A Dickens Dinner, a music and rhymes performance, is a dinner theater play that is known for fundraising to help charities and nonprofit companies. A Dickens Dinner theater event is based upon characters written into a novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in 1843. Audience for A Dickens Dinner, those attended, are entertained by actors, singers, magicians, strolling violinists, mimes, still-walkers and Christmas carolers who provide entertainment between each dinner course. During dinner, merrymakers pretend to send cranky, miserly Scrooge reeling in his grave, while they serve dinner and humorous poetry, while handing out poultry, fish, side dishes and English desserts during holidays.