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As most of you who read this column know, besides working for the best company in the world, working in my yard, painting a picture and herding my cats, I love to attend as many shows and performances as I can depending what my schedule allows. I attended a fantastic concert by Cascade Foothills Chorale at the White River High School theater June 11. Those tunes really brought back memories and I could tell the chorale was having a blast on stage.
The “By Committee Jazz Band” accompanied the chorale and was also featured as a special guest during the concert. Well done, folks. Bravo!
CFC originally started out as The Buckley Enumclaw Community Chorus Organization. I know this because I was one of the founding members and sang with this marvelous nonprofit organization for a few decades. Yes, I said decades. CFC still has original members performing with them. No wonder this choral group has been such a force in our community. It’s the caliber and quality of the people in its organization.
The group’s last concert brought back memories of the show tunes I love to sing and I sat there listening and watching with a silly grin of appreciation on my face through the entire concert. Congratulations to Director Dean Suess and the entire membership of Cascade Foothills Chorale.
Speaking of tunes, I highly recommend to anyone to attend The Gateway Concert Band’s concerts this summer. I love band music and Jack Prindle knows how to “bring it.” At 7 p.m. Aug. 15, the Gateway Concert Band will be performing “The Dog Days of Summer” complete with a three-minute musical presentation performed for a Dog Dancing Troup at Rotary Park across Griffin Avenue from the Enumclaw library. I can’t wait to see and hear this concert. The band will also be performing at 7 p.m. Aug. 22 in Sumner at Christ the King Church. Log on to www.gatewayconcertband.org for information.
During the last board meeting of Stage Door Productions, board members planned seasons through spring 2013. We have an exciting lineup of shows and concerts coming up and it gives me great pleasure to share with you our performance schedule. You might want to clip this column for future reference!
SDP Youth Camp will be performing “Honk Jr.” directed by Paul Walk. Camp goes from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, July 11 until Aug. 7 except for the last weekend when times will vary based on performances. Call 360-825-2212 for details.
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December of 2012 SDP will present the family favorite, “The Christmas Carol” as their holiday radio show. Hear Ebenezer Scrooge and other characters at their very best as this radio show will treat your imagination and heart to a fabulous Christmas
One touching moment came when the stage was filled with actors from the various productions of "A Christmas Carol," singing "Barbara Allen" to Wilson. There were iphone video tributes from Hal Holbrook, Kate Mulgrew, Estelle Parsons, Eve Ensler,
Information: 888-361-9473 or traci@tatepublishing.com CHRISTMAS CAROL: Alexa Garza presents the one-man play "Abuelita's Christmas Carol" at 7:30 pm Saturday at the Rialto Theater, 327 S. Commercial St., Aransas Pass. The play's principal character,
British theater, television and film actor Daniel Gerroll (A Christmas Carol, Pygmalion) will team with the previously announced Tony Award-nominated Dearbhla Molloy, playing Benedick to her Beatrice in Joe Dowling's new production of Much Ado About
Fulmer said the fantastical narrative of Eyes Wide Open is similar to Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The skits range from spoofs of game shows and modern dramatic television series, to more serious monologues about HIV/AIDS education
A Christmas Carol 2009 Review by Kolbe Swanson Movie Review
Is one of the most well-known, beloved and retold stories ever put onto paper; virtually everyone is already familiar with the story’s premise.
Hollywood has been adapting Charles Dickens’ popular story to film since the days of Thomas Edison. This particular adaption of the beloved tale was created using 3D performance capturing technology. Robert Zemeckis, whose more recent films ( The Polar Express, Beowulf internationally) starring Alastair Sim does a very good job at giving heart and warmth to this story. Some people like the version with the Muppets. The 2009 version, on the other hand, just feels wrong.
This film is filled with dead-eyed CGI characters that look and feel wrong. The characters are modeled too closely to real life to look like a cartoon, but they don’t look quite real enough to pass as human. Performance capture technology is not itself a bad thing. Gollum from The Lord of the Rings .
Jim Carrey’s performance as Scrooge is decent, not incredible, but decent. It also helped that he was the best-animated of all the characters in the film. The other performances were deeply inhibited by the performance-capture technology.
The plot of this film is exactly what you’d expect it to be; it’s relatively faithful to the original story, but with a few little moments changed here and there. Most of the liberties the film takes with the story seem unnecessary and often distracting.
The ghost of Christmas past is a giant candle with a face that talks with an airy voice. I think they took the voice a little too far, making what was originally a more amiable spirit into a creepy-sounding ghost candle.
There’s a scene where Scrooge runs away from an evil horse-drawn carriage. During this scene, he shrinks in size and starts to speak in a high-pitched voice. The high-pitched voice becomes distracting and takes away from the levity of a scene that comes right after the chase scene.
On the positive side, the CGI architecture is pretty well done and Robert Zemeckis does treat us to some nice sweeping aerial shots. Aside from that, this 2009 film doesn’t really do anything for the story that other adaptations haven’t already done better.
Patrick Stewart once single handedly performed "A Christmas Carol", playing over 40 seperate characters 
Wow. Pattrick Stewart single-handedly played 40 different characters of "A Christmas Carol". 
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