Charles Dickens couldn't possibly have known that his immortal A Christmas Carol would turn into the gift that keeps on giving for movie and TV writers a century or more later. And I'm not just talking about straight-up film adaptations. (I could talk about the motion capture version with Jim Carrey for days; I love it.)

Christmas Carol Adaptations

No, I mean the various TV sitcoms that have fashioned episodes around Dickens' iconic tale. But I'm also talking about, for example, Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol , which is now touring. Writers David H. Bell, Paul T. Couch, and Curt Wollan took the original framework and molded it into a musical adventure (Dolly, of course, wrote the songs) that's been delighting audiences all over the country. It recently made a stop he

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