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** The original novella gave the Cratchit family ''six'' children; as is common with adaptations, this version removes the two unnamed baby/toddler kids and makes Tiny Tim the youngest.
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* CrossCastRole: It isn't actually cross-cast, since they're [[{{Transgender}} non-binary]], but Creator/MeredithStepien normally presents on the femme side onstage and for the first time plays a male role as Jacob Marley. (This is her first Starkid role since they came out.)
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* CrossCastRole: It isn't actually cross-cast, since they're [[{{Transgender}} non-binary]], but Creator/MeredithStepien normally presents on the femme side onstage and for the first time plays a male role as Jacob Marley. (This is her their first Starkid role since they came out.)
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* HilariousInHindsight: The line about Tom Houston (played by Creator/DylanSaunders) in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where Paul says to Emma, "Your brother-in-law's a bit of a Scrooge, isn't he?"
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* AscendedExtra: Bob Cratchit's wife Emily is considerably more important in this show than she typically is, thanks to the decision to make the Christmas Present sequence at the Cratchit house a love duet between the two of them.
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* Clark Baxtresser as the Narrator
* Creator/DylanSaunders as Ebenezer Scrooge
* Creator/JoeyRichter as Bob Cratchit
* Creator/CoreyDorris as Fred
* Creator/MeredithStepien as Jacob Marley
* Creator/JaimeLynBeatty as the Ghost of Christmas Past
* Creator/JamesTolbert as the Ghost of Christmas Present
* Jamie Burns as the Ghost of Christmas Future
* Creator/BrianRosenthal as Young Scrooge
* A.J. Holmes as Fezziwig
* Britney Coleman as Belle
* Creator/LaurenLopez as Emily Cratchit
* Creator/BrianHolden as Tiny Tim
* Ali Gordon as Turkey Boy
* Clark Baxtresser as the Narrator
* Creator/DylanSaunders as Ebenezer Scrooge
* Creator/JoeyRichter as Bob Cratchit
* Creator/CoreyDorris as Fred
* Creator/MeredithStepien as Jacob Marley
* Creator/JaimeLynBeatty as the Ghost of Christmas Past
* Creator/JamesTolbert as the Ghost of Christmas Present
* Jamie Burns as the Ghost of Christmas Future
* Creator/BrianRosenthal as Young Scrooge
* A.J. Holmes as Fezziwig
* Britney Coleman as Belle
* Creator/LaurenLopez as Emily Cratchit
* Creator/BrianHolden as Tiny Tim
* Ali Gordon as Turkey Boy
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** Notably, as a result of the ReunionShow aspect of this performance some recent fan-favorites were benched. None of the younger actors added to the Starkid roster for the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series -- Robert Manion, Mariah Rose Faith, and Angela Giarratana -- are on the cast of this show, and neither is Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} songwriter Creator/JeffBlim.
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** Notably, as a result of the ReunionShow aspect of this performance some recent fan-favorites were benched. None of the younger actors added to the Starkid roster for the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series -- Jon Matteson, Robert Manion, Mariah Rose Faith, and Angela Giarratana -- are on the cast of this show, and neither is Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} songwriter Creator/JeffBlim.
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* AscendedExtra: Bob Cratchit's wife Emily is considerably more important in this show than she typically is, thanks to the decision to make the Christmas Present sequence at the Cratchit house a love duet between the two of them.
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* StreetPunk: The looters at Scrooge's house after his death in the Future sequence are reimagined this way.
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* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: Played by Clark Baxtresser, who's also sitting at a keyboard playing the accompaniment to the show.
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* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Jaime Lyn Beatty's breathy, childlike voice as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Also arguably Jamie Burns as Christmas Future, though that's a more standard OneWomanWail.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: A lot of this happens thanks to the limited cast, like the Narrator's descriptions of Fezziwig's and Fred's huge, crowded Christmas parties (which only actually have a few people onscreen). Possibly most notable with the Ghost of Christmas Past, where it's basically PlayedForLaughs that he describes her as a bizarre EldritchAbomination and she appears as a sexy aerobics instructor.
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* RaceLift: Scrooge's nephew Fred and his ex Belle are both black.
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* BookEnds: The ending song, "Christmas Day", is a TriumphantReprise of the opening TheVillainSucksSong "Bah Humbug".
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* CoolShades: The Ghost of Christmas Present has some that glow a neon electric blue.
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* WomanInWhite: This version of the Ghost of Christmas Future.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: It can't help but be this, since it doesn't try to hide at all that it's actors in different places interacting virtually against a GreenScreen backdrop, which much of the time is just an abstract surreal image rather than a photo of an actual place.
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* AspectRatio: This show remains true to the '80s theme even in this respect, with the whole thing filmed in an old-fashioned 4:3 ratio that would fit on an old square-shaped CRT.
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* ColorblindCasting: Scrooge is played by Creator/DylanSaunders and Creator/BrianRosenthal, who are both white, as is Ali Gordon, who plays his sister Fan, while his nephew Fred is played by Corey Dorris, who is black. (Doesn't present as much of a challenge to suspension of disbelief as other examples, of course, since we never see Fred's father.)
* CreditsGag: Ali Gordon is credited as "Turkey Boy"; she also plays Scrooge's sister Fan, but the Turkey Boy is a funnier role to list as her primary one.
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** This is the first new Starkid show Britney Coleman and Creator/BrianRosenthal have appeared in since ''AVPSY'' in 2012, although Britney sang the RewrittenPopVersion of "A Thousand and One Nights" as the EndingTheme of ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' (and both appeared at the ''Starkid Homecoming'').
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** This is the first new Starkid show A.J. Holmes, Britney Coleman and Creator/BrianRosenthal have appeared in since ''AVPSY'' in 2012, although Britney sang the RewrittenPopVersion of "A Thousand and One Nights" as the EndingTheme of ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' (and both all three appeared at the ''Starkid Homecoming'').Homecoming'', which A.J. Holmes was the arranger and conductor for).
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* FramingDevice: The video shows us the show as an old VHS tape being inserted into a VCR connected to an old TV.
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** Ali Gordon as the "Turkey Boy" is a PlayedStraight example.
* {{Megane}}: A big part of Scrooge's characterization is as an '80s HollywoodNerd, with his big plastic-rimmed glasses cementing his image (and being the main way you can tell Young Scrooge and Old Scrooge are supposed to be the same person). Bob Cratchit also wears glasses, but his are the wire-rimmed NewAgeRetroHippie kind.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Bob Cratchit's WildHair and BadassBeard would, in the actual '80s, mark him as an old-fashioned holdover from the TheSeventies; the implication in this show is that Bob is a former [[Music/TheGratefulDead Deadhead]] type who settled down and had a bunch of kids, and unfortunately his misspent youth meant the job with Scrooge was the best he could get.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Bob Cratchit's WildHair and BadassBeard would, in the actual '80s, mark him as an old-fashioned holdover from the TheSeventies; the implication in this show is that Bob is a former [[Music/TheGratefulDead Deadhead]] type who settled down and had a bunch of kids, and unfortunately his misspent youth meant the job with Scrooge was the best he could get.
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* TroubledProduction: This was originally intended as a series of ''live'' shows done over conference call with GreenScreen, as a way to prove real live theatre (as opposed to Zoom script readings where everyone's in a tiny window at their computer) could still be done in the era of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Sadly, it didn't work out due to numerous technical issues, and as a result the Friday night performance had to be canceled and the rest of the performances pre-recorded (though each time slot was a new and different recording).
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* TroubledProduction: This was originally intended as a series of ''live'' shows done over conference call with GreenScreen, as a way to prove real live theatre (as opposed to Zoom script readings where everyone's in a tiny window at their computer) could still be done in the era of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Sadly, it didn't work out due to numerous technical issues, and as a result the Friday night performance had to be canceled and the rest of the performances pre-recorded (though each time slot was a new and different recording).recording).
* TruerToTheText: The story the Narrator tells follows the original Dickens novel very closely and is almost completely PlayedStraight, with the "'80s-ness" of the show entirely in the musical style and the visuals of the characters.
* UnexplainedAccent: In a show where almost everyone has an American accent and the show is supposed to be a SettingUpdate of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' to America in the 1980s, Ali Gordon decides to [[PlayedForLaughs play up for laughs]] the "Turkey Boy" character in the ending having the exact same [[FakeBrit Cockney]] accent he does in the normal setting of the play.
* {{Yuppie}}: The implicit theme of this show, with 1980s greed replacing the 1840s kind Dickens was writing about (and in the tradition of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' with Creator/BillMurray), although unlike ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' this show implies Scrooge is far too old to actually be a yuppie (since it's mostly TruerToTheText).
* TruerToTheText: The story the Narrator tells follows the original Dickens novel very closely and is almost completely PlayedStraight, with the "'80s-ness" of the show entirely in the musical style and the visuals of the characters.
* UnexplainedAccent: In a show where almost everyone has an American accent and the show is supposed to be a SettingUpdate of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' to America in the 1980s, Ali Gordon decides to [[PlayedForLaughs play up for laughs]] the "Turkey Boy" character in the ending having the exact same [[FakeBrit Cockney]] accent he does in the normal setting of the play.
* {{Yuppie}}: The implicit theme of this show, with 1980s greed replacing the 1840s kind Dickens was writing about (and in the tradition of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' with Creator/BillMurray), although unlike ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' this show implies Scrooge is far too old to actually be a yuppie (since it's mostly TruerToTheText).
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* AdaptedOut: Tons of things, obviously, since this is only a 45-minute show, but notably this is one of the adaptations that just deletes Ignorance and Want from the Christmas Present sequence.
* BlackComedy: In-universe; one of Tiny Tim's BrattyHalfPint siblings declares he's thankful not to have Tiny Tim's disease, earning a sharp reprimand from his mom. (TruthInTelevision for young children, and the same kid isn't laughing at all when we come back in the future to find out Tiny Tim has passed.)
* CrossCastRole: It isn't actually cross-cast, since they're [[{{Transgender}} non-binary]], but Creator/MeredithStepien normally presents on the femme side onstage and for the first time plays a male role as Jacob Marley. (This is her first Starkid role since they came out.)
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* CrossCastRole: It isn't actually cross-cast, since they're [[{{Transgender}} non-binary]], but Creator/MeredithStepien normally presents on the femme side onstage and for the first time plays a male role as Jacob Marley. (This is her first Starkid role since they came out.)
* NoBudget: As with all the shows Starkid organized over the Internet during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic this show was done on a shoestring budget with a great deal of largesse from the actors providing their own costumes, makeup, and tech. The primary reason for the failure to produce this show as a live performance was the team's modem not being able to handle the load, according to WordOfGod.
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* SynthPop: The style of most of the music, although it veers into other genres at certain points, like The Ghost of Christmas Present starting "Christmas Electricity" with a verse of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop old-school hip-hop]].
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* TheSpeechless: The original Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come was TheVoiceless. This being a musical, this version of Christmas Future communicates only in OneWomanWail wordless vocalizations... until the WhamLine when she reveals the name on the tombstone of the lonely grave is "Ebenezer Scrooge". ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot Which she has to, since they can't physically show it.]])
* SynthPop: The style of most of the music, although it veers into other genres at certain points, like The Ghost of Christmas Present starting "Christmas Electricity" with a verse of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop old-schoolhip-hop]].hip-hop]].
* TroubledProduction: This was originally intended as a series of ''live'' shows done over conference call with GreenScreen, as a way to prove real live theatre (as opposed to Zoom script readings where everyone's in a tiny window at their computer) could still be done in the era of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Sadly, it didn't work out due to numerous technical issues, and as a result the Friday night performance had to be canceled and the rest of the performances pre-recorded (though each time slot was a new and different recording).
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* AmbiguousGender: This version of Jacob Marley is, of course, still consistently referred to as a man, but is played by a non-binary actor and seems designed to evoke an androgynous '80s pop star like Music/AnnieLennox.
** The Narrator, [[TruerToTheText following the description in the original book]], describes the Ghost of Christmas Past as a strangely inhuman genderless being, only for it to actually appear as the extremely feminine Creator/JaimeLynBeatty dressed as an '80s fitness instructor.
** This is also played with with the Ghost of Christmas Future, which looks like an elegant woman in a white dress but which Scrooge addresses as "Sir" (although he then apologizes profusely for saying so, although it's not clear if he's apologizing for calling it male or calling it human).
** The Narrator, [[TruerToTheText following the description in the original book]], describes the Ghost of Christmas Past as a strangely inhuman genderless being, only for it to actually appear as the extremely feminine Creator/JaimeLynBeatty dressed as an '80s fitness instructor.
** This is also played with with the Ghost of Christmas Future, which looks like an elegant woman in a white dress but which Scrooge addresses as "Sir" (although he then apologizes profusely for saying so, although it's not clear if he's apologizing for calling it male or calling it human).
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* {{Expy}}: The characters are more Expies of '80s archetypes than specific celebrities, though there's a few you can nail down -- Jacob Marley feels like an homage to Music/AnnieLennox, Christmas Past is Creator/JaneFonda in her aerobics-instructor phase, and Christmas Future seems like an homage to [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Princess Di]].
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* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Clark Baxtresser as the Narrator wears a classically garish "Christmas sweater".
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* CreatorCouple: After Creator/LaurenLopez and Creator/JoeyRichter finally publicly announced they were together (after having dated for at least eight years) with their engagement in 2020, this is the first time they've actually played a couple onstage in a Starkid show, as Bob and Emily Cratchit, and the first time they've sung an overtly romantic duet.
** As a subversion of this, Starkid's other famous CreatorCouple, Creator/BrianHolden and Creator/MeredithStepien ("[[PortmanteauCoupleName Breredith]]") is also in this show, but play two characters who have absolutely no connection, Tiny Tim and Jacob Marley.
** As a subversion of this, Starkid's other famous CreatorCouple, Creator/BrianHolden and Creator/MeredithStepien ("[[PortmanteauCoupleName Breredith]]") is also in this show, but play two characters who have absolutely no connection, Tiny Tim and Jacob Marley.
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* CrossCastRole: It isn't actually cross-cast, since they're [[{{Transgender}} non-binary]], but Creator/MeredithStepien normally presents on the femme side onstage and for the first time plays a male role as Jacob Marley. (This is her first Starkid role since they came out.)
* DawsonCasting: An extreme PlayedForLaughs variant, obviously, but Creator/BrianHolden plays ten-year-old Tiny Tim. (This feels like Starkid deliberately subverting expectations that this would be another case of Creator/LaurenLopez [[CrossCastRole playing a little boy]] like the old days.)
** A mixture of DawsonCasting and UnderageCasting -- Creator/BrianRosenthal plays "Young Scrooge" and Creator/DylanSaunders plays present-day Scrooge, even though they're around the same age in RealLife (in their 30s). Young Scrooge ranges in age from his boyhood to Brian's real age of his early 30s when Belle leaves him, while present-day Scrooge is clearly meant to be an old man at least in his 60s, but thanks to this show having relatively NoBudget this is only vaguely suggested with their costumes and acting.
* DawsonCasting: An extreme PlayedForLaughs variant, obviously, but Creator/BrianHolden plays ten-year-old Tiny Tim. (This feels like Starkid deliberately subverting expectations that this would be another case of Creator/LaurenLopez [[CrossCastRole playing a little boy]] like the old days.)
** A mixture of DawsonCasting and UnderageCasting -- Creator/BrianRosenthal plays "Young Scrooge" and Creator/DylanSaunders plays present-day Scrooge, even though they're around the same age in RealLife (in their 30s). Young Scrooge ranges in age from his boyhood to Brian's real age of his early 30s when Belle leaves him, while present-day Scrooge is clearly meant to be an old man at least in his 60s, but thanks to this show having relatively NoBudget this is only vaguely suggested with their costumes and acting.
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* ReunionShow: The majority of the cast of this show are members of the "first generation" of Creator/TeamStarkid who appeared in the era between ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' and ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSeniorYear'' (from 2009-2012). several of whom haven't been seen in Starkid shows for a ''long'' time:
** This is the first new Starkid show Britney Coleman and Creator/BrianRosenthal have appeared in since ''AVPSY'' in 2012, although Britney sang the RewrittenPopVersion of "A Thousand and One Nights" as the EndingTheme of ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' (and both appeared at the ''Starkid Homecoming'').
** This is the first show Creator/BrianHolden and Creator/MeredithStepien, both of whom were once "core" Starkid members, have appeared in since ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'' in 2016 (before Starkid left Chicago for LA). Especially notable since Brian was one of Starkid's ''founding'' members with ''WebVideo/LittleWhiteLie'' in 2007.
** Clark Baxtresser, who was Starkid's musical director and bandleader from 2009 (''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'') to 2016 (''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'') but hasn't been seen since the {{Franchise/Hatchetfield}} series (which switched to having music by Creator/JeffBlim and Matt Dahan), now returns as the composer, accompanist and AllKnowingSingingNarrator of this show.
** A couple of one-off Starkid actors came back for this show -- this is Ali Gordon's first appearance since playing Vanessa in ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'' in 2009, and Jamie Burns' since playing Chorn in ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'' in 2016.
** Notably, as a result of the ReunionShow aspect of this performance some recent fan-favorites were benched. None of the younger actors added to the Starkid roster for the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series -- Robert Manion, Mariah Rose Faith, and Angela Giarratana -- are on the cast of this show, and neither is Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} songwriter Creator/JeffBlim.
** This is the first new Starkid show Britney Coleman and Creator/BrianRosenthal have appeared in since ''AVPSY'' in 2012, although Britney sang the RewrittenPopVersion of "A Thousand and One Nights" as the EndingTheme of ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' (and both appeared at the ''Starkid Homecoming'').
** This is the first show Creator/BrianHolden and Creator/MeredithStepien, both of whom were once "core" Starkid members, have appeared in since ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'' in 2016 (before Starkid left Chicago for LA). Especially notable since Brian was one of Starkid's ''founding'' members with ''WebVideo/LittleWhiteLie'' in 2007.
** Clark Baxtresser, who was Starkid's musical director and bandleader from 2009 (''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'') to 2016 (''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'') but hasn't been seen since the {{Franchise/Hatchetfield}} series (which switched to having music by Creator/JeffBlim and Matt Dahan), now returns as the composer, accompanist and AllKnowingSingingNarrator of this show.
** A couple of one-off Starkid actors came back for this show -- this is Ali Gordon's first appearance since playing Vanessa in ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'' in 2009, and Jamie Burns' since playing Chorn in ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'' in 2016.
** Notably, as a result of the ReunionShow aspect of this performance some recent fan-favorites were benched. None of the younger actors added to the Starkid roster for the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series -- Robert Manion, Mariah Rose Faith, and Angela Giarratana -- are on the cast of this show, and neither is Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} songwriter Creator/JeffBlim.
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->''There's no meaner dude than Ebenezer Scrooge!''
''A VHS Christmas Carol'' is a short (45-minute) WebVideo project created by Creator/TeamStarkid for the 2020 holiday season during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as an experiment to see if they could do a fully produced musical project via GreenScreen.
It's a SurrealMusicVideo adaptation of the classic Creator/CharlesDickens novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' as a ConceptAlbum from TheEighties, with the actors (almost none of whom are physically in the same space) superimposed on various digital backgrounds in order to tell the story.
It's also a bit of a ReunionEpisode for Creator/TeamStarkid, bringing back a bunch of actors from Starkid's "first generation" who appeared in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' (along with a few others), who hadn't appeared in a Starkid show since the beginning of the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series when Starkid moved to LA in 2018.
''A VHS Christmas Carol'' was broadcast for four livestreamed performances on the weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2020. The recorded digital ticket will continue to be available [[https://www.teamstarkid.com/a-vhs-christmas-carol here]] until December 30, and the soundtrack album will be available for purchase indefinitely. Note that there are currently no plans to make this show available on [=YouTube=] for free.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* TheEighties: The whole thing is a tribute to '80s SynthPop, EightiesHair and '80s fashion, especially to the cheesy '80s fad of GreenScreen {{Music Video}}s against blatantly fake backgrounds.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One big reason for the '80s theme seems to be making a virtue of necessity that this show had to be done with all the actors filming from home studios and the setting created by GreenScreen thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which is a very {{Retraux}}-feeling way to make a MusicVideo.
* RockOpera: A SungThroughMusical in a rock/pop style that received a simultaneous release as a ConceptAlbum.
* SynthPop: The style of most of the music, although it veers into other genres at certain points, like The Ghost of Christmas Present starting "Christmas Electricity" with a verse of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop old-school hip-hop]].
->''There's no meaner dude than Ebenezer Scrooge!''
''A VHS Christmas Carol'' is a short (45-minute) WebVideo project created by Creator/TeamStarkid for the 2020 holiday season during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, as an experiment to see if they could do a fully produced musical project via GreenScreen.
It's a SurrealMusicVideo adaptation of the classic Creator/CharlesDickens novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' as a ConceptAlbum from TheEighties, with the actors (almost none of whom are physically in the same space) superimposed on various digital backgrounds in order to tell the story.
It's also a bit of a ReunionEpisode for Creator/TeamStarkid, bringing back a bunch of actors from Starkid's "first generation" who appeared in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' (along with a few others), who hadn't appeared in a Starkid show since the beginning of the Franchise/{{Hatchetfield}} series when Starkid moved to LA in 2018.
''A VHS Christmas Carol'' was broadcast for four livestreamed performances on the weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2020. The recorded digital ticket will continue to be available [[https://www.teamstarkid.com/a-vhs-christmas-carol here]] until December 30, and the soundtrack album will be available for purchase indefinitely. Note that there are currently no plans to make this show available on [=YouTube=] for free.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* TheEighties: The whole thing is a tribute to '80s SynthPop, EightiesHair and '80s fashion, especially to the cheesy '80s fad of GreenScreen {{Music Video}}s against blatantly fake backgrounds.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One big reason for the '80s theme seems to be making a virtue of necessity that this show had to be done with all the actors filming from home studios and the setting created by GreenScreen thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which is a very {{Retraux}}-feeling way to make a MusicVideo.
* RockOpera: A SungThroughMusical in a rock/pop style that received a simultaneous release as a ConceptAlbum.
* SynthPop: The style of most of the music, although it veers into other genres at certain points, like The Ghost of Christmas Present starting "Christmas Electricity" with a verse of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop old-school hip-hop]].
