Kinder, gentler musical 'Christmas Carol' just too cheery
As the opening volley in the seasonal onslaught of Christmas stories , Theatre at the Center's staging of "A Christmas Carol: The Musical" offers a kinder, gentler telling though not entirely successful telling of Charles Dickens' famous ghost story. Consider, for example, the arrival on the scene of the late Jacob Marley. In life a prosperous usurer, in afterlife shackled by money boxes and chains of useless gold, h…