Ebenezer Scrooge for Halloween in Horsham!

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Is the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge a ghost story or is it all in his head? Yvonne Chadwell sees it very much as psychology as she directs HAODS’ production of Scrooge: The Musical as their autumn show at the Horsham Capitol from Tuesday 28th–Friday 31st October at 7.30pm and on Saturday 1st November at 2pm and 7pm.

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00:00thank you good morning my name is phil hewitt group arts editor at sussex newspapers lovely

00:06to speak again to yvonne chadwell now yvonne you are directing your choreographing hey odds in

00:11horsham with scrooge the musical notes at the horsham capital the 28th to the 31st of october

00:19this is a christmas november and the first of november sorry the saturday you've got the matinee

00:25and the evening on saturday's person in november now this is a christmas show for halloween isn't

00:30it this time now why is it such a great story why do we come back to this every single year this story

00:40uh i think because it's a very well written um piece dickens uh is a consummate storyteller

00:47um it has lots of different sort of characters and nuances

00:52um it sits in halloween because um of the visiting of the three ghosts yeah um and um sits beyond

01:01halloween because it's about christmas so it has that lovely sort of mixture um of reflection but

01:09also deep joy um especially as scrooge comes to the end and no spoilers but he does actually find

01:16that life is good fun at the end of uh his evening yeah now we were just talking about the fact that

01:23for every person who thinks this is a ghost story there are people who will insist it's purely

01:28psychological and you know which camp you're in you don't see it's a ghost story do you

01:33no it's it's um it's scrooge sitting and reflecting on his life and uh there comes a time where we all

01:41sit down and over in his uh instance it's a cup of soup um but looking at you know what's what's

01:48happened that's good what's happened that's bad and trying to understand if things need to stay the

01:54same or move and the wonderful way that sort of dickens created this is he uses the the ghosts as that um

02:03um journey yeah into what might be um so in the musical he having met marley and who starts

02:11everything off and marley's not just shaking of chains but he's quite a fun character as well

02:17um and then his um the first ghost is his sister um and she takes him back to his early life when

02:25actually he was enjoying life to some extent not all the time he went away to school and obviously

02:31he didn't enjoy it too much but then was went to the fezzy weeks and learnt that life could be better

02:37was about to get married um and that's when things started to turn i think for scrooge having every

02:45time he goes back and reflects in himself he goes could i have done something differently so there's a

02:52point where isabel uh having weighed the ring that he's been he's given her against coins um she then goes

03:00to leave and scrooge goes stop don't do any and his counterpart goes i can't so an awful lot of

03:09this is what can we do to change if there are things that we don't like about uh what's happening

03:18and it's significant too that you're not doing christmas carol you're even wearing the hoodie

03:23you're doing scrooge yeah what's it so this is scrooge the musical not the straight play the

03:29straight story so it's it's got some extra characters in it it's obvious to create a

03:34musical they create the musical numbers i think the one of the big numbers that everybody will

03:38probably know is thank you very much when they dance on scrooge's coffin um that's led by a lead a

03:45second lead um who is the soup seller and he's what the person that scrooge could have been he's full of

03:52life full of joy dances has a load of fun as he's going through life and they do the song together

03:58because in the musical scrooge is dancing on the coffin thinking that they all love him and actually

04:04they're all saying thank you very much for dying um which scrooge doesn't get uh so that fun pieces

04:11there uh the the christmas pieces there we've got lovely sort of caroling type songs um in in there

04:19but then scrooge has some reflective ones as well you know about what is life and what does he want

04:24from his life as he comes to the end we have a massive um end finale um and in the middle of that

04:32he gets visited by the three past of his ways past his present in his potential future um i think the other

04:40ghosts that people will know really well is the ghost of the present who's a big jolly giant you know

04:46likes drinking and eating and everything um and is is lots of fun so this is not a scary ghost story

04:53it's a reflection of life um and the fact that we can change it if we really want to fantastic well

05:00it sounds a lovely prospect is hey odds screws scrooge musical horsham capsule tuesday 28th of

05:08october to saturday november the 1st ivan lovely to speak to you have a great time thank you thank you phil

05:14thank you for your time

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