A+Christmas+Carol+Play


 * __SCENE ONE__**


 * Narrator**: It's a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve, and all the people who lived in the town were walking home from work to their families for a Christmas break. Old Ebenezer Scrooge sits alone inside his counting-house while he watches over his poor old clerk named Bob Cratchit. It was as quiet as a mouse while poor Mr. Cratchit had such a small fire and tried to warm himself with his white comforter. While sitting in a quiet room, Scrooge was startled by...


 * Fred** (//nephew//): Merry Chritams, Uncle! God save you!


 * Narrator**: It was Scrooge's nephew Fred!


 * Scrooge**: BAH HUMBUG!!!!


 * Fred**: Christmas! A humbug! You must not mean that, right Uncle?


 * Scrooge**: I do. What right do you have to be merry? You have no right to act happy! You are poor!


 * Fred**: Come now, what right do you have to be joyless? What reason do you have to be morose? Your rich enough!


 * Narrator**: Scrooge was lost in his words. He didn't have a better comeback to say back to nephew to leave him alone.


 * Scrooge**: Bah Humbug!!


 * Fred:** Don't be cross now uncle!


 * Scrooge**: What else is there to be when I live in such a world with all these fools who are uplifting whenever Christmas comes around? Christmas is only a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer! Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!


 * Fred:** Uncle!


 * Scrooge**: Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way and let me think of it my way!


 * Fred**: Keep it??!!


 * Scrooge**: Let me leave it alone. Good afternoon. And a happy New Year!


 * Fred**: Uncle!


 * Scrooge**: Good afternoon!

//(END SCENE)//
 * Narrator**: I think you can now get a picture of how rude Scrooge is. Later that day Scrooge came across two portly men and were asked if he would like to donate to charity. Scrooge questioned the men if there were no places to keep the children who didn't have a home and after questioning the men he walks away without giving a dime to the gentlemen. No Christmas spirit found in that man.

__**SCENE TWO**__


 * Narrator**: Scrooge loves the darkness, and every night he sits by the fire and smokes a pipe and shuts all the lights and sits in the dark by the fire light. He thinks darkness is cheap. After dealing with the portly gentlemen, Scrooge makes it home. Before opening the door, he notices that the knocker on the door looks familiar, but isn't his normal knocker. Scrooge stands there and looks at it with fear because he realizes that it is his old friend Jacob Marley that has been dead for 7 years now.


 * Scrooge**: Pooh, pooh.


 * Narrator**: After rushing to his room, Scrooge locks the door behind him and puts on his dressing gown. As he eats his gruel before the fire, the carvings on his mantelpiece suddenly transform into images of Jacob Marley's face. Scrooge, determined to dismiss the strange visions, blurts out...


 * Scrooge:** Humbug!!


 * Narrator:** All the bells in the room fly up from the tables and begin to ring sharply. Scrooge hears footsteps thumping up the stairs. A ghostly figure floats through the closed door--Jacob Marley, transparent and bound in chains.

//(Scrooge falls to knees)//


 * Scrooge**: What do you want with me?


 * Jacob**: Much!


 * Scrooge**: Who are you?


 * Jacob**: Ask me who I was!


 * Scrooge**: Fine, who were you?


 * Jacob**: In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.


 * Scrooge**: Can you... Can you sit down?


 * Jacob**: I can.


 * Scrooge**: Well, do it then.


 * Jacob**: You don't believe in me don't you?


 * Scrooge**: No, not at all.


 * Jacob**: Why do you doubt your senses.


 * Scrooge**: Because, I think my stomach may be taking over me. Do you see this toothpick.


 * Jacob**: Yes.


 * Scrooge**: But your not looking at it.


 * Jacob**: But I can still see it.

//(Jacob shakes his chains and screams with anger to make a loud powerful noise that is terrifying)//
 * Scrooge**: Okay, all I have to do is swallow it and I will die.


 * Scrooge**: What do you want with me??


 * Jacob**: Hear Me! My time is nearly gone.


 * Scrooge**: I will.

//(Scrooge drops jaw in shock)//
 * Jacob**: You will be haunted, by Three Spirits.


 * Scrooge**: Is that the chance and hope you mentioned Jacob?


 * Jacob**: It is. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls one. Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. Expect the third upon the night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.


 * Narrator**: Jacob Marley finally leaves by flying right out the window. Scrooge is still a little shocked by what just happened so he runs to the door from which the ghost walked thorugh and he realized that it is still locked tightly.


 * Scrooge**: Hum...

//(END SCENE)//
 * Narrator**: Scrooge was tired and wants to go to sleep, so he does so and walks to his bed and is out like a light.


 * __SCENE THREE__**


 * Narrator:** Scrooge has woken up and it is mid-night. He was confused because he went to bed at 2 a.m. He thought he slept through the whole day or it was noon and the sun was behind some sort of cover. He began to remember Marley's words he spoke the night before. He remembered that the first ghost was to appear at one o'clock. He sat up in bed waiting for the bell to toll one. Finally, at one o'clock, the curtains of Scrooge's bed are blown aside by a strange, childlike figure emanating an aura of wisdom and a richness of experience. The spirit uses a cap to cover the light that glows from its head.


 * Scrooge:** Are you the Spirit whose coming was foretold to me.


 * Ghost:** I am.


 * Scrooge:** Who are you and what are you?


 * Ghost:** I am the Ghost of Christmas Past!


 * Scrooge:** Long past?


 * Ghost:** No. Your past. Rise and walk with me.


 * Narrator:** Scrooge did not want to leave his bed. It was warm and he was not dressed properly. The spirit reached it's hand forward and Scrooge grabbed it. It felt as though he was holding a women's hand. The spirit led Scrooge over to the window as if he was telling him he wanted Scrooge to fly with it.


 * Scrooge:** But I am mortal, I cannot fly!


 * Narrator:** The spirit put it's hand on Scrooge's heart and by one touch Scrooge had the ability to fly! Scrooge and the Spirit were in total darkness as they made their way back in time.


 * Scrooge:** Good Heaven! I was a boy here! There is my sister, little Fan!


 * Fan:** Brother, brother dear. I have come to bring you home, dear brother! //(laughs with joy)// To bring you home, home, home!


 * Young Scrooge:** Home, little Fan?


 * Fan:** Yes! home for good!


 * Narrator:** Scrooge is so overwhelmed with seeing his childhood again that he begins to cry. Then the Spirit brings the sobbing man to a time where he was an older man and was reminded of an old friend.


 * Young Scrooge:** Belle, what is wrong?


 * Belle:** You Scrooge, Your too into your money! Why do you have to be so obsessed with your money and your business? I'm sorry Scrooge, I can't be married to a man who loves money more than me. I can't marry you.


 * Young Scrooge:** But Belle!


 * Belle:** Sorry.


 * Ghost:** Was that your fiance? Did you love her?


 * Scrooge:** Yes, very much.


 * Ghost:** There's one more place to visit.


 * Scrooge:** No! No more, I cannot take it anymore. Please bring me home.

//(END SCENE)//
 * Narrator:** The ghost respected Scrooge's wosh and brought him home. The next thing Scrooge knew he was home in his bed and the Spirit was gone. Scrooge lays in his bed and emideately falls asleep.


 * __SCENE FOUR__

Narrator:** Scrooge was just lying there, no peep was to be heard throughout the whole house for Scrooge was frozen in the fear because he awoke just as the bell tolled one, however no Spirit. Somewhat disappointed, Scrooge waits for 15 minutes after which a bright light begins to stream down upon him. Curious and a bit befuddled, Scrooge pads into the other room where he finds the second spirit waiting for him. The spirit sits in a copy of Scrooge's room, but is totally green. The figure, a majestic giant clad in green robes, sits ontop a throne made of a gourmet feast. In a booming voice, the spirit announces itself as...


 * Ghost:** Yo dawg, I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.


 * Scrooge:** Ohh really? I didn't notice. (Sarcastically)


 * Narrator:** Scrooge was getting use to the idea of having a Spirit come to his house.


 * Ghost:** Yea! Okay, so grab my threads and come with me to see your entity.


 * Narrator:** So Scrooge did so and the Spirit brought him to the city on Christmas. People are up shoveling while the shout 'Merry Christmas' to everyone they see. The spirit then takes Scrooge to the meager home of Bob Cratchit, where Mrs. Cratchit and her children prepare a Christmas goose and savor the few Christmas treats they can afford. The oldest daughter, Martha, returns from her job at a milliner's. The oldest son, Peter, wears a stiff-collared shirt, a hand-me-down from his father. Bob comes in carrying the crippled young tyke, Tiny Tim, on his shoulders. The family is more than content despite its skimpy Christmas feast.


 * Ghost:** Wow, that food looks freaky freaky fresh.


 * Scrooge:** Please Spirit tell me, is Tiny Tim going to live?


 * Ghost:** Uhh, I don't know if I should tell you.


 * Scrooge:** Please.


 * Ghost:** Aiet... I see an empty seat on Christmas next year. Sorry. If these shadows don't get changed by the future then nothing will change.


 * Narrator:** Scrooge is very disappointed do he hangs is head in shame. THe Spirit then sent Scrooge to see a Christmas party. Not just any Christmas Party, but a Christmas party thrown by his nephew Fred. Of course, Scrooge was invited and obviously why would Scrooge go to a Christmas party?


 * Scrooge:** Wow! Look at all these party games. There great!


 * Narrator:** Scrooge was geting lost in all the party games. He then saw his nephew playing a game called Yes or No. Fred was first and he had to think of something, and everyone else had to figure out what he was thinking. He was thinking of an animal,a live animal, a rather disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an anilmal that growled at people, and amybe talked sometimes. THis animal lived in London, walked the streets everyday, wasn't made fun of by anyone, wasn't led by anyone, and didn't live in a menagerie. It was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or a donkey, or a cow, or a bull, or a bear, or a pig, or a cat, or a dog.


 * Plump Sister:** I know Fred, I knoe who it is!!


 * Fred:** Who?


 * Plump Sister:** It's your uncle, Scrooge!!!


 * Fred:** Merry Christmas, Uncle Scrooge!


 * Ghost:** I am happy to see you so chill!


 * Scrooge:** I am. Just to know that they think of me is great!


 * Ghost:** Time to leave, Peace out dude.


 * Scrooge:** Okay, I am ready.

//(END SCENE)//
 * Narrator:** And just like that, Scrooge was back in his bed and the Ghost of Christmas Present was nowhere to be seen. Scrooge lied down in his bed just as the last stoke of Twelve ceased to vibrate, and the next Spirit arived!


 * SCENE FIVE**


 * Narrator:** The phantom approched Scrooge in a long black robe and did not say a word.


 * Scrooge:** Are you the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?


 * Narrator:** The phantom does not answer and Scrooge is very scared. The Spirit approches Scrooge and makes a signal to say come with me and see your future. The spirit takes Scrooge to a series of strange places: the London Stock Exchange, where a group of businessmen discuss the death of a rich man; a dingy pawn shop in a London slum, where a group of vagabonds and shady characters sell some personal effects stolen from a dead man; the dinner table of a poor family, where a husba nd and wife express relief at the death of an unforgiving man to whom they owed money; and the Cratchit household, where the family struggles to cope with the death of Tiny Tim.


 * Scrooge:** No! No! Tiny Tim is dead?


 * Narrator:** The spirit doesn't answer, but Scrooge knew the answer. The phantom then takes Scrooge to a semetary and shows Scrooge a headstone.


 * Scrooge:** No! I'm dead?


 * Narrator:** The headstone that Scrooge saw read EBENEZER SCROOGE! No one cares that Scrooge is dead. They just carry on with their lives. Scrooge was so sad.


 * Scrooge:** Please, Spirit, please! I will worship Christmas! I will redo my whole life! I will honor Christmas from deep within my heart!


 * Narrator:** The spirit's hand begins to tremble, and, as Scrooge continues to cry out for mercy, the phantom's robe shrinks and collapses. Scrooge, again, finds himself returned to the relative safety of his own bed.


 * __SCENE SIX__

Narrator:** Scrooge was simply shocked at the fact that no one cared that he died, and scrooge has come to the sad realization that unless he changes his ways he will be forgotten and an outcast in society. But then scrooge notices that it is still christmas day and that means that he still has time to make up for all opf the things that he has done wrong. And he starts to do that by grabbing his coat and heading outside.


 * Scrooge:** Come here little boy, ( not in a creepy tone of voice)


 * Boy**: yes sir


 * Scrooge:** Do you know the prze winning turkey, not the small one but the giant one as big as yourself?


 * Boy:** yes i think that i do


 * Scrooge:** well if you can go and get it for me i will give you some money but if you can get it for me in the next five minutes i will give you twice as much!


 * Boy:** Yes Sir


 * Narrator:** and as that boy ran off scrooge realized that that gave a nice feeling that he might really have done something nice and he was starting to enjoy christmass more and more.


 * Scrooge:** (to baker) Please deliver this turkey to the cratchets house for me and they dont have to know who it is from but just make sure that they get.


 * Narrator:** As scrooge walked off he finally realized that there is more to christmass than meets the eye and seemed to take notice of all of the little things in life that he had not noticed before and was juat happy to be alive and walked down the street with an admiration of the simple things that had gone unnoticed before. and was looking into windows of people that were enjoying christmass morning, and was also saying hi to everyone who he saw on the street.


 * Narrator:** once he got to his nephews house he asked for a chair and was greeted with surprised looks from the rest of the guests at the party.


 * Scrooge:** Hello nephew


 * Nephew:** ( with a shocked look on his face) Well uncle i did not expect this... but here is a seat for you and take your coat off.


 * Scrooge:** here is some money and please go and get some coal and food for a very large party for all of your reletives and the cratchets.


 * Narrator:** and that was how it was and still is for scrooge learned that it is not the day that is special but what the day is symbolic of as wella s being able to have a good time with family and friends and of course what cristmass carol play would be complete without the final word of tiny tim (who does not die)


 * Tiny Tim:** God Bless Us Everone