A mus\ [ical _ r=-ete/#lling of Charles Di!_ckens' class^ ic novel about an old  bi+:tter m=#is?er take[*(\n +on:`!. a `)*journe:y of self-redem! ption,,@ co$urtesy of seve/[ral myste%rious=_# Christma+?s apparitions.[(　　In 1860, cranky old mis -er E#^b(@enezer S$crooge hate:s Chris$tmas; loathes people and [$d!_ef=ends t!+?he decreas:e of the `su?+rplus ]@;of p\o-`_or popu/latio)[n; runs his bank ex ploit! .ing his!, employee B,ob Cratch:$it -_and clients, gi_*_ ving a. b \it_t]er t:reatm.$ent to h%is o@wn neph`+ew an
.d acquaintan] -ces. /
[How) ever, on Chr@(\istmas Eve, he is visited by the -)=doome
=+d ghost of [his fo rmer p][art=ner Jacob Marley /that tells  him t-*hat th],ree spirits w.?:)ould visit him+ /(that night. The)=# first  on :e,(.%= -the s[$ pi#-rit of -;Ch@(ristma/::s =_[Past,$ recalls_ h=]is mi[^]se?)rable-( youth when he lost his[[ only #l\/ove due -=[to h*i,s gree?!d; the spir :it of Christmas Present shows him the poo.(*r situati
#on of B-!ob's family a!`nd#  =)how joyful life may be; -]^and the spi [rit of[ +*!#Chri]*[stma! .-s** Future show/s his fate. Scroog e finds =_\t%=hat life* i .]s :good!? `_and time is[ too short]](@ [and suddenly+,+
\ you $,/ar])[e not ther;,e anym)[o#_re, changing [his behavior *:towar#^d Christmas=, Bob, his nephew an`+d p@eople i:n =.gen[ er-]$al.