Show me another actor who can jump from TV to Film to Theatre as well as Patrick Stewart. Despite the fact that my friend and I were in a “severely restricted” discount seat – one that required a leaning position to view half the stage – I can remember this event with much fondness. In the one-man show, Stewart flows from narrator to actor, from actress to apparition with the ease of Dickens’ narrative itself. He possessed the intensity and subtlety of emotion that is both so required in a transformation of such a character as Scrooge and so telltale of actors with strong foundations.

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