THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Anita Gates
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| Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater in 'A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa'Â Vit Horejs manipulates puppets of Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. |
NEW YORK---They should have brought out the camel a lot sooner. Near the end of the
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater’s “A Christmas Carol, Oy!
Hanukkah, Merry
Kwanzaa,” at La MaMa, a fuzzy camel marionette the size of a cocker spaniel suddenly appears and saunters about with the cutest of wobbles. But at a recent performance, the children — eight or nine of them on floor cushions, making up their own front row — were too far gone to care. Despite its self-consciously humorous multicultural title, this show is mostly “
A Christmas Carol.” [
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