Tear Jerker / A Christmas Carol: The Musical

• The Christmas Past sequence shows Scrooge's mother forced to send young Ebenezer and Fan away to work after their father is sent to debtor's prison. She sadly holds them and urges them to retain their hope and kind hearts through adversity, singing "God Bless Us Every One," and the Ghost of Christmas Past remarks that she died soon afterward, meaning that this moment was likely the last time the two children ever saw their mother.
• The young Scrooge turning away Fezziwig, the man who taught him everything and leaving him bankrupt. For Fezziwig, he's not upset at losing his business; it's seeing the young man he mentored and truly loved turning into this cold-hearted figure.
  Scrooge: The only thing standing between us and the grave is money.
  Fezziwig: I pity you, if that's what you truly believe.
  Scrooge: It is!
  Mrs. Fezziwig: And he treated you like a son!
• Scrooge is utterly despondent at the future he sees, asking how it can be when he's learned so much and his heart is so full.
• Tiny Tim's death, as in all versions. Bob sings an utterly broken reprise of "You Mean More to Me Than Anything" at his son's grave before breaking down in tears.
• In the future, as Scrooge begs for another chance, he sees everyone he spurned singing "God Bless Us Every One" as a sign of forgiveness. Then he sees the spirits of his mother and sister, and Scrooge himself joins in with the song.
• The last event the Ghost of Christmas Past brings Scrooge to see is the death of Jacob Marley. Poor Scrooge can't do a thing; he's forced to rewatch Marley's collapse and death in his past self's arms.
  Scrooge: "He was my only friend..."

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