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	Caxtonian: December 2002
		Some early movie Cratchits followed this line, especially with 1935’s Donald Calthorp, but as time went by, Cratchit and his family were younger and younger, turning Bob from a middle-aged man in a dead-end job to a clerk who, with a few mores years of Scrooge on his resume, might have prospects left.
		Cratchit’s character was also adapted over the years, in an attempt to make audiences sympathize with a character described by his detractors as cowardly and inept.
		Cratchit objects to his calling the old skinflint “the founder of the feast.” In the original, Cratchit merely pleads the season — it is a time of good will to all — but in amplifying this, movie Cratchits go on to claim that Scrooge is good inside, or that business makes a man hard.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2002/Dec/crachit.htm (951 words)

	Dickens - Cratchit's Christmas
		Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage.
		Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.
		The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
	charlesdickenspage.com /cratchits_christmas.html (1943 words)

	Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits Page 4
		Cratchit entered -- flushed, but smiling proudly -- with the pudding, like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
		Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs.
		Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dickens/Carol/carol3_4.htm (850 words)

	Matt McHugh.com - Scrooge & Cratchit
		Scrooge & Cratchit is an original short story conceived as a sequel to the classic Dickens' tale.
		This last habit of Scrooge had, in fact, reached such an extreme that the firm of Scrooge & Cratchit currently stood close to the abyss of bankruptcy, beset by a pack of ravenous creditors and, now in the waning of December, faced with the inescapable maw of foreclosure after the turn of the new year.
		Such were the worries of Bob Cratchit as he labored to shift accounts and defer payments for loans the firm itself had to take out merely to continue operation.
	mattmchugh.com /scrooge-and-cratchit/index.html (463 words)

	Bob Cratchit
		Cratchit, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank,...
		Cratchit in a local theatre production for the past 7 years and we always have discussed what a lovely concept this would be as a...
		Cratchit from the 1999 adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
	www.futuregate.co.uk /bob_cratchit.html (329 words)

	Bob Cratchit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bob Cratchit is a character in the classic story, A Christmas Carol.
		Cratchit is Scrooge's employee, a low-paid clerk with a large family.
		His youngest son, Tiny Tim, is a cripple, and it is through him that Scrooge begins to see the light.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bo/bob_cratchit.html (66 words)

	Full Length Plays - Mr. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge by Christopher Durang
		Bob Cratchit – a long suffering saint in the Dickens – is in a state of fury, hating her life and planning on getting drunk and jumping off the London Bridge.
		Bob Cratchit, who is in angry despair at the pathos of her life and keeps trying to drown herself by jumping off the London Bridge.
		Cratchit who embraces her poverty and large family and is lovely and nice, while Scrooge and the original Mrs.
	www.christopherdurang.com /FullCratchit.htm (1049 words)

	A Christmas Carol, Stave 3
		Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.
		Cratchit entered, -- flushed but smiling proudly, -- with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
		The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favor when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
	www.operationlettertosanta.com /Tales/a_christmas_carol3.htm (2576 words)

	Auditions for Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge” this July and August.
		Cratchit – who hates the suffering of her life and tries to escape it, confounding the Ghost’s attempt to teach Scrooge his good lesson.
		Cratchit for her orneriness, and the Ghost has to try and find a moral in a message that no longer makes sense.
	www.pecplayhouse.org /news/PR_Aud_Cratchit.htm (495 words)

	'Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge' 'Degrees of Separation'
		Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge," a cynical and up-tempo reconfiguration of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that premiered in 2002, might not rank among Durang's most inventive or outrageous works.
		Cratchit as a cantankerous housewife who makes Anna Nicole Smith-Stern look like mother of the year.
		Cratchit) and Eric Porter (Scrooge) — spit one-liners ferociously, but their quest for laughs sometimes betrayed a moment's dramatic honesty.
	www.austin360.com /arts/content/arts/stories/xl/2006/11/30reviews.html (649 words)

	Yule laugh self silly at sendup
		Cratchit (Bob's wife, Tiny Tim's mother) being depressed and taking to drink - only it seems that there's another Mrs.
		Cratchit is a sendup of the Dickens holiday classic, throwing in The Gift of the Magi, Oliver Twist, It's a Wonderful Life and the television series Touched by an Angel.
		Cratchit popped up on Southwest Shakespeare's radar when the company went looking for a play to continue what it started last season with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).
	www.azcentral.com /community/ahwatukee/articles/1111ev-cratchit1111Z14.html (410 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Review - Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
		Cratchit, adding a lot more to her and Bob Cratchit's backstory.
		Bob comically downs a few hasty shots and splits, threatening to throw herself off the London Bridge, but not before she falls … in love with the scowling miser.
		Cratchit, who, as played by Nicole Marosis, sports a permanent frown, making her a well-suited battle-axe for Scrooge.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:424253 (633 words)

	Marotta Asset Management, Inc.
		Bob Cratchit is a clerk and a member of the British middle class.
		At this amount, the Cratchit family goose is costing the family a year’s supply of medical attention for the entire family.
		Cratchit is described as "brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence." Making a good show is important for spendthrifts.
	www.emarotta.com /article.php?ID=157 (1122 words)

	A Christmas Carol -- Amergin Press Stories
		They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house; the dwelling he had visited before; and found the mother and the children seated round the fire.
		Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
		Bob told them of the extraordinary kindness of Mr Scrooge's nephew, whom he had scarcely seen but once, and who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he looked a little - ”just a little down you know,” said Bob, inquired what had happened to distress him.
	www.amergin.net /cc44.html (876 words)

	SWOSU \| News and Events \| Events \| Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge Comedy this Weekend at SWOSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, which is this Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10, on the Weatherford campus.Looking in the root cellar at some of Mr.
		Bob Cratchitt’s 20 children are (from left) cast members: Sam Jennings, Lauren Helmke, Heather King, Ariana Farris, Eddie Gonzales, Shanna Clark and Randi Wallace.
		Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, which plays this Thursday though Saturday, December 8-10, on the Weatherford campus.
	www.swosu.edu /news/releases/events/archive/2005-12-05b.asp (210 words)

	Holiday Season Is Played For Laughs In 'Mrs. Bob Cratchit' (baltimore.broadwayworld.com)
		Bob Cratchit is a wild parody of A Christmas Carol, with references to It’s a Wonderful Life, Oliver Twist, and The Gift of the Magi.
		Bob Cratchit with superior humorous invention. Although the play is a parody, Mr.
		Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge is a nice change for the holiday season. If you’re in a mood to sit back and laugh at some of the icons of familiar Christmas tales, then you will be have a truly enjoyable time at Mrs.
	baltimore.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=13905 (689 words)

	A Christmas Carol
		Cratchit removes the bonnet, she hands it to Peter, who then helps one of the little Cratchits to climb a chair in order to hang it on the high peg by the door.
		Cratchit gives her husband a quick kiss on the cheek, then takes his comforter, and hangs it on a high peg.
		Cratchit clasps the gift to her heart with one hand and the small hand of her fragile son in the other.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jeffwirth/AChristmasCarol.htm (1939 words)

	Auditions
		BOB CRATCHIT - Scrooge’s clerk, 35 - 45
		As an example, Scrooge must be an older man. Bob Cratchit must be of an age that would have teenage children.
		So casting is a process of finding good actors, of an appropriate age, and who fit in combination with the other actors.
	www.act1theater.com /auditions.htm (1310 words)

	A Christmas Carol
		The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, Bob Cratchit, who in a cold and dismal little cell beyond, worked at his ledgers.
		CRATCHIT: Well, it should be Christmas Day, I'm sure, on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, unfeeling man as Mr.
		They were not a handsome family, these Cratchits; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and had known, very likely, the insides of a pawnbroker's.
	www.sheeplaughs.com /scrooge/radioscript.htm (5399 words)

	A Christmas Carol
		BOB CRATCHIT enters carrying TINY TIM upon his shoulders.
		CRATCHIT I'll drink his health for your sake and the day's, not for his.
		BOB CRATCHIT I have a situation in my eye for Master Peter which, if obtained, will bring in a full five-and-sixpence weekly.
	www.angelfire.com /me/Merethe/ch9.html (574 words)

	Notes On A Christmas Carol
		Tim Cratchit (Tiny Tim), a cripple and the youngest son of Bob Cratchit
		Bob Cratchit- the plight of the working class. He is also pure good- not hating Scrooge and toasting him for what little he has, he symbolizes gratefulness for what one has.
		Stave Three is intended to unite Scrooge with the idea that money does not make happiness, and that those in poverty can be happy and are given hope by Christmas. He is brought to his earlier statement (are there no prisons, are there no workhouses, etc) when he meets the children of Ignorance and Want.
	dickensfordummies.homestead.com /carol.html (2981 words)

	Playbill News: Durang Scrooges Dickens in Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Nov. 7-Dec. 22
		Bob Cratchit in the world premiere of Durang's holiday sendup, Mrs.
		Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge is billed as "an outrageous new holiday comedy" directed by City Theatre artistic director Tracy Brigden.
		Bob Cratchit is fed up with husband Bob's penchant for bringing home foundlings (20 live in the root cellar).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/73252.html (735 words)

	Playbill News: Nielsen Is Hopeful Durang's Mrs. Bob Cratchit Will Get Wild Ride in New York
		Kristine Nielsen, the actress who tore through a dysfunctional beach house in Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation and is currently playing a frenzied end-of-the-world hostess in Omnium Gatherum, is hopeful that New York will soon see her in another outsized role: the title part in Durang's holiday sendup, Mrs.
		Bob Cratchit, an inept ghost tries to shepherd Scrooge through his past, but gets lost along the way.
		Bob Cratchit is disgusted with husband Bob's penchant for bringing home foundlings (20 live in the root cellar).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/82179.html (602 words)

	Merry Christmas, Bob : Editorials : Boulder Daily Camera
		Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.
		He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.
		"A merry Christmas, Bob," said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back.
	dailycamera.com /news/2006/dec/25/merry-christmas-bob (598 words)

	2006-2007 Season
		Bob Cratchit has had it with being the loving and long-suffering wife and mother.
		She’s sick of Tiny Tim (the goody-goody crippled child), she hates her twenty other children (most of them confined to the root cellar), and all she really wants to do is get drunk and jump off of London Bridge.
		Her life is then turned upside down by a visit from the Ghost of all three Christmases and a Tourette’s Syndrome- suffering Ebeneezer Scrooge.
	www.thedramaworkshop.org /season/2006_2007/mrs_cratchit.html (201 words)

	Wacky Anne's Christmas Library: A Christmas Carol (Condensed Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cratchit left the room alone,--too nervous to bear witnesses,--to take the pudding up, and bring it in.
		Cratchit entered,--flushed but smiling proudly,--with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
		Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass,--two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle.
	members.tripod.com /wackyanne/library/xlcarol2.htm (2666 words)

	A Christmas carol for 2006 \| Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scrooge kept Christmas in his heart and made his clerk Bob Cratchit a partner and found an orthopedic surgeon who fixed Tiny Tim's gimpy leg.
		Scrooge was a friend and benefactor to all and he also got his hair and eyebrows trimmed and bought a new suit, a blue pinstripe.
		Vast gritty industrial sections along the river were made over, with ethnic restaurants, and health clubs with acres of treadmills -- and Bob Cratchit, or R.W. Cratchit, was in the forefront of it all.
	www.salon.com /opinion/feature/2006/12/06/keillor (425 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional Theatre News & Reviews - Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
		Cratchit, we are introduced to Ebenezer Scrooge, both old and young, as well as the versatile Ghost of Christmases Past, Present and Future (January Murelli), who has a bit of trouble navigating the time travel needed to get Scrooge in the proper place to learn the proper lesson.
		Cratchit and her dilemma, the pace picks up considerably.
		The Cratchit family is well-represented by Martin Giles (Bob), Darren E. Focareta (Tiny Tim), and Sheila McKenna (a misplaced Little Nell).
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/pitt/p47.html (653 words)

	Week 14: Christmas Carol
		The Spirit of Christmas Present has Scrooge observe all the goings-on in the Cratchit household, from the preparation of dinner to the pudding for dessert, and the chestnuts roasting on the fire afterwards.
		'And how did little Tim behave?' asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.
		In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered--flushed, but smiling proudly--with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
	www.mythfolklore.net /2003frametales/weeks/week14/pages/13.htm (739 words)

	SparkNotes: A Christmas Carol: Characters
		Tiny Tim - Bob Cratchit's young son, crippled from birth.
		Tiny Tim is a highly sentimentalized character who Dickens uses to highlight the tribulations of England's poor and to elicit sympathy from his middle and upper class readership.
		Cratchit - Bob's wife, a kind and loving woman.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/christmascarol/characters.html (525 words)

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