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So the version of “Tiptoe” recorded by Tiny Tim, which made that artist a popular star in 1968, is still under copyright.

Join Tiny Tim, the Christmas Ghosts and everyone’s favorite miser in the stage adaption of Charles Dickens’ classic Yuletide tale, proudly returning to ACT Theatre for its 47th year.

“Maybe I read too much Dickens over the holidays. Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim.”

The first part is based on a quirky Tiny Tim cover of Hal David/Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now,” but near the end, Thes abruptly shifts to a hissy recording from a video copy of Parliament-Funkadelic’s 1978 Flashlight tour.

Or you can flip through the entire thing online, in all its scrawled-over glory, from the majestically punctuated opening line, “Marley was dead: to begin with,” straight through to Tiny Tim’s conclusive “God Bless Us, Every One!”