What the Dickens?

Celebrities to stage reading
of a classic Christmas tale |

By JENNIFER LANG
THE PRESIDENT of the
Nisga’a nation will be
joining other local celebri-
ties and CBC radio perso-
nalities at a slaged reading
of A Christmas Cerol in
Terrace next month.

Joe Gosnell, Nisga’a
Lisims Government presi-
dent, Skeena MLA Roger
Harris and Terrace city
councillor Marylin Davies
will each read from the
Charles Dickens Christmas
classic at a special benefit
presented by the Terrace
and District Arts Council
and CBC Radio One.

CBC Radio personali-
ties Mary Jean Courmier
and Kirsty Hudson round
out the celebrity quotient
for the Nov. 14 event — a
Terrace first.

“Everybody was really
keen,” arts council presi-
dent Kim Beaupre says of
the line-up.

The 1843 novel is con-
densed and adapted into
five sections to be read
aloud.

“This is a oerformance
that Dickens wrote
himself,” she says.

The performance, which
music by the Narthwest
Singers and a small en-
semble from the Terrace
Community Band, takes
about 80 minutes.

Joe Gosnell

The reading will be re-
corded, but there’s no
guarantee it will be broad-
cast, so people will have
to come to the R.E.M. Lee
in person.

“They wan't be able to
listen to it live on the
radio,” Beaupre says.

Live readings of A
Christmas Carol are a
CBC tradition that origina-
ted with World Report host
Judy Maddrin, Beaupre
explains.

When Maddrin read the
entire novel to her spell-
bound children over a
three-night period back in
1989, she realized — since
her husband kept peeking

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are rarely read to and
would enjoy tistening to A
Christmas Carol, too.

She discovered that
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stary that he could read in
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way to help the poor,
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Maddrin and her CBC
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reading of Dickens’s
abridged version in 1990,

“It was going to be a
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started doing them every
year,” Beaupre says.

They seized on the no-

Marylin Davies

tion of raising money for
causes that reflected Dick-
ens’s own values: the poor
and the homeless, educa-
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There are now readings
in more than 80 communi-
ties across the country, in-
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