Christmas Carol

The beloved Charles Dickens novel has been adapted to stage and screen a hundred times or more - but this is the production that will crown them all! The Houston Premiere of A Christmas Carol, the musical by award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) and celebrated lyricist Lynn Ahrens (Seussical, Ragtime, Once On This Island) will be a treat for you and your family to treasure as you come together to celebrate the holidays. Mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge declares charity, compassion and Christmas itself to be a humbug, and turns in for a miserable Christmas Eve - only to have his fitful sleep interrupted by a series of ghosts, each imploring and cajoling and threatening the wicked old man to change his ways or be bound to the heavy chains of regret and avarice in the afterlife! Join us in welcoming a Houston premiere, featuring fantastic songs like "Link By Link", "Nothing To Do With Me", "A Place Called Home" and "God Bless Us Every One", and revel in the joys of a Christmas miracle brought to brilliant life on the Masquerade stage!

Book by Mike Ockrent
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
based on the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Book, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart
based on the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens