A Christmas Overture: How Ebenezer Became Scrooge

Before his astonishing redemption, before he terrorized London’s rich and poor alike with his stingy Bahs and caustic Humbugs, Scrooge was Ebenezer.Who and what shaped this brilliant, haunted boy? Well, they are all here.From his mercurial father and beloved sister to fanciful Fezziwig and lovely Belle, to good Frederick Scrooge to Jacob Marley himself, witness the infamous miser’s origin, in all its Christmassy and sinister glory!A Christmas Overture, written in the style and spirit of Charles Dickens’ legendary A Christmas Carol, covers the years before ‘Jacob Marley was dead’, with its final section skipping over it to jump to the years following, where we encounter the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge and Big Tim Cratchit.