A Christmas Carol at the Abrons Arts Center

The subtitle of this show is DICKENS: THE UNPARALLELED NECROMANCER (caps theirs), which explains much about Reid Farrington's point of view. He has taken the many, many adaptations of A Christmas Carol, edited them down to soundbites, and then restaged the performance, with live actors. It doesn't always work, but what it does do is honor the source material, Dickens' novella, a book that's easy to dismiss because of it sentimental familiarity, but that, once you sit down to read it as an adult, you realize is just about perfect.