The country offered a lot more opportunity, he explains. Robinson had made his living as an actor in England. Eighteen years ago he moved to the Seacoast, and currently resides in Rochester. Robinson's accent is always impeccable of course he's a native Brit after all.
“And the best Scrooge I've ever seen on stage.” “I think it's the best Scrooge he's ever played,” Gaskell adds. “When I put this show together, I knew that was the kind I wanted and I knew Tim would be able to step into that. We were on the same page with that,” says Gaskell. “We had done 'Christmas Carol' together a couple of times and we'd talked about a more 3-D Scrooge. But when the other actor backed out, he gave him a try. Gaskell considered Robinson during the original casting, but assumed he was unavailable. “There's simply more flesh on this Scrooge than I've found in the past.” Scrooge was more real the range of emotions swung “from seriously damaged to seriously happy and generous,” he says. His reaction is closer to the book than it ever has been, which pleased me immensely.” “It's (Scrooge's) reaction to what's happening around him, to meeting the spirits. Gaskell's take on the character intrigued him. So I frightened him to death by saying yes!”
“And I though it does two things, it brings it closer to Dickens in one way and it is still faithful to Gary in many ways. Robinson listened to his ideas for the character. The latest revision was one-third Gary Newton (whose adaptation it is), one-third Dickens, and one-third Gaskell, the director explained. And by the way I've rewritten the script.'” … But I wonder if you'd be interested in playing Scrooge again. “Greg said 'if you don't want to I'll understand. Gaskell, “Carol's” director, had cast Scrooge, but the gentleman backed out of the play. “It's Greg Gaskell, who said, 'I have a question for you and I know you're going to say no. He's home slumped on the couch, exhausted after a day directing rehearsal for a large-cast “Midsummer Night's Dream” at Garrison Players. “I thought if I feel like that - well it's time to step back and let someone else do it.”Īnd so a few years back, to the chagrin of subsequent directors and audience members, the man retired his homburg and humbug. I couldn't totally keep it going the way it was and I was tired,” says Robinson. It was a gut feeling at that point in time. “I thought, I don't want to do this anymore. He'd performed the character more than a half-dozen times at the Players' Ring enough already. Tim Robinson had a bah humbug attitude toward Scrooge.
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