Patrick Stewart’s reading (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Patrick Stewart performs the version he took on stage as a one-man show.
Dickens toured the story as a solo reading; an actor who did the same thing for years knows exactly where the laughs and the silences go.
You want to hear the story performed, by an actor who toured it on stage alone, in under two hours.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Dickens’s words, cut down for one performer.
Changes: the length. This is abridged, and it is a performance more than a reading: Stewart plays every part.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, by an actor who also played him on screen.
How much time does it ask?
1 hour 57 minutes, abridged, Simon & Schuster Audio (2006 reissue).
Simon & Schuster: Stewart “has performed his one-man stage production of this holiday classic to sell-out audiences.”
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Audio — Amazon
Borrow it free: Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: The Tim Curry recording (Audible, 2009) · The Audible full-cast drama, with Derek Jacobi as Dickens · Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s A Christmas Carol