People can watch TV while eating or playing video games, according to Sims. Sims said that using Dickens’ script was one way to meet that challenge, but added that doing a live play is the “greatest advantage.” Is it a challenge to take something like “The Christmas Carol” that people are so familiar with and make it fresh? They were “a paring down or distillation of great, classic works,” Sims said.
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He derived part of the title for his adaptation from the name of a series of books he read when he was growing up, the “Vest Pocket Books.” “I tried to adhere to his script and make what adjustments I had to,” he said. Sims used Dicken’s script for his one-man show as the basis for his adaptation. Sims said that he also played several parts in other stage adaptations of the piece during his years as an actor on the road.ĭickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” originally as a stage play and later performed the play in a one-man show he brought to America, according to Sims. “I love the character of Scrooge and ‘The Christmas Carol,’” he said. There is no accident that Sims adapted Dickens. The ASC also regularly presents another kid-friendly holiday show called “Yuletide in Dogtown.”
The ASC premiered “A Dickens Vest Pocket Christmas Carol” in 2008 and has since presented the show about seven times, according to Sims, who serves at the ASC as general house events manager and volunteer coordinator.
Sims also created the adaptation and directs the show.
The original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol” stars ASC staffer Jerry Sims as Scrooge. and 7 p.m., according to a UAB news release The Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center presents “A Dickens Vest Pocket Christmas Carol” – a kid- and family-friendly holiday production – on Sat., Dec. Know people, places and programs on the UAB campus that deserve a mention? Email Iron City Ink at and special Christmas Carol Welcome to another installment of UAB Briefs, in which we keep track of interesting people and events on campus. For 2020’s “45,” he raps, “Know we need the trophy ring/Baby, I’m bringing it home.” Once content with a long night in the club and a woman on his arm, Kid Ink has turned into a credible MC with the ambition of becoming the pride of the City of Angels.Jerry Sims stars as Scrooge in the ASC production of "A Vest Pocket Christmas Carol." Collins may indulge in a jet-setting lifestyle befitting his one-time Rockstar stage name, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a hard worker―and his unrelenting hustle has provided him with longevity. Chris Brown), about Ink’s lustful search for his dream girl, introduced him to a wider audience taken by the track’s icy synths. After his first mixtape, World Tour, which he released under the name Rockstar in 2010, Ink officially changed his name and found a hit with 2012’s “Time of Your Life,” a club banger that reveals his deeper, more empathetic side. At the age of 22, he focused full-time on rapping, eventually developing his signature style that blends traditional flows with Auto-Tune-soaked melodies and nods to the sex jam. Blessed with a knack for creating earworms, Collins began producing beats-indebted to early 2000s idols like Pharrell Williams and Swizz Beatz-back in high school. Alongside peers like Tyga and Ty Dolla $ign, Ink, born Brian Todd Collins in 1986, brings pillow talk to the streets and isn’t afraid to sing about things that would make your mother blush. Kid Ink helped create Los Angeles’ post-rap scene where strip club verbiage is pervasive and words are sung, not spoken.
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