Bob Abelman

I can’t stand the Bard’s pentameter verse Though Gilbert & Sullivan bothers me worseBut the one writing style for which I’ve no useIs the preening rhymed scheming of one Dr. Seuss The Grinch’s tetrameter is hard to endureParticularly sung and when presented on tourAnd it’s no help at all if you first read the bookYou’ll be […]

Charles Dickens’ play A Christmas Carol was so popular in London in 1843, the year the novella on which it was based was released, that there were eight stage productions playing concurrently by Christmas Eve.   His play is popular still if the nearly two million people who have seen the annual holiday classic at Trinity Repertory […]