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"Scrooge & Marley"

For a Gay Holiday (Or Any Day for that Matter)

Amos Lassen

I establish myself thinking about the vacation season the other twenty-four hours and I realized that there are very few holiday movies about our community. Rob Williams gave us "Make the Yuletide Gay" a couple of years agone, at that place is Ariztical's "Ornaments", James Fergusson's "Happy Holidays" and there are " Autumn on Your Knees, a Christmas Caricature with Miss Richfield 1981", "24 Nights" and a few others. Other communities seem to get a new holiday motion-picture show every year and it is near time that we do the aforementioned or shut to it. Someone must have heard my thoughts considering we do get a new holiday movie this twelvemonth and it is wonderful.

"Scrooge and Marley" is a gay accommodation of Charles Dickens's timeless classic "A Christmas Carol" and it comes to us wrapped in a big red ribbon of beloved. The story is told to us this time from a gay perspective and it is a comedy with music. Even for me, a not Christian, I found myself feeling all fuzzy and warm as I watched and this is one of those presents for which in that location are merely not enough "thank yous". The film opens on Christmas Eve and we met Ben Scrooge, a man who hates holidays withal he begins to find himself a changed human being when the ghosts of Christmas visit him. He looks dorsum on his life and sees his own mistakes and in doing then, he rediscovers the joy and happiness he once knew and he embarks upon a road that takes back to being able to dearest. Below his jaded outside is a heart and that's just what this film has a lot of—HEART. And while the moving picture is indeed gay themed, the message that it sends is for all of us who have become jaded past the modern world and forgotten what beloved is all about. For those of yous who have forgotten what "A Christmas Carol" is nearly, let me remind y'all that it is quite basically a story of redemption but this version adds a good bit to that and like David Moretti ("The Lair"), one of the stars of the moving picture, says", "redemption—with a footling glitter". It is the gay sensibility that adds the frills yet that gay sensibility is part of a film that is but like ane of the old-fashioned vacation standards that nosotros have all grown to dear over the years. The big difference is that this is all our own. Notwithstanding, as I stated previously, the movie is for everyone and while it comes from us, it is like our love letter to the larger community.

The Ghost of Christmas Past changes the time to 1970 when Ben Scrooge was a teen; he remembers being kicked out of his family home because he was gay and he met the very hot young Jacob Marley and Fezziwig, the rex of Disco. He also meets Bill, the guy who stole his heart only who Scrooge himself destroyed because of his hunger to be rich. Along comes the Ghost of Christmas Present who takes Scrooge on a vacation tour and to a party where his niece, Freda, is the hostess along with her partner Mary. They besides stop past Bob Cratchit'south (Scrooge's banana) home and Scrooge sees Bob and his partner, Drew, struggling to raise five children one whom is Tiny Tim. Side by side along comes the Ghost of Christmas Future who shows Scrooge what will be and this causes Scrooge to realize that some changes must be made. He has missed out on love and happiness and we see their importance in our lives by seeing how he missed out. Love is and then of import and if nosotros,like Scrooge, were able to become back in fourth dimension and so run across the nowadays and the future, we undoubtedly would larn something and that seems to me to exist the message here in this pic. By looking back at our lives, nosotros see our mistakes and while nosotros may non be able to right them, nosotros can at least brand certain we will not brand them again. After all, if a mean curmudgeon similar Scrooge can change, so tin can we. It doesn't take magic to practise and so but this movie might only exist what you demand to make you lot realize that. Remember that slap-up kiss you had in one case under the mistletoe? This is even improve than that.

We have traditionally seen Scrooge as a mean and nasty old man but here he is a good guy and we see why he was the way he was. Playing Scrooge and Marley are David Pevsner and Tim Kazurinsky, Richard Ganoung is Colin, Bruce Vilanch is Fezziwig, the owner of the largest disco in boondocks, Rusty Schwimmer is, Scrooge's niece, Freda and Moretti plays Bob Cratchit. The three ghosts are, of course, here—Christmas Past is Ronnie Kroell, Christmas Present is Megan Cavanagh and Christmas Future is Jo Jo Babe. The flick is narrated by the wonderful friend of our community, Judith Light. There is another surprise and that is the soundtrack which includes the theme song "Amazing" sung by Jason Gould who but happens to be the son of Barbra Streisand. Hither is a complete list of what is on the soundtrack (and bachelor as a CD):

i. Scrooge & Marley Opening Title (Scrooge & Marley Orchestra), two. All Year Long (Bister deLaurentis), 3. Welcome to Christmas Present (Megan Cavanagh), 4. Christmas Eve Is Coming Soon (Becca Kaufman), 5. I'm a Christmas Kinda Baby (Rusty Schwimmer), half dozen. Star of Wonder (Matt Alber), 7. O Christmas Tree (The Plush Interiors), viii. Christmas Fourth dimension (John Syzmanski Gang featuring Emma and Chris), 9. A Very Crawford Christmas (The Joans), 10. Dreidel Jingle Fiasco (BETTY), eleven. Jingle Bells (Samba Bamba), 12. Christmas Eve Is Coming Soon (Jazz instrumental version) (Lisa McQueen), 13. Just a Picayune Bit of Christmas (Jeannie Tanner Quartet), xiv. Ebenezer Scrooge Was to Christmas (The Show Biz Kids), 15. Ebenezer Scrooge IS to Christmas (David Pevsner-The Show Biz Kids), 16. O Tannenbaum (The Chicago Gay Men's Chorus), 17. Coventry Carol (Kirsten Gustafson-Dave Zegner),18. I Kiss for Christmas (Jen Zias), 19. Amazing (Jason Gould), 20. Scrooge & Marley score suite (Lisa McQueen)

Peter Neville and Richard Knight, Jr. directed and the script is by Ellen Stoneking, Richard Knight, Jr. and Tim Imse. Tracy Baim and David Strzepek produced and all of them should be very, very proud.This is the perfect style to celebrate the season and so don your gay apparel and discover out where you can see the motion picture but don't expect to do so or y'all might be left out. Stay tuned here for news of when and where you tin can see "Scrooge and Marley" in the Boston area.

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