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The Crowd: No Scrooge at this Christmas Carol Ball
The 2012 Christmas Carol Ball benefiting Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian was exceptionally festive this season. The event has always had a warm, community-based feeling as citizen donors come together with hospital staff, nurses and physicians for a...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners, Religious Festivals, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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On Theater: Another convert to SCR's 'Carol'
After watching South Coast Repertory's "A Christmas Carol" usher in the holiday season for the past 32 years, it was singularly gratifying to see my (almost) 6-year-old granddaughter enraptured by her first visit to the local tradition. Little Riley...
Tags: Charles Dickens, Education, Colleges and Universities, Louisa May Alcott , Religious Festivals
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A few new notes in this 'Carol'
Audiences may notice a few new things in this year's production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" at South Coast Repertory, but director John-David Keller promises there are no drastic changes. "We can tweak it. We can't change it," said Keller,...
Tags: Tameka Cottle, Charles Dickens, Celebrities, Religious Festivals, Holidays
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A role that could become 'Golden'
Audiences in Orange County perhaps best know actor Hal Landon Jr. as the mainstay of South Coast Repertory Theater Co.'s annual production of "A Christmas Carol." The veteran of the SCR stage, who was one of the company's founding members in the 1960s,...Tags: Christmas, Awards and Prizes, Golden Globe Awards, Celebrities, Michel Hazanavicius
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Apodaca: This is not the time to say the poor aren't 'my business'
Every year at this time, I revisit one of my favorite Christmas stories, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." One scene never fails to stir my conscience. In it, two men soliciting donations for the poor approach the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, telling...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Family, Religious Festivals, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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On Theater: SCR shows stronger, edgier 'Christmas Carol'
After staging the same production for more than three decades, a theater company might be expected to "phone it in," to go through the well-established motions that have worked for longer than most of their actors have been on this planet. Not South...Tags: Christmas, Music, Entertainment, Charles Dickens, Les Miserables (musical)
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City Life: School board needs to reread 'A Christmas Carol'
In a foreboding first message as your new school board president, David Brooks did his best Ebenezer Scrooge "Bah! Humbug!" impersonation by saying, "We don't need critics" who are "bad-mouthing schools." So to the many educators and others who have...Tags: Education, Teachers, David Brooks, Teaching and Learning, Holidays
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Children take to the SCR stage
Hal Landon Jr.'s yearly portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as constant and cozy a yuletide apparition in Orange County as re-runs of "It's a Wonderful Life" on TV.
For the 32nd time since 1980, the veteran actor is incarnating the lead role in...Tags: Christmas, Family, Celebrities, International Travel, Religious Festivals
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On Theater: Theaters get into the holiday spirit with shows
Looking for a quick way to get into the Christmas spirit? Three theater groups in Costa Mesa will be mounting holiday-flavored shows this weekend and next. The main event, of course, is South Coast Repertory's 32nd annual production of "A Christmas...Tags: Dylan Thomas, Christmas, Christmas Music (genre), Wales, Religious Festivals
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On Theater: New SCR season blends classics, premieres
South Coast Repertory will begin its first season under new artistic director Marc Masterson with a trip back in time with Jane Austen followed by the world premiere of a modern drama set in the American Midwest. The Costa Mesa professional theater's...Tags: Christmas, Health, Horton Foote, August Wilson, Comedy (genre)
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Wednesday's Calendar
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Chanukah Party On Sale
Tickets are available for the Dec. 3 Chanukah Party at Temple Bat Yahm, 1011 Camelback St., Newport Beach, featuring Dale Schatz and his All-Star Band. Dinner, latkes, games for children and the World Series of...Tags: Jesus Christ, Bars and Clubs, Religious Festivals, Santa Claus (fictional character), Macy's, Inc.
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Friday's Calendar
TODAY Pool Tournament Fundraiser The Costa Mesa High School Football Boosters Board hosts a fundraising pool tournament from 6 to 9 p.m. at Danny K's, 1096 Main St., Orange. Tickets to the tournament, dinner and raffle are $30 per person or $50 per...Tags: Jesus Christ, Bars and Clubs, Religious Festivals, Santa Claus (fictional character), Animals
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