He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone - a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!  Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained and solitary as an oyster. 

The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows and his wiry chin. 

He carried his own low temperature always about him.  He iced his office in the dog days and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas... but then one night ... everything changed.

The Authors

“A Christmas Carol” was a literary triumph that brought great acclaim to its author, Charles Dickens, but greater still, like Scrooge, his own character was changed as he came to believe in the moral of the story as he wrote and gave it life.

“The Gospel According to Scrooge” by James P. Schumaker is an authentic musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”  One special night four angels visited to challenge Scrooge’s hard heart and to reveal his errant ways.