Barbie in a Christmas Carol
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- 2022
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BARBIE:
Kelly!?Kelly!
Kelly!
Kelly, where are you? We're late.
(SIGHS) How do little sisters
know the exact worst time to disappear?
Hmm.
(GIGGLING)
Tell me you haven't been
in my room this whole time.
Well, not forever.
Didn't you hear me calling for you?
We're late.
The Charity Christmas Ball
starts in, like, five minutes.
All our friends and family are already there.
Come on.
Small person not next to me.
Kelly? Come on.
(CHUCKLES) Wow. Looks like
someone's got the Christmas spirit.
This isn't Christmas.
Really? Because the calendar says
December 24th, Christmas Eve.
And pretty much everyone we know
is at the Charity Christmas Ball,
where we need to be.
I don't want to go to the Ball.
I want to do what we do every Christmas Eve.
I want to stay home
and make cookies and drink cocoa
and sing carols and open a special present.
That's what we do,
and I'm staying here until we do it.
Okay. I know you miss what we usually do,
but look what we get instead.
We'll go to a big party,
spend time with our friends and family,
and support a really good cause.
The Ball will raise money for a hospital.
- It's Christmas.
- I hate Christmas!
I see. Hmm.
You know what?
I think it's okay if we run a little late.
I wanna show you something.
That's your snow globe.
You said I wasn't allowed to touch it.
Well, this is a special occasion.
Go on.
(CHRISTMAS CAROL PLAYING)
There's a story behind this snow globe.
There is?
A story about the beauty of Christmas,
and how one girl
discovered it many, many years ago.
(SINGING) O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How lovely are thy branches
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How lovely are thy branches
You bloom with summer's fairest rose
And in the winter's bitter snows
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How lovely are thy
Thy
Thy
Branches
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
BARBIE:
Eden Starling was the most famoussinging star in Victorian England.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
BARBIE:
She was beautiful, talented...(EXCLAIMS IN DISGUST)
(SCREAMS)
... and incredibly full of herself.
I hate Christmas!
- Hey, that's what I said.
- Really?
Hmm. Must be a coincidence.
Singing those insipid little carols every year.
I am a classically trained songstress.
I perform opera, Chuzzlewit.
(MEOWS)
Opera.
(MEOWS)
Where's my tea and crumpets?
There's supposed to be
a tray of tea and crumpets right here.
And where's Catherine?
Catherine! Catherine!
(ECHOING) Catherine!
(SINGING)
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa la la la la la la la la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Don we now our gay apparel
Fa la la la la la la la la
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol
Fa la la la la la la la la
See the blazing Yule before us
Fa la la la la la la la la
Strike the harp and join the chorus
Fa la la la la la la la la
Follow me in merry measure
Fa la la la la la la la la
While I tell of Yuletide treasure
Fa la la la la
Fa la la la
Fa la la la la la la la la
- Freddy...
- So...
- When are you going...
- To ask her?
Whoa!
Ann, Nan, ask who?
Come now, Freddy. We all know
you want to ask Catherine out on a date.
Whoa!
(EXCLAIMING)
(GASPS)
(CHUCKLING)
If you want to ask her out, do it now,
before we leave for Christmas holidays.
Otherwise, out of sight... Poof! Out of mind.
You think so?
(LAUGHS) I know so.
(CLEARS THROAT)
All right. I'm really going to do it.
(BOTH GIGGLE)
I'm really going to do it.
I'm going to ask...
Catherine!
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
Oh!
Hello, Eden.
Hello, Chuzzie.
EDEN:
It's Chuzzlewit.You know he hates Chuzzie.
And have you seen these?
Oh good, your crumpets.
- I told the stagehands to get them for you.
- Well, they didn't. I had to ask them.
I had to talk to a stagehand.
And look, they put on too much butter.
It's pooling, pooling, Catherine.
That's why it's your job
to be there with my crumpets,
so they get just enough butter, and...
Excuse me?
My job is Gad's Hill Theater
costume designer,
not crumpet butteriser.
I do that for you because you're my friend.
But still,
have a look at them, they're pooling.
Eden, I know you feel better
when I'm there to watch you perform,
but I couldn't tonight.
Don't worry.
I know you were brilliant as always.
I don't need you to tell me I was brilliant,
I know I was brilliant.
But as a costume designer,
I thought you might want to do your job,
and see the dress you made onstage.
I understand.
So, what was so important
that you couldn't come upstairs?
Look around you, Eden.
Look at the tree, it's Christmas Eve.
We wanted to celebrate a little
before we all go off on holiday.
Holiday?
Who said anything about a holiday?
- Excuse me?
- What?
- No holiday?
- No!
No holiday?
- But it's...
- Christmas!
I'm aware it's Christmas,
which means there's only two weeks
before you will get
the privilege of being
in Eden Starling's new show.
You should be begging to rehearse.
No, no, no, no.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
This is an outrage!
- Eden, we can't work on Christmas.
- We have people coming over.
- There's a turkey to stuff.
- And pies to bake.
Oh, we can't be here.
Eden, please reconsider, I beg of you.
(SMACKING LIPS)
You don't want to work on Christmas?
You're not dedicated enough to this theatre?
Fine, stay home. But if you do,
don't bother coming back, ever.
(MEOWS)
(EXCLAIMS)
(SIGHS)
(SCOFFS)
(ALL CHUCKLING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
What?
You need to talk to Eden.
- Please, you've known her forever.
- She listens to you.
Eden doesn't make a move
without talking to you.
You're the only one
who can change her mind
without getting us all fired, right?
Right. Keep your Christmas plans.
Okay, seriously, Eden, you can't...
"Eden doesn't make a move
without talking to you."
Eden...
What, they all think
I'm wrapped around your little finger?
I'm the star.
You're asking them to give up Christmas.
They have plans. I have plans.
Bigger plans than my next show?
Yes.
I'm leaving town tomorrow and going home.
My whole family will be there
for Christmas dinner this year.
That hasn't happened since we were kids.
(SNIFFS)
You of all people should know
how important that is to me.
You know what should be important to you?
Me.
When I was discovered, I could have had
any costume designer in London
for my company,
but I insisted on you, my oldest friend.
I did that.
I know you did, and...
And you don't care.
But I expect that when push comes to shove,
I know only one person
who's truly there for me, me.
It's like Aunt Marie always said,
"In a selfish world, the selfish succeed."
(SNEEZES)
It's not a selfish world.
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