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Kermit and Fozzie: ‘I’d like to try The Great British Bake Off – especially if it was custard pies’

The Muppets’ top entertainers answer your questions about festive traditions, Miss Piggy and working with their good friend Michael Caine

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A Christmas Carol review – glorious musical version of Dickens’s festive treat

Charles Dickens takes to the stage and Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman with a moving backstory in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation

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Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in December

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‘Manual Cinema Christmas Carol’ adds layers to the Dickens story with light, puppets and people

Seeing the multimedia artists work their magic enhances first live staging of the troupe’s streaming hit.

Chicago Sun-Times

Christmas movie quiz: Which of these plots is real?

Some of the holiday story lines here are authentic, and some are as fake as snow in July. Can you spot the fakes?

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What to watch on Netflix in December

From a Christmas classic to an American persistently in Paris, here are some shows and films to close out the year

Salon

Goodman’s ‘Christmas Carol’ and its longtime Scrooge wows a first-time viewer

Larry Yando portrays the miser’s transformation with admirable aplomb in a production of depth and spectacle.

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Christmas theatre 2022: the best shows to book in London this festive period

With Christmas around the corner, what better than to celebrate with a festive show. We round up the best that London has to offer

Evening Standard

A Sherlock Carol review – the detective takes on Dickens in a fresh festive mashup

There’s only one sleuth in Victorian London who can get to the bottom of the suspicious death of Ebenezer Scrooge, in this winning crossover mystery

The Guardian - UK

Plenty of festive pantoland fun for families in East Kilbride this Christmas

Lanarkshire Live has all the information you need about what's on in East Kilbride theatres this festive season

Daily Record

A Christmas Carol review – David Wenham is a superb Scrooge for the ages

Comedy Theatre, MelbourneThis adaptation from London’s Old Vic is a night of pure theatrical warmth, with a performance of incredible clarity and generosity at its centre

The Guardian - AU

Behind the scenes of Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell's chaotic 'Spirited' tap dance

The most over-the-top sequence of "Spirited" wasn't supposed to happen. It was just a throwaway joke in the initial script.

Los Angeles Times

Luke Evans is Scrooge in first look at Netflix’s take on A Christmas Carol

Netflix has turned the classic Charles Dickens novel into an animated musical boasting a stellar cast

Evening Standard

‘Spirited’: Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell spin off Dickens into a jolly, bouncy musical

Showing skills in both sarcasm and sincerity, the two funnymen sing their way through a new adventure of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

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Baby names can cause some tension between parents, and some may look to books or films for inspiration. However, if you have one on the way in December, experts have shared the most popular names for Christmas

Daily Mirror

Every Christmas movie on Disney Plus including Home Alone and Frozen

You'll be rocking around the Christmas tree to learn what streaming delights await you as we count down to Santa's visit

Bangkok Post

The tragic misbehaviour of big business

Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and…

Daily Mirror

The Muppet Christmas Carol's deleted scene will be restored in time for Christmas

Fans of The Muppet Christmas Carol can look forward to watching the film in all its glory on Disney + as a key scene featuring an heartbreaking song has been reinstated

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You’re on! The understudies who saved Christmas as Omicron raged

As Covid hit casts, understudies suddenly found themselves needed everywhere – with little warning. We meet these unsung heroes, including a Beanstalk Jack who took on three other last-minute roles

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