Christmas on stage : an anthology of royalty-free Christmas plays for all ages

Book 1990

Contains twenty-seven royalty-free one-act plays and readings for Christmas programs, suitable for classroom, church, or drama club presentations, and includes selections to fit almost any size cast, age group, and staging situation.

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Children's plays, American

Christmas plays, American

Young adult drama, American

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ISBN:

9780916260682
0916260682

Edition:

First edition

Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Christmas plays

Contents:

part1. Elementary grades: O holy night / by Arthur L. Zapel, Jr.
The little match girl / by Hans Christian Andersen.
How God came to us / by Michael E. Dixon.
Thank you, Santa / by Anne L. Nunley.
part2. Middle grades: An animals' Christmas / by Janet Meili.
Was it a star? / by Joanna Evans.
Santa goes on strike / by Robert A. Mauro.
A most memorable Christmas / by Janet Meili.
part3. Programs for teens and adults: Angels, please come to order / by Alexander T. Coyle.
Dateline: Bethlehem / by Marian Dean Ekin.
The promised king / by Janet Litherland.
Recollections of a birthday / by Janet Meili.
part4. Readers theatre for Christmas: Now Christmas has come / by Melvin R. White.
Joseph, Mary, Bethlehem, a manger, angels, and all that / by John Buttrey.
Those fools, the wise men / by Marion Fairman.
Joseph of Nazareth / by Martha Sliter Sheeran.
The customs of Christmastide / by Martha-Jean Rockey.
part5. Adaptations from classics and legends: Gabriel Grubb's Christmas dance / by Charles Dickens ; dramatized by Douglas Roome.
The first Christmas creche / by Betty Kelly and Arthur Zapel.
The second shepherd's play / by Thomas Hatton.
The very best kind of Christmas tree / by Henry Van Dyke ; adapted by Alethea Gasser.
part6. Christmas readings: A visit from St. Nicholas / by Clement Clark Moore.
The gift of the magi / by O. Henry (Sidney William Porter)
Is there a Santa Claus? / by Francis P. Church.
Christmas at the White House / by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Keeping Christmas / by Henry Van Dyke

LCCN:

90053278

Control Number:

53516

Other Authors:

Zapel, Theodore O., 1955-

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