ œ œ
Get with the
& w
70
71
spi
-
w
69
rit ’cause
you’re gon - na hear
∑
72
œ œ œ œ œ œ
nœ
Ó
73
it
A
w
74
75
w
∑
76
77
Ó
Œ
&
##
There’s
Ragtime
œ œ œ œ
joy - ful
&
# # 81
fa
86
&
##
&
&
bu - lous
Sir!
A
-
œ
‰ œ.
œ
your heart!
82
œ
fruit
87
œ.
of
œ
of
the
jŒ
œ
sweet,
90
œ . œj œ Œ
Sir!
94
91
bun - dance!
¿ ¿ ¿ Ó
J
J
Come on, Ben!
friend,
that
spi - rit’s
83
Œ
œ
my
Œ
œ
vine!
œ
88
mine!
œ œ ‰ œ
J J
œ.
A
œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ
lit - tle in - dul
(HE rings
the bell)
œ œ œ œ Œ
92
¿ ¿ ¿ Ó
J
J
Ring that bell!
-
gence and
Œ œ œ
Char - i - ty!
95
j
œ
kind - ness,
85
A
(OPT: "Ring that bell, Ebenezer!")
∑
œ
hu - man
œ
A
œ
œ
##
a
j
œ œ
80
My
œ nœ
œ
bread
œ
œ Œ Œ œ
then,
# # 93
œ
j
œ Œ œ
œ.
treat,
# # 89
in
on the
œ
-
œ
œ œ
Dine
&
79
spi - rit
œ b˙
# # 84 œ
-
nœ #œ
gain!
78
bbbbb
œ
Œ
gain!
b
& b bbb
a -
œ
œ
Good will t’ward men!
(SCROOGE
rings the bell)
96
Œ œ
œ
œ
Good will t’ward
bb
–65–
V/B
97
&
bb
(GHOST:)
w
7
98
men!
Reveal
b
&b
117
&
####
&
####
Click in h=1 08
3
125
3 GIRLS:
Ó
128
˙
A
129
&
####
&
####
# www
130
Ah!
3 GIRLS:
# w
&
####
# n www
&
####
#
www
www
w
www
œ
i
w
-
www
135
136
w
w
ty!
GHOST:
# Ó
137
˙
Good
Ó
˙
www
134
-
132
dance!
133
˙.
www
131
w
-
Char
&
-
OTHER GIRLS:
bun
####
#
8
#
#
####
12
105
138
˙
˙
will t’ward
139
œ Œ Ó
men!
140
2
GHOST & ALL GIRLS:
Ó
142
‰ œ.
A -
–66–
V/B
143
&
####
(GHOST & GIRLS:)
# œ . œj œ Œ
&
# œ . œj Œ œ
&
151
œ.
-
œ Ó
J
&
&
####
œ.
153
No mat - ter
# œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
#
spi
œ ‰ Œ
J
-
Ó
œ
œ
Œ œ œ œ
œ Ó
J
spare some,
the
œ
œ
150
En -
œ Œ Œ œ
men!
154
Come
œ Œ œ Œ
when,
Ben!
œ œ œ œ œ œ
156
nœ
rit ’cause
œ Œ Œ œ
men!
Good will t’ward
155
Get with
157
149
la - ri - ty!
152
share some,
####
Œ œ
148
Hi
146
Good will t’ward
œ œ œ œ Œ
147
#
145
Char - i - ty!
joy - ment!
####
Œ œ
œ œ œ œ Œ
144
bun - dance!
####
you’re gon - na
hear
it
-
#### #
#
5
158
a
gain!
165
# # # # # 163
& #
GHOST:
2
œ œ nœ
œ
166
œ œ nœ œ œ œ œ
Fill your plate, come
# # # # # 167
& #
aœ
ve
œ
-
# # # # # 170 j
& # œ œ
nev - er
ry,
j
œ œ
j
œ
mer - ry
time.
168
on and
169
w
œ
œ
All
the
ce - le - brate a
œ
joys
œ
you
GIRLS: 3 girls upper 8ve
œ œ œ œ œ
J
dared
to make the
171
œ . œJ ˙
most
of,
172
œ
œ
He’s
œ œ œj œ .
œ œ œ œ.
the ghost
of!
–67–
V/B
173
Click out
#### #
& # œ œ nœ œ
GHOST:
174
Lis - ten, bro - ther,
#### # ˙ .
& #
176
177
# # # # # 179 œ œ œ œ
& #
180
Life’s a ball, and
183
œ œ œ œ œ.
J
œ
J
at the pan - to - mime!
œ œ œ œ œ œ.
J
Bro - ther, you can pick it!
bb
2
181
I’m your tick - et!
Champagne pop
12
1st Break
178
lit - tle plea - sure,
Circle Dance
b
&b
is play - ing
œ œ œ œ œ œ.
J
Œ
j
#œ œ œ œ
175
œ œ nœ œ œ œ œ
Mo - ther Goose
An - y
199
Ghost soft shoe
b
& b bbb Œ ¿ Œ ¿
¿ Œ Ó
200
Dance lyric only
Œ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
201
I
need
2nd Break
b
& b bbb Œ ¿ ¿ Œ
203
bbbbb
4
195
202
¿ ¿ ¿
a Di
Shimmy
¿ ¿ Œ ¿
204
-
¿
¿
et Coke right now!
GHOST: "Your turn, Ebenezer!"
Œ ¿¿¿¿¿¿
206
Œ ¿ Œ ¿
210
205
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
3rd Break
b
& b bbb Œ ¿ Œ ¿
207
b
& b bbb Œ ¿ ‰ ¿ .
211
¿ Œ Œ ¿
208
209
GHOST: "Take it, Ebenezer!"
GIRLS:
¿ Œ Ó
212
213
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
Ho,
ho,
ho,
ho,
Œ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
>
Œ ¿ Ó
214
Ho!
##
–68–
V/B
215
&
Big soft shoe
Twist Step
##
8
# # 231
& Œ
Œ
GIRLS’ Tap
SCROOGE’s Tap
¿
Ó
¿
SCROOGE’s Tap
Œ ¿ Ó
GIRLS’ Tap
b
& b bbbb
237
2
b
& b bbbb
>
œ
GIRLS:
œ
nev - er
>œ
b
& b bbbb
spi - rit
œ
nev - er
œ
the
œ
gon - na
œ
œ
gon - na
spi - rit
GIRLS’ Tap
Œ ¿ Œ
¿
234
bbbbbb
4
243
you are
>
When you get
b b b b 249>œ
b
& b
the
Ó
¿
Click in h=1 0 6
>
When you get
Œ
SCROOGE:
"Spirit, this is very unlike me."
6
GHOST:
bb b b b 247 >
& b œ
SCROOGE’s Tap
233
GHOST:
"That's the way to do it!"
235
Œ
230
Œ ¿ Œ
¿
232
¿
GIRLS’ Tap
Ó
229
SCROOGE’s Tap
Ó
225
SCROOGE’s Tap
3
226
2
223
(The GIRLS applaud)
#
& #
you are
248
>
>
gon - na
wan - na cheer
it
and you’re
>
>
gon - na
wan - na cheer
>œ
>œ
>œ
>œ
>œ
want
to
let
it
stop!
>œ
>œ
>œ
>œ
>œ
want
to
let
it
stop!
250
Œ
Œ
it
œ
and you’re
œ
A
Œ
œ
bbbb
-
bbbb
Œ n œœœ
A
-
–69–
V/B
251
&
.
bbbb œ
(GHOST:)
œ ˙
J
252
bun - dance!
(GIRLS:)
j
œœ œœ
œ œ
b
& b b b œœœ ...
bun - dance!
&
w
w
253
n œœœ
Œ
œœœ œœ œœ
œ œ
Char - i - ty!
254
bbbb ˙ .
Œ
255
œ
œ œ ˙
œœ
œ
œœ
œ
œœ
œ
Good
will
t’ward
Œ
Œ
w
256
Char - i - ty!
&
bbbb
men!
j
œœ œœ
œ œ
œœ ..
œ.
œœ Œ Œ œœ
œ
œ
From
pau
-
per
œœ
œ
n œœœ
to
mil - lion - air
œœœ œœœ œœœ n œœœ b œœœ
-
i - ty!
Waltz clog
b w
& b bb
257
b
& b bb Œ
˙.
258
Œ
∑
259
GHOST & GIRLS:
œœœ
œœ
œ
œœœ
œœ
œ
Good
will
t’ward
men!
Œ
œ
b œœœ ...
Come
spend
Œ
j
œœœ Ó
some,
(GHOST & GIRLS:)
j Ó
œ
œœ
b
& b b b b œœœ ...
260
Lend
Œ
œœ
œ
œœœ
œœ
œ
You’ll
get
the
261
some,
Œ
262
n œœœ
œœ
œ
yen,
Œ
Ben!
GHOST:
b
& b bb œ
263
Get
&
bbbb
œ
with
264
œ nœ
œ
œ
the
-
rit ’cause
spi
∑
œ
bœ
œ œ œ œ œ Œ
you’re gon - na
Ó
hear
it
Œ
GIRLS:
œ
A
-
–70–
V/B
267
b
& b bb
∑
265
266
Ó
A
&
bbbb
(GIRLS:)
œ
gain!
3
œ
œ
œ
and
3
œ
a - gain! and
b b b 268w
b
&
271
&
bbbb
Ó
-
Ó
œ ˙
J
-
Ah
w
˙
˙
w
˙
˙
˙
˙
˙
˙
Ó
270
˙
˙
˙
˙
w
272
i - ty!
bun - dance!
gain!
˙
˙
˙
˙
œ ˙
J
1 Soprano on top note
w
œ.
Char
a
-
269
b ˙
& b bb ˙
b
& b bb
n ˙˙˙
œ
œ.
Œ œ
(GHOST:)
w
273
˙
˙
˙
˙
274
˙
˙
˙
˙
˙
˙
Ah!
GHOST: “Merry Christmas, Ebenezer!”
&
275
bbbb
2
Ride out
Ó
277
GHOST & GIRLS:
˙˙˙
Good
279
&
ww
ww
bbbb
ww
ww
˙˙
˙
278
will
ww
ww
282
men!
&
bbbb
ww
ww
283
ww
ww
284
285
t’ward
ww
ww
Kiss!
281
280
˙˙˙
2
VOCAL BOOK
No. 12
–71–
A Christmas Carol
Christmas Together
CUE: (CRACHIT house moves on stage.)
In One
b
& b b 43
Not Conducted
3
1
TINY TIM: (at oval window)
&
6
bbb
œ.
j
œ œ
La
la
7
la
b
& b b ˙.
10
œ
œ
œ
la
la
la
11
la
12
la
œ
œ
œ
la
la
la
∑
5
9
œ
œ
œ
la
la
la
13
˙.
˙.
la
la
SCROOGE: "That child. Who is he?"
GHOST: "Why that’s Bob Cratchit’s son, Mr. S. That’s Tiny Tim.
Come with me, Mr. Scrooge. If only you'd open your eyes,
Christmas Present is right outside your window. Come."
14
b
&bb
19
15
˙.
34
TINY TIM:
b
& b b œ.
j
œ œ
Oh,
what a
b
&bb
8
œ
˙
la
U
∑
4
38
œ
œ
œ
day,
I
don’t
39
˙.
-
b
& b b œ.
j
œ œ
42
-
ple will
mas
43
40
to
-
œ
œ
œ
say
we’re
the
œ
œ
œ
care
if
it’s
36
œ
˙
Christ
Peo
35
œ
œ
œ
grey,
if
it’s
œ
œ
41
˙.
˙.
geth
44
37
œ
-
œ
er!
œ
luck - i - est
45
œ
fam - ’ly
in
–72–
V/B
&
46
bbb
#12—Christmas Together
(TINY TIM:)
47
˙.
2
48
˙.
town.
50
&
œ.
Moth
b
&bb
54
58
-
er
51
is
j
œ œ
œ.
wear
b
&bb
j
œ œ
TINY TIM:
bbb
-
ing her
j
œ. œ œ
b
&bb ˙
63
mas
a
55
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
64
-
65
˙.
geth
he’ll
-
53
˙
56
-
fect
feast,
57
˙.
œ
˙
œ
per
and
Œ
œ
œ
gown!
60
œ
come and
œ
to
mak - ing
lov - li - est
59
Fath - er will
œ
œ
œ
52
œ œ œ
car - ry
61
me
66
˙.
And
˙
down
˙.
62
œ
to
˙.
Christ
67
-
∑
er.
SCROOGE: "Cratchit never told me Tiny Tim was ill." GHOST: "He tried — you didn't listen."
b
&bb
8
84
CRATCHIT: "Come along then, Tiny Tim. Everyone is waiting for you, my boy. Up you jump. On our way then!"
b
&bb
&
#
8
92
CRACHIT: "Look who's here!"
100
4
#
–73–
V/B
104
&
#
BOB CRATCHIT:
œ.
j
œ œ
Here’s
to the
œ
œ
lad
who
makes
˙
-
mas
MRS. CRATCHIT:
&
# 112
#
œ.
j
œ œ
Here’s
to the
-
œ
œ
œ
one
day
we
113
œ
œ
œ
glad
that
it’s
111
˙.
˙.
geth
-
er.
œ
œ
œ
don’t
give
our
114
œ
107
ev - ’ry - one
110
to
œ
106
œ
109
Christ
œ
œ
105
# 108 .
˙
&
&
j
œ œ.
œ
wor - ries
a
115
CHILDREN: "Pudding!"
116
˙.
˙.
˙.
117
118
∑
119
thought!
120
&
#
MR. & MRS. CRATCHIT:
œ
œ Œ
œ
Chick - en,
&
&
&
#
œ
the
œ
œ
121
fin - est
in
œ.
œ œ
J
Look
what your
# 128
œ.
j
œ œ
look
what sur
# 132 ˙ .
Christ
125
123
-
don,
œ
˙
œ
Lon
œ
œ
œ
moth - er
child
-
ren!
126
has
˙.
œ
Œ
127
wrought!
œ
And
MR. & MRS. CRATCHIT:
129
-
œ
œ
˙
mas
130
œ
pris - es
133
-
˙
MRS. CRATCHIT:
BOB CRATCHIT:
124
122
your
œ
to
fath - er
134
-
œ
œ
œ
has
˙.
geth
131
brought
135
˙.
-
˙
er!
œ
for
–74–
V/B
CRACHIT CHILDREN: "Crackers!"
&
# 136
(THEY pop their Christmas crackers)
2
Œ
138
y
Œ
∑
139
(Pop)
140
&
#
TINY TIM:
˙.
141
#˙.
this
Bless
&
# 145
142
147
#˙.
this
143
feast
144
#˙.
fam
146
˙.
˙.
-
#˙.
’ly,
148
˙.
bless
ALL CRATCHITS:
(spoken)
Y.
(spoken)
Cheers!
cheers!
and
Y.
149
ALL: (sung)
# 150
& Œ
151
œ #œ #œ
#œ œ
To the
152
joy
of your
153
˙ #œ
com - pa
-
154
˙.
Œ
155
˙.
˙
ny!
156
&
#
TINY TIM:
˙.
Bless
&
# œ
160
158
us
from
+ MR. CRATCHIT:
Œ
Œ
162
˙
to
œ
Œ
Œ
163
˙.
Yes,
least.
165
˙.
˙.
166
œ
here’s
&
˙.
+ MRS. CRATCHIT:
# 164
# 168
159
all,
161
first
&
˙.
˙.
157
167
œ
œ
œ
œ.
how
the
world
ought
j
œ
to
ALL CRATCHITS:
˙.
be—
169
˙.
Œ
170
œ
œ
shar - ing
171
œ
œ
Christ - mas
œ
to
-
–75–
V/B
(CRACKER GIRLS enter)
(ALL CRATCHITS:)
&
# 172 ˙ .
˙.
˙.
173
geth
&
˙.
174
-
175
er!
# 176
####
8
Cracker Dance
&
# # # # 184
#
8
GHOST:
"Look, Mr. Scrooge, your very own Christmas cracker!"
&
# 192
200
&
&
#
4
œ.
j
œ œ
Down
ev - ’ry
# 204 ˙ .
# 207
œ.
Look!
&
# 207E˙ .
cage!
201
œ
œ
lane,
mas
to
˙.
207F
œ
œ
Tom,
Dick,
and
206
-
˙.
-
œ.
œ
œ
207C
glad
as
ca
-
˙.
œ
œ
Jane’s
off
to
œ
œ
œ
out
of
a
˙.
geth
207G
œ
203
207
œ
207B
They’re as
œ
202
œ
˙
j
œ œ
œ
ev - ’ry
205
-
4
196
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:
Christ
&
GHOST: (cont'd) "Lucky boy"
na
œ œ
J
-
er.
207D
ries let
207H
∑
–76–
V/B
208
&
#
WEALTHY PEOPLE:
œ.
Nice
&
#
œ œ
J
to
re
-
œ
œ
lax
from
the
œ
Have - n’t
&
œ
œ
had
fun
for
an
Œ
œ œ œ
&
Œ
Œ
217
1 COOK:
Œ
œ
œ
with
(COOKS &
WEALTHY PEOPLE:)
&
# 220 ˙ .
Christ
&b
&b
230
Nice
&b
234
221
-
˙
mas
j
œ œ
-
œ
’ness.
,
œ
222
Or
to
-
219
Œ
œ
And
˙
1 COOK:
Œ
˙.
-
Œ
rai - sins
œ
Œ
sage!
˙.
223
geth
Œ
b
˙.
224
225
er!
4
œ
œ
œ
got
such
a
231
235
˙
-
Œ
œ
and
˙.
œ
COOKS &
WEALTHY PEOPLE:
œ
Œ
œ
Œ
215
on - ions
to have
˙.
Christ
bus
˙.
218
ALL DRUNKS:
œ.
of
œ
˙
age!
œ
(DRUNKS enter)
226
214
and
Œ
œ
1 COOK:
stuff - in'
#
211
world
œ
213
(COOKS:)
# 216
˙
210
COOKS:
œ œ œ
212
œ
209
mas
232
œ
œ
236
-
œ
œ
spot
for
our
237
˙.
geth
œ
233
com - f’ta - ble
œ
to
œ
˙.
-
er.
–77–
V/B
DRUNK #2:
(sung by EMILY)
&b
238
j
œ œ
œ.
Shar
-
in’
239
a
œ
œ
œ
mor - sel
œ
œ
œ
bread
and
a
240
of
A DRUNK: "I love you!"
& b ˙.
242
243
œ
jig - ger
o'
2
244
˙.
j
œ œ.
241
gin!
246
,
2 SALVATION ARMY FOLKS:
& b œ.
Giv
œ œ
J
-
œ
œ
need - y
a
247
ing the
œ
248
249
˙
˙
œ
meal
and
œ
nice
hot
4 SAILORS &
2 LADIES OF THE NIGHT:
(Over exuberantly)
250
b
& œ.
sav
& b œ.
254
ain’t
&b
258
œ œ
J
-
251
œ
ing the
j
œ œ
it
a
sin - ners
255
œ œ œ
259
-
252
from
256
the
œ
˙
mas
260
to
-
˙.
Œ
œ
253
œ
œ
œ
ship
made
it
˙.
œ Œ œ
257
in
for
261
˙.
geth
-
er!
GHOST: "Look, Mr. S! All over London!"
&b
Advent Calendar Windows Open (#1)
&
# # # 290
4
&
2
300
(#2)
4
294
(#4)
(#3)
# # # 298
###
4
262
(#6)
(#5)
2
œ
And
sin!
œ
bless - in’
˙.
Christ
œ
œ
302
2
308
2
–78–
V/B
310
&
###
ALL: (CHILDREN on melody)
(No ANDERSON BOY)
˙.
Sop. + Bari:
311
&
###
&
# # # 314
&
&
###
312
#˙.
Bless
###
˙.
this
fam
˙.
#˙.
˙.
#˙.
315
this
# ˙.
#˙.
(ALL:)
318 (shouted)
T.
316
˙.
bless
# # # 322
&
###
&
’ly,
˙.
Altos +
Baritones
˙.
n˙.
Œ
#œ
323
-
pa
-
˙.
327
Œ
317
feast
Œ
Œ
Œ
320
˙.
321
#œ
œ
œ
the
joy
324
˙.
˙.
and
n œ
∑
319
#œ
Sop. + Ten.
Bless
###
-
To
˙
com
326
#˙.
Tenors
+ Altos
cheers!
&
313
of
your
Œ
325
˙.
#œ
#œ
œ
Œ
ny!
328
˙.
329
˙.
us
all,
from
˙.
n˙.
n˙.
330
œ Œ Œ
first
œ Œ Œ
–79–
V/B
# # # 331
˙.
&
(Sop. + Ten.)
&
###
332
to
(Altos + Bari:)
˙.
# # # 336
Œ
&
(ALL:)
&
# # # 341
œ
Christ - mas
nœ Œ Œ
n˙.
˙.
œ
œ
&
&
# # # 360
œ
-
˙.
geth
Barrel Turns
&b
364
Anderson House Revolves
&b
368
œ
˙.
338
to
(End twirl)
342
Sailors’ Dance
# # # 346
˙.
here’s
world ought
to
˙.
Yes,
œ œ
œ
333
(G.O.C.P. & SCROOGE re-enter)
“Twirl”
334
335
least.
337
how the
œ Œ Œ
376
˙.
Œ œ œ
340
be—
˙.
343
-
shar - ing
˙.
344
˙.
345
er!
14
4
4
8
(FRED'S family is revealed, playing various instruments)
&b
˙.
339
˙.
4
b
–80–
V/B
380
FRED’S FAMILY:
ANDERSON BOY & SALLY:
& b ˙˙ ..
FRED'S
GUESTS:
Let
.
? b ˙˙ .
˙.
˙.
381
382
˙˙
œœ
sky
re
383
œœ
œœ
œœ
the
stars
in
the
˙.
˙.
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
˙˙
-
œ
œ
FRED:
&b
384
œœ
œœ
œœ
mind
us
of
œ
œ
?b
œ
œ
˙˙
œ
œ
man’s
com
385
˙˙
œ
œ
388
389
Let
.
? b ˙˙ .
387
˙.
-
390
&b
∑
&b œ
God
?b œ
œ
us
love
till
we
˙.
˙.
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
∑
393A
œ
˙
bless
us
ev
˙
˙
-
’ry
œ
-
œ
die
and
˙˙
œ
œ
God
bless
us
393B
˙
ev
˙.
one.
˙.
œ
œ
Ritard
œ
˙.
œ
˙˙
391
œœ
In the orchestra parts, bars 393A
and 393B do not exist. Bars 392
and 393 have a repeat sign.
œ
œ
˙˙ ..
œœ
œ
œ
œ
sion.
œœ
393
(FRED’S FAMILY:)
-
˙˙ ..
SCROOGE:
392
˙.
pas
œœ
˙.
˙.
& b ˙˙ ..
386
˙.
œ
-
’ry
-
–81–
V/B
394
(SCROOGE:)
&b œ
Œ
Œ
2
395
one.
&b œ
Œ
Œ
2
?b œ
Œ
Œ
2
(FRED’S FAMILY:)
FRED:
"A toast, friends! A toast to
my wicked old Uncle Scrooge!"
&b
FRED’S FAMILY:
(General protesting)
SCROOGE:
"What?"
SALLY:
"Shame on him. He said
Christmas is a humbug."
8
397
FRED: "He's a comical old fellow. But he is family."
&b
3
405
CUT 408-411
&b
4
408
4
412
416
&b
&b
FRED:
œ.
j
œ œ
Here’s
to his
420
œ
health
421
˙.
Christ
417
˙
-
mas
œ
œ
ev - en
œ
œ
though
he
puts
422
œ
to
œ
418
-
œ
wealth
423
˙.
geth
419
˙.
-
er!
œ
œ
ov - er
–82–
V/B
(FRED:) + FRED’S GUEST:
& b œ.
j
œ œ
Sad
when a
424
œ
œ
œ œ œ
425
fel - low
œ
426
has
no - thing
œ
œ
œ
œ
love
but
his
427
to
(A Tempo)
&b
428
˙.
˙.
˙.
429
430
∑
431
gold.
432
&b
&b
SALLY:
ANDERSON KID:
œ.
œ œ
J
Year
up - on
œ.
œ œ
J
hope
that his
436
œ
œ
œ
year,
you
in
433
434
-
din - ner
438
gets
him
here!
Œ
˙.
œ.
j
œ œ
here’s
to the
&b
448
˙.
Christ
453
œ
Well,
cold!
œ
œ
œ
year
when
old
445
˙
mas
œ
to
450
-
446
5
œ
œ
Scrooge may
˙.
œ
be
451
geth
-
447
-
˙
hold
œ
a
452
˙.
FRED: "My dear family, here’s to Uncle Scrooge,…"
&b
FRED:
ALL ANDERSONS:
449
-
I
Œ
439
444
&b
œ
˙
œ
vite
œ
œ œ œ
437
˙
435
˙.
er!
FRED: (cont'd) "…wherever he may be!"
458
2
#
–83–
V/B
460
&
#
ALL OTHERS:
j
œ œ
œ.
Gath
-
er and
# 464 .
˙
&
&
-
œ.
Fam
-
# œ.
TENORS:
V
V
sing
of
this
œ
œ
at - ed
by
œ
œ
œ
’lies cre
-
œ œ
J
473
œ
œ
466
-
˙.
thing
known
as
-
œ
œ
œ
474
œ
˙.
er.
œ
friend - ship
˙.
œ
467
geth
470
œ
463
glo - ri - ous
to
469
œ
462
œ
mas
j
œ œ
# 472 .
˙
&
#
œ
˙
OTHERS:
# 468
œ
465
Christ
œ
œ
461
œ
œ
œ
œ
well
as
by
bœ
œ
œ
471
as
œ
˙.
˙
Œ
n˙
Œ
475
birth
˙.
n˙.
#˙.
476
WOMEN & TENORS:
# œ.
&
Ev
&
# 480 œ .
love
œ œ
J
-
en the
œ œ
J
there is
477
ALL:
œ
œ
œ
poor - est
478
are
œ
œ
nev - er
a
481
œ
&
œ
Œ
rich
482
479
œ
in
˙.
dearth.
œ
˙
love.
œ
483
Of
Œ
œ
So
–84–
V/B
OTHERS:
# 484
& œ.
&
#
j
œ œ
ce
le - brate
TENORS:
œ.
œ
485
j
œ œ
œ
&
œ
for
all
that
it’s
worth—
To
œ
œ
œ
œ
˙
MEN:
œ
488
∑
489
Œ
Œ
490
œ
˙.
MEN:
friend
&
# 492
˙.
-
&
&
493
˙.
geth
&
œ
-
’ly!
œ
œ
Œ
494
œ
-
˙.
geth
495
œ
-
Œ
n b ˙˙
497
-
er!
n b ˙˙˙
-
er!
Œ
er!
˙.
œ
mas!
.
b n ˙˙˙ ..
geth
-
˙.
œ
To
˙.
# 496 n ˙˙ ..
#
œ
ship!
˙.
Christ
491
˙.
To
#
˙.
fam
To
&
487
WOMEN & CHILDREN:
#
#
MEN:
œ
œ
Christ - mas
˙
œ
œ
486
œ
To
Œ
œ
To
, nœ
œ
All
,
nb œœœ
All
498
a ˙˙ ..
ov
˙
499
-
a ˙˙ ..
˙.
ov
er
˙˙
˙
-
er
-
, œ
œ
the
, œ
œ
œ
the
-
–85–
V/B
500
&
&
#
#
(WOMEN & CHILDREN:)
˙˙ ..
˙˙ ..
˙˙ ..
501
earth!
(MEN:)
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
[SOME HOLD THROUGH,
SOME JOIN GROUP 1]
˙˙ ..
502
503
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
earth!
&
&
&
&
#
#
GROUP 1: (includes CHILDREN and CRACHITS)
504
œ.
Gath - er
GROUP 2:
œ
œ
œ
sing
of
this
505
and
˙.
˙.
˙.
# 508
#
j
œ œ
509
j
œ œ
Gath
-
er
and
œ
œ
507
glo - ri - ous
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
œ.
œ
506
˙.
thing
˙.
˙.
˙.
∑
510
˙.
511
˙.
œ
œ
œ
sing
of
this
œ
œ
œ
˙.
˙.
glo - ri - ous
thing
512
&
#
˙.
Christ
&
#
˙.
513
514
˙.
-
515
˙.
˙
mas
˙.
œ
to
˙.
Christ
˙.
-
mas
-
–86–
V/B
(GROUP 1:)
&
# 516
geth
&
#
517
˙.
518
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
er!
-
(GROUP 2:)
˙.
˙
œ
to
-
geth
-
er!
CRATCHIT: "I give you the founder
# 520 .
˙
&
521
522
˙.
Christ
&
519
-
523
˙.
˙
mas
to
#
˙.
œ
˙.
˙.
-
˙.
Christ
-
mas
of the feast. Mr. Scrooge."
&
# 524
geth
&
525
˙.
˙.
-
527
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
er!
#
˙.
526
˙
œ
to
-
geth
-
er!
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Will Tiny Tim Live?
–87–
VOCAL BOOK
No. 13
In 1
#
& 43
A Christmas Carol
Will Tiny Tim Live?
MRS. CRATCHIT: "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon."
4
A
CRATCHIT: "My dear, the children, Christmas day!"
&
#E
4
MRS. CRATCHIT: "I'll drink his health for your sake but not his. Mr. Scrooge" ALL FAMILY: "Mr. Scrooge!"
&
#I
4
44
Slowly and Tenderly
#
& 44
1
TINY TIM: "God bless Mr. Scrooge!"
SCROOGE: "God bless Mr. Scrooge!"
M
4
A Tempo, In 1
# 3 SCROOGE:j
& 4 œ. œ œ
I
# 13 .
˙
&
share.
œ
knew
there
was
-
j
œ œ
-
en this
mas
to
œ
œ
œ
child
who
has
10
14
˙.
3
œ
˙
œ.
Ev
œ
6
Christ
#9
œ
2
ne - ver
# 5 ˙.
&
&
CRATCHIT: "And now it's bedtime, son."
4 TINY TIM: "Right oh, Father!" Molto Rit. 3
œ
œ
œ
4
œ
a - ny - thing
7
-
˙.
ge
œ
-
œ
no - thing
15
˙.
spend - ing
8
˙.
11
to
œ
œ
ther.
œ
12
has
16
œ
œ
œ
so
much
to
˙
Œ
–88–
V/B
17
&
&
(SCROOGE:)
#
œ.
œ œ
J
What
is this
# 21 œ .
18
œ œ
J
He
19
feel - ing
that
œ
œ
22
looks as
œ
œ
œ
œ
fra - gile
#13—Will Tiny Tim Live?
˙
as
-
ver
&
j
œ. œ œ
26
gent - ly his
30
&b
36
b
œ œ œ
fa - ther
A Tempo, In 1
27
is
Ritard
whelms
me?
24
˙
œ
air.
œ œ œ
plac - ing
How
Ritard
˙.
28
him
29
œ Ó
bb
there...
GHOST: (opening robe, revealing WANT and IGNORANCE)
"Poor child, one of many."
Ritard
SCROOGE:
"Poor child."
6
44
SCROOGE: "Spirit, are they yours?" GHOST: "They are Everyman's. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.
Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy,
In 4
for Ignorance shall be mankind's doom!"
b
& b 44
bbbbbb
4
GHOST: "Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?"
SCROOGE: "Have they no refuge, no resource?"
b
& b bbbb
4
40
44
CRATCHIT: "Goodnight, son. Merry Christmas."
A Tempo, In 1
46
# 3
& #4
Flute solo
œ . # œj œ
Safety
# # 60 .
& .
64
-
˙.
In 3
# 25
œ
œ
o
23
˙
20
∑
47
˙
48
∑
..
∑
Œ
49
∑
10
50
∑
GHOST: "Who are you to decide who shall live and who shall die?
If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die!"
4
.. 44
SCROOGE: "No, wait! What must I do? Tell me! What must I do?"
# 4
& #4
.. # # 43
(no bar 45)
TINY TIM: "Goodnght, dear Father. Happy Christmas."
˙.
œ œ œ
Vamp
6
∑
70
Kbd 2 [Clock ticks]
¿
Œ
¿
Œ
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Dancing on Your Grave
VOCAL BOOK
–89–
A Christmas Carol
No. 14
Dancing On Your Grave
∑
& 44 ¿
¿
Œ
SCROOGE: "What is this? What have I done to be left so alone."
Œ
Clock continues ticking
Repeat As Needed
2
& ..
A
CUE TO CONTINUE:
(SCROOGE knocks on the door
of his own house four times)
SCROOGE:
(GHOST OF CHRISTMAS
"When the clock strikes three ... " FUTURE enters, tapping her cane)
∑
& 44
(
¿
Œ
∑
1
¿
.. 44
¿) Œ
¿
(1st knock)
5
2
Ó
(4th knock)
SCROOGE: "I know you. I've seen you before. I fear you more than any ghost
I have seen. I hope to live to be another man from what I was, but the night is
waning fast and it is precious time to me."
2
& ..
7
10
..
Click In
U
∑
9
(BARITONES on top note,
BASSES on bottom note)
MONKS:
π
b
˙
Vb ˙
˙
˙
11
œ œ œ ˙
œ œ œ ˙
Ah
b
Vb
Ritard
∑
WOMEN & TENORS:
Ó
π
˙
Ah
12
w
w
13
œ
œ
Ah
˙
œ œ œ
w
œ œ ˙
œ œ ˙
bb
–90–
V/B
(MONKS:)
#14—Dancing On Your Grave
(BASS continues 8vb)
b
Vb w
w
14
15
˙
œ
œ
œ
œ
16
17
w
#w
Ah
(WOMEN & TENORS:)
b
Vb ˙
œ
˙
œ œ
w
w
Ah
Poco Accel.
b
Vb w
18
niente
19
w
b
Vb w
26
3
20
3
niente
w
b
3
&
A Tempo (Macabre)
MALE MONKS:
& b bœ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
>
>
>
Lis - ten
&b
3
23
to
the
rhy - thm
of
28
27
b>œ œ œ œ # œ œ œ œ
>
the
sho - vel
Œ
29
œ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
mur - murs of the
˙.
spi - rits that you
in
the
gra - vel
and
the
30
>œ œ œ œ # >œ œ œ œ
danc - ing in the sha - dows of the
fear,
Shovel Toss
&b
31
32
OPT.
œ
fu
˙
-
ture.
molto cresc.
œ
œ
Your
œ
˙
œ
fu
-
& b bœ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
>
>
Lis - ten to the ech - oes of the
34
œ
˙
œ
ture
lies
33
˙
Ó
˙
here!
35
bœ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
>
>in the sha - dows, all> the
voi - ces
b
–91–
V/B
Shovel Toss & Catch
sub.
(MALE MONKS:)
& b œ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
36
peo - ple who you
ne - ver tried to
p
Œ
37
38
˙Œ . ¿ ¿ ¿
>œ œ œ >œ # œ œ >œ œ
save!
Lis - ten to the foot - steps of the
Click Out
(BLIND HAG enters)
&b œ
>
39
40
œ
peo - ple
42
>œ
œ
who'll
be
>œ
œ
w
your
grave!
œ #œ
danc - ing
on
Œ
41
˙.
The GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE Reveals Herself
18
&b
60
(MALE MONKS:)
>œ œ œ œ # œ œ >œ œ
b
b
V
Lis - ten
to
the
rhy - thm
of
the
62 >
œ œ œ œ # œ œ >œ >œ
b
V
mur - mur of the
61
ham - mer
63
peo - ple draw - ing
b>œ œ œ œ # œ œ >œ >œ
on
Œ
˙.
64
near.
the
cof - fin,
and
the
Lis - ten to the
mu - sic of the
THE G.O.C.F. sits on Shovels
Vb œ
65
fu
Œ
œ
-
66
œ
ture.
Your
œ
fu -
˙
œ
ture
lies
68 >
b œ œ œ œ # œ œ >œ >œ
b
V
Lis - ten
Vb
70
to
the
ech - oes
of
œ
œ
œ
œ
#œ
curse
you
for
the
lit
69
the
-
>œ œ œ œ # >œ œ œ œ
b
V
Lis - ten
to
the
foot - steps of
the
˙
here!
b >œ œ œ œ # œ œ >œ >œ
voi - ces
of
œ
œ
œ
tle
that
you
+ GRAVEDIGGERS:
72
73
Ó
67
the
71
fu - ture
as
˙.
they
Œ
gave!
>œ œ œ œ >œ œ
#œ œ
peo - ple who'll be
dan - cing
on
your
##
–92–
V/B
74
V
##
SCROOGE:
(MALE MONKS + GRAVEDIGGERS:) "I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Be. ...
·
(Whispered)
Ó
3
75
grave!
&
# # 78
... I know your purpose is to do me good."
SCROOGE:
80
2
bœ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
Lead me
&
# # 81 b œ
œ
œ œ #œ œ œ œ
&
# # 84
œ œ œ œ #œ
Tear me in - to shreds and re - cre
# # 87 w
&
88
learn!
85
œ œ œ
-
know I have to
#œ ˙
Œ
# # 90 # œ œ œ œ
#œ œ œ œ
&
91
w
#
V #
89
ter - ri - fied
∑
92
I
don't
83
w
go there to re - turn!
not too late to
nœ œ œ œ #œ œ œ œ
sha - dow pas - sing
me!
# # 93 (SCROOGE:)
œ œ œ œ œ œ #œ œ
&
fu - ture.
Tell me that it's
shi - ver of a
have a pre - mo - ni - tion it's for
ev - 'ry - thing I'm
86
ate me!
I can feel the
the
82
know what hells a - wait me, but I
to
o - ver, and
œ œ œ œ #œ œ
Lead me to the
œ œ
fu - ture! Show me
94
w
∑
95
to
see!
MONKS: (No GRAVEDIGGERS or BUSINESSMEN)
nœ ˙.
œ œ
œ nœ
Ah
(MONKS:)
V
# # 96
#œ
œ
œ #œ
S. & T:
97
œœ # # ˙˙ ..
98
n www
A. & B:
Ah
Ah
I
99
˙˙˙ ...
Œ
–93–
V/B
100
&
&
##
THREE BUSINESSMEN:
#1:
#2:
#1:
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ œ
Did - n't he die?
Did - n't who die, sir?
# # 102
#2:
#3:
œ
œ œ œ
œ nœ œ
œ œ œ œ
œ nœ œ
œ œ œ œ
103
Nei - ther could I, sir!
# # 104
&
nœ œ œ nœ
#1:
#2:
Fu - ner - al day, and
SCROOGE: "I know these
gentlemen from the 'xchange.
Of whom do they speak?
What am I to learn from this?"
# # 2106 .Vamp
V 4 . ∑
# 2
& # 4 ..
#1 & #2 BUSINESSMEN:
ALL BUSINESSMEN:
.. 44 ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Ó
107
.. 44 Ó
42
no - bo - dy chose to mourn his fate!
108
Have a nice day.
BUSINESSMAN #3:
∑
œ œ
105
What did he leave? No - bo - dy knows and
œ
no one came!
œ bœ
nœ œ œ nœ
œ
œ œ œ œ
œ
Ter - ri - ble mean old what's his name?
œ
œ œ
œ œ
Could - n't care less!
101
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Œ
Look at the time! I'm late!
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
∑
Have a nice Christ-mas!
#
& #
117
&
#
SCROOGE: "Who has died?"
6
109
#
2
115
Macabre
MRS. MOPS:
œ #œ
Shame
to
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
let
a
shirt
like
this
go
#œ œ
˙
118
in
Œ
the ground!
2 UNDERTAKERS:
# 119
& #œ
Grab
œ
œ
œ
the
sheets
and
œ
nœ
cur - tains
œ
œ
off
his
120
œ
bed!
Œ
Ó
–94–
V/B
MRS. MOPS:
&
&
# 121
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
Was - n't
worth
your
spit
while
he
was
œ
bœ
look
#
& #
œ
œ
œ
how much he's worth now
that
134
he's
&
OLD JOE:
œ #œ
# # 137
œ
These
&
a - round,
œ Œ Ó
but just
##
∑
125
dead!
4
These
&
œ œ
UNDERTAKERS: "Nightee night. Beddy bye!"
126
# # 130
##
still
124
œ #œ
OLD JOE (entering):
SCROOGE: "Oh,
"Rags and bones...Rags and bones."
merciful heaven,
what is this?"
&
#œ œ ˙
œ #œ
# 123 œ
ALL THREE:
122
# # 140
œ
These
are
j
œ
œ.
nice.
135
I'll
œ #œ
give
#œ
œ.
j
œ
are
nice,
and
UNDERTAKERS:
"Whatcha think!?"
4
œ
œ
œ
œ
you three and eight,
Mum.
œ #œ œ œ ˙
I'll
#œ
œ.
are
nice,
and
take these
141
these - 'll
+ MRS. MOPS &
UNDERTAKERS:
w
-
∑
139
be - sides.
œ
œ
œ
fetch
a
great
œ
sum!
SCROOGE: "I see, I see. The case of this
unhappy man might be my own."
143
# # 142 œ
œ œ œ œ œ #œ œ
&
he pro
œ #œ
∑
136
138
j
œ
What a love - ly pro - fit
MRS. MOPS:
"Hey, Old Joe!"
vides!
144
3
–95–
V/B
(CRACHIT house revolves)
&
# # 147
2
bbbbb
2
149
CRATCHIT: (At TINY TIM's casket)
151
&
bbbb
(orch. fermata under)
b œ œ œ
œ œ
œ
a
for
Ne - ver had
b
& b bbb
153
œ œ œ
œ œ
Ma - ny men
had
œ œ œ
œ
-
tune
œ œ œ
œ
-
tunes,
all
CRATCHIT: "We shall have none of us forget you,
Tiny Tim. My little child. My little child."
b
& b bbb
159
œ œ
hid - den in
154
œ
for
152
a
œ œ
I had
shoe.
˙
was you ...
SCROOGE: "Tiny Tim! Dead? His gentle
spirit was from God! Noooo!"
4
155
˙
b
Marcato (Earthquake!)
b
& b bb
bbbb
4
&b
163
6
Rall.
169
2
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
VOCAL BOOK
No. 15
–96–
A Christmas Carol
Yesterday, Tomorrow
& Today
CUE:
SCROOGE: “Ebenezer Scrooge, ahh!
At last, I understand!”
Safety
2
4 ..1
b
& 4
SCROOGE:
.. .. œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
3
to 6
..
∑
4
I have seen a fu - ture full of
&b
6
7
˙ œ œ
œ
dark - ness, all the
&b
10
kind -
13
All
16
ness.
œ œ œ œ
20
œ
From man’s
17
heart!
11
œ
˙.
œ œ
strange…
Give me
˙
˙
time
˙
to
12
œ œ
I
de
15
years I’ve wast - ed!
the er - rors of the
21
At my door a world in need of
œ œ œ œ
œ . œj œ b œ œ œ
All
œ
kind - ness,
14
the hours and days and
nev - er tast - ed!
&b
œ
9
w
dark - ness of my
j
œ œ œ œ œ
& b œ.
&b
œ ˙ œ œ
˙
œ
8
-
˙
˙
part
-
œ . œj œ œ œ œ
All
the joy and love
18
19
œ #œ œ nœ
past
re - placed with
22
23
w
change!
ed!
˙
I
˙
˙
some - thing
Ó
#
–97–
V/B
24
&
#
(SCROOGE:)
œ
I
&
can see
a
beau - ty,
œ
œ
œ
œ
œ
I
can
change
the
world,
˙
œ œ
30
ty!
God for
28
w
œ
du
32
&
#
-
&
# 35
œ
œ œ
œ
36
&
43
&
#
˙.
œ œ
way,
And to
œ
œ
Let
the
œ
give
33
my for - tune on the
con - science lead me,
# 39
-
Let
œ œ œ œ
34
ones who need me,
œ . œj œ n œ œ œ
40
œ
Christ - mas
˙
˙
God
I
œ
spir
-
&
œ œ
spir - it
starts to
œ
yes,
it’s
my
˙
try!
I’ll
œ . œj œ œ œ œ
where kind - ness and my
37
œ #œ
œ #œ
all! God speed
41
œ
˙
31
me
go
give my heart and soul to
œ ˙
œ
œ œ
me!
me
42
w
38
˙
on
˙
my
w
pray
œ
œ
it
live
44
œ
œ
with
-
in
˙.
me,
A Tempo
Rit.
# 45 œ
and my
˙
œ
œ. œ œ œ œ œ
J
spend
œ
26
œ œ
of
# 27
# 29
˙
25
fu - ture full
fly!
&
#15—Yesterday, Tomorrow & Today
Click In q = c104-108
46
œ œ œ œ œ œ #œ
yes - ter - day,
to - mor - row, and
to
-
’ ’ ’ ’
w
day!
47
’ ’ ’ ’
Œ
˙.
–98–
V/B
48
ANGELS and ALL CHILDREN
EXCEPT TINY TIM:
#
& ˙
˙
Let
&
# 52 ˙
56
stars
˙
love
Let
### ˙
&
57
the
˙
Let
&
# # # 60 ˙
Let
### ˙
&
Let
&
###
˙
Let
˙
the
˙
us
˙
us
˙
us
54
re
re
us of man’s
-
œ œ œ œ
mind
mind
-
55
-
w
one!
-
œ
re
-
mind
, œ
62
œ
œ œ œ
-
love
till we die,
œ
œ œ œ
love
till we die,
and
, œ
,
œ
œ œ œ
love
till we die,
and
œ
and
œ œ
God
bless us,
˙
œ œ
God
bless us,
˙
œ œ
God
bless us,
pas - sion!
˙
pas - sion!
œ œ ˙
œ
us of man’s com
˙
˙
˙
,
stars in the sky
###
˙
us of man’s com
œ œ œ œ
˙
pas - sion!
59
œ
us of man's com
œ œ œ œ
-
˙
com
God bless us, ev’ - ry
58
51
œ œ œ œ
œ
œ œ œ œ œ
61
œ
œ œ œ
œ
mind
and
stars in the sky
ANGELS - BOTTOM LINE:
###
-
,
œ œ œ œ œ
˙
the
till we die,
stars in the sky
ANGELS - TOP LINE:
Let
re
50
,
œ œ œ œ œ
SCROOGE:
˙
in the sky
, œ
œ œ œ œ
53
us
### ˙
&
,
œ œ œ œ œ
49
the
Let
&
63
-
˙
pas
– sion!
˙
nnn
ev’ - ry…
˙
˙
nnn
ev’ - ry…
˙
˙
ev’ - ry…
nnn
–99–
V/B
Click Out
64
Faster, Furioso
11
&
77
&
####
#
nnnn
n
The Roll
10
#
87
∑
?
####
88
2
œœœœœœœœœœœœœœœœ & 4
∑
?
44 89
24 90
∑
44
∑
Timp
3
91
4
∑
&4
GHOST'S hands
descend into trap.
& Œ
95
U
Œ
24 92 ∑
œ œ b œ œ b 3œ œ œ œ3 b œ 3
93
œ œ bœ
Tutti
44
SCROOGE
flips bedsheet
off his head. APPLAUSE
Œ
94
3
n œ b œ œ # œ n 3œ œ œ œ3 b œ
∑
∑
3
œ #œ nœ
JONATHON knocks
on Scrooge’s door.
U 96 U U U U U U U U JONATHON:
Œ " Œ Œ Œ Œ Œ Œ Œ ‰ bœ œ
Hear the
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Final Scene Part 1
(measure 5)
VOCAL BOOK
No. 16
5
–100–
Final Scene – Part 1
b
& b b 44 œ œ œ œ œ . œ œ
(JONATHON:)
bells
b
&bb
all
o - ver
œ
Lon - don town
œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ œ
7
A Christmas Carol
how
joy - ous - ly
‰ œ œ
they ring.
See the
SCROOGE:
"Boy, what day is this?"
JONATHON:
"Why, it's Christmas Day, sir!"
SCROOGE:
"Why it's Christmas Day, sir!"
(SCROOGE pulls
CUE TO CONTINUE:
JONATHON
SCROOGE: (con'd)
through the doorway "Then I haven't missed it!
and slams the door)
12
U
∑
œ œ œ œ nœ œ Œ
8
lamps a - glow in Lon-don town and
œ œ œ œ œ
6
n n n 42
hear each car - o - ler sing.
SCROOGE: (cont'd) The Spirits have done it all in one night! They can do anything they like! Of course they can!
13
Œ
Flute solo
& 42
œ œ
∑
44 ..14 œ
œ œ œ
œœ
15
œœœ œ œ œœ
∑
16
œ œ œ œ œ
∑
17
b˙.
Œ
∑
∑
Of course they can! I will live in the past, present and the future. The Spirits of all three will strive within me. Oh,
Jacob Marley, heaven and Christmas time be praised for this! I don't know what to do! I am as light as a feather. I
am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. (Opens front door)
&
30
Boy, do you
know the
poulterers?"
b
& b bb
SCROOGE:
"An intelligent boy! A
remarkable boy! Do you
know whether they've sold
the prize turkey?"
JONATHON:
"I should
hope I did!"
JONATHON:
"Wot? The one
as big as me?"
8
JONATHON:
"It's hanging there still!"
&
bbbb
12
18
38
bbbb
SCROOGE:
"How much is it?"
SCROOGE:
"What a delightful boy! It's
a pleasure to talk to you!
Yes, the one as big as you!"
SCROOGE:
"How much is it?"
JONATHON:
"Wot?"
3
41
Ó
Œ
Clarinet solo
œ œ
∑
JONATHON: "About a sovereign, sir."
SCROOGE:
"How much?! Well here are two sovereigns!
Go buy it for me ... and ... and ... keep the change!"
Rit. last x only 45 U
(Fermata 2nd x only)
b
& b bb œ œ œ œ œ
∑
42
43
œ
œ œ œ
∑
44
œ
˙.
w
∑
Play 1st x only
nœ œ
4
∑
..
JONATHON: "Wot?"
SCROOGE: "And ... Merry Christmas!"
JONATHON: "Wot? Wot! Blimey!"
DIALOGUE CONTINUES AS ONE
VOCAL BOOK
–101–
A Christmas Carol
No. 16A
MRS. MOPS: "I brought you your slice o' turkey and your bit o' puddin."
SCROOGE: "Thank you, my dear, dear, Mrs. Mops." (SCROOGE kisses her. SHE screams)
And Merry Christmas!"
MUSIC CUE: (MRS. MOPS screams again in horror. SCROOGE runs out of his house)
Moderately, In 2
bbb 4 1
b
&
4
3
SCROOGE:
Ó
4
Œ
œ œ
What a
b
& b bb
5
œ œ œ
œ
day,
b
& b bb
7
joy
b
& b bb
&
what
a
to
What
8
œ
be live
œ
œ œ
sky.
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œ
6
and
a
hap - py
Œ
b˙.
9
well!
10
œ
œ
œ
man
am
I!
œ
œ
œ
friends
you
meet!
13
bbbb
œ œ
What a
œ
What
a
œ œ œ
œ
God,
what
11
œ
œ
œ
a street!
What
Ó
12
œ
œ
œ œ œ
sound! What a love - ly
2
15
˙
smell!
(To the CHARITY MEN)
Ó
Œ
œ œ
Here are
16
b
& b bb
17
œ œ œ œ œ œ
coins for the poor, just the
b 19
& b bb ˙
ty!
Œ
œ œ
And if
20
18
first of man - y more, and a
œ
œ œ œ
we
save a few
œ œ
let
it
21
œ œ œ œ œ
check for your char - i -
œ
all
œ œ œ
have to
do
œ
with
–102–
V/B
#16A—Final Scene – Part 2
MRS. MOPS: "Mr. Scrooge! Your coat, your scarf! Oh my."
(SCROOGE:)
b
& b bb w
22
###
3
23
me!
&
# # # 26
SCROOGE: "Smythe!"
3
SCROOGE:
Ó
29
Œ
œ œ
Hear the
30
&
###
œ
bells
&
# # # 32
œ
now
&
&
# # # 35
œ œ
as
œ
œ
¿
toy...
Buy
œ
Mis - ter
œ
of debt
¿
lots!
as
œ œ
&
˙
be!
44
&
###
42
Oh, the
n˙.
a
good
39
time!
œ œ œ
Go
buy the tots
œ
œ œ œ
and
a fine
No
-
el!
40
done it years a - go! I’m as
œ œ œ
whole
world is new
œ œ
and
it
43
w
me!
6
a
œ œ
If I’d
œ œ œ œ œ
light as a man can
œ
œ œ œ
all
has to do
SCROOGE: "Come on, children! Follow me."
45
œ
Œ
˙
œ
And you’re
œ
34
œ
œ
37
œ
œ œ œ
œ œ
Œ œ œ
Œ
œ
of
36
known what I know I’d have
# # # 41
(Tears up their
mortgage)
out
well!
(sung)
Have
œ œ
œ
Smythe, you’re
33
œ œ œ
out
œ
œ œ
they chime,
(spoken)
# # # 38
31
œ
with
bbbbb
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V/B
Più Mosso
&
bbbb
b
59
SANDWICHBOARD:
(To 59)
∑
51
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b
& b bbb
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61
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BLIND OLD HAG:
b
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b
& b bbb œ œ .
72
a
be
˙
start!
w
been
w
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thing
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drink - in'!
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76
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made
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68
be
Gave
œ
74
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-
75
b
& b bbb
laugh - in'!
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J
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œ
ALL THREE:
˙
63
w
j
œ œ.
he's
73
œ
light!
70
œ
was
fright!
67
œ
LAMPLIGHTER:
a
œ
j
œ œ.
Scrooge
j
œ œ.
quite
60
œ
ter
62
œ
him
69
-
œ
me
œ œ.
J
mas
j
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me
œ
quite
œ
touched
œ
his
2
77
heart!
CLICK IN (h=103/104)
b
& b bbb
79
3
82
Ó
GHOSTS AND
ENSEMBLE:
Œ
œ œ
bbbbbb
Hear the
b
& b bbb
3
œ œ
bbbbbb
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V/B
83
b
& b bbbb
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S/T:
bells all ov - er
b
& b bbbb
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J
84
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lamps a - glow in
b
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ring.
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œ œ œ œ
˙
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œ œ œ œ nœ
˙ Œ œ œ
90
hear each car - ol - er
sing.
œ . œj n œ
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˙
92
hap - py heart to
Œ œ œ
Lon - don - town and
œ œ œ œ
b b b b 91 œ œ œ œ
b
& b
89
˙
86
joy - ous - ly they
œ
œ. œ œ œ
J
88
œ œ œ œ
85
Lon - don - town, how
A/B:
87
œ
œ
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J
Lon - don - town and
œ . œj
œ
œ
œ œ œ
œ
93
94
spread your kind - ly
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Bring a
œ œ
˙
Ó
cheer.
œ œ œ
n˙
95
b
& b bbbb
œ œ
œ œ
96
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b
& b bbbb
b
& b bbbb
b
& b bbbb
99
œ
œ
Hark - en
œ
may
œ
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for Christ - mas
œ . œj
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œ
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while
you
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100
œ.
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97
˙
Day
is
here!
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for Christ - mas
j
œ œ
˙
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œ
98
Ó
˙
˙
Day
is
˙
˙
101
–105–
V/B
Polka
102
b
& b bbbb
(Jonathon
Dance)
Ó
˙
CLICK OUT
103
7
bbbb
7
bbbb
here!
b
& b bbbb
Ó
˙
Chimney Sweep Dance
3 CHIMNEY SWEEPS: "Knees up, Mr. Scrooge!"
b
& b bb
&
142
&
6
110
####
2
116
ENSEMBLE:
# # # # 118
(EXCEPT CHILDREN)
7
3 SOPRANOS &
3 TENORS:
#### w
143
Ó
141
w
œ
œ
There's
a
œ
œ
can't
con
w
144
fire!
&
####
˙
fire
&
œ
œ
˙
in
his
soul,
(ENSEMBLE:)
# # # # 145 ˙
#### ˙
&
trol,
S/T:
œ
œ
for
A/B:
œ
œ
œ
œ
and
a
joy
he
˙
œ
œ
at
last
he
has
œ
œ
˙
œ
œ
for
at
last
he
has
146
˙
˙
come
to
˙
˙
come
to
147
-
–106–
V/B
&
Rall.
# # # # 148
∑
∑
149
∑
150
Ó
151
SCROOGE: (shouted)
œ
œ
Ev - 'ry
&
####
w
S/T:
w
w
œ
Œ
Ó
ww
ww
œœ
Œ
Ó
see...
# # # # A:
# ww
&
B:
see...
# # # # 152
(SCROOGE:)
&
˙
last
œ œ
one
of
153
˙
œ
154
œ
you
will have
for
[OPT LYRIC:
-
˙
œ œ
some - thing
ev - er
to
be
155
˙
do
part
˙
with
of ]
SEGUE AS ONE TO:
Final Scene–Part 3
VOCAL BOOK
–107–
A Christmas Carol
No. 16B
CUE:
SCROOGE: "Oh look, the prize turkey!
Well done, my lad ... follow me!"
1
In One
(SCROOGE knocks on
CRATCHIT'S door)
15
& 43 ˙ .
(SCROOGE:) 2
17
Ritard
2
19
####
U
∑
#
me.
CUE: CRATCHIT: "Mr. Scrooge!"
SCROOGE: "Cratchit!" CRATCHIT: "What's wrong?" SCROOGE: "Where've you been? I thought
I told you to come in early?"
20
A Tempo
&
####
#
Tpt 1 (Cup)
21
˙.
∑
˙.
22
∑
n˙.
23
∑
˙.
∑
CRATCHIT: "But, but ... that's tomorrow! Today's Christmas! It's Christmas Day!"
# # 24
& # ## ˙ .
25
∑
˙.
26
∑
n˙.
27
∑
˙.
∑
SCROOGE:
"Is it? Oh, dear. Well, silly me! Never mind. I'd better give you and your family a Christmas present then!"
# # # 28
& # #
36
&
##
8
MRS. CRACHIT: "The prize turkey!"
##
16
SCROOGE: "A Merry Christmas, Bob! A merrier Christmas than I have given you in many a year!
52
# # . 2x
& .
Accel. poco a poco
4
..
–108–
#16B—Final Scene – Part 3
I'll raise your salary and endeavor to assist
you and your struggling family from now on!"
SCROOGE: "Bob, Bob?
Oh, he's alright."
CRATCHIT: "Oh, yes,
I'm fine."
V/B
Vamp
# # 56.
& .
2
(CRATCHIT faints)
..
∑
58
U
∑
59
CUE: (SCROOGE lifts TINY TIM onto his shoulders)
Spirited SCROOGE: "Come along, Tiny Tim, up we go!!"
60
## œ .
&
j
œ œ
Kbd 1 + WWs & Stgs (8va)
61
œ
œ
œ
∑
62
∑
# # # # 64 œ . a œj œ
&
∑
&
j
œ
####
65
œ
œ
œ
66
∑
‰ Ó
œ
63
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####
˙.
∑
+Strings
68
œ
∑
WWs & Harp
œ œ
œ œ œ œ
67
œ œ
œ œ œ œ
∑
∑
b b b b b 42
11
69
∑
(SCROOGE arrives
FRED:
SCROOGE:
"It's I, your Uncle Scrooge.
I've come to Christmas dinner.
(Answering the knock at the door)
(e»q ) at FRED's door)
"Well, bless my soul, who's this?"
Vamp
81
4
b b b 2 ..
4
.
b
∑
.
& b4
4
80
Will you let me in, Fred?"
Molto Rit.
b b b 85 Ó
b
& b
FRED:
Œ
86
There's a
b
& b bbb œ
87
j
œ
œ.
been
home,
œ
88
for
In 4
b 90
& b bbb œ
place
In 8
œ
al - ways
œ
œ œ
œ
œ
œ
in
my
heart
œ
œ
where you've
SCROOGE: "Sally?"
SALLY: "We're so very happy you've come."
FRED & SALLY:
89
Œ
˙.
Ó
Œ
œ œ
Wel - come
me.
j
œ ‰
Un - cle Scrooge,
œ
œ
œ
wel - come
91
œ
home
œ
œ.
to
fam
œ 43
J
-
i
-
–109–
V/B
92
In One
(FRED & SALLY:)
b
.
& b b b b 43 ˙
93
˙.
94
SCROOGE:
"Thank you."
˙.
TINY TIM:
"It's snowing!"
95
ALL KIDS:
"Snow! Snow!"
5
####
4
#
ly.
100
&
108
&
116
&
####
4
#
#
With Gusto!
j
œ œ
ALL:
œ.
-
(ALL:)
&
er and
# 120 ˙ .
Christ
&
# 124
#
Ritard
8
Gath
&
104
œ
œ
œ
sing
of
this
117
˙
œ.
j
œ œ
Share
mas
to
œ
œ
œ
in the
joy
of
the
TENORS:
œ.
œ œ
J
œ
œ
œ
Share
in the
joy
of
the
# 128 .
˙
&
125
˙.
129
œ
œ
œ
122
-
-
œ
sea - son
œ
œ
sea - son
130
˙.
œ
thing
known
as
˙.
geth
œ
œ
123
˙.
126
œ
119
glo - ri - ous
œ
121
-
118
er.
œ
œ
œ
œ
ring
in
the
#œ
œ
œ
ring
in
the
127
and
œ
and
˙
Œ
n˙
Œ
131
new!
&
#
˙.
new!
˙.
#˙.
–110–
V/B
132
# ALL:
.
& œ
E
&
œ œ
J
-
ven the
# 136 œ .
œ œ
J
love
&
#
is
(ALL:)
140
œ.
&
&
&
œ
eas - y
to
141
œ
œ œ
J
-
ing this
œ
134
145
Ó
in
love
and
œ.
‰ œ
139
do.
Here’s
142
œ
your
œ
œ
your
œ
˙.
fam'
143
come
wish - es
146
œ
œ
œ
wish - es
œ
And
˙.
œ
œ
˙.
œ
˙
135
rich
WOMEN & KIDS:
∑
˙
138
œ
Christ - mas
˙.
-
Christ
˙
˙.
-
MEN:
œ
˙
œ
come
true
mas
for
147
˙.
-
˙.
ly
œ
Œ
œ
And
150
œ
to
˙.
Œ
ship
149
˙.
˙
true
(MEN:)
# 148
#
œ
œ
hop
friend
&
are
Christ - mas
#
#
poor - est
œ
hop - ing this
TENORS:
# œ.
&
144
œ
137
so
j
œ œ
œ
133
-
˙.
geth
˙.
151
œ
-
Œ
er,
œ
œ
to
Œ
-
œ
to
-
–111–
V/B
(WOMEN & KIDS:)
&
&
# 152 n ˙˙ ..
#
153
n b ˙˙
geth
(MEN:)
er,
-
.
b n ˙˙˙ ..
for
-
-
˙˙ ..
#
ev
er,
for
˙˙ ..
-
-
ev
-
˙˙ ..
157
˙
œœ
er,
for
˙˙
˙
œœ
œ
er,
for
155
a ˙˙ ..
˙.
[SNOWMAN CIRCLE]
156
a ˙˙ ..
154
n œœœ
n b ˙˙˙
geth
&
n œœ
˙˙ ..
158
159
you!
&
˙.
˙.
˙.
#
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
you!
# ˙˙ ..
˙˙ ..
160
&
# ˙ ..
& ˙
˙.
&
# 164
In 3
˙˙ ..
161
˙˙ ..
162
˙.
˙.
˙.
163
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
˙.
TINY TIM: "And God
bless us, everyone!"
U
∑
(Blackout)
165
∑
166
∑
ATTACCA
VOCAL BOOK
No.17
–112–
A Christmas Carol
God Bless Us Everyone
(Bows Version)
Vivace
All Bow
bbb b 4 A
b
& b 4
2
Scrooge Bow
b
& b bbbb
Orchestra Bow
11
2 Ritard
2
9
# #F ALL:
&
˙ ˙
2
1
3
6
# # 13.
.
2
..
15
Let
&
# # 19
the
˙ ˙
Let
16
stars
us
in the sky
œ œ œ œ œ
In
your
28
b
& ˙ ˙
Let
25
,
it
heart there's a light
29
22
œ
œ
26
as
,
œ
com
˙
-
˙
pas - sion.
Œ
23
w
˙.
b
God bless us ev - 'ry - one.
œ œ œ
œ
of us man's
œ œ œ œ œ
love till we die and
˙
mind
21
24
&b ˙
-
18
œ
œ œ œ
œ
re
,
20
17
œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ
shine through the night and
œ œ œ œ œ
bright as a star
30
œ œ œ œ œ
in
31
w
God bless us ev - 'ry - one.
27
˙
˙
hea - ven.
32
˙.
Œ
–113–
V/B
2 SOPRANOS ONLY:
˙
&b ˙
33
'Til
œ
œ
˙
35
˙
˙
36
œ
œ
˙
each
child
is
fed,
'til
all
men
are
free.
˙
˙
œ
œ
œœ
˙
˙
˙
˙
˙
œ
œ
œ
œ
˙
˙
each
child
is
fed,
'til
all
men
are
free.
œ
œ
œ
(CHOIR:)
&b ˙
'Til
34
#17—Bows
ALL SOPRANOS:
˙
&b ˙
37
'Til
&b
the
38
world
be - comes
(A:)
∑
Ó
Œ
œ
a
œ
A
&b
(T:)
∑
Œ
œ
œ
Be - comes
(B:)
?b
∑
Ó
Œ
œ
a
œ
A
(CHOIR:)
&b ˙
'Til
˙˙
œ
œ
the
world
œœ
œœ
be - comes
œœ
a
39
40
w
fam
-
-
fam
-
fam
-
fam
-
#
Œ
#
Œ
#
'ly.
˙.
#˙.
ww
Œ
'ly.
˙.
w
#
'ly.
˙.
w
Œ
'ly.
˙.
w
fam
˙.
'ly.
Œ
#
–114–
V/B
41
# ˙
&
(S:)
Star
&
#
˙
˙
Star
by
Star
(B:)
?# ˙
Star
#
& ˙˙
(CHOIR:)
Star
&
&
# 45
#
#
?#
&
#
by
42
œ œ œ œ
star
˙
˙
by
˙
by
˙˙
by
˙
(2 SOPs. on stems up)
œ
œ œ œ œ
star
star
œ
œ
star
46
œ
up a - bove and
œœ œœ œœ œœ
œœ
up a - bove and
œ
world
with your love
˙
˙
œ
œ œ œ
Light
this
world
with your love
œ
œ œ œ
with your love
Light
this
world
˙
˙
œ
Light
this
world
˙˙
˙
˙
œœ
Light
this
world
, œ
,
44
œ œ ˙
˙
˙
kind - ness.
˙
˙
kind - ness.
˙
˙
kind - ness.
˙
˙
kind - ness.
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kind - ness.
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God
bless us
ev
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w
and
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bless us
ev
-
and
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bless us
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w
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bless us
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God
bless us
ev
and
œ
, œ
and
, œ
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with your love
œ
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kind - ness by hu - man
,
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with your love
œ œ œ œ
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œ
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,
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,
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this
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up a - bove and
star
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up a - bove and
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,
Light
˙
43
up a - bove and
(A:)
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,
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and
47
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48
w
w
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V/B
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w
& w
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&
#
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w
50
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52
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w
one.
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w
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one.
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one.
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# w
& w
'ry
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w
w
(B:)
'ry
&
w
w
51
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(T:)
#
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w
w
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w
w
w
w
w
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'ry
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one.
53
# ww
&
54
w
w
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Œ
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55
U
w
w
ALL KIDS:
˙
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God
bless-
us
56
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Œ
Ó
Œ
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w
w
U
w
# w
& w
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one.
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V/B
No.18
–116–
Exit Music
Tacet
A Christmas Carol

scrooge - Tower Theatre Folkestone

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