It is an indication of how far musicals have come in the 30 years since Alan Menken’s adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol debuted ... ability to remember a song for 20 years after one ...

A Christmas carol is essentially a song with a Christmas theme. Some date back hundreds of years ago. Back then, the popular convention was to compose a song in repeating verses (strophic form).

BWW: Have you performed in A Christmas Carol ... song would it be and why? Walker: It must be my song, "The Lights of Long Ago"... It is pretty, but man is it repetitive. I sing the same musical ...

MANHATTAN, Kan., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Charles Dickens' classic novella "A Christmas Carol" still resonates because of its central theme that a person can always change, U.S. researchers say.