A Christmas Carol, with Christmas carols

We saw the North Shore Male Choir put on a fine performance based on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the other week at St George Church in Takapuna.

We’d never run into this group, but apparently they put on quite a few shows each year since forever, including a Christmas program.

That’s Jacob Marley handing out chocolate coins to the members of the audience at the end. It was a fun show, with I’d say more than half the audience made up of friends and family of the choir.

We got there with about 10 minutes to spare, but the church was already full, so we had to make our way to seats right at the front and next to the pianist. Who had her left arm in a sling! Later in the show she got a big round of applause both for her virtuosity and her “show must go on” attitude. The choirmaster was so impressed that he had her repeat her big feature number, an arrangement of Carol of the Bells.