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EPISODE · Dec 14, 2025 · 1H 34M

A Christmas Carol: The Musical

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🎄 It is once again Scrooge Sunday, and the time has come to awkwardly smoosh our spirits through the walls of our bedchamber and float back to 2004 for a special TV movie based on Alan Menken’s musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge, Jason Alexander as Marley’s Ghost, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Belle, and Jane Krakowski as the Ghost of Christmas Past.  🎙️ Michael May and Rob Graham from After Lunch join the celebration of abundance, charity, and good will toward men as we forge this podcast link by link and dumb joke by dumb joke.  📺 You can watch “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” for free on YouTube.  Plus: After this episode, listen to the 3 of us on After Lunch review “A Christmas Carol” on “Shower of Stars” from 1954.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Julian Ovenden (Fred) in “Downton Abbey.”  Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There.  Jacob Collier (Tiny Tim) on YouTube, including his Grammy-winning arrangement of “The Flintstones” theme.  Brian Bedford (Fezziwig) on “Frasier” and as Disney’s Robin Hood.  Ebenezer Scrooges Ranked by How Redeemed They Are (FilmHounds, 2024)  ****  📼 Commercials:  KFC “Christmas with Jason Alexander” (2001)  Merry Britsmas.  ****  “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” © 2004 Hallmark Entertainment Distribution, LLC.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  Hosted by The Retro Network.  #s15 #2000s #scroogesunday

🎄 It is once again Scrooge Sunday, and the time has come to awkwardly smoosh our spirits through the walls of our bedchamber and float back to 2004 for a special TV movie based on Alan Menken’s musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge, Jason Alexander as Marley’s Ghost, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Belle, and Jane Krakowski as the Ghost of Christmas Past.  🎙️ Michael May and Rob Graham from After Lunch join the celebration of abundance, charity, and good will toward men as we forge this podcast link by link and dumb joke by dumb joke.  📺 You can watch “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” for free on YouTube.  Plus: After this episode, listen to the 3 of us on After Lunch review “A Christmas Carol” on “Shower of Stars” from 1954.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Julian Ovenden (Fred) in “Downton Abbey.”  Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There.  Jacob Collier (Tiny Tim) on YouTube, including his Grammy-winning arrangement of “The Flintstones” theme.  Brian Bedford (Fezziwig) on “Frasier” and as Disney’s Robin Hood.  Ebenezer Scrooges Ranked by How Redeemed They Are (FilmHounds, 2024)  ****  📼 Commercials:  KFC “Christmas with Jason Alexander” (2001)  Merry Britsmas.  ****  “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” © 2004 Hallmark Entertainment Distribution, LLC.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  Hosted by The Retro Network.  #s15 #2000s #scroogesunday

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