Throughout the play, instrumental arrangements of carols and original music underscore all scenic transitions, and several scenes with dialogue, much like a film's sound track. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - The Company "Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming/Begone, Dull Care" - Orchestra Scene 2-The Street Outside Scrooge's Chambers Scene 1-Scrooge's Bedchamber Later, The Street Scene 1-Scrooge's Bedchamber Later, A Tavern STAVE FOUR: THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" - Fred, Meg and Guests "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - The Cratchits "The Gloucestershire Wassail" - The Ghost of Christmas Present and Company "Boar’s Head Carol" - The Ghost of Christmas Present and Company STAVE THREE: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS "Here We Come A-Wassailing" - The Fezziwigs and ensemble. "Ding, Dong, Merrily On High" - Villagers "A Dream Within a Dream" - The Ghost of Christmas Past STAVE TWO: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS Scene 2-The Street Later, Scrooge's Chambers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" - Street Boys, Fred "The Coventry Shepherd's Carol" - Orchestra Scene 1-A London street later, Scrooge's Counting House STAVE ONE: MARLEY'S GHOST-Christmas Eve, 1843. "The Welcome Wassail" – Narrator, Company and Orchestra In his Stave IV nightmare, Scrooge sees the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come personified as his younger self at the pivotal point in his life, when he rejected his only love, Belle. Gentleman 1, a philanthropist collecting money for the poor, will become the Spirit of Christmas Present, symbol of generosity and abundance in Stave III. Cratchit, symbol of memory, home, motherhood and love, will become the Spirit of Christmas Past in Stave II. In the first street scene, which takes place in London on December 24, 1843, we meet all of the dream characters as their mortal counterparts. Scrooge's magnificent transformation comes about as a result of three spirits who visit him in his dream. Three are quite large, and figure prominently at the beginning and end of each stave. Fantastic images of clocks are everywhere. As the story unfolds and the Narrator takes us back in time, settings include a London street, Scrooge's chambers and counting house, and locations which appear in Scrooge's dream. KD: It was the last song we wrote on the record, and it's one of Andy's.The initial setting is London in the early 1860s, roughly 20 years after Dickens wrote his story. Usually the way we work is that either I write the basic structure of a song and we work it out from there, or Andy writes the basic structure and we do the same, and that one was an Andy song. From our prior record, we had a single called "You Wouldn't Have To Ask," and it was a pretty poppy song - an accessible, ear candy type of song.
And while we really liked this record and what we had on it so far, we kind of felt like that was the one color that was missing. We hadn't written a straight pop song for the record.
I was on tour and Andy was home, and he sent me a voicemail with this super-catchy melody and this whistling kind of hook, and weird lyrics like, ".you had a baby with a biker and named him Forest Whitaker." That's kind of great, and it pops out for sure.
I think it just fell into Andy's head from the clear blue sky. He said something at some point about how the female character in the song is supposed to be this sort of neo-hippy - the kind of person who would marry a biker and name their kid Forest Whitaker. For the music, we wanted it to sound kind of like. this kind of weird pop music with kind of trashy drum machines. When we actually did the recording, we came up with these harmonies that helped sweeten the song, and the guitar lead sounded like it either came out of a video game or kind of like that second Strokes record. A lot of the guitar sounds on that Strokes record kind of sound like cross-dressed keyboards, but they're just manipulated on guitar. So, that was what we were going for with it, and that song became the obvious first single for us. I think we're probably closer in a lot more ways than our day jobs would suggest. We were on a tour at that time with a band called Brand New, and Manchester was the first band, Kevin Devine and The God Damn Band were second, and Brand New was the headlining band.
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