SPRINGFIELD — Roxanne Gambill is celebrating this holiday season in an unforgettable way — putting on a production of “A Christmas Carol,” which her husband and daughter both play roles in.

“This is something that really only happens once in a lifetime,” Gambill said.

Gambill’s version of “A Christmas Carol,” which will be staged at 52 Sumner on Dec. 13, is based on the original novel written by Charles Dickens in 1843.

The play follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who hates Christmas. He is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, as well as the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, through which he learns the true meaning of the holiday.

“We went back to the way Charles Dickens explained it and the way he told the story with a narration styl

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