Jake Marley (Tim Kazurinsky) has been a mean-spirited busienssman all of his life, which means that he now has to suffer in hell for his sins. But even in life Marley was always good at spotting loopholes, so why should it be differently in death - so Marley learns to soften his suffering, he has to lead one crooked person back on the road of righteousness - but unfortunately, that crooked person is Ebenezar Scrooge (David Pevsner), the very entrepreneurial monster he has created, who has only this day set out to ruin Christmas for all the employees at his queer club he uses as a front for his shady businesses. So Marley sends the Gosts of Christmasses Past (Ronnie Kroell), Presend (Megan Cavanagh) and Future (Jojo Baby) to show him the error of his ways, from when he, as a young man (played by Drew Anderson in flashbacks) was thrown out by his father (Michael Joseph Mitchell) when dad found out he was gay, how he first met Marley (Nicholas Bailey) and the two were taken in by queer bar owner Fezziwig (Bruce Vilanch), whom they ultimately tricked out of his business, to the now when his decision to reject his employee Bob's (David Moretti) healthcare plan has direct effect on Bob's sickly son Tiny Tim (Liam Jones), to the future when he dies alone and his body isn't found for a full four days. But is it already too late for Scrooge to turn his life around ...

Now I think it's fair to say, and without wanting to offend anyone, that the first thing one might find lacking in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is an LGBTQ+ subtext, so giving the story a gay taint might be a bit of a far-fetched and bold decision - however, the inherent kitsch of the holiday go with exactly that taint very well, while the unabashedly campy musical numbers of the movie sure lighten up the mood and give the film just the kind of pep to turn Dickens' slightly heave-handed morality tale into a rather light-footed comedy, which makes this movie a really fun watch - even if it stands to reason nobody will be really surprised by the story or its outcome, given A Christmas Carol-adaptations are really a dime a dozen these days.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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