Christmas as we know it"the tree, the cards, the carol singing"began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dickens with his 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol." It famously tells the tale of the miserable and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited and reformed on Christmas Eve by three ghostly spirits. The book was an instant hit and staged ada…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:18PM on December 5, 2020