History WebVideo / AVHSChristmasCarol

* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations An 80's themed adaptation of Creator/CharlesDickens novella ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

It's a SurrealMusicVideo adaptation of the classic Creator/CharlesDickens novella ''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.

* FilmedStageProduction: The 2022 Youtube release was a recording of the 2021 live show performed in Los Angeles.

* ShoutOut: Scrooge's shaving scene during "Christmas Day" ends with him slapping both hands to his face at the sting from his aftershave, in a direct reference to ''Film/HomeAlone''.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Not so much ugly as [[CreepyChild creepy]], but Tiny Tim, normally played by a cute little boy, is played here by the clearly-adult Brian Holden, who exaggerates Tim's sickliness for laughs.

** The live concert version turns the whole ensemble into this throughout the show, with many lines originally performed by Baxtresser distributed amongst them.

* {{Yuppie}}: The implicit theme of this show, with 1980s greed replacing the 1840s kind Dickens was writing about (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).

** This would come true when they restaged the show live in 2021, offering livestream and digital tickets, and released this version to Youtube in 2022 in the lead-up to the Starkid Holiday Jangle Ball Tour in 2022, which would also reprise ''A VHS Christmas Carol''.

*** This would come true when they restaged the show live in 2021, offering livestream and digital tickets, and released this version to Youtube in 2022 in the lead-up to the Starkid Holiday Jangle Ball Tour in 2022, which would also reprise ''A VHS Christmas Carol''.

This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022, to promote the Starkid Holiday Jangle Ball Tour, which would also feature the concert rendition of ''A VHS Christmas Carol''.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', an immersive live concert staging of the musical with added and lightly-revised material, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing for a limited time. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Curt Mega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', an immersive live concert staging of the musical with added and lightyl-revised material, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing for a limited time. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Curt Mega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', an immersive live concert staging of the musical, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing for a limited time. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Curt Mega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', an immersive live concert staging of the musical, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Curt Mega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', an immersive live concert staging of the musical, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Creator/CurtMega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''VHS Christmas Carol: Live!'', am immersive live concert staging of the musical, played The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, CA, from December 9-11, 2021, which was available for live, livestream, and digital viewing. Janaya Mahealani Jones replaced Britney Coleman as Belle, and Creator/CurtMega and Kim Whalen served as understudies. This version was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC-QuFKFVc posted to Youtube]] on November 25, 2022.

''A VHS Christmas Carol'' was broadcast for four livestreamed performances on the weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2020. The recorded digital ticket remained available [[https://www.teamstarkid.com/a-vhs-christmas-carol here]] until Jan. 1, 2021, and the soundtrack album will be available for purchase indefinitely.

''A VHS Christmas Carol'' was broadcast for four livestreamed performances on the weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2020. The recorded digital ticket remained available [[https://www.teamstarkid.com/a-vhs-christmas-carol here]] until Jan. 1, 2021, 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.

* NerdGlasses: 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).

* {{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). A lot of other characters wear glasses too -- contacts not being quite so popular in the '80s as today and laser eye surgery not having been invented -- and they're all the '80s style that looks wildly oversized by 21st-century standards.

* AscendedMeme: After the visual album was released in 2020, Lauren Lopez expressed her dismay on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbwY5tnmo2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link instagram]] that the character she had filmed for Christmas Electricity, the Goth Party Girl, didn't make the final cut. When the show was adapted for a live performance in 2021, the [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CJgfQbchXp0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link now fan-favorite]] Goth Party Girl appeared as a narrator.

* AscendedMeme: After the visual album was released in 2020, Lauren Lopez expressed her dismay on her [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbwY5tnmo2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link instagram]] that the character she had filmed for Christmas Electricity, the Goth Party Girl, didn't make the final cut. When the show was adapted for a live performance in 2021, the [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CJgfQbchXp0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link now fan-favorite]] Goth Party Girl was made one of the transition sequence narrators.

* 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 their first Starkid role since they came out.)

* 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.

* 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.

* TearJerker: As silly as the overall idea of this show may seem, especially Creator/BrianHolden playing Tiny Tim, the sad moments were genuinely heartwrenching for many fans, especially Creator/DylanSaunders' MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he sees the Cratchit family's poverty in "Priceless", followed by the CallBack to this moment in "The Final Ghost".
-->'''Scrooge''': So many mouths to feed... I never knew...
-->'''Christmas Present''': You never asked.
-->'''Scrooge''': That Tiny Tim kid needs help...
-->'''Christmas Present''': Indeed, makes you wonder how long he'll last.
-->''(one song later)''
-->'''Bob Cratchit''': I'm grateful for this Christmas feast \\
Just the kind Tiny Tim would enjoy \\
I only wish he were here to see \\
Forgive me... How I just miss my boy

* 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?"
** Also applies to Corey Dorris briefly appearing as "Principal Humbugger" in ''[[ShowWithinAShow Santa Claus is Goin' to High School]]'' in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', since now Corey is playing Fred, the original PhraseCatcher for "Bah, humbug!".