Ebenezer Scrooge has assiduously avoided accountability his entire life. Until that night he was visited by three ghosts. However, his redemption is short lived. Now he’s taking the ghosts and Jacob Marley to court for compensatory and punitive damages. Bill McNulty, who plays the skinflint in “The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge,” addresses the elephant in the room.

“There's this underlying mystery of what happened? Why did this guy turn back into what he once was? The answer to that is there in the play, but you'll have to come and see it if you want to know,” McNulty said.

McNulty does offer this clue.

“It's the past that Scrooge is most affected by and most frightened of,” he noted. Scrooge believed himself to be soft-hearted, hard-working, clean living, thrifty and kind. Being confronted

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