Maybe someone here can help me. Our theater does a yearly
production of the Dickens classic and has done so for 30 years. I am
looking at
other versions of the play/musical and have thus far been impressed by
the Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens version. The Michel Legrand/Sheldon
Harnick version has it merits, as well. I also have been working with a
new playwright/composer in this area to develop his version as another
possibility. And I have a musical version that another local composer has
written and this theater has used in the past; it has several incarnations to
look at, and that's a project in itself.
   I would like to know if anyone has other versions of this show that have
been successful, either from an audience perspective, as a director or as
an actor. I would love to know, for instance, where to get a hold of the
Chicago Goodman Theater's version, for example. Anyway, I'm open to
suggestions right now.

David,
I can't find a link on your website.
Does your company have a catalog?

If you're still looking for a fun musical based on "A Christmas Carol" - Pat Lotito and Ken Prescott wrote "A Dickens of a Christmas" several years ago. I don't know how you can get the rights, but the theater contact info is at: http://www.saltcitycenter.com/Contacts/contact.htm
(Snail mail may be the best way to reach them - although the e-mail for Group Sales actually goes to someone on the board).
There are some good songs in there, as well as some fun dancing - especially for the "Wassailers" (3 to 4 couples that serve as a kind of 'Greek chorus'). I've been in it a few times. It's a good show for parents to do with their kids, too - if that's something you run into at your theater.

All the best,
closetdiva

Have you done the musical "Scrooge" yet... It is by far THE best.. I will be directing for the third year in a row this Christmas..

I second what POB says about the Farndale Avenue scripts.  We did the Christmas Carol a few years ago and now another theater in town wants me to direct it for them.