A Christmas Carol: A Full Cast Audiobook
Project Overview
A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novel by Charles Dickens. A classic story of changing your fate and becoming a better person, I plan on adapting the story into a professional quality full cast audiobook to be released before Christmas 2018. I am looking for:
- Professional actors
- High quality microphones
- Line delivery on time
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The narrator of the entire story. Has the most lines and will be talking a LOT. Looking for a more mature sounding voice with an English accent.
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces. And at the same time there emerged from scores of bye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, innumerable people, carrying their dinners to the bakers’ shops. The sight of these poor revellers appeared to interest the Spirit very much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker’s doorway, and taking off the covers as their bearers passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch. And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly. For they said, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. And so it was! God love it, so it was!
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
The miserly owner of a London counting-house, a nineteenth century term for an accountant's office. The three spirits of Christmas visit the stodgy bean-counter in hopes of reversing Scrooge's greedy, cold-hearted approach to life. It's Ebenezer Scrooge, you know what he should sound like.
Bah! Humbug.
Because, a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Now, I’ll tell you what, my friend, I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore... and therefore I am about to raise your salary!
Scrooge's clerk, a kind, mild, and very poor man with a large family. Though treated harshly by his boss, Cratchit remains a humble and dedicated employee. Looking for a more meek voice.
As good as gold and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
And I know... I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.
Scrooge's nephew, a genial man who loves Christmas. He invites Scrooge to his Christmas party each and every year, only to be refused by his grumpy uncle. Looking for a jovial and high energy voice.
Christmas a humbug, uncle! You don’t mean that, I am sure?
[Laughing] He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live! He believed it too!
[Some nice, wholesome laughter]
A beautiful woman who Scrooge loved deeply when he was a young man. Belle broke off their engagement after Scrooge became consumed with greed and the lust for wealth. She later married another man.
Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are. I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you.
It matters little to you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.
You fear the world too much. All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
Same as Belle, but with a more mature voice.
Who was it?
How can I? Tut, don't I know? Mr. Scrooge?
The jovial merchant with whom the young Scrooge apprenticed. Fezziwig was renowned for his wonderful Christmas parties. Looking for a voice not far off from what you'd imagine Santa Clause sounding like.
Yo ho, my boys! No more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up, before a man can say Jack Robinson!
Hilli-ho! Clear away, my lads, and let’s have lots of room here! Hilli-ho, Dick! Chirrup, Ebenezer!
Ebenezer Scrooge as a child.
Home, little Fan?
You're quiet a woman little Fan.
Ebenezer Scrooge as a young adult.
This is the even-handed dealing of the world! There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
What then? Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you.
Bah... Humbug.
Bob Cratchit's young son, crippled from birth. Tiny Tim is a highly sentimentalized character who Dickens uses to highlight the tribulations of England's poor and to elicit sympathy from his middle and upper class readership. Should sound like a young, cheery child.
God bless us everyone!
Bob's wife, a kind and loving woman.
Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!
Well! Never mind so long as you are come. Sit ye down before the fire, my dear, and have a warm, Lord bless ye!
And how did Tiny Tim behave?
Scrooge's sister; Fred's mother. In Scrooge's vision of Christmases past, he remembers Fan picking him up from school and walking him home. Should sound like an easily excitable young girl.
I've come to bring you home, Dear Brother! To bring you home home home!
Bob's oldest son, who inherits his father's stiff-collared shirt for Christmas.
‘And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them.’
Oh, get along with you!
Bob's oldest daughter, who works in a milliner's shop.
Here's Martha, mother!
Two gentlemen who visit Scrooge at the beginning of the tale seeking charitable contributions. Scrooge promptly throws them out of his office. Upon meeting one of them on the street after his visitations, he promises to make lavish donations to help the poor. One voice actor for two characters.
[Gentleman 1] Scrooge and Marley's I believe. Have I the pleasure of address Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
[Gentleman 2] Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?
In the living world, Ebenezer Scrooge's equally greedy partner. Marley died seven years before the narrative opens. He appears to Scrooge as a ghost condemned to wander the world bound in heavy chains. Marley hopes to save his old partner from suffering a similar fate.
In life I was your partner! Jacob Marley!
I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?
[Unholy wailing]
The first spirit to visit Scrooge, a curiously childlike apparition with a glowing head. He takes Scrooge on a tour of Christmases in his past. The spirit uses a cap to dampen the light emanating from his head. The voice should be as ambiguous as possible, unsure of age or gender.
Bear but a touch of my hand there, and you shall be upheld in more than this!
The school is not quite deserted. A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
Let us see another Christmas!
The second spirit to visit Scrooge, a majestic giant clad in a green robe. His lifespan is restricted to Christmas Day. He escorts Scrooge on a tour of his contemporaries' Holiday celebrations. Needs to able to do three voices as Christmas day goes on. These voice changes will be marked in the script.
[Young and jovial] I am the Ghost of Christmas Present! Look upon me!
[Older, more gruff] If he be like to die he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
[Oldest, more subdued anger] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
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