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<font face="serif"> A CHRISTMAS CAROL � THE MUSICAL</font>
2004 TV Film soundtrack



Music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (1994)
Budapest Film Orchestra conducted by Michael Starobin.
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A Christmas Carol, also known as A Christmas Carol: The Musical, is a 2004 television film based on a 1994 stage musical of the same name, with songs written by Alan Menken (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics). The musical is based on Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name, produced by Hallmark Entertainment for NBC. It was directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and features Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge, Jason Alexander as Jacob Marley, Jesse L. Martin as the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Emily.

Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(2004_film)).

Saying that these are compositions from the golden era of Alan Menken (two years after Aladdin and one before Pocahontas) should suffice. The beautiful soundtrack for the stage got polished treatment for the TV version of 2004 and no fan of Menken or musicals will be able to listen to it just once. Watching the movie or letting it play in the background counts as a listen too.



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Movie in youtube (not available anymore).

Track list:

01 - Main Title [2:28]

Chorus
02 - Jolly Good Time [3:17]

Kelsey Grammer, Martyn Ellis & Company
03 - Nothing To Do With Me (Part 1) [2:22]

Kelsey Grammer, Jane Krakowski, Geraldine Chaplin,
Julian Ovenden & Jesse L. Martin
04 - Nothing To Do With Me (Part 2) [3:21]

Kelsey Grammer, Jane Krakowski, Jesse L. Martin,
Emily Deamer, Geraldine Chaplin & Joseph Tremain
05 - You Mean More To Me [1:58]

Edward Gower & Jacob Moriarty
06 - Marley's Visitation [1:51]

Orchestra
07 - Link By Link [5:34]

Jason Alexander
08 - Lights Of Long Ago [2:29]

Jane Krakowski
09 - God Bless Us Everyone [2:09]

Ruthie Henshall
10 - A Place Called Home (Scrooge At 10) [1:46]

Leah-Verity White & Josh Wilmott
11 - Mister Fezziwig's Annual Christmas Ball [6:45]

Claire Moore, Brian Bedford & Company
12 - A Place Called Home [3:42]

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kelsey Grammer & Steven Miller
13 - Money Montage / The Engagement Is Off [3:33]

Orchestra
14 - Abundance And Charity [6:14]

Jesse L. Martin & Girls
15 - Christmas Together [8:55]

Kelsey Grammer & Company
16 - Dancing On Your Grave [3:19]

Kelsey Grammer, Sheila Reid, Alexander Delamere & Men
17 - You Mean More To Me (Reprise) [0:43]

Edward Gower
18 - Yesterday, Tomorrow, And Today / God Bless Us Everyone (Reprise) [4:45]

Kelsey Grammer, Emily Deamer, Ruthie Henshall,
Leah-Verity White, Joseph Tremain & Children
19 - What A Day, What A Sky [4:45]

Kelsey Grammer, Jane Krakowski, Jesse L. Martin,
Geraldine Chaplin, Julian Ovenden & Julie-Alanah Brighten
20 - Christmas Together (Reprise) [1:11]

Kelsey Grammer & Company

Total playing time: 1h 11' 05''
Download links. Type christmastogether to extract the files.


Audio: FLAC (https://ulozto.net/!l7sT92ypZSTo/accf-7z) (357.0 MiB) ─ MP3 320 kbps (https://ulozto.net/!Um1AGFnWmbRR/accm-7z) (164.3 MiB).


Scans: thanks to Zaphod2010 we have them at last, in two versions:
- Printable sheets of high resolution (x2800, 127.5 MiB); and
- Booklet-sequence, normal resolution (x1400, 17.8 MiB).


Extras: here's an extra pack with movie photos and stills, the complete script, piano/director score and a tip for those who liked the video from youtube: extras (https://ulozto.net/!Fug1EUaSoAdR/acc-ex-7z) (48.9 MiB).


The original stage version of 1994 is being kindly shared by hyut7 in the thread A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by ALAN MENKEN.


Enjoy.

Excellent upload!
I love people who genuinely love what they do!
Thank you so much, my friend.

My pleasure, dear friend; thanks always to you for your big heart (I'll wait for Christmas to ask for money).

Anytime, my son!

Thank you

Alan Menken's beautiful musical adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol', superb quality! Thank you very much!

Very nice. Thank you.

Great! Many thanks sir!

You're welcome, folks. Enjoy

Thanks! :)

THANKS SO MUCH TO U SIR! All us music fans and Menken fans specifically are indebted to u forever.

nice, kooke, thanks

Thank you!!!

Many thanks for this seasonal gem.

what is the password please?

Golden era Menken? I'm excited! Thanks for sharing.

Thanx!!!

Excellent, adding to my weekend musical joy... Thanks!
PS: getting now the extras too, what a timing...

I didn't even know I needed this until this year!

Thank You so much for sharing it with us, kooke, and Merry Christmas :)

(Sorry for the delay, that was a hell of a traffic jam).

Merry Christmas to you too, Zaphod2010! \o/

You're welcome. And I should thank you for your suggestion of the file hosting service five years ago, because, as you can see, I'm still using it. I don't think I've followed any other advice for so long! :D

Happy season to everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you kooke; I'm in quite the Christmas mood! ^_^

Never cared much for the movie itself, but I am one of those people who have left it running just to listen.

(Sorry for the delay, that was a hell of a traffic jam).

Merry Christmas to you too, Zaphod2010! \o/

You're welcome. And I should thank you for your suggestion of the file hosting service five years ago, because, as you can see, I'm still using it. I don't think I've followed any other advice for so long! :D

Happy season to everyone.


And apparently I was caught in the same loggerhead...
This is why Santa has Rudolph - To cut through the traffic jams ;-)

After auditioning your upload, I was moved to go ahead and buy my own physical copy. I did the scanning, but never returned here to add it.

So, my gift to you for this Christmas: Cover and booklet scans in glorious 600-dpi!

https://uloz.to/!76dJ1OQLktcB/acc-tms-rar

And yes, Uloz.to leaves a bit to be desired, speed-wise, but for retention it can't be beat!

Merry Christmas

--Zaphod

Thanks

Many thanks for this, much appreciated :)
Rep left of course :)

You're welcome, friends; enjoy.


Never cared much for the movie itself, but I am one of those people who have left it running just to listen.

And it works very well as a soundtrack, doesn't it? It's only 15 minutes longer than the album, so well packed with music. I knew I was not the only one.



And apparently I was caught in the same loggerhead...
This is why Santa has Rudolph - To cut through the traffic jams

After auditioning your upload, I was moved to go ahead and buy my own physical copy. I did the scanning, but never returned here to add it.

So, my gift to you for this Christmas: Cover and booklet scans in glorious 600-dpi!
Ra-ta

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ta-ta-TA! HO! :D

Wow, dear Ghost of Christmas LatePresent! Thank you very much! I searched them again these days and wouldn't have imagined I'd find them here, with all the credits and lyrics!


Here's to the lad
who makes everyone glad
that it's Christmas together o/

Super surprise for Christmas Eve. Adding a link to your post.

Just watched the movie again last night, and got that warm and fuzzy feeling all over again...

I've never been a huge fan of Kelsey Grammer (tho I've watched way too many episodes of "Frasier"), and upon hearing that he was to play Scrooge in this film, first there were eye rolls, and then rampant skepticism, but after watching it I have to say that he (as well as the rest of the cast) did an outstanding job and really brought the 'spirit' of Dickens' tale to life in a way that I would never have thought possible.

I have added it to my yearly 'must-watch' lineup of Christmas films and have seen it about six times so far :)

Thank you!!!

Welcome, capitan moscardon. Happy listening!

Yes, Zaphod2010, all actors did a great job. From Jason Alexander (I never get tired of him in Link By Link) to the children, support actors or those fantastic dancers.

The production was designed to be very light on the gloomy side, in a gentle way suited for the youngest spectators. Scenes of the ghosts visiting Scrooge or the cementery at night become almost funny games and daytime activities when not plain beauty, domains where Menken excels with his gift to add humanity to anything.

While movies are usually a chain of meaningful events that tell a story, I enjoy musicals as creations where all elements work to service the delivery of music. So it would be easy for me to buy the whole pack even if some aspects had very low quality, because the songs would be the main object (maybe in this case, second to the moral that rich people should give us their money to be happy).

And there's excellent singing too. Grammer did it well for his role, but the performances of the rest of actors really left little room for improvement. Not to mention the perfect arrangements and musical direction, that are critical for this genre and we know so little about.

As you said, it's a must for these days. The only part that shocks me every time is the line "JOHN WLLIAMS Scrooge, you will go to prison for non payment of debts". Auch...

Just because we can't stand to let this thread die... :-P

A friend took my InSaNeLy-LaRgE, Print-Ready scans and did some editing magic on them, decreasing the size a bit and stitching them back together in page-number-reading-order [i}(Thank You! :) )[/i], for your dining and dancing pleasure.

https://uloz.to/!6lIpY9jePDK7/acc-tmsc-zip

Enjoy :)

--Zaphod

Fantastic, thank you! They're now linked in the first message.

In the liner notes, Ahrens and Menken celebrate that all the main actors could really sing themselves; and that brought to my attention again the performances of the rest of them.

You know the singing of Scrooge's mother in the court and the cemetery, right? I was curious about the owner of that great voice, googled it and, not surprisingly, Ruthie Henshall is an award-winning artist of musicals. Scrooge's nephew Julian Overden sang lots of musicals and also Sondheim and Rodgers-Hammerstein at the Proms. The choreographer credited in the album made an adaptation of the original work by Susan Stroman for the stage (she's credited in the movie)... and surely we could go on. I mean, as it happens so often, the injection of talent and experience everywhere made the product a success.


Just because we can't stand to let this thread die...
Ah, we've been quiet enough the rest of the year. Now we're entitled to it. :)

Thank you Zaphod, for your covers!!

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Thank you, Kooke, for your fine share!!