Frisco Community Children's Theater announces auditions for "The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge"
October 11, 2006
For information contact: 972-377-2675, friscoacts.com

Synopsis
It is Christmas Eve of 1844, just one year after Ebenezer Scrooge learned the lesson of good will to all at the hands of four domineering ghosts. But the lesson doesn't seem to have stuck with him.

Now the setting is a courtroom where Scrooge has sued the ghosts for attempted murder, kidnapping, breaking and entering, trespassing, stalking, slander, theft, pain and suffering, and the infliction of emotional distress. It seems that Scrooge has reverted to his old disagreeable self, and now he has to contend not only with the original cast of characters — his nephew Fred, Bob Cratchitt and the like — but also with a couple of new adversaries: Solomon Rothschild the grandstanding defense attorney, and the irascible Judge Stanchfield R. Pearson.

"The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge" performs the marvelous feat of finding that new wrinkle, while exploring it in a way that pays proper respect to the source material. Players and audiences alike will have fun with this classic, without making fun of it.