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I never knew who he was until he came home in 1945. My father was away for the first five years of my life. I was born in 1940, so I have some experience of the sounds of war. I believe that the world I’m in now has never been so troubled and dark a place.
That is what brings me to be the connection between Picard and A Christmas Carol. Therefore, I could tell a different kind of story. Here, I could talk as I’m talking to you now and everybody’s going to be aware of what I say. The smaller space means that I can be more conversational than I would be in a 1,600-seat theater.
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Anyway, we did our final full rehearsal and I got through it all and was just a little tired and nothing more.Īre you approaching the text differently this time around? I signed up for just two performances with a day off in between, because I didn’t know how my voice would stand up. So I began learning and working and exercising and going through different sections of it, and I became finally convinced I thought I could have a shot at it. I wasn’t sure that my body and my brain were up for it.
The window opened up for me, and Jenny said, “You can do as few or as many performances as you want.” Well, I’m now in my 80th year, and this is a two-hour show, and I’m alone, and I never stop talking. I began to think about how would I do Christmas Carol in such a small space. The last time I did Christmas Carol was 16 years ago, and it was in a 1,600-seat theater. But when I was approached by the Ars Nova and by Jenny Steingart, I went to see the theater and I was intrigued by it, because I had never done Christmas Carol in a theater so small. I simply didn’t have the opportunity to look again. Luckily, there was always so much work going on. Every single autumn, without exception, I have been approached from someone from somewhere, from Australia, from the far East, from Canada, from the U.K., to come back and do Christmas Carol again. I began developing it during season two of Next Generation, so it is by now nearly 30 years old. What convinced you to come back and do A Christmas Carol again? This was not going to be Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part Two. I met with them again and we talked and talked and I told them about my uncertainties and doubts and little by little I found that they were all being addressed and being addressed in such an interesting way that I was intrigued. They came back with quite a lot to say about that, and they were very enthusiastic about creating a world that was very different from the one that we got used to.
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One of the points that I had made in the meeting was that the only possible way I could consider returning to that life would be if, for example - and this was only an example - we did something like Logan, the final X-Men movie I made with Hugh Jackman then you would have my attention. There was a lot of information when the meeting broke up and we left, I said to my agent, “You know, would you mind asking these people if they could put everything they said in writing so that I can read it, study it, think about it?” In less than two days, I had over 30 pages of copy, which I studied very carefully. They said fine, they understood all that, but they had a few more things they wanted to say and they talked in a little more detail about their vision for Picard.
They listened to me talk for half an hour or so. But when this also came through about two years ago, I agreed with my agent that we would go and attend the meeting with Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman, and because their inquiry of me had been so polite and enthusiastic, I wanted to explain to them face-to-face why I was going to pass. I had given everything I could to the character in the series. I had determined long ago that my time with Jean-Luc and Star Trek was over. What convinced you to come back to Picard? As he prepared to take on the Dickens classic once again, Stewart talked with Vulture about seeing the story’s economic moral differently in the present and the opposite and yet complementary worldviews present in two of his lifelong roles. Stewart thought he’d put Picard to bed years ago and only decided to return after getting the hard sell from the show’s producers, though Scrooge, he says, whom he inhabits for most of his spare, one-man stage show, “has never really left me.” Stewart performed A Christmas Carol in New York in 1991, 1992, 1994, and last in 2001.
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More than 30 years later, he’s found his way back both to Star Trek, leading CBS All Access’s new Picard series premiering in January, and to A Christmas Carol, which he’ll be performing on December 11 and 13 in New York to benefit City Harvest and Ars Nova. In 1988, as he was playing Jean-Luc Picard in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sir Patrick Stewart started working on a one-man stage version of A Christmas Carol in order to keep in touch with the theater.
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