Holiday Fest 2024

For this morning's Holiday Fest, we have a total joy.  As readers of these pages know, especially since I mentioned it the other day, I'm a huge fan of the "Goes Wrong" folk -- who've done several stageplays, most recently the hilarious Peter Pan Goes Wrong which was on Broadway last year and I saw when I toured to Los Angeles, which I wrote about and posted the hour-long TV version (which also features David Suchet, TV's 'Hercule Poirot') here.  And they also had a wonderful half-hour television series, The Goes Wrong Show, from which, if you cast your minds back about a week or so, I posted their episode The Spirit of Christmas.

Well, they did the same thing as Peter Pan with A Christmas Carol -- a production that they  unsurprisingly called A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.  It's a hilarious, utterly lunatic joy, which spins insanely out of control in the 51-minute production.  And there are a couple of guests stars appearing, as well.  And impressive guest stars they are, too -- Sir Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg, throwing themselves deep into the insanity.  (They have smaller roles in this than Suchet in Peter Pan, where he played the onstage Narrator, but both their performances are still notable throughout the production.)

And not shockingly, this will not be the only time that A Christmas Carol makes an appearance during the Holiday Fest.

Joyeux, joyeux.