American broadcast giant NBC has announced that it will air the full-length version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" for the first in almost a decade, in an effort to "delight family audiences". The full version of this classic holiday musical special will be aired on Friday, November 25.
The decision of NBC not to air the usual trimmed down version of "Grinch" is due to the musical special's celebration this year of its 50th anniversary on television, Futon Critic reported. The 26-minute long special is a masterpiece brought to life by the combined geniuses of children books author Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel in real life, and animator Chuck Jones. The special features the voices of Boris Karloff as the Grinch and the narrator, and June Foray as Cindy Lou Who.
Theodor Seuss Geisel is an American writer, cartoonist, animator, and artist who is best known for writing children books under his pen name Dr. Seuss. His work has included several of the best selling children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and translated to more than 20 languages at the time of his death.
On the other hand, Chuck Jones was an American cartoonist and animator best known for for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons "For Scent-imental Reasons", "So Much for So Little", and "The Dot and the Line".
The classic tale of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" involves the schemes of the green and small-hearted Grinch, in his effort to steal every material with vestiges of Christmas from the Whos living in the town of Whoville. But in the process of trying to ruin the Whos' Christmas, the Grinch ultimately discovers that he cannot remove the spirit of Christmas from the hearts of the Whos.