A Christmas Carol: The Musical (NBC, 2004), with Kelsey Grammer
Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’s stage musical, filmed with Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge.
The three spirits are already characters in Scrooge’s day; let him meet them in disguise before they visit.
You love a Broadway score and a television musical, and you want Alan Menken’s Dickens.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the night of visits and Christmas morning.
Changes: the structure and the music. The three ghosts appear first in human disguise during Scrooge’s day, and the songs come from the Madison Square Garden stage show.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, with Jason Alexander as Marley and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Emily.
How much time does it ask?
87 minutes, first shown on NBC on 28 November 2004. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.
Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Geraldine Chaplin, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More Christmas Carols: A Christmas Carol (MGM, 1938) · Scrooge (1951), with Alastair Sim · A Christmas Carol (1984), with George C. Scott