Like the little girl with the little curl, when this show is good it is very, very good.
But folks, there are moments when it's as if Johnny McKnight's indomitable will to entertain is what's tiding us over the sticky patches.
The truth is, making Scrooge into a nippy sweetie – and a hard-bitten, self-centred, foil (OK, Lurex) wrapped one at that – sets the cross-dressed comedy stakes so high that the emotional clout we sentimentally expect from the Dickens doesn't really get a look in.
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