At FEZZIWIG'S WAREHOUSE, young Scrooge's employer, Mr. Fezziwig, holds his holiday celebration, and all patrons are invited to join the Dance Party! Bangers & Mash provide lively ballroom and English country dance music, with reels, jigs, polkas and waltzes. You might even see young Ebeneezer Scrooge dancing with his sweetheart. The Siamsa Scottish Dancers are there as well, with lilting Highland tunes and stirring steps, joined on occasion by visiting dance troupes sporting seasonal bells. When the bands pause for a well-earned rest, visitors can join in a lively round of "Wink," "Stagecoach," or other Victorian parlour games.

The grand VICTORIA & ALBERT BIJOU MUSIC HALL provides visitors with a wealth of entertainments from which to choose. Once a day, the stage is graced by a 60-minute adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's hilarious satire on English society and manners, The Mikado. Twice daily, astounding theatrical feats are presented in a classic Christmas Pantomime entitled Aladdin & Cinderella Meet the Monkey King. Also twice daily, all will marvel at the amazing illusions of the world-famous Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. The scene changes at 5:00 to 'Dickens After Dark', when grown-ups will appreciate the more adult fare of Saucy Sorcery and the artistic, yet provocative Saucy French Postcard Tableaux Revue (18 and over, please).

Beyond Grenadiers Gate lie THE LONDON DOCKS, Thameside home to the Paddy West School of Seamanship and other nautical riffraff. Look out for carousing sailors! Buy them some grog and they'll sing you a song.

Stepping inside the ADVENTURERS' CLUB elicits exciting tales of military and scientific exploits, all for the glory of Britannia. The Club's walls are replete with mementos of British conquest and exploration. Famous figures of the time congregate here to discuss and demonstrate science, military adventure, literature and the arts. You might even see a member of the Royal Household!

Just near the lovely carousel, you'll find THE PICCOLO PLAYHOUSE, where children will delight as the Piccolo Puppet Players present Mr. Punch and his lovely wife Judy.

Children and parents alike will enjoy the ODYSSEY THEATRE, where sensational swordplay takes the stage as Albion School of Defense presents a rousing production of The Three Musketeers, and children are invited to join in a melodrama, as performed by the Crummles Theatrical Troupe of Nicholas Nickleby fame. Enjoy the astonishing juggling feats of The Kondor Brothers and visit La Legion Fantastique, where children of all ages are thrilled with marvelous inventions and exhibits of strange relics from the incredible exploits of the characters from Jules Verne's novels. Hosted by Phileas Fogg himself!

At the FATHER CHRISTMAS STAGE, sweet caroling rings out and Father Christmas himself holds court beside a great toy-bedecked tree, jovially inviting young lads and lasses to join him for a lasting holiday photo memento.

Music and dance from around the world grace the SILK ROAD STAGE, where you might hear caroling or the sweet strains of a harp one moment, and see lively Irish, Middle Eastern, or Morris dancing the next.

Down by the Thames, sounds of raucous merriment draw the venturesome soul to MAD SAL'S DOCKSIDE ALEHOUSE, where one might enjoy the enticing and sometimes scandalous songs of The Delightful Dockside Dollymops. Patrons can join in singing rowdy favorites in the Broadside Music Hall Revue, in which a brassy bevy of bold, high-kicking beauties from across the Channel take to the stage in the wicked Can-Can.  Pipe & Bowl Morris give a lusty rendition of ancient Morris dances, the gentleman of Brass Farthing lift a frothy good ale with their lusty songs, and the jolly tars of the Paddy West School of Seamanship troll out Songs of the Seven Seas.

CHARACTERS ON THE STREET that you may meet include Scrooge and Marley from A Christmas Carol, young Oliver and dastardly old Fagin from Oliver Twist, Nicholas from Nicholas Nickleby, not to mention the great Charles Dickens himself!