New York City
A Very Nosedive Christmas Carol, writer James Comtois and director Pete Boisvert’s version of the Dickensian classic, opens on the ghost of Jacob Marley lamenting his fate at having to teach Scrooge the same lesson, year after year, and of having to tell the same story to audiences year after year. The spirits haunting Scrooge have done this countless times, every Christmas, over and over again — and they’re tired. So, the ghosts decide to find ways to break their tedium and spruce things up for their own amusement.