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2016-2017 In this catalog CHORAL MUSIC 5 EDITOR’S LETTER ADVENT page 2 Monologues & Scenes 18 Short Plays 23 NEW TITLES Full Length Plays 24 page 3 CHRISTMAS Monologues & Scenes 25 PRODUCT GUIDE Short Plays 26 page 4 Full Length Plays 44
LENT HOW TO ORDER Monologues & Scenes 47 page 119 Short Plays 53 Full Length Plays 55 FAQ’S page 120-121 HOLY WEEK Monologues & Scenes 56 BEN NYE MAKEUP Short Plays 57 page 122 Full Length Plays 61
EASTER ORDER FORM Monologues & Scenes 63 page 123 Short Plays 63 VIDEO RIGHTS OTHER SEASONS page 124 Monologues & Scenes 72 Short Plays 81 Christian Publishers, LLC Full Length Plays 89 P.O. Box 248 Cedar Rapids, IA 52406 Toll Free: 844-841-6387 BROADWAY SERIES 91 Fax: 319-368-8011 MUSICALS 100 www.christianpub.com
DINNER THEATRE 107 This Catalog is Published Annually by Christian Publishers, LLC. BANNER KITS 112 Copyright © 2016. BOOKS 114
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A Word From the Editor of Christian Publishers EDITOR’S LETTER Dear Friend and Customer:
Community is at the heart of this catalog and as believers, we recognize that we are part of one body of Christ, which expresses itself in many ways. With our emphasis in readings, plays, sketches, educational programs and artistic crafts, we seek to create opportunities for expression of member’s faith through drama and the arts. Whether you are a play director, actor or cast member wanting to express important tenets of our faith, a worship committee member seeking to enhance the in-service experience with readings or sketches, a youth director searching for the opportunity to create an engaging moment for discussion or are involved in the physical artwork and banners that set the tone for the season, we have it here for you. And let us not forget the all-important audience, for where there is a shared experience like a dramatic performance, community happens.
How about creating community with one of our new releases? • We’re offering a special Advent service, One Moment (page 24), to herald this season of waiting. Four readers give voice to its glory and holiness.
• For the Advent wreath, Keeping It Real (page 21) features “regular Joes” wrestling with hope, joy, peace, and love, lifting them from loft to life each Sunday.
• Calling all children! For Christmas, the one-of-a-kind Mother Time and the Big Event (page 27) commemorates how Jesus’ birth split time in half, B.C. to A.D.!
• In A Cricket County Cabin Makeover (page 26) the City Cousins stage a holiday home renovation for their Country Cousins. Nice? Nope. There’s no gussyin’ up ulterior motives!
• In Miriam’s “boring” hamlet, she is comically distracted on that holy night in O Dinky Town of Bethlehem (page 27).
• The disciple John breaks through Bethlehem’s bighearted silliness in Dueling Christmas (page 28), placing Christmas firmly in the broader context of the incarnation of Christ.
• Who doesn’t love the elaborate displays in city store windows? In Window Dressings (page 46), Nativity characters come to life with new ideas for their skeptical designer.
• Oy vey—it’s always something! I Missed the Manger (page 28) shows what happens when excuses abound in Bethlehem.
• Fast-forward to Easter. Lenten series Jerusalem Book Club (page 53) examines the unbelievable events of biblical history against a thoroughly modern setting.
• The Dawning of Faith (page 58) beautifully captures the grief of Jesus’ followers in the interim between his death and resurrection.
• Monologue collection Saints for the Seasons (page 81) will surprise you with its take on supposedly secular holidays.
• Fashion designers compete in The Marvelous Makeover (page 88), a children’s play. Will the armor of God win? Stay tuned!
There is powerful truth in author Madeleine L’Engle’s words, “There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred…” We are adding some fine plays that we describe as “family-friendly.” While they are not overtly religious, they are compatible with Christian principles and family values.
To assist you with play selections, we offer a Script Perusal, which is a single reading copy of the entire script. Once you have chosen the perfect play, you will need to purchase a Play Package. The Play Package contains everything for performance (scripts and the rights to perform) in one bundle! Save on shipping costs—our plays may be delivered to you digitally via email! Check out all the products we have to offer on page 4.
Our website, www.christianpub.com, is designed for ease of use, and our committed customer support staff stands ready to assist you and answer any questions.
It’s no secret that drama invites seekers into deeper worship. When the drama community rallies around, everyone matters and no gift is wasted.
Grace and peace,
Rhonda Wray Editor
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The latest from Christian Publishers NEW TITLES
KEEPING IT REAL ONE MOMENT A Candlelighting Series for Advent A Short Play for Advent by Linda S. Allen by Ruth Buchanan
O DINKY TOWN OF BETHLEHEM MOTHER TIME AND THE BIG EVENT A Short Play for Christmas A Short Play for Christmas by Harry Parker by Jacqueline Hurley
DUELING CHRISTMAS CRICKET COUNTY CABIN MAKEOVER A Short Play for Christmas A Short Play for Christmas by Janis E. Saarela by Eddie McPherson
WINDOW DRESSINGS I MISSED THE MANGER A Full Length Play for Christmas A Short Play for Christmas by Kara Wilkins by Jan Overton
JERUSALEM BOOK CLUB A Lenten Sunday Series by Karla and Mark Jensen
THE DAWNING OF THE FAITH A Short Play for Holy Week by Bradley K. Hill
SAINTS FOR THE SEASONS A Monologue and Scene Collection for All Seasons by Patrick Dorn
MARVELOUS MAKEOVER A Short Play for All Seasons by Jacqueline Hurley
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ALL ON A STARRY NIGHT BELLS OF CHRISTMAS MEDLEY CHORAL MUSIC BY: JOSEPH GRAHAM, J. PAUL WILLIAMS BY: ARRANGER: GERG GILPIN Choral Music: $2.50 Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) For a truly lovely The spirit of moment in your Christmas rings and candlelight service, sings loud and clear this gentle nativity in this delightful portrait is stunning. holiday medley! Each All on a Starry Night with a “bell” theme, is sung the medley contains unaccompanied, with four traditional each chord favorites arranged in shimmering like the a musically clever stars themselves. Absolutely beautiful. way for all to enjoy and sing.
CAROL OF WONDER CAROL SING! CHRISTMAS JUBILATE BY:* BRAD NIX, AUTHOR: JOSEPH M. BY:* ARRANGER: JOHN LEAVITT BY:* ARRANGER: JOHN PURIFOY, AUTHOR: MARTIN Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of ROGER THORNHILL Choral Music: $2.25 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity This festive 4-minute medley combines three order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) favorites into an easily learned celebration of Falling like a gentle carols. Opening with a joyful “Deck the Hall,” it This joyful Christmas snow, this tender moves into a spirited “Joy to the World,” acclamation is a anthem is a beautiful before the exuberant concluding song “Angels festive flourish based invitation to We Have Heard on High.” Perform with piano on the famed Christmas. The piano alone or the sparkling full orchestration for a VESPER HYMN. The accompaniment Merry Christmas, indeed, for choirs in school, essence of the lends a delicate and church and community! Duration: 0:04:00 melodic gesture is a almost fragile carillon-like theme adornment to a that invites joy and memorable theme. ET IN TERRA PAX (AND ON celebration. A The text reminds us that God spoke into our EARTH, PEACE) contrasting middle section in 12/8 is a creative shadows, silence and emptiness, and through BY: JOHN PURIFOY moment, giving the pianist a moment to shine. Jesus, brought us the gifts of light, song and Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Duration: 0:02:00 love. The ending completes the 5 copies.) transformation as the world celebrates these The composer visits the angels' powerful MANGER, CROSS AND TOMB gifts with a great crescendo proclaiming, “peace on earth” proclamation and delivers an BY: VICTOR C. JOHNSON, AUTHOR: TERRY “Christ is born tonight!” Duration: 0:03:25 anthem of joyous “Glorias” and whispered W. YORK prayers for peace. Highly expressive, this Choral Music: $1.90 ALMOST THERE anthem has much to engage the singer. (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) BY:* MICHAEL W. SMITH, AMY GRANT, WES Always a timely message for contemporary KING, ARRANGER: HEATHER SORENSON society, this affirming testament of tranquility Look beyond the Choral Music: $1.95 is a thoughtful choice for seasonal ecumenical manger and see the (Minimum quantity choral opportunities. Duration: 0:02:10 unfailing love that order of 5 copies.) sent Christ to die in This splendid anthem ADVENT PROCESSIONAL our place. This from Michael W. (COME, O ROSE) creative text reminds Smith's Christmas BY: DANIEL GREIG us of a rented manger and a album has all the Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of makings of a holiday 5 copies.) borrowed tomb and classic, capturing the takes us on our own An ideal introit for Advent services, this short deep emotion felt on journey of faith. Inspired music supports and and effective offering is written with a the journey to enriches the experience with creative medieval feel. The minor key infuses the tune Bethlehem. Smartly harmonies and memorable melodies. An ideal with the mystery and longing of the Advent arranged for choir, selection for Candlelight Communion message. The optional percussion provides the expressive melody and meaningful text observances. Truly unique! Duration: 0:03:25 another interesting layer to this impressive are beautifully joined to create a truly composition. Perfect for choirs of any size. memorable moment in any concert or worship Duration: 0:02:05 service. Duration: 0:04:00
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GLORY, GLORY, GLORY TO SNOW CAROL (STILL, STILL, MAN WITH THE BAG AND THE NEWBORN KING STILL) SANTA BABY BY: MOSES HOGAN BY: ARRANGER: AUDREY SNYDER BY: DUDLEY BROOKS, IRV TAYLOR, JOAN Choral Music: $1.90 Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum order quantity of JAVITS, HAL STANLEY, PHILIP SPRINGER, ARRANGER: PAUL LANGFORD (Minimum quantity 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $2.50 This beloved German carol, partnered with a (Minimum quantity Moses Hogan applies charming original countermelody, shimmers order of 5 copies.) CHORAL MUSIC his considerable with the beautiful image of newly fallen snow. These two holiday talents in creating a Easily adapted for treble or mixed groups, it favorites are a distinctive Christmas includes both German and English lyrics and perfect match! Add spiritual based on a vocal or instrumental obbligato. Available: 2- some swing to your “Go Tell It on the Part/3-Part. Duration: Approx. 3:30. Mountain.” A tenor performance with solo, dynamic Kris Kringle and sing contrasts and Moses' ALL IS WELL about that luxury gift trademark rhythmic BY: WAYNE KIRKPATRICK, MICHAEL W. list as well. This SMITH, ARRANGER: JOSEPH GRAHAM layering give this setting special appeal. selection is pure fun Duration: 0:04:15 Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum order quantity of with fantastic jazz 5 copies.) arranging for mixed choirs and will be a blast for your women too! GOD REST YOU MERRY, A contemporary Christmas classic appears GENTLEMEN now unadorned with voices only. A winsome scene of peace and hope is portrayed as the BY: ARRANGER: PHILIP KERN O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL night watch reveals the Prince of Peace BY:* ARRANGER: BRUCE GREER Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of sleeping in the manger. Alleluias crown the 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.70 anthem with a final crescendo as the anthem (Minimum quantity This arrangement is a tour de force for pianist ends with joyous assurance. Duration: order of 5 copies.) and choir alike. A bestseller in the TB voicing, 0:03:25. Next in the HYMNS this stellar adaptation of the classic carol is EVERLASTING is now available for the first time for SATB NO ROOM, NO ROOM this carol setting by choirs. Fantastic! Duration: 0:02:09 BY: RUTH MORRIS GRAY Bruce Greer. Choir Choral Music: $2.50 and congregations HALLELUJAH CHORUS (Minimum quantity alike will thrill at BY: GEORGE FRIEDRICH HANDEL order of 5 copies.) singing this Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of The story of the magnificent 5 copies.) manger in Bethlehem arrangement of a is told through a beloved Christmas This is the G. Schirmer edition that has carol. become part of every musician's experience percussive text of “no with Handel's masterwork, now available with room” and easy four- a VoiceTrax CD featuring part-predominant part, a cappella THREE JAZZY BELL CAROLS rehearsal tracks. Duration: ca. 3:35. writing. The rhythmic BY: ARRANGER: JAY ROUSE setting can be Choral Music: $2.50 performed with (Minimum quantity I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR musical finesse and order of 5 copies.) CHRISTMAS makes a terrific selection for young voices BY: ARTIST: GAYLA PEEVEY, JOHN ROX, learning unaccompanied singing. Duration: Three, short a ARRANGER: JILL GALLINA 0:02:00 cappella jazz Choral Music: $2.50 arrangements within (Minimum quantity one choral is a order of 5 copies.) NOEL, NOEL fabulous find for the BY:* KEITH GETTY, KRISTYN GETTY, holidays! Ding Dong This novelty pop tune ARRANGER: J.A.C. REDFORD Merrily on High, is perfect for Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Jingle Bells and providing that 5 copies.) Carol of the Bells humorous moment in have been creatively your concert. The combination of writers alone grabs our arranged in tempo and style by Jay Rouse. Bouncing with attention: famed hymn-writing duo Keith and They are full of fun with a touch of challenge musical fun, the Kristyn Getty have partnered with one of that pays off when mastering the wonderful entertaining lyrics will Hollywood's biggest score writers, J.A.C. harmonies and rhythms. delight your Redford. The result is a splendid and catchy audiences. Christmas number with Irish sounding roots. The syncopation adds a playful zeal to the joyful dance of the tune. Medium to difficult.
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O HOLY NIGHT PEACE, PEACE STILL, STILL, STILL CHORAL MUSIC BY: ADOLPHE ADAM, ARRANGER: RENE BY: SYLVIA POWELL, RICK POWELL, BY: ALAN BERGMAN, MARILYN KEITH, CLAUSEN ARRANGER: FRED BOCK ARRANGER: NORMAN LUBOFF Choral Music: $2.50 Choral Music: $2.25 Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity (Minimum order order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) quantity of 5 copies.) Rich, full, sonorous With well over a It is not Christmas harmonies as only million copies sold, without this well René Clausen can this may be the most known carol, here in write them! This popular partner song one of the best loved magnificent to “Silent Night” ever. settings of all time – arrangement of the Great closer for any a must for every choir beloved “O Holy Christmas season to add to its Night” is a must for holiday concert or repertoire! Duration: Christmas! Making a service. ca. 3:35. grand impression, this anthem is quite accessible to most church choirs with SATB divisi capabilities. It is not SANTA, BRING MY BABY BACK particularly difficult. Scored for piano or (TO ME) orchestra. BY: ARTIST: ELVIS PRESLEY, CLAUDE DEMETRUIS, AARON SCHROEDER, ARRANGER: RYAN O'CONNELL OH CHILDREN COME Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of BY: KRISTYN GETTY, KEITH GETTY, 5 copies.) ARRANGER: JOSEPH M. MARTIN Choral Music: $2.25 Put some “Elvis” into your concert with this hit (Minimum quantity from 1957. Complete with combo parts (alto order of 5 copies.) sax, bass, drums, guitar, trombone, trumpet) and voiced for mixed, women and male Rustic and primitive choirs, this arrangement rocks the stage and in its form, this call makes a great novelty number with and response movement, costumes and staging, too. anthem from Keith Duration: 0:05:15 and Kristyn Getty is powerful. This piece could include SOME CHILDREN SEE HIM congregation, BY: ALFRED BURT, ARRANGER: JOSEPH M. ACCLAMATION FOR EASTER MARTIN children's choir or BY: JON PAIGE other creative Choral Music: $2.50 Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity combinations of singers. Simple, yet (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) profound, this selection is quickly learned, but order of 5) deep in its impact. Fresh! Duration: 0:03:25 One of the great This crisp SAB carols of our last anthem is a joyous century is carefully THIS CHRISTMAS resurrection arranged by Joseph BY: DONNY HATHAWAY, NADINE declaration. With an Martin and brilliantly MCKINNOR, ARRANGER: PAUL LANGFORD elegant, classical lilt, orchestrated by Brant Choral Music: $2.50 the jubilant main Adams. A true classic (Minimum quantity theme opens the in every sense of the order of 5 copies.) piece with unison word, this carol has voices and the spirit This song has an important of confidence. Well- become a modern message for all of us in these troubled times. crafted counter-melodies make the piece holiday standard Includes an optional part for children or solo. covered by a wide seem richer and more difficult that it actually range of artists. This is. A contrasting middle section brings chart-topping hit is WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS expressive relief and reminds us of the life set with a steady, a BY: JERRY HERMAN, ARRANGER: MARK that is the triumph of the Easter message. cappella vocal HAYES The anthem ends with sharp, clean groove worthy of any Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of punctuation of praise. Duration: 0:02:45 jazz choir or 5 copies.) ensemble. A familiar tune with a fresh new Originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway sound for your holiday concert. Duration: musical Mame, the popular Christmas song is 0:02:15 thrilling in this newly orchestrated choral work. Children to adults will love this holiday gem, which is available in multiple voicings, including for men's and women's choirs.
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GOD SO LOVED FESTIVE HOSANNA JESUS, ONLY JESUS BY: ARRANGER: CHUCK BRIDWELL BY: DOUGLAS NOLAN BY: ARTIST: PASSION, ARTIST: MATT Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Choral Music: $1.90 REDMAN, MATT REDMAN, NATHAN NOCKELS, CHRISTY NOCKELS, KRISTIAN 5 copies.) (Minimum quantity STANFILL, TONY WOOD, CHRIS TOMLIN, order of 5 copies.) This mosaic of hymns shows us a portrait of ARRANGER: MARY MCDONALD divine love. With very accessible part-writing, Bubbling with joy and Choral Music: $1.95 this anthem can be performed by almost any life, this anthem in (Minimum quantity CHORAL MUSIC choir. The rich harmonies are achieved by 6/8 has an almost order of 5 copies.) careful voice leading while the message classical vibe! Dramatic and contained in the texts of these classic hymns Hosannas repeat effective, this delivers a true sermon in song! A proven again and again, contemporary ballad winner! creating a sonic from Passion and engine that propels Matt Redman calls us the piece forward AND CAN IT BE? to worship and * with joy and purpose. adoration. The title BY: THOMAS CAMPBELL, ARRANGER: A short contrasting middle section offers KEITH CHRISTOPHER, AUTHOR: CHARLES says it all on this WESLEY expressive potential before returning to the Christ-centered energy of the opening theme. The brevity of Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of choral filled with this selection makes it exceptionally useful as 5 copies.) inspiring moments of poetry and praise. a Palm Sunday opener, and the handbells will Gradually building from the restrained Here is a brilliant hymn arrangement for choir add to the celebration. Jubilant! Duration: opening, the piece proceeds in a mighty and congregation filled with exciting vocal 0:02:05 crescendo of affirmation. Duration: 0:04:20 writing and a unique piano and organ accompaniment. Combining instruments and voices creates exciting timbres and layers of FOREVER (WE SING AMAZING GRACE (MY CHAINS sound. Celebrate God's grace and mercy with HALLELUJAH) ARE GONE) this powerful and inspirational text. A classic! BY: ARTIST: KARI JOBE, KARI JOBE, BY: LOUIE GIGLIO, CHRIS TOMLIN, CHRISTA BLACK GIFFORD, JENN Duration: 0:03:55 ARRANGER: JAMES KOERTS, AUTHOR: JOHNSON, GABRIEL WILSON, JOEL CHRIS TOMLIN, AUTHOR: LOUIE GIGLIO, TAYLOR, BRIAN JOHNSON, ARRANGER: AUTHOR: JOHN NEWTON HEATHER SORENSON BE THOU MY VISION Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Choral Music: $1.95 (Minimum quantity order of BY: ARRANGER: DAN FORREST 5 copies.) 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.90 One of the most popular of modern worship (Minimum quantity A musical depiction of the cross, this song songs is this version of the classic hymn, order of 5 copies.) from Kari Jobe opens with a vulnerable piano Amazing Grace. Listed consistently as one of introduction and grows in intensity, This sensitive setting the most used congregational resources, this dramatically depicting the victorious moments of a beloved Irish finely crafted choral piece now offers choirs of the resurrection and celebrating life with an hymn is truly a an opportunity to celebrate the message of abandon of alleluias. Worshipping the risen worshipful this inspiring song. Duration: 0:03:53 experience. A King, the song fades quietly into the distance. contrasting a Powerful! Duration: 0:05:10 cappella section adds LAMB IS CRUCIFIED interest and HOLY LORD BY: MICHAEL E. SHOWALTER emotional depth, BY: ARRANGER: TOM FETTKE Choral Music: $1.90 while optional use of (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $1.90 order of 5 copies.) harp and cello brings the concept to a (Minimum quantity beautiful level of expressiveness. It is a work order of 5 copies.) Pristine in its that your choir and congregation will ask for approach, this Overflowing with a again and again, and we are proud to offer beautifully articulated worshipful spirit, this this best-selling anthem in a variety of new anthem for Holy setting of a traditional voicings. Stunning! Duration: 0:03:25 Week is worshipful chorus is and emotive. The approachable and minor theme rises GLORIOUS DAY (LIVING HE usable for many and falls like a LOVED ME) occasions. Though prayer, representing BY: ARTIST: CASTING CROWNS, MICHAEL simple in its core in sound the sorrow BLEECKER, MARK HALL, ARRANGER: MARY content, the of Jesus' death. Equal distribution of the choir MCDONALD craftsmanship of creates a beautiful sonic experience for your Choral Music: $1.95 (Minimum quantity order of vocal lines and piano accompaniment singers, and the simple beauty of the 5 copies.) transform this choral into a truly special unadorned human voices will convey the anthem. Ideal for Trinity Sunday or as part of This hugely popular song by Casting Crowns power and pathos of this descriptive text. a worship set, this is a versatile sacred song incorporates the words of a traditional hymn Duration: 0:03:45 and is set off by their energetic and engaging for your choir. Duration: 0:02:55 new tune. Duration: 0:04:45
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LET MY HEART BE QUIET O SACRED, WONDROUS LOVE RISE UP! REJOICE! CHORAL MUSIC BY: HEATHER SCHOPF BY: ARRANGER: HEATHER SORENSON BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN Choral Music: $1.95 Choral Music: $1.90 Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) Leaping with confidence, this choral flourish is An atmosphere of This anthem a grand gesture of celebration and worship. A quiet worship creatively combines choral song of thanksgiving commemorating permeates this a two beloved hymns the ministry and life of Christ, this anthem is cappella gem. Lush and represents a filled with powerful acclamations of faith. A harmonies weave a touching tribute to the contrasting middle section slows and thickens dreamlike ambiance, Savior's redeeming textures, providing commentary on the which invites freedom work on the cross. timeless promises of scripture. For festival of expression as the The scene is set with usage or for a jubilant worship expression, words call us to the haunting sounds this is a challenge worth taking. Duration: contemplation. A of “What Wondrous 0:03:55 sorbet for the soul, this emotive sacred song Love Is This,” while the vocal lines is soothing, satisfying and filled with deep concentrate on the Passion Chorale. Truly an beauty. Strive for blend and dynamic contrast extraordinary offering for Holy Week! RISEN TODAY! for maximum impact. Truly special! Duration: Duration: 0:03:40 BY: JAY ALTHOUSE 0:03:15 Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) ONE WHO BEARS MY SHAME RING THE EASTER BELLS WITH BY: JOSHUA METZGER, AUTHOR: JOHN The rhythmic drive of this festive Easter GLADNESS PARKER anthem is an exciting opener to your spring worship services. A fiery piano part provides BY: ARRANGER: JON PAIGE, ARRANGER: Choral Music: $2.25 BRAD NIX, AUTHOR: JONATHAN MARTIN (Minimum quantity the fuel for the boundless energy in this positive and hopeful proclamation of life! Choral Music: $2.25 order of 5 copies.) Duration: 0:02:42 (Minimum quantity Thoughtfully order of 5 copies.) rendered, this new A splendid Easter devotional anthem is ROLL THAT STONE AWAY! opener, this joyful a personal statement BY: PATRICIA MOCK, ARRANGER: RICHARD hymn/anthem joins of faith, as well as a A. NICHOLS choir and beautiful piece of Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of congregation in a music. Simple yet 5 copies.) mighty acclamation highly expressive Alive with a good-natured gospel flair, this a of the resurrection of melodic lines rise and cappella sizzler will awaken everyone to the Christ. Using a fall like a prayer, joy of Easter. Arranged for success, the piece prominent hymn-tune gently carrying a message of gratitude for the practically sings itself. The catchy theme is makes this an almost gift of grace. The haunting cello provides decorated with lots of interesting vocal instantly learned piece in the classic “Fanfare depth and poignancy, and the SAB voicing interactions, giving your singers a moment to and Concertato” format. Each verse receives makes this anthem achievable by ensembles shine. This delightfully different work is great its moment, and the anthem is book-ended by of any size! Duration: 0:04:30 for both small ensembles and full choirs. A choral and brass flourishes, all creating an winner! Duration: 0:02:55 exalted effect. A reproducible hymn sheet is LIFT HIGH THE CROSS provided. Glorious! Duration: 0:03:45 BY: ARRANGER: RICHARD A. NICHOLS SUNDAY HAS COME AND Choral Music: $2.10 JESUS LIVES! MERCY STILL (Minimum quantity BY: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, ROGER BY: ARRANGER: HEATHER SORENSON order of 5 copies.) THORNHILL, AUTHOR: JULIE I. MYERS, Choral Music: $2.50 This majestic Easter AUTHOR: CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH (Minimum quantity anthem has been Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of order of 5 copies.) elevated to dramatic 5 copies.) This engaging regal status by A unique combining of two masterwork celebration of the Richard Nichols with melodies by Beethoven forms the musical beauty of grace is a a new setting for scaffold for this jubilant choral flourish for must-sing for choirs. SATB Choir and Resurrection Sunday. A fresh perspective is Gorgeous melodic Organ, with optional offered by the text as the world awakens to lines and a thoughtful Brass and new alleluias. Appropriate when presented as arrangement make Percussion. an anthem or call to worship for choir, but this classic text when combined with brass, handbells and perfect for choirs of congregational singing this concertato takes every size. Striking! flight. Duration: 0:04:00 Violin and cello parts included. Duration: 0:04:00
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TRUE PASSOVER LAMB ALL GOOD GIFTS (FROM BECAUSE HE LIVES, AMEN BY: ROBERT STERLING, AUTHOR: JOHN GODSPELL) BY: MATT MAHER, CHRIS TOMLIN, DANIEL PARKER BY: STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, ARRANGER: CARSON, GLORIA GAITHER, WILLIAM J. Choral Music: $2.10 JOHN LEAVITT GAITHER, ED CASH, JASON INGRAM, ARRANGER: ED HOGAN, ARTIST: MATT (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of MAHER order of 5 copies.) 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.95 Equally effective for The beloved Godspell song becomes a (Minimum quantity
CHORAL MUSIC both Holy Week and sweeping anthem of gratitude in this stunning order of 5 copies.) Communion services, setting. With a classic hymn text and rich our congregation will this anthem joins rich music by Stephen Schwartz, it is equally love this praise text painting with a appropriate for concert and church use, anthem that revisits a haunting melody that enveloping all in a spirit of joyful celebration. modern hymn classic portrays Christ's Duration: 0:03:35 and presents it for a humility and His new generation. This sacrifice for us. The song of hope and optional percussion AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS assurance reminds and cello parts will enhance the mood of the BY: LEE DENGLER, AUTHOR: SUSAN NAUS DENGLER us that God is always piece. Duration: 0:03:35 Choral Music: $2.50 with us. Sure to be (Minimum quantity an encouragement to both singers and order of 5 copies.) listeners! Duration: 0:03:20 A meaningful portrait Uses: General, Youth Choir, Praise Team of grace is painted by this thoughtful offering for Holy BEHOLD THE LAMB Week. Unadorned (COMMUNION HYMN) voices add to the BY: KEITH GETTY, KRISTYN GETTY, bittersweet quality of STUART TOWNEND, ARRANGER: DOUGLAS this moving passion NOLAN text that gathers us to Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of the cross and 5 copies.) reminds us of God's eternal and boundless This powerful song of grace has become a love. Duration: 0:03:11 congregational standard in a very short time. From contemporary hymn writers Keith Getty BATTLE OF JERICHO and Stuart Townend, this reverent look at the BY: MOSES HOGAN Lamb of God is ideal for Holy Week or communion services. The arrangement Choral Music: $1.90 AGNUS DEI (Minimum order dresses this meaningful song in choral clothing, and the orchestral option is a tasteful BY: MICHAEL W. SMITH, ARRANGER: quantity of 5) addition. Duration: 0:04:30 LLOYD LARSON This Moses Hogan Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of setting is a 5 copies.) showpiece! Duration: BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD A modern sacred classic by contemporary 0:02:15 BY: ANDREW PETERSON, LAURA STORY, Christian artist Michael W. Smith is touched ARRANGER: KEITH CHRISTOPHER with arranging excellence in this offering for Choral Music: $1.95 Holy Week or anytime. Elegant fluid part- (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) writing and a supportive keyboard part characterizes this beautiful selection. From singer- Duration: 0:04:34 songwriters Andrew Peterson and Laura AWAKENING Story comes this AGNUS DEI: MUSIC OF INNER BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN HARMONY poignant ballad that Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of will point both choir BY: SAMUEL BARBER 5 copies.) and congregation to Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of the cross. With lyrics This dramatic and best-selling choral classic 5 copies.) that speak of both is for SATB. This moving work about “the Christ's death and Selected by the National Endowment for the glory of music” is treated with great depth and resurrection, this anthem is an ideal choice for Arts as an one of the “American musical-textual imagery in all its voicings. Holy Week and Easter Sunday, as well as Masterpieces” of choral music. Duration: 0:06:55 year round. Duration: 0:04:15
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BITTER WITH THE SWEET CELTIC THANKSGIVING CREATE IN ME CHORAL MUSIC BY: PATRICIA MOCK, ARRANGER: BOBBI BY: J. PAUL WILLIAMS, JOSEPH M. MARTIN BY: JOHN PURIFOY HEASTINGS, AUTHOR: CHARLES ORR Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Choral Music: $2.50 Choral Music: $1.90 5 copies.) (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) Bring the joy of thanksgiving to your choir with this J. Paul Williams and Joseph M. Martin This special anthem This heartfelt lyric anthem of praise. Written in a robust 6/8 is a deep prayer for from our treasury of Celtic style, this is something exciting and restoration. From the hymn literature is not fresh for your general worship use. Stan purity of the first often set. A new Pethel provides an authentic Celtic consort unison note to the melody adds a orchestration and lifts this easily learned final rich sonorities, contemporary anthem to new heights. Perfect for youth the music celebrates sensibility in this choirs or limited voice ensembles. the graceful message version, and the well- of this psalm. Set to designed music by John arrangement is filled EARTH IS THE LORD'S Purifoy, here is an ideal offering for Lenten with beautiful moments to explore BY: DIANE HANNIBAL, ARRANGER: ROGER worship or for a time of confession. Duration: THORNHILL, AUTHOR: WES HANNIBAL expressiveness. A gently supportive piano 0:03:50 part weaves a tender spirit throughout this Choral Music: $2.50 worshipful anthem for Lent, communion or (Minimum quantity anytime. Duration: 0:03:45 order of 5 copies.) COME TO ME (A COMMUNION This sparkling SONG) BY: DON BESIG, NANCY PRICE BLESS THIS HOUSE original is refreshingly Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of BY: ARRANGER: JOSEPH M. MARTIN innovative. With a 5 copies.) Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of text that focuses on 5 copies.) Here is a tender and endearing choral anthem the beauty of for communion gatherings. A memorable A beloved American classic sings again in this creation, this anthem melody elegantly mingles with meaningful richly set arrangement complete with a is especially well- message, creating a special moment to colorful orchestration and track. There are suited for Spring accompany this important time in the worship many occasions where this anthem of services, but could service. This gentle invocation has a lovely gratitude would be useful, but it has often also find a home during the Thanksgiving guitar-like piano accompaniment and features been associated with the Thanksgiving season. The optional instruments allow a pleasing flute obbligato. Flute part included. season. Warm harmonies embrace the directors to explore fresh new acoustic Duration: 0:03:25 listener with glorious sound and the dynamic sounds in their service planning. Wonderful! crescendo that crowns this evergreen is a Duration: 0:03:00 memorable part of our national songbook. CALL TO REMEMBRANCE Duration: 0:03:48 (FROM HARVEST OF COME TO SAVE SORROWS) BY: PATRICIA MOCK, ARRANGER: FAYE BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN CREDO LOPEZ Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of BY:* JOHN PURIFOY, AUTHOR: RAGAN Choral Music: $2.10 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) COURTNEY 5 copies.) The drama and emotion of the Last Supper is Choral Music: $1.90 Patricia Mock composes melodies and words (Minimum quantity on full display in this dramatic anthem from that flow easily with passion and truth. This order of 5 copies.) the best-selling cantata Harvest of Sorrows. anthem celebrates Christ's sacrifice and love An important solo theatrically becomes the One of the great for us with that same flowing quality. Faye voice of the Savior as he celebrates the statements of the Lòpez has set it beautifully with a well-crafted Passover with his chosen disciples. The choir Christian church, the piano part, alternating melodies between the provides sonorous underpinnings giving the Nicene Creed, has vocal parts, and smart modulations. Excellent work a sense of scope and power. Duration: been artfully adapted for Communion or Lent. Easy to Medium. and set to glorious 0:04:34 song. The words that are so often EVERYDAY MIRACLES I GOT A ROBE corporately recited BY: DONNA BUTLER DOUGLAS, AUTHOR: KATHY BURDETTE BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN are now slowed and Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of Choral Music: $2.10 (Minimum quantity order of given deeper expressive potential. The 5 copies.) anthem unfolds organically, following the 5 copies.) contour of the text with exquisite sensitivity. Appropriate for older elementary, youth, or This traditional spiritual is offered in a fresh Explore and discover new meaning in these adult choirs, this poignant anthem reminds us and distinctive setting by Moses Hogan, with ancient truths! Duration: 0:03:50 to stop and recognize the simple blessings of vocal ostinati and exciting harmonies. life. In so doing, we can “capture a glimpse of Duration: 0:02:10 God's face.” Optional parts for violin and congregation enhance the song's stirring melody and lush harmonies. Duration: 0:03:34
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DEEP, DEEP LOVE FROM AN UPPER ROOM GIVE THANKS (WITH PRAISE BY: LEE DENGLER, AUTHOR: HERB BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FROMBACH Choral Music: $1.90 FLOW) Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity BY: HENRY SMITH, ARRANGER: VICKI (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) TUCKER COURTNEY order of 5 copies.) A musical tableau of Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of This exceptional new the last supper paints 5 copies.)
CHORAL MUSIC offering is a stunning the scene of this A tasteful mixture of contemporary with testimony of God's important moment traditional characterizes this quickly learned unfailing love and from scripture. An arrangement ideal for stewardship or grace. The melody undercurrent of Thanksgiving. This familiar worship chorus rises softly like a rushing triplets in the adapts well to choral treatment and the whispered prayer accompaniment welcomed appearance of the Doxology is a cradling the hopeful creates a harmonic beautiful moment for choir and congregation. message – ideal for foundation on which Duration: 0:02:55 the Lenten season. the memorable tune is laid. Rich harmonies Duration: 0:02:23 carry the words of Christ as He delivers His blessing and speaks the words of the new GOD'S GONNA SET THIS covenant. Profound! Duration: 0:03:50 WORLD ON FIRE EV'RY TIME I FEEL THE SPIRIT BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN, BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN ARRANGER: EDWIN B. HOGAN Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of GENTLE VOICE Choral Music: $1.90 5 copies.) BY: LEE DENGLER, SUSAN NAUS DENGLER (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) Experience this fiery work and “feel the Spirit” Choral Music: $2.50 add vitality to any choral program. Duration: (Minimum quantity Written in a order of 5 copies.) 0:02:20. traditional spiritual The still small voice style, this piece offers ELIJAH ROCK that is the ministry of an exciting spark to God's Spirit in our any concert! BY: MOSES HOGAN hearts is Duration: 0:03:20. Choral Music: $1.90 compassionately (Minimum quantity presented in this order of 5 copies.) Dengler masterpiece. This challenging and Folk-like piano powerful work was arranging and highly performed by the emotive part writing I AM NOT ALONE 1995 Texas All-State frame this tender message with utmost BY: MIA FIELDES, KARI JOBE, GRANT Choir conducted by sensitivity. Violin part included. Duration: PITTMAN, AUSTIN DAVIS, BEN DAVIS, Dr. Andre Thomas. 0:03:15 DUSTIN SAUDER, MARTY SAMPSON, Duration: 3:05 ARRANGER: HEATHER SORENSON, ARTIST: KARI JOBE GIVE THANKS Choral Music: $1.95 BY: HENRY SMITH, ARRANGER: JOSEPH (Minimum quantity GRAHAM, ARRANGER: DAVID ANGERMAN order of 5) DECLARE YOUR MAKER'S Choral Music: $1.95 A timeless message (Minimum quantity that speaks to the PRAISE! order of 5 copies.) BY: ENNIO MORRICONE, ARRANGER: constancy of Christ's LLOYD LARSON, AUTHOR: MALTBIE D. A fresh take on a presence in our lives BABCOCK favorite praise and is contained in this Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of worship evergreen! meaningful praise 5 copies.) The distinctive chord offering. Kari Jobe progression of this One of the most celebrated tunes of recent continues to minister well-known chorus is cinematic musical output introduces the spirit to worshippers with given a unique vocal and pace of this special offering. Walking with her inspiring songs, treatment imitating a simple dignity, the piece moves into an and this one is no exception. This well-crafted plucked harp or engaging setting of the beloved “This Is My and vocally sensitive adaptation is unhurried acoustic guitar. The Father's World.” Fulfilling for each section of in its pacing, with lots of nuances that will unaccompanied choir imitates an orchestra the choir, the arranger has ensured success carry the emotion of the message straight to creating a vocal tapestry of exquisite beauty. with careful part-writing and solid the heart. Duration: 0:04:50 Special! Duration: 0:03:40 accompaniment support. This universal message of gratitude is at home in every Uses: General, Lent, Youth Choir season. Duration: 0:04:35
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GREAT JEHOVAH GREAT DAY I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY CHORAL MUSIC BY: NANCY MIDDLEMAS, ARRANGER: BRAD BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN BY: ARRANGER: ROLLO DILWORTH NIX, AUTHOR: WILLIAM WILLIAMS Choral Music: $1.90 Choral Music: $2.25 Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) A dignified and Adapted from the This hymn text re- stately setting of this gospel-style setting has a robust favorite spiritual with interpretation of the theme that captures solo and choral hymn, “His Eye Is on the confidence we contrasting sections. the Sparrow,” have in our journey of Duration: 0:02:30 originally performed faith, with a message and recorded by the that reminds us of the Georgia Mass Choir, provision God has this setting has been made for us as we lowered a step and a travel to the bass part added, making it an inspirational Promised Land. Unison singing mingles with I CLAIM THE CROSS choice for gospel, church and concert choirs. moments of fuller harmonies to create a BY: DAVID LANTZ III, AUTHOR: JOHN Duration: 0:03:30 nimble quality that also has enough sonic PARKER substance for larger groups. A gently rhythmic Choral Music: $1.90 I STOOD ON THE RIVER OF piano accompaniment motivates and (Minimum quantity supports. Duration: 0:02:45 order of 5 copies.) JORDAN BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN Confident in its Choral Music: $1.95 GROUND message yet humble (Minimum quantity BY: OLA GJEILO of heart, this text order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $2.35 speaks to our Deeply spiritual and (Minimum quantity reliance on Calvary's order of 5 copies.) cross and reminds us moving, this simple of the grace that is at but powerful a Based on a chorale the heart of our faith. cappella motif from the last The beautifully arrangement speaks movement of his contoured tune is directly to the soul. Sunrise Mass, the written in a gracious Celtic hymn style and is Duration: 0:04:30 composer has given nobility by dotted rhythms that developed the punctuate the powerful text. The effective beautiful melody into piano chords of the accompaniment contain a free-standing many impressionistic color tones, giving the anthem. Duration: piece a modern sensibility. Strong! Duration: JUST BEYOND THE PALMS 0:03:30 0:03:25 BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN, DAVID ANGERMAN Choral Music: $1.90 HE NEVER FAILED ME YET (Minimum quantity IF GOD IS FOR US BY: ROBERT RAY order of 5 copies.) BY:* PEPPER CHOPLIN Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of The bitter and the Choral Music: $1.90 5 copies.) sweet are mingled (Minimum quantity Robert Ray brings us this rhythmic gospel order of 5 copies.) together in this tune that's a joy to teach and perform. dramatic presentation The Word becomes Powerful message music! Duration: 0:04:30 for Palm Sunday song in this dramatic services. This anthem! Springing singular anthem HE PUT A NEW SONG IN MY from Romans 8, this stands at the HEART vigorous musical crossroads of the BY: MICHAEL BARRETT concept provides the triumph of Christ's Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of confidence needed to entry into Jerusalem, while at the same time 5 copies.) convey the promises looking past the cheering crowds to the contained in this jeering mob of Good Friday. The music is The abundant joy of new life in Christ is on full inspiring text. filled with power as it slowly delivers its display in this energetic praise offering. Percussive vocal writing and counterpoint message. Creative, sometimes stark choral Cleverly voiced for either SAB or SATB creates an unrelenting energy in the main treatments help paint the picture of the choirs, this happy tune is immediate in its theme, while a contrasting middle section Savior's journey to the cross. Duration: appeal. Easy to learn but hard to forget, you helps frame the words, “We are more than 0:03:30 will find this “message in song” a great choice conquerors through the love of Christ.” any time of the year. Duration: 0:02:31 Remarkable! Duration: 0:03:30 Uses: Palm Sunday
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MERCY TREE SOUL ON FIRE BY: KRISSY NORDHOFF, MICHAEL NEALE, BY:* ARTIST: THIRD DAY, MAC POWELL, TAI ARRANGER: JOSEPH M. MARTIN, ARTIST: ANDERSON, BRENTON BROWN, MARK LEE, LACEY STURM DAVID CARR, MATT MAHER, ARRANGER: Choral Music: $1.95 MARTY HAMBY (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $1.95 order of 5 copies.) (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.)
CHORAL MUSIC Made popular recently in a notable Christian supergroup Billy Graham Third Day does it documentary, this again with this contemporary energizing song alive arrangement is now with joy and available in a style Pentecostal power. reminiscent of a Repetition hammers Celtic hymn. This in the message of resolute “storyteller” repentance and approach brings the listener close. With each renewal while the verse there is a crescendo of purpose, driving orchestration ignites the spirit of showcasing the power of the cross and the revival in your choir. “Lord, let me burn for sacrificial love of Christ. Truly inspired! You again, let me return to You again... till I Duration: 0:05:20. am a soul on fire.” Duration: 0:03:10
Uses: General, Easter, Eastertide STORM IS PASSING OVER BY: CHARLES TINDLEY, ARRANGER: I'LL BE THERE IN GLORY BARBARA BAKER BY: MARY MCDONALD Choral Music: $1.95 (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of order of 5 copies.) 5 copies.) This piece may be Creatively combining the gospel hymn performed with piano favorites “A New Name in Glory” and “When accompaniment only, the Roll Is Called Up Yonder,” this toe-tapper with a rhythm section is guaranteed to please! Sure to become a and piano, or without favorite for your choir, this anthem is the accompaniment at perfect choice for heaven-themed services or all. for any time of the year. Duration: 0:03:15
LET US GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD BY: BRAD NIX, AUTHOR: ROGER MAN OF SORROWS, WHAT A THORNHILL NAME Choral Music: $2.50 BY: DIANE HANNIBAL, ARRANGER: BRAD (Minimum quantity NIX, AUTHOR: PHILIP P. BLISS order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity Joy and energy order of 5 copies.) abound in this irresistible SATB with Cello. thanksgiving anthem This hymn re-setting that includes a brief is filled with deep portion of the hymn, emotion and tender “For the Beauty of beauty and builds the Earth.” Repetition upon a melodic in both text and sequence that melody make the instantly carries this piece a snap to learn. And an easy, optional classic text deep into descant gives budding two-part choirs a a spirit of reflection. chance to shine as the anthem comes to a Punctuated by touching statements of “Kyrie” close. Duration: 0:02:37 which offer a devotional reply to the text, this anthem is ideal for Holy Week gatherings. The stylish piano accompaniment adds an expressive element to this work. Duration: 0:02:50
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LORD, I WANT TO BE A SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD OLD TIME RELIGION CHORAL MUSIC CHRISTIAN BY:* AUDREY ASSAD, ARRANGER: JOSEPH BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN, BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN M. MARTIN, AUTHOR: HENRY HELLAM ARRANGER: BENJAMIN HARLAN TWEEDY Choral Music: $1.95 Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $1.95 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) Moses Hogan's This old-time favorite setting of this song is Precious music and burns with the fire of powerful, yet powerful words bring the spirit! Duration: restrained. Duration: the ministry of the 0:03:15. 0:03:40 Holy Spirit into clarity. Written in a folk style, this charming melody carries the words with an elegant grace that really communicates. The LEST I FORGET YOUR LOVE low and rich vocal range really adds emotion PRAISE THE LORD (FROM to the piece, and the flowing acoustic BY: HEATHER SORENSON JUDAS MACCABEUS) approach to the accompaniment is the perfect Choral Music: $1.90 BY: GEORGE FRIEDRICH HANDEL, support for such a heart-felt expression. ARRANGER: HAL HOPSON (Minimum quantity Duration: 0:03:30 order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) Mingling the new with the old this REQUIEM Hal Hopson's adaptation of “Praise the Lord” meaningful paean of BY: ELIZA GILKYSON, ARRANGER -- CRAIG from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus is a HELLA JOHNSON, EDITOR -- CRAIG HELLA standard in most choral libraries. Now he grace is ideal for JOHNSON blended worship gives us another performance option with his Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of two-part version. This majestic and triumphant situations, and 5 copies.) Heather Sorenson's song of adoration is now accessible to all latest offering creates Singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson wrote choirs for any number of festive occasions. a reflection upon the “Requiem” as a song of grief following the journey to Asian tsunami in December, 2004 and the REJOICE, THE LORD IS KING song found a renewed audience after repentance and an invitation to recollect the BY:* ARRANGER: KEITH CHRISTOPHER profound gift of mercy as displayed at the Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast Choral Music: $1.70 (Minimum quantity order of cross. Satisfying harmonies support a lovely region. This setting by Conspirare conductor 5 copies.) melody, while the contemporary approach to Craig Hella Johnson has been long the piano accompaniment provides support anticipated by choral groups around the world We proudly present this premiere title from and color. Special! Duration: 0:04:50 and is powerful in its emotional impact. our new series Hymns Everlasting. In addition Duration: 0:04:10. Recorded by Conspirare – to providing excellent anthem choices, this Craig Hella Johnson, conductor series will allow you to update your THIS I PRAY congregational singing. The arrangements are BY: HEATHER SORENSON O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM congregation-friendly melodically and are in Choral Music: $1.90 accessible keys for group singing. Hymns BY: MORTEN LAURIDSON (Minimum quantity Everlasting will spice up your congregational order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.90 singing while using your existing hymnal. The singer- The original choral setting of O Magnum Duration: 0:03:05 songwriter emerges Mysterium, premiered by the Los Angeles in this heartfelt Master Chorale conducted by Paul MY SOUL'S BEEN ANCHORED invocation. Tender Salamunovich in December, 1994, has since IN THE LORD melodic lines bring been performed thousands of times BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN together dear images throughout the world and was also designated of loved ones brought as an American Choral Masterpiece by the Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of 5) before the Lord in a National Endowment for the Arts. The genesis genuine moment of of this motet is discussed in my Wall Street Moses Hogan's contemporary settings of pure worship. Journal article. “Zurbaran's 'Still-life with spirituals, original compositions, and other Contemporary yet timeless, this intimate Lemons, Oranges and a Rose.'” works have been enthusiastically accepted by sharing of the heart is a moment of reflection audiences around the globe and have for choirs of any size and style. Masterful! --Morten Lauridsen become staples in the repertoires of high Duration: 0:04:05 school, college, church, community and professional choirs everywhere. Duration: Uses: General, Graduation, Baptism, 2:45. Dedication
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RIDE ON, KING JESUS (A CREATION HYMN IN CLASSIC WONDER OF GRACE MOSES HOGAN COLLECTION) STYLE BY: JOSEPH M. MARTIN BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN, BY: HEATHER SORENSON, AUTHOR: ISAAC Choral Music: $2.50 ARRANGER: ROLLO DILWORTH WATTS (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $5.95 Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of order of 5 copies.) 5 copies.) Moses Hogan's contemporary settings of This attractive spirituals have been revered by audiences Composed in a neo-classic vernacular, this invitation to the CHORAL MUSIC and praised by critics worldwide. Rollo general praise anthem is immediately Lord's Supper Dilworth has adapted and arranged some of engaging. Short rhythmic motives drive this celebrates God's Hogan's best works in this collection for SATB spirited theme straight into the heart, and the unfailing grace. choir and piano and strings. Songs include: “Mozart-esque” piano accompaniment There is a delicate Good News, the Chariot's Comin', Stand By decorates the anthem with graceful elegance. warmth in the choral Me, Do Lord, I Stood on the River of Jordan, Duration: 0:02:45 writing and the and Ride On, King Jesus. memorable “hook” UNTIL WE SING AGAIN that crowns the piece will be an appealing word of encouragement BY:* JOSEPH M. MARTIN I WANT JESUS TO WALK WITH for your community of faith as they celebrate ME Choral Music: $1.90 this important sacred moment. Amazing! BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) Choral Music: $1.90 WONDERFUL, MERCIFUL (Minimum quantity A musician's order of 5 copies.) benediction, this SAVIOR choral original is at BY: DAWN RODGERS, ERIC WYSE, The famous spiritual ARRANGER: JAMES KOERTS in a distinctive Hogan home in school concerts, as well as Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of arrangement. 5 copies.) Duration: 0:03:30 church sanctuaries. Written as a special A worship song from the contemporary commission tribute Christian group Selah has been sensitively for a beloved adapted for choirs in this very usable octavo. conductor, the text Slowly lilting like a folk song in a pleasing 6/8 celebrates the community created by singing. meter, this song conveys the redemptive story Filled with emotion, the harmonies and by presenting a portrait of a loving Father and melody collaborate seamlessly, and the a perfect Lamb. The chorus is a personal SHINES THE LIGHT instrumental accompaniment will add another address of thanksgiving that is a deep prayer BY: LEE DENGLER, AUTHOR: SUSAN NAUS layer of beauty to the work. Duration: 0:03:40 of faith. Duration: 0:03:05 DENGLER Choral Music: $2.50 (Minimum quantity order of TAKE ME TO THE WATER WHEN WE GATHER AT THE 5 copies.) BY: ROLLO DILWORTH TABLE A simple, beautiful Celtic sounding original Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity order of BY: JOEL RANEY, AUTHOR: JOSEPH M. melody is combined with a fresh and stirring 5 copies.) MARTIN text. This tender folk song calls the listener to Choral Music: $1.90 Combining original lyrics with quotes from look beyond the cradle to the cross. Shines (Minimum quantity Down by the Riverside and Wade in the the Light is a timeless piece and is order of 5 copies.) Water, Rollo Dilworth creates a contemporary appropriate for all times of the year as Christ, gospel piece that drives towards a climactic From the writing the “Light,” is laid in a manger, walks among layered chorus ending. Duration: 0:03:45. team of Joel Raney us, and is hung on the cross. Duration: and Joseph Martin 0:03:14 comes this creative THANKSGIVING PRAYER offering for UBI CARITAS (THANKS BE TO GOD) Communion. A BY: JOHN PURIFOY, AUTHOR: JOSEPH M. BY: OLA GJEILO soulful melody MARTIN combines with an Choral Music: $2.35 (Minimum Purchase of 5) Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of appealing piano With a sound at once modern and medieval, 5 copies.) accompaniment to this remarkable setting of the familiar Latin With each repetition of “Thanks be to God,” create this gospel-styled gem. Skillful part- text starts in unison and evokes plain chant, this anthem endears itself to the heart of the writing makes this piece a “one rehearsal and gradually unfolds into wider harmonies worshipper. Based melodically on a treasured wonder,” and the inclusion of “Blest Be the Tie and more modern harmonic language. Not American tune, this emotional octavo lifts a That Binds” is a masterful touch. “As we unduly challenging in terms of vocal range, it's petition of gratitude with luscious harmonies gather in this place, we are joined in His readily accessible to good high school mixed and a moving cello part. Layers of beauty embrace. When we gather at the table, we choirs for concerts or festivals at any time. characterize the textures of the part-writing, are one.” Duration: 0:03:05 Duration: ca. 3:00. Recorded by and a sensitive touch with dynamics and tone VocalEssence, Philip Brunelle, conductor. quality will yield stunning results with your choir. Distinctive! Duration: 0:03:40
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WADE IN THE WATER WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IS CHORAL MUSIC BY: ARRANGER: MOSES HOGAN THIS Choral Music: $1.90 BY: ARRANGER: JOHN LEAVITT (Minimum quantity Choral Music: $1.90 order of 5 copies.) (Minimum quantity Featuring solo with order of 5 copies.) choral A true American accompaniment, this hymn classic is given exciting setting special attention in captures the true this sensitive essence and artistry treatment. Unfolding of the spiritual. gradually with Duration: 0:03:30 expansive phrases and thoughtful harmonies, the organic qualities of WE BELIEVE the text and melody are gracefully presented BY: MATTHEW HOOPER, TRAVIS RYAN, in the choral writing. The optional chamber RICHIE FIKE, ARRANGER: HEATHER orchestration is a truly inspiring addition to the SORENSON spiritual and musical ambiance of the piece. Choral Music: $1.95 Duration: 0:03:25 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) SURELY HE HAS BORNE OUR This popular song GRIEF from the Newsboys is BY: MARK HAYES an affirming creed that forms the Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) foundation of our faith. The engaging This sterling Mark Hayes offering sets the ballad moves steadily classic Isaiah text with beauty and poignancy. forward in a strong Mark's careful craftsmanship of the text with crescendo of the music is rich choral writing. The optional purpose. A cello obbligato will add passion. Duration: convincing arrangement with reasonable 0:04:30 ranges make this piece perfect for all ensembles. The tasteful orchestration I WANT TO THANK YOU, LORD supports the style and substance of this solid BY: MOSES HOGAN, ARRANGER: declaration of belief. Current and timeless! BENJAMIN HARLAN Duration: 0:04:25 Choral Music: $2.25 (Minimum quantity Uses: General, Concert, Youth Choir, order of 5 copies.) Reformation, Praise Team This celebratory piece will add spirit to I'M GONNA SING 'TIL THE WORTHY IS THE LAMB concert settings. SPIRIT MOVES IN MY HEART BY: J.S. BACH, ARRANGER: TOM FETTKE Duration: 0:03:00 BY: MOSES HOGAN Choral Music: $2.50 Choral Music: $1.90 (Minimum quantity (Minimum quantity order of 5 copies.) order of 5 copies.) From the treasury of The multi-layered Baroque literature texture of this comes a sacred powerful original adaptation of a J.S. spiritual is both Bach masterwork. WE'RE MARCHING TO ZION challenging and Beautifully wed with BY:* ARRANGER: BENJAMIN HARLAN invigorating. the “Worthy Is the Choral Music: $2.35 (Minimum quantity order of Duration: ca. 2:10. Lamb” text, this will 5 copies.) become a standard Veteran composer and arranger Benjamin Holy Week offering Harlan knows how to make a hymn rock! for choirs everywhere. The string Truly it is the accompaniment that carries this orchestration adds a very tasteful ambiance to arrangement to the winner's circle. The choir the piece, and the sensitive keyboard writing parts are solid and easy to learn. A great is just as successful. Duration: 0:02:35 church anthem.
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ADVENT ANGELS CHRISTMAS CAROLS COME BY: WILLIAM DOHLE ALIVE 2 females, 1 male, 2 BY: LOUIS MERRYMAN either, 5-19 total • 5 2 females, 3 males, 5-18 total, 1 extra, doubling scenes, 5 minutes per possible, gender flexible • 4 scenes, 5 minutes scene • eScript per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance (Digital Scripts and Rights) Performance Rights) • ADVENT Play Package: $29.99 These behind-the-scenes glimpses reveal the (7 Scripts and origins behind our beloved Christmas carols. Performance Rights) Included are four sketches: 1. "Joy to the The banter between these irrepressible angel World"—A sickly Isaac Watts penned this characters will delight your congregation while carol and others, attracting the attention of a highlighting the hope, faith, love and joy young woman via the "old Internet" (post themes of Advent. Perfect for presentation by office). 2. "O Come, All Ye Faithful"—An a children’s Sunday school class. 1. Hope … unknown monk composed it in Latin; Rev. GLOWING WITH ADVENT of a Savior—Gabby and Urie prepare to visit Frederick Oakeley assigned it the words we BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN Zechariah, because “sometimes you speak sing today. 3. "What Child Is This?"— 1 female, 1 male, 2-8 best when you can’t speak at all,” 2. Faith … Despite a raging chest cold, William total • 4 scenes, 2 of a Young Mother— The angels agree that Chatterton Dix penned new lyrics to a familiar minutes per scene • Mary’s belief will see her through a tune. 4. "O Little Town of Bethlehem"—The eScript Perusal: $1.99 tumultuous future, 3. Love … of a Man for a lyricist visited the sleepy little town of • Script Perusal: $3.99 Woman—The angels remind Joseph how Bethlehem in 1865. The tune came in the • ePlay Package: much he cares for Mary, 4. Joy … of the middle of the night to a procrastinating $12.99 (Digital Scripts composer. The sketches may be performed and Performance Heavenly Host—The angels look forward to sequentially over the Sundays of Advent or Rights) • Play making their big announcement—until they Package: $16.99 (4 hear it’s to shepherds, 5. Light … to Show together for a special program or sing-along. Scripts and the Way—The angels get ready to “wrangle a Performance Rights) bunch of stars” to spotlight the baby Jesus. A IF I WERE THE INNKEEPER Only two persons—the pastor and one new angel character is added each week. BY: CHESTLEY L. DUFT Includes a Christmas Eve script. speaker—are needed for each service of 1 female, 1 male, 1 Advent candlelighting. Representing the either, 3-15 total • 5 candle themes of hope, peace, joy and love ADVENT ATTITUDES scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript are a farmer, a fisherman, a bride and a BY: MARY KAYE BOYLE mother. These four characters draw analogies Perusal: $1.99 • Script 2 females, 3 males, 8 either, 13-23 total, between their everyday lives and biblical Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay doubling possible, gender flexible • 4 scenes, 3 Package: $20.99 messages for the Advent season. Each minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • (Digital Scripts and Sunday also includes a responsive reading Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Performance Rights) • and a verse from a specially crafted Advent (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Play Package: $24.99 song with original lyrics sung to the familiar Package: $35.99 (15 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, (5 Scripts and tune "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly." A simple yet and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) effective series designed to build expectation The humor of blending biblical stories with Only two players and a narrator are needed to on the Sundays preceding Christmas. today's language, idiosyncrasies and gadgets present this effective series to be used with —think Hebrew homework and s'mores the lighting of the Advent candles. The THE LIGHT OF ADVENT around the shepherds' campfire—bridge the Bethlehem innkeeper, a friendly, sensitive BY: JANE BOLDENOW 2,000 years since Jesus' birth in these man, has just seen the baby born in the sketches. The New Testament characters 1 female, 1 male, 2 either, 4-11 total, 1-20 stable. Something stirs in him, but his extras • 6 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript share our human weaknesses: too blind to skeptical wife thinks he's lost it—especially Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay see, too lazy to listen, too greedy to be kind, when he invites the holy family to stay in their Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and too overwhelmed to care. Included are: 1. best suite at no charge! Each week she is Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (6 Adjust the Clock—Anna the prophetess progressively less cynical until she at last Scripts and Performance Rights) brings a message of peace to a harried man. embraces the hope of the baby Messiah. The The four Advent candles of hope, peace, love 2. Pack the Glasses—One of the wise men, themes for the candles lit on the four Sundays and joy are the themes of these short "Bubba," doesn't get the significance of the of Advent and the Christmas Eve service are: presentations featuring children. A family in star. 3. Unplug the Ears—A shepherd can't 1. The Invitation, 2. The Preparation, 3. The your church may be the recurring characters believe that his future king is sleeping in a Restoration, 4. The Proclamation and 5. in each Sunday's short sketch. Following the water trough. 4. Soften the Heart—A greedy The Celebration. Each Sunday includes a drama, the Advent wreath candles are lit to innkeeper gouges his guests until his wife recap of the previous week's candle to the accompaniment of the children's choir convinces him to let Joseph have the manger maintain continuity. singing the charming song "Light One Candle" for free. The themes—stop, look, listen and (music included). prepare—complement the traditional Advent themes of peace, hope, joy and love.
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ADVENT CANDLELIGHTING THE ANGELS SPEAK ADVENT OUT LOUD BY: SUSAN PARGMAN BY: GALEN R. HACKMAN BY: LINDA S. ALLEN 6 females, 4 males, 2 either, 2-10 total, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 2 2 females, 3 males, 1 either, 6-21 total • 4 10-18 total • 4 scenes, minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: 2 minutes per scene • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: eScript Perusal: $1.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights)
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Only two persons to-do list seems overwhelming and hope representatives from many walks of life are needed to give these weekly seems elusive, but we can hope on that which participate in the candlelighting: seniors, presentations: your worship leader or pastor never changes. 2. Peace on the Overpass – young marrieds, singles and children. Scenes and a reader. No memorization required! As A couple bickers in heavy traffic amid radio combine Scripture with present-day an added bonus, an easy-to-make banner is announcements of stalled peace talks in the observations. Included are: 1. Expectation— included. New Velcro-backed words may be Middle East. Where is peace? 3. Joy in a Senior citizens reflect on prophecy, 2. added weekly to reflect each Sunday's theme. Candy Store – Grandpa can be Scrooge-like Trusting God—A young couple recognizes Fascinating angel trivia may be reprinted in – can’t we all? But all are capable of choosing Joseph's important role as Mary's supporter, your bulletins. Texts and themes for Advent God’s joy. 4. Love in a Manger – The stress 3. Wise Men Still Seek Him—Singles sermons are also included. The Christmas of a play rehearsal gone wrong can’t discuss the symbolism of gold, frankincense Eve reading and lighting of the Christ candle overshadow the reason for Christmas: love. and myrrh, and 4. The Best Gift of All— recaps the Advent themes. Children discover the gift Jesus desires most. ADVENT NOW AND THEN ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE BY: LINDA S. ALLEN ADVENT FOR ALL AGES STABLE 3 females, 4 males, 7-20 total, doubling BY: ROBERT A. 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This Scripts and to all. Included are: 1. Do We Hope on intergenerational approach will make Advent Performance Rights) Horses?—A modern family’s bantering about relatable to every season of life. The titles Christmas expectations segues into the These monologues—vibrant musings of some included and their themes are: 1. God Gave a shepherds’ hope for the Messiah. 2. Peace of the first Christmas personages—fairly sing Baby – The Committee to Advise God on within the Storm—Superficial talk at a men’s with energy. These characters don't preach— What This World Needs Now (played by retreat turns serious, leading in to Joseph’s they show you, through well-crafted senior citizens) is bent on posturing and dilemma about whether he should marry characterizations and superb writing, their pontificating until a little girl interrupts with an Mary. 3. The Gift of Joy— Christmas wish unique experiences and feelings. Even the invitation to come see God’s baby (hope), 2. lists contrast with the Magi’s awe, and thus most experienced actors will find plenty of rich A Christmas Diary – Twelve-year-old Sarah seem relatively unimportant. 4. A Brave Love material here for highly entertaining shares her memories of a traditional family —Modern moms who “didn’t have a clue” performances. Five monologues—one for gathering capped off by “manger reflections” about raising kids relate to Mary’s tentative each Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve— on Jesus (love), 3. The Day of Great Joy – acceptance of mothering the Messiah. Each are included. 1. Isaiah: Such a Deal!—The Nervous angels (children or teens) work at week concludes with a short prayer following prophet is in the temple, waiting and praying getting God’s announcement just right (joy), 4. the lighting of the candle. May be done as for Immanuel. 2. Caleb: I Moved the Goats— The Christmas Story According to John – Readers Theatre with a minimum of fuss. The innkeeper can hardly believe that the Who needs extravagant pageants? Four peasant baby in his stable is the Messiah. 3. voices (adults or a family with older children) Shepherd: Star Watcher—Why did the relate the simple but life-giving truth of the angels appear to the shepherds? 4. light of Christ (peace). Beauregard: Angelology 101—An angel professor lectures on the finer points of angelic singing. 5. Mary: Quietly Thinking— Mary tells her sleeping baby about her life.
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BETHLEHEM BARN REFLECTIONS BY: BARBARA HEIMBURGER BY: MARGARET W. ARON 4 either, 4-20 total, doubling possible, gender 3 females, 1 male, flexible • 5 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • 4-10 total, 3 extras • 5 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • scenes, 5 minutes per ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and scene • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Moo, baa, and hee-haw! Our furry, four- (Digital Scripts and legged friends take center stage in this Performance Rights) • ADVENT Advent series for child readers. The weekly Play Package: $29.99 spirited conversations between a donkey, a (6 Scripts and cow and a lamb from a stable in Bethlehem Performance Rights) relate to the traditional components of Advent: The charm of these five short monologues hope, peace, love and joy. Involving children and sketches (one for each Sunday of Advent in the series gives them a sense of belonging plus Christmas Eve) lies in the juxtaposition of with a minimum of lines, and an older teen or the past with the present. The Advent candles' adult narrator helps keep everyone on track. themes of love, hope, joy and peace are The scripts’ short length makes them ideal for carried out in the scripts. Included are: 1. already-packed Advent services – and there’s Because I Love You—Joseph fears for his one for Christmas Eve, too. Each one closes future with Mary. 2. Hope of Hopes—A with an appropriate Scripture reading and the shepherd sees the hope Christ brings for a lighting of a candle. The creatures’ point of homeless man and a harried shopper. 3. view plus simple costume ideas add up to a What's Missing?—Elizabeth bubbles over memorable Advent experience for all ages. with joy at the news of the Messiah and wonders why the congregation doesn't do the THE SEASONS OF ADVENT same. 4. Peace in the Midst—Mary savors BY: LISA JOHNSON the peace that comes with being obedient to God's call and urges the congregation to find 3 females, 2 males, 5-16 total • 4 scenes, peace in the holiday chaos. 5. And He Shall 5 minutes per scene • Be Called—The characters briefly reprise eScript Perusal: $1.99 their roles as they light the Christ candle • Script Perusal: $3.99 together. Opportunities each Sunday for • ePlay Package: special music using the provided suggestions $20.99 (Digital Scripts or your own preferred songs. THREE WOMEN OF and Performance BETHLEHEM Rights) • Play BY: MARTHA SLITER SHEERAN Package: $29.99 (7 HOPE, PEACE, JOY, LOVE -- Scripts and ADVENT! 3 females, 1 either, Performance Rights) 4-8 total, doubling BY: FIRLEY PICKENS possible, gender Winter, spring, summer or fall? In the Advent 2 females, 2 males, 4-11 total, gender flexible • flexible • 3 scenes, 5 season, all ya gotta do is call on these scripts 4 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • eScript minutes per scene • that take you through the year with each Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay eScript Perusal: $1.99 Sunday's lighting of the candles. Scripts Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: included are: 1. Let Every Heart Prepare Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 Scripts and Performance Rights) $12.99 (Digital Scripts Him Room (Winter) - It's just Super Bowl and Performance Sunday, but it's already time to prepare for Because Advent services are usually extra Rights) • Play next Christmas. 2. What to Expect When full, you'll appreciate the short length of these Package: $20.99 (6 You're Not Expecting (Spring) - A sketches that precede the lighting of the Scripts and discussion about fertility issues in the doctor's Advent wreath candles each week. They Performance Rights) office touches on Mary not expecting to be include various subgroups within your The Christmas story is told by a narrator and pregnant. 3. Christmas in July (Summer) - congregation. Included are: 1. Hope—A three women readers: The Gatekeeper's Siblings make their Christmas lists early and mother and father tell their child that just as Wife, The Innkeeper's Wife, and The want their gifts now. 4. Sneakin' around the they longed for her arrival, the world was Shepherd's Wife. Each tells of the people Christmas Tree (Fall) - The new gifts under waiting for Jesus. 2. Peace—A Sunday and the events that occurred in Bethlehem the tree prove mighty tempting in the middle school teacher and her students brainstorm during the days of the first Christmas—each of the night. Includes many roles for women, about what peace really means. 3. Joy—Two brings a message from the newborn Savior. with some recurring characters returning each men discuss how true joy in Christ differs from An excellent composite story of three parts. week for continuity. transitory happiness. 4. Love—Two hurried shoppers take a break to reflect on unconditional love as modeled by Jesus. These sketches are easy to use and relevant today.
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GETTING READY FOR THE BUS STOP KEEPING IT REAL CHRISTMAS BY: SHARI ALBITZ *BY: LINDA S. 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Each week reconcile the romanticized notions of series of four lively sketches featuring Carly and slightly clueless Ann engage in Christmas with the reality—from greeting members of an extended family preparing for spirited dialogue on one aspect of Advent cards depicting the holy family aglow in christmas. Included are: 1. I Can’t Wait!—A while waiting at the bus stop. The themes and ethereal light with what Jesus ‘ birth really child has a hard time waiting for the family sketch synopses are: 1. Hope – Ann uses means for us today. Included are: 1. Real holiday trip to his grandparent’s house objects from sunglasses to a baseball glove Hope—Just as God called insignificant (Candle of Prophecy; theme: expectation). 2. as she waits for the Baby. 2. Peace – Carly people to be part of Jesus’ birth, there is hope House Cleaning—Just as Grandma and reminds Ann that we can’t just wait for peace, for us to be part of God’s great story. 2. Real Grandpa ready their house for the holiday we need to take action. 3. Joy – Ann learns Peace—The shepherds simply accepted gathering, we should prepare our hearts so that joy goes deeper than just a good time at God’s gift of peace— as should the neighbor Jesus can reside there (Candle of Bethlehem; a party. 4. Love – Ann has her sights set on irritated about a borrowed drill set. 3. Real theme: preparation). 3. A Lot of Work for a romance, but Carly reminds her that God’s gift Joy—We who have issues with busyness, Birthday—In the midst of Christmas gift- of love was Jesus. Includes a bonus script age and financial hardship see that giving, daughter Patty is asked, “What are you that may be used the week after Christmas to worshiping the Babe didn’t change the going to give to Jesus?” (Shepherds’ Candle; reiterate that Jesus is alive and at work in our shepherds’ lowly circumstances—it changed theme: sharing). 4. What We Give—Patty world even after the holiday is over. them. 4. Real Love—It’s showtime and what tells the family what she gave Jesus for can go wrong does, but love is embracing the Christmas: help to one in need (Candle of gritty situations and people we encounter Love; theme: giving). WELCOME, EMMANUEL daily. May be used with the lighting of the BY: WINONA POOLE Advent candles. 4 females, 2 males, 2 either, 8-25 total, BUILDING THE NATIVITY doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 5 BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • SO LITTLE THEY KNEW 2 either, 2-10 total, 0-20 extras, gender flexible Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 BY: MARION FAIRMAN • 5 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • eScript (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play 1 female, 1-5 total • 5 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance scenes, 6 minutes per Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Rights) scene • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 (3 There's plenty of visual interest in this Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) collection that positions Advent as a month- Package: $20.99 With Christmas television commercials and long "hanging of the greens." Players (Digital Scripts and store displays competing for children's incorporate a new decorative item into the Performance Rights) • attention, the "reason for the season" can sketch each Sunday. Each sanctuary Play Package: $24.99 take a back seat. These mini-programs decoration, coupled with one verse of "O (3 Scripts and provide balance by focusing on the true Come, O Come, Emmanuel," amplifies the Performance Rights) meaning of Christmas through Scripture weekly theme. Included are: 1. The An exceptional group of five monologues that readings, narration and singing that focus on Reminder Wreath—A woman losing her sight may be used together as a special woman's a different biblical character each week. finds she still needs the Advent wreath to feel program during Advent. These monologues Children sing a new verse of "The Advent God's light. 2. The Advent Garden—Like a may also be used on successive weeks for Song" (to the tune of "Good Christian Friends plant anchored in good soil, a church needs to adult Sunday school, worship services or as a Rejoice") and slowly build the Nativity by be rooted in God. 3. Color Codes—The dark special church dinner event. Five women, adding figures to the scene: Week 1 - Mary, blues and bright whites of the candles depict including: A Gossip of Nazareth, A Soldier's Joseph, and animals. Week 2 - Angel. Week moving from hopelessness to hope. 4. In Wife, An Innkeeper's Wife, The Wife of 3 - Shepherds and sheep. Week 4 - Wise Preparation—One red poinsettia amid the Herod and A Shepherd's Wife each portray men and camels. The scripts' short lengths white ones symbolizes Jesus' crucifixion. 5. their reaction to the possibility that Mary's make them easy to include as a Sunday Welcome, Emmanuel—A joyful liturgical child is the Messiah. In addition to personal school opening or as the children's dance in the fully decorated sanctuary on views of Christ's birth, the monologues sermonette as an alternative to, or in Christmas Eve culminates in the lighting of provide a fascinating look into the history, conjunction with, the traditional Advent lamps and a brief Advent recap. Very politics, religious practices and customs of the candlelighting. The children complete the inclusive—features a variety of ages. times. Nativity scene by adding the Christ child Unusually creative! during a Christmas Eve service or as an opening to the children's Christmas program.
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wreath. Characters and the candle they light be excluded from the meaningful tradition of include: 1. Isaiah—Hope, 2. Elizabeth— the lighting of the Advent candles. The names Peace, 3. Tamar, the Innkeeper's Wife— of the Advent candles (Hope, Love, Joy and Love, 4. Itzhak, a Young Shepherd—Joy. Peace) are the themes of the sketches. Also included is a Christmas Eve service Included are: 1. Hope—Two singles find hope where the four characters reprise their roles in their Christmas preparations. 2. Love—A and together light the Christ candle. mother and her daughters reminisce. 3. Joy— A youth group finds joy in a special Christmas ADVENT ANTICIPATION project. 4. Peace—A family of five shares their perspectives on peace. These sketches BY: LINDA S. ALLEN ADVENT culminate in the Christmas lighting of the 4 either, 4-18 total, doubling possible, gender Christ candle and a recap of the Advent flexible • 4 scenes, 4 minutes per scene • themes. eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (6 A LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Performance BY: JUDY GATTIS SMITH Rights) 4 either, 4-28 total, 0-25 extras, doubling These short dialogues have the lively possible, gender flexible • 4 scenes, 5 minutes conversational feel of a discussion between per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script friends. All the banter, repartee and reflection Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital centers around the traditional Advent themes Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play of hope, peace, joy and love. The running Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and Performance Rights) commentary relates the coming of the Christ child to our contemporary lives. Selections are A children's Christmas program featuring a intentionally kept concise to allow for typically living Advent calendar. This customized full church services during Advent. Each calendar is life-size for maximum visibility selection begins with an attention-grabbing bit from the congregation, with a cardboard of humor and ends with reverent candle frame hand-decorated by your church’s lighting and prayer. In this busy season when children. Simplifying the typical calendar's 25 we all have so much to do, no memorization "windows," there are only two hinged is a big plus! openings. One reveals the date and the other a child who shares a few lines and displays a THE MOUNTAIN symbol, such as a scroll, stuffed animal, or straw. Each Sunday of Advent, children BY: MARY KAYE BOYLE present a week's worth of short readings and 4 females, 1 male, 7 either, 12-38 total, 5 symbols to create a total biblical overview of extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 4 Jesus' birth. Covers every day from scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: December 1st - 24th! A refreshing change $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) from the typical wreath candlelighting, and • Play Package: $35.99 (14 Scripts and every bit as meaningful. Performance Rights) It’s the eve of the biggest Christmas program I WAIT... I WONDER the church has ever had. The scenario: three BY: LIA M. GOENS THE VOICES OF ADVENT volunteers agree to hike up the mountain to 1 female, 3 males, 4-9 total, doubling possible • BY: JERI SHUMATE affix a huge a lit-up cardboard star for the big 5 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • eScript night. As their journey gradually progresses Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay 2 females, 2 males, each week, their conversations lead to Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and 4-8 total, 3 extras • 5 discoveries about joy, hope, peace and faith Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 scenes, 5 minutes per Scripts and Performance Rights) scene • eScript — the themes of each week’s candle — amid Perusal: $1.99 • Script challenges and changes, perils and "Where do we go from here, oh Father of Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay persistence. The four Advent weeks’ sketches surprises? You brought your son into the Package: $12.99 converge with a gentle reminder: Christ is the world to save us all, but what does that (Digital Scripts and source of our hope, joy, faith and peace. mean?" In all her humanness and uncertainty, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 Mary shares her conflicting emotions in four (6 Scripts and THE SUNDAYS OF ADVENT powerful monologues: Watching and Waiting, Worthy and Unworthy, The Performance Rights) BY: SUSAN PARGMAN Magnificat and Journeys Ended and The beautiful simplicity of biblical monologues 4 females, 3 males, 7-21 total, 1-25 extras • 5 Begun. Her diary jottings reveal a humble girl is combined with the meaningful tradition of scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: who is overwhelmed to be chosen to bear the Advent candlelighting in these presentations $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: son of God. The Advent monologues for each Sunday of Advent. Four robed $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) culminate in a Christmas Eve service, where characters share brief point-of-view reflections • Play Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and Performance Rights) the innkeeper, the shepherd boy and Joseph on the impending birth of the Savior, then celebrate with Mary the birth of an conclude by lighting a candle on the Advent Singles and single-parent families need not extraordinary baby, the Christ. No 22 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC ADVENT memorization necessary. THE UNEXPECTED GUEST IN BETHLEHEM INN BY: CANDYCE A. PETERSEN BY: JOHN W. CARTER 7 females, 5 males, 2 4 females, 6 males, 3 either, 14 total, 0-5 either, 13 total, 1-25 extras • 20 minutes • extras, gender flexible eScript Perusal: $1.99 • 25 minutes • eScript
• Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script ADVENT • ePlay Package: Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $20.99 (Digital Scripts Package: $20.99 and Performance (Digital Scripts and Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Package: $42.99 (16 Play Package: $35.99 Scripts and (15 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Host Miss Sally Asks-It-All interviews several Your church fellowship hall becomes the guests on the holiday edition of her talk show. Bethlehem Inn! Those present are firsthand Their true colors shine through as they talk observers of the events that occurred on the about preparing for Christmas. Teenage night Christ was born. The Innkeeper and his Depressed is cynical. Twins Greedy and family are presiding over a dinner at this Deprived want "Presents! More presents!" crowded inn. We are the guests—the POP (that's Pooped-Out Pastor) Wagner of travelers to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. Our THE ADVENT TREE the First World Apathetic Church is burned dinner is interrupted by Joseph and Mary BY: JAN T. BROWN out on planning Advent services that few asking for a room. It is interrupted again by attend. Enter the Unexpected Guest to remind the announcement of a fiery star above the 1 female, 4 males, the contestants that Christmas is more than stable. And then once more by a band of 6-33 either, 11-38 total, 1-25 extras, endless to-do lists, stress and credit card bills shepherds looking for the Baby. Our host doubling possible, —it's love expressed in God's gift of Jesus. asks that we all leave our dinner to see the gender flexible • 30 Funny yet meaningful. Minimal props and no miracle of the holy Child. Returning to the minutes • eScript special costumes required. dinner area, we pray together in gratitude for Perusal: $1.99 • Script the gift of a Savior. This program is a unique Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay A SIMPLY ABUNDANT experience in the realization of the Nativity. Package: $20.99 Recommended. (Digital Scripts and CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) • BY: LINDA S. ALLEN Play Package: $35.99 THE HANGING OF THE GREENS (15 Scripts, 1 female, 2-3 either, 3-4 total • 15 minutes • BY: JAMES C. HUFFSTUTLER Photocopy Rights, eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • and Performance ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and 1 female, 1 male, 3 Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 either, 5 total, 3-30 Scripts and Performance Rights) extras • 50 minutes • All the children in your Sunday school—from Decorating and shopping and baking, oh my! eScript Perusal: $1.99 nursery through sixth grade or up—may be • Script Perusal: $3.99 This hilarious visual features a woman who is included in this easy-to-present program • ePlay Package: “head to toe Christmas” – she wears tinsel featuring symbols of the Advent season. The $27.99 (Digital Scripts and a string of lights around her neck and symbol ornaments hang on a large Advent and Performance holds a rolling pin in one hand and a box of Rights) • Play calendar banner when the program begins. A Christmas cards in the other with shopping Package: $36.99 (7 fourth- through sixth-grade reader explains bags and a vacuum at her feet. She is Scripts and the meaning behind each of the 24 symbols overwhelmed by the sheer volume of Performance Rights) as a preschool child hangs the ornaments on cantatas, caroling, cookie exchanges, and a tree. After the tree is trimmed, costumed Here's a Christmas Eve chancel celebration other demands on her time. A Voice of first- through third-graders present the that will decorate your sanctuary, too! Music Reason gently suggests antidotes for her traditional Christmas story with rhyming one- and dialogue for the total liturgy are scripted. stress: cultivating a thankful attitude, line parts. Familiar carols are interspersed Suggestions for decorations will stimulate intercessory prayer as she writes her cards, with the readings and drama. Instructions are your own group's creativity. Suitable for and rethinking gift-giving. The ending revisits included for making each symbol ornament. almost any setting. Candles, bells, ribbons, the biblical story of Mary and Martha as the An interesting mix of symbols are featured, garlands, poinsettias, evergreens and ivy are woman unloads the burdens she’s bearing so from the expected (candle, star, holly) to the used to bring the season's spirit to a waiting she’s free to worship the One she’s unexpected (mushroom, owl, Easter egg). sanctuary. Opportunities for choir, celebrating. Children may help make the ornaments, with congregational singing and instrumentalists. the extras given to their parents or the Four readers set the mood for the celebration congregation following the program. and narrate the events of the Christmas story while a dozen others act as garland hangers. This event could well become a tradition in your church as it has in others.
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ONE MOMENT of Grinch-like "Grouches" facetiously extol the DECK THE HALLS BY:* RUTH BUCHANAN "virtues" of holiday excess. Each Grouch BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 4 either, 4 total, gender flexible • 10 minutes • delivers a short tongue-in-cheek monologue 3-15 either, 3-15 total, 0-25 extras, gender eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • on one of the trappings of Christmas: gifts, flexible • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and decorations, parties, memories, cards, baking Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 and gift-wrapping. Then comes the worst one (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Scripts and Performance Rights) of all: the Grouch of Christmas's True Package: $49.99 (17 Scripts and Performance Rights) Four readers give depth and breadth to the Meaning, who only attacks believers. Just as event that Advent anticipates: the birth of the Whos got their Christmas back by joining Watching as your sanctuary is transformed Jesus. In that one moment, God’s plan for hands and singing, the congregation joins into a festive and beautiful environment is ADVENT redemption was finally revealed. This program hands and sings "Silent Night" so the guaranteed to get the whole congregation into adds a special touch for ushering in the Grouches will go away. Try it—it works! the Christmas spirit. This service is not only a Advent season. Scripture, music, and feast for the eyes, but for the heart—each reflections lush and lyrical shape our lovely decoration has a distinct meaning understanding of the Messiah’s role—why he relating to Christ's birth. It will enrich your had to be born and what it means in our understanding of familiar holiday adornments redemption. The congregation is led on a path and how they are symbolic of various aspects from the cradle to the cross, which of Christianity. One or more readers tell the encourages them to meditate on enduring story behind greenery garlands, poinsettias, themes such as worship, holiness, glory, the Advent wreath, the Nativity scene, the Christ, and evangelism. The readers’ “vocal Christmas tree and gifts as decorators put instruments” swell and whisper, overlap and them into place. There are many opportunities enunciate to lift these words from the script, for individuals or families to participate. This sending them into the hearts of your complete liturgy features a call to worship, congregants. No memorization needed—a several responsive readings, prayers, plus in this busy season. Scripture readings and suggested congregational carols or choral anthems. ADVENTUALLY BY: LORETTA ROSS-GOTTA HUMBUG! 6 either, 6 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • BY: DANIEL WRAY eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • 8 females, 9 males, 5 either, 22 total • 45 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and THE BETHLEHEM EXPERIENCE minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 BY: RHONDA WRAY Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights.) Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play 2 females, 5 males, 18 either, 25 total, 1-40 Package: $56.99 (24 Scripts and Performance extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • eScript This script was written on commission for a Rights) group of five churches. It is an easy-to-stage Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay readers’ drama that creatively explores Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and The corporate world’s worst nightmare, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $56.99 Ebenezer Scrooge, is the micromanaging “waiting” using subjects from Bible stories to (27 Scripts and Performance Rights) pop culture. Jesus’ birth was long-expected, CEO of his own accounting firm—a miser who and we still mark time today. The author The throngs of townspeople, the merchants, makes life unbearable for his employees and gently skewers our revved-up American the artisans and beggars of ancient family. Bah! Then he’s visited by reggae lifestyle. (OK, so we don’t always wait well.) Bethlehem are recreated at your church in a singer Marley, the ghost of Scrooge's long- Poetry, prose, quotations, a touching short biblical marketplace setting. You'll relive the dead Rastafarian roommate, who warns story, shared memories, dictionary definitions, excitement of that far-away land and time in Scrooge of impending supernatural Scripture and music weave together the many group tours: registering for the census, encounters with the Ghosts of Christmases angles and implications of what it means to sampling freshly baked unleavened bread at Past, Present and Future. The past is at a patiently endure. Dialog, monologs and choral the baker's, learning a Jewish melody from a disco in the '70s, where young Scrooge’s readings paired with dynamic recitations and musician, and more. Beneath all the activity is girlfriend realizes he loves money more than rapid-fire exchanges create a pastiche of an undercurrent of anticipation—rumor has it her. The present depicts the Crachit family approaches that are unified by the broad that the long-awaited Messiah is finally here, and their disabled son Tiny Tim, who needs theme of waiting. a newborn baby in a stable! Detailed more medical treatments than his Scrooge- instructions on overall organization, including employed dad can provide on his lousy how to make the merchants' stalls and biblical benefits. The future predicts his own demise, DON'T LET THE GROUCHES costumes, make the preparation easy. An as well as Tiny Tim’s. Scrooge is shocked but STEAL YOUR CHRISTMAS unforgettable hands-on Christmas experience gets a second chance. He undergoes a BY: CHRISTINE FERGUSON that will educate, entertain and inspire. An spiritual makeover and finally recognizes 9 either, 9 total, gender flexible • 20 minutes • excellent community outreach event. what's at the heart of Christmas. Loads of eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • humor, including a recurring gag with a ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Salvation Army bell ringer and the million- Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 dollar question: Just what is a humbug, (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) anyway? Some of our most cherished holiday traditions can cause us the most anxiety. In this humorous nod to Dr. You-Know-Who, a series
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CHRISTMAS NIGHT LIVE THE CHARACTERS OF BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA CHRISTMAS 3 females, 5 males, 8-52 total, doubling BY: LOIS SINK possible, gender flexible • 12 scenes, 6 minutes 3 females, 6-8 males, per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script 2 either, 11-13 total, Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital 1-10 extras, doubling Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play possible, gender Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance flexible • 30 minutes • Rights) eScript Perusal: $1.99 Live from your hometown, it’s Christmas Night • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Live! Hilarious short sketches may be $20.99 (Digital Scripts interspersed with a live band playing between and Performance CHRISTMAS sets. Colorful characters and zany situations Rights) • Play add zing to the performance. The nine Package: $35.99 (15 sketches are: Silence Your Cell Phones, Scripts and Lost in Translation, Sock It to Me, Performance Rights) Christmas Date, The “Group” Christmas This program of interwoven monologues is Party, Budget Twelve Days of Christmas, the perfect solution for the church that wants ACTING OUT CHRISTMAS AND Will and Ned’s Most Spiritual Adventure, a stirring Advent or Christmas service with a EASTER Nativity and Great Christmas. Silly spoof minimum of preparation. The characters give BY: JEAN STANGL commercials for McVittles, Migrainex and first-person accounts of how they are affected The Christmas Box add to the fun. They may 1 either, 1-4 total, 1-30 extras, doubling by the birth of Jesus, with historical possible, gender flexible • 4 scenes, 8 minutes be performed live or taped ahead of time for information about biblical customs and per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script an easier performance. Each segment is no practices added for authenticity. Included are Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital more than five minutes long. This format monologues by Isaiah, Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play allows you to customize the length of the Elizabeth, Shepherds, Innkeeper, Magi, Package: $24.99 (3 Scripts and Performance performance and the cast size with doubling Simeon and Anna. The monologists may Rights) or tripling of parts. Only a few all-cast rehearse their two- to three-minute selections Here’s one instance where children should practices needed. The gospel wrapped in individually—only one group practice is wiggle in church! A narrator tells a Christmas Christmas paper with a ribbon of humor. required to establish the flow of the service. or Easter Bible story while children The program may be performed simply as pantomime along. The benefits of this FACES AROUND THE MANGER Readers Theatre with only some of the innovative kinesthetic approach to storytelling BY: KENNETH E. NOLIN monologues presented, or more elaborately in are many: learning Bible stories, exercise, its entirety with memorization of lines, 3 females, 1 male, 5 development of sequencing and motor skills costumes and music. either, 9 total • 15 and creative expression. May be used in minutes • eScript Sunday school or as part of holiday programs. Perusal: $1.99 • Script NOW AND THEN IT'S So easy—no speaking parts to memorize! Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Youngsters will delight in these enacted Package: $12.99 CHRISTMAS stories that capitalize on their boundless (Digital Scripts and BY: WYNNE DEWYN energy. A sure-fire way to guarantee 100% Performance Rights) • 4-7 females, 5-13 males, 1-2 either, 10-22 total, Play Package: $24.99 attention and involvement! 3-9 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 2 (11 Scripts and minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play THE SHEPHERDS' STORIES Costumed characters Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, BY: MATTHEW COLWELL Package: $35.99 (12 Scripts and Performance the innkeeper's wife, two shepherds and the Rights) 2 either, 2-6 total • 3 scenes, 5 minutes per three wise men share their Christmas stories scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: through brief monologues. One by one they A collection of contemporary and traditional $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts join a tableau that forms around the manger. two-part sketches contrasting the first and Performance Rights) • Play Package: The "living painting" is lovely, but Gabriel Christmas with today. Includes: 1. The $16.99 (4 Scripts and Performance Rights) declares the scene to be incomplete without Perfect Mom for the Job—A frazzled mom The two-player scripts include: Part 1 — A everyone there. The entire congregation joins feels parenting stress, then realizes Jesus' pair of shepherds discuss the Messiah the scene and lights their candles from a mother Mary must have too. 2. Sin City—Our coming to their little hometown, Bethlehem — single flame, then forms a circle around the contemporary world and biblical Bethlehem but then they see a curiously bright star. Part sanctuary. In the glowing candlelight, they seem imperfect, but that's where the Messiah 2 — Two more shepherds question if angels close with a hymn. A beautiful visual event for is needed most. 3. The Storytellers—A child truly appeared to the shepherds, several a Christmas Eve service. May be adapted for cast as a shepherd in a play and the real years after Christ’s birth. Part 3 — Present- an outdoor "live Nativity," complete with rustic shepherds realize they have an important role day shepherds of Bethlehem reflect on the stable backdrop, bales of hay and actual to play in Jesus' birth. 4. Star Talk—Father/ meaning of Emmanuel — “God is with us” — sheep and donkeys. son conversations past and present see the in light of the conflict in the Middle East. Is significance of the star as a guiding light and God with the Palestinians or Israelis? “God as a symbol for Christ, "Jacob's Star." never said it’d be easy,” one says. “God just said he’d be with us.”
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CAROLING, CAROLING A CRICKET COUNTY CABIN BY: SUSAN LYTTEK MAKEOVER* 1 female, 1 male, 1 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON either, 1-30 total, 6 females, 7 males, 13 total • 45 minutes • gender flexible • 31 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • scenes, 2 minutes per ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and scene • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script (15 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 It’s an extreme down-home makeover of sorts (Digital Scripts and for the country cousins’ humble cabin this Performance Rights) • Christmas! In an ostentatious gift-giving Play Package: $31.99 display, the city cousins contact a fancy- (5 Scripts and schmancy interior decorator from TV to swoop Performance Rights) in and spiff things up. Generous? Kind? Of This collection of thirty short monologues course not. The city slickers have some tricks dramatizes familiar Christmas carols by telling up their well-tailored sleeves! Having read a stories that parallel the meanings of the mysterious letter about gold hidden
CHRISTMAS songs. The monologues are structured underneath their unwitting country cousins’ according to three themes. 1. We Were There ALICE IN BETHLEHEM cabin, they assume the country folk will —Biblical characters who were affected by BY: BRYAN CARON skedaddle when the renovation starts so they Christ's birth, including a Shepherd, Herod 4 females, 4 males, 8 either, 16 total, 1-30 can go treasure hunting. But when the Taylors and the Innkeeper's Wife. Still We Come— extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript figger out what in tarnation their city Contemporary characters' responses to Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay counterparts are up to, they decide to spring a Christmas in their lives, including a Package: $20.99 • Play Package: $42.99 (18 little Christmas surprise of their own. Hilarious Businesswoman, a Grandmother and a Scripts and Performance Rights) and holy? Yep—all that with a side of hillbilly. Teenager. He Will Fulfill—Characters who Lewis Carroll meets Christmas carol in this Festive fun for all ages! explore Christmas prophecies present and showcase for your children’s choir. It features future, including Isaiah, a Young Man and a a wonderful contrast of whimsical stage action ARE YOU COMING? Scribe. The monologues are easy to perform, with beloved Christmas songs that support BY: PHIL GILBREATH, STEVE C. with only minimal rehearsal and few props the plot. You’ll recognize several of the MARKOVICH required. Many favorite carols are dramatized, wonderfully quirky characters from the classic 4 females, 7 males, including "Silent Night," "Angels from the story of Alice in Wonderland. In this new twist, 3-7 either, 14-18 total Realms of Glory," "O Come, O Come, Alice is obsessed with presents! Her • 20 minutes • eScript Emmanuel" and many others. (Carol music exasperated mother challenges her to find the Perusal: $1.99 • Script not included.) reason for Christmas. A fanciful dream Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay sequence follows, transporting her to Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and VOICES OF CHRISTMAS Bethlehem. The ever-tardy White Rabbit lets her tag along while he follows a star. She Performance Rights) • BY: JOHN W. CARTER Play Package: $42.99 meets up with three kings, Tweedle, Dee, and (20 Scripts and 1 male, 1-5 total • 5 Dumb, on a hilarious quest for frankincense. scenes, 7 minutes per Performance Rights) Encounters with angels, shepherds, and the scene • eScript This poignant play tugs at your heartstrings Perusal: $1.99 • Script holy family give Alice a glimpse of a and doesn't let go. The cake is baked. The Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Christmas centered on giving, not getting. Package: $20.99 Fanciful faith-based fun! decorations are in place. In the midst of this (Digital Scripts and festive setting, a boy (representing Christ) Performance Rights) • excitedly waits for the guests to arrive at his Play Package: $24.99 AWAY FROM THE MANGER birthday party. However, everyone is too busy (3 Scripts and BY: ELIZABETH M. TOPP to come. Just when he begins to despair that Performance Rights) 1 female, 3 males, 10-40 either, 14-44 total, no one has remembered the importance of his doubling possible, gender flexible • 20 minutes • birthday, a pint-sized guest arrives—his Five cameo character views of the greatest eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • presence more of a gift than any package story ever told. These may be used singly on ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and could be. This dramatic integration of the Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 each Sunday of Advent and on Christmas Parable of the Banquet is a departure from (16 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Sunday, or they may all be used together in Performance Rights) the traditional Christmas play, yet it is rich an evening's Christmas program. Included: with significance. It poses the question: How The Innkeeper, A Shepherd, Herod, The A few worshipers visited the baby Jesus in might our seasonal activities rob us of the Magi, Joseph. Bethlehem. But what about all those who heart of Christmas? A jewel of a play that will stayed away? Their excuses are many and linger in everyone's memory long after the varied. Parts for many ages, from small gifts are unwrapped and the tree put away. children to teens and adults. A lighthearted yet challenging play to make us all examine why we sometimes stay away from the manger.
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O DINKY TOWN OF BETHLEHEM P.D. MOTHER TIME AND THE BIG BETHLEHEM* BY: DANIEL WRAY EVENT* BY: HARRY PARKER 2 females, 4 males, 7 either, 13 total, gender BY: JACQUELINE HURLEY 2 females, 1 male, 1 either, 4 total, 6-60 extras, flexible • 40 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • 1 female, 1 male, 11 either, 13 total, 8-60 gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 extras, gender flexible • 25 minutes • eScript $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $35.99 (15 Scripts and Performance Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and • Play Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Performance Rights) Strange things are about to happen as Joe (15 Scripts and Performance Rights) Young Miriam is stuck in a one-horse hamlet Thursday and his sidekick Frank Cannon walk Jesus’ birth was the only event that split time where nothing ever happens—or so she the beat in Bethlehem one winter night. in two—BC (Before Christ) to AD (Anno
thinks. Yet every time she mechanically goes There's a census in town, and everyone is on Domini—“year of our Lord”). Elderly Mother CHRISTMAS about her chores, she misses a phenomenal edge. Suddenly, a celestial disturbance Time constructs a supersized timeline before event of the first Christmas. Too distracted by prompts the officers to investigate. They start the audience, dropping hints of a Big Event to bread baking and laundry, she fails to notice with the shepherds. Why would they leave come. Then children present short readings the angels, the shepherds, and the wise men their flocks? The angels that visited them— about BC characters, starting with Job (so old —until an angel whispers to her of the wonder was their real goal to make off with a leg of that he’s off the timeline) and working up in the stable. Oh, how the daily grind can blind lamb? More interrogations follow when they through Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, us to “God with us”! Humorous verses to the track down the Innkeeper's wife and the three David, Solomon, Jonah and finally Nehemiah tune of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” are kings in an attempt to get "just the facts." The at 400 BC, attaching nameplates to the interspersed. The lead is a great role for a road leads them to the holy family. They help timeline for visual cues. Their stories are teen or young adult female soloist. Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus escape to portrayed not as unrelated circumstantial Egypt just ahead of "Dirty Harry" (Herod) and events, but as the Lord’s plan in motion, CANDY CANE CHRISTMAS his hit squad. Many funny one-liners. A setting the stage for Christ’s birth. When at comprehensive picture of the Christmas story last Father Time arrives with a large “AD” sign BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN emerges amid the laughs. Especially suitable signifying the occurrence of the Big Event 1 female, 1 male, 8 for youth group performances. Great (enacted by the children in a traditional either, 10 total, 1-20 entertainment fun for your church family. Nativity tableau), it is seen against the extras, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript backdrop of God’s working through the ages Perusal: $1.99 • Script BETHLEHEM SPEAKS in the narrative of human experience, preparing hearts and minds for the Messiah. Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: ROCHELLE M. PENNINGTON Package: $20.99 Includes parts for preschool through eighth (Digital Scripts and 3 females, 3 males, 1-6 either, 7-12 total, grade, with only a few group rehearsals Performance Rights) • doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • needed. Provides a deeper context for the Play Package: $35.99 Christmas story, where BC meets AD in the (12 Scripts and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 realm of history. (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) The sweet peppermint treat we all love in December is more than just a stocking stuffer Six characters give first-person accounts of THE BABY KING and Christmas tree ornament. The candy their perspectives on the birth of Jesus. BY: MARY JOYCE LOVE cane is rich in Christian symbolism. This Stories include: 1. Mary—Her doubts give 11-16 either, 11-16 program dramatizes its creation in mid-1800s way to joy at bearing God's son. 2. Joseph— total, gender flexible • Germany. The search was on for a treat that An angel's visit convinces Joseph not to 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script would keep children quiet during worship divorce Mary. 3. Innkeeper's Wife—She led them to the stable, unaware that Jesus was Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay services, yet remind them of Christmas. The Package: $20.99 result was the candy cane. Children read about to be born. 4. Angel—That proclamation in the night sky is true for us (Digital Scripts and Scripture to explain its symbolism: its crook Performance Rights) • shape reminds us of Jesus, the good today. 5. Shepherd—He marvels that Play Package: $42.99 shepherd; its upside-down J shape is the first "society's outcasts" were chosen by God to (18 Scripts and letter of Jesus' name; the taste is reminiscent see Jesus. 6. Wise Man—Jesus had come, Performance Rights) and the wise men had come to honor him. of God's sweetest gift in Jesus; the white color This uniquely child-centered program allows Each monologue relates to a carol sung by stands for purity and the red stripes depict many children of all ages to participate the congregation and a Scripture reading. As that "by his stripes we are healed." Includes creatively in telling the Christmas story. Using the characters complete their lines, one by two traditional songs with all-new lyrics. The a sheet as a screen lit from behind, silhouette one they join an unfolding Nativity tableau. A children hand out miniature candy canes as figures enact the events of the Nativity. beautifully simple traditional program requiring the congregation files out. Inspired by the words of children, the script only a minimum of rehearsal and no may be used as written or as a pattern for the memorization. insertion of the words of your own church school children. Both adults and child narrators tell the story as silhouetted figures portray twelve key scenes of the miracle birth.The program's childlike simplicity creates a poignantly sincere presentation of the greatest story ever told.
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DUELING CHRISTMAS AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS A CAPITAL C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S BY:* JANIS E. SAARELA BY: CHRISTINE FERGUSON BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 5 females, 8 males, 4 either, 17 total • 45 1 female, 2 males, 5 either, 8 total • 20 minutes 19-30 either, 19-30 total, 0-30 extras, doubling minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • possible, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Package: $49.99 (19 Scripts and Performance (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 Rights) (21 Scripts and Performance Rights) Lights, camera, action! Kiss stage fright good- A know-it-all narrator and the Apostle John bye with this virtually rehearsal-free program. Gimmee a “C”! We spell the word Christmas duel over the retelling of the Christmas story. These scenes feature slices of Christmas without too much thought – but its letters are John is exasperated over the Narrator’s Americana through the years: the late 1600s, the basis for this easy-to-present program. seemingly trivial details. But Bethlehem is, the 1800s, the 1950s, and now—Puritans to Each letter presents a rich meaning based on quite frankly, bonkers! Arrogant Pharisees, the present day. The audience will learn more a key word from the biblical account, resulting the original odd couple (a grouch and his about our country's traditions and customs— in an alphabet journey that tells the Christmas milquetoast wife), a colorful (but dishonest) where they come from and how they relate to story in nine segments read by children. The junk dealer, a boss who blocks the windows Jesus' birth. You take digital photos prior to letters and their meaning are: R – Root of to keep his employees from gawking at a birth the performance date, when your church’s Jesse, C – Caesar Augustus, T – Traveler, I
CHRISTMAS in a stable, and even an attempted robbery at children are relaxed. Detailed instructions are – Innkeeper, S – Shepherds, A – Angels, M the Bethlehem Inn! But John, who witnessed given for each photo. Like to plan ahead? The – Manger, S – Savior, H – Holy night. At the Christ’s earthly ministry, speaks truth into the photos may be taken weeks or even months program’s conclusion, the children, who hold extreme chaos with a simple message of ahead of the performance. The performance decorative posters of each initial, rearrange looking beyond the Baby’s birth, which was merges appropriate live narrative with the themselves to spell “Christmas” as they recite one small moment in time, to the reality of previously staged shots. Everyone will enjoy an original poem that highlights each letter’s Christmas: Jesus as Savior and Redeemer for seeing the children in their big-screen meaning. The letter posters may be created all eternity. moment! as an Advent activity. Includes familiar carols and a children‘s choral anthem, “Run, CHRISTMAS LEAVES CRICKET Shepherds, Run!” An added bonus – flexible BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR JESUS casting and no memorization. COUNTY BY: MILDRED BARGER BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON 11 either, 11 total, 3-25 extras, gender flexible • 6 females, 5 males, 1 40 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script I MISSED THE MANGER either, 12 total, Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital BY:* JAN OVERTON gender flexible • 45 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play 5 females, 1 either, 6 total • 45 minutes • eScript minutes • eScript Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $1.99 • Script Rights) Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay This Christmas pageant is easy to present Performance Rights) • Play Package: $36.99 (8 Package: $27.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and and designed for the entire Sunday school. Performance Rights) • Only a few rehearsals are needed. Teacher, We hear a lot of buzz these days about the Play Package: $42.99 M.C., pastor and high school teens participate Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)—social anxiety (14 Scripts and with children in answering questions about the that we will be absent from rewarding Performance Rights) birth and life of Jesus. A gift ceremony and experiences. The women in this support From their flashy singing are part of the celebration, together group unfortunately missed Christ’s birth. entrance flinging fistfuls of cash into the with a dramatic reading about a priceless gift. Mary’s mother missed it because she was audience, it's Swarovski crystal clear: the Included also is a sample "party" invitation to afraid of what the neighbors would think about Country Cousins have totally embraced their encourage family participation. a baby born out of wedlock. Her friend missed nouveau riche status! The erstwhile hicks, in it because she was too busy gossiping. A their quest for "the good life," are fixin' to huge to-do list kept the innkeeper’s wife away. move to a mansion in the city, just in time for The wife of a shepherd laughed in disbelief at Christmas—all but Fester, that is. He's her husband’s story of the angels’ visit. Wise content to stay in his humble cabin (think cars man Gaspar’s wife wasn’t allowed to travel on cement blocks in the front yard), away along on his business trip. Musical numbers from the busyness, bright lights and bling- accompany each woman’s monologue. Each bling. A housewarming surprise awaits them woman’s story holds a mirror up to our own in the city: Santa bearing expensive gifts. The lives, and the presentation concludes with a contrast on the split stage of Fester's simple thought-provoking question: “Will you set Nativity re-enactment with the materialistic aside the busyness and let the God of the madness at the mansion says it all. Have the manger fill your heart to overflowing?” cousins morally sold out to the "almighty dollar"? The ending reminds us to rethink our priorities at Christmas and proves that y'all can take the cousins out of Cricket County, but y'all can't take the Cricket County out of the cousins.
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CHRISTMAS AT THE CRICKET CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE CHRISTMAS AROUND THE COUNTY CAFE A YEAR WORLD BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: MELVIN R. WHITE BY: KARYL GARNER 5 females, 5 males, 5-12 females, 5-14 1 female, 4 males, 6-17 either, 11-22 total, 10 total • 45 minutes • males, 0-15 either, 15-30 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible eScript Perusal: $1.99 10-41 total, 5-25 • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script • Script Perusal: $3.99 extras, doubling Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital • ePlay Package: possible, gender Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play $27.99 (Digital Scripts flexible • 30 minutes • Package: $49.99 (24 Scripts and Performance and Performance eScript Perusal: $1.99 Rights) Rights) • Play • Script Perusal: $3.99 Package: $42.99 (12 • ePlay Package: Using the fantasy of a magical aircraft, glimpses of Christmas are seen in Sweden, Scripts and $20.99 (Digital Scripts CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) and Performance Mexico and Italy. Many children participate as Rights) • Play narrators, actors-in-pantomime, members of Granny Taylor is fixin' to cook up a storm at Package: $35.99 (12 the several processionals and as singers. her famous Christmas supper, and she asks Scripts, Photocopy Little or no memorization required. All the snooty City Cousins to help. Though such Rights, and episodes are brief. The playkit offers detailed manual labor is clearly beneath them, the only Performance Rights) instructions about how to stage this pageant reason they agree is to hear the amendment This Christmas special includes views of the with only one rehearsal. An excellent vehicle to rich Uncle Zeke's will after the last yuletide season combined into a single for involving children of many ages in a customer leaves. Dodging grouchy Granny's program. The old and the modern, the sacred Christmas worship service. verbal bullets, they bust their britches to get and the secular, the sentimental and the their work done, because money talks—with a humorous—all are wonderfully mixed in this Southern twang! But there's more brewing at free-flowing Readers Theatre narrative of CHRISTMAS COMES TO the café than just the coffee. Country Cousin biblical quotes, historical extracts, public LICKETY-SPLIT Fester turning into a cool dude? Grumpy notices, old carols, literary quotes, poetry and BY: JOY CLEVELAND Granny a wanna-be Snow Queen? And dramatic sequences. A delightful compendium 8 females, 5 males, what’s with Oswald buttering up his boss of the spoken arts to express the complete 13 total • 20 minutes • faster than Granny's homemade biscuits? message of Christmas in all its meanings. A eScript Perusal: $1.99 Uncle Zeke’s will reading stops everyone in • Script Perusal: $3.99 marvelous script for getting a Readers their tracks. There's a major attitude shift in • ePlay Package: Theatre group started in your church. the café as all recognize the folly of their $20.99 (Digital Scripts selfish ways and focus on the birth of the and Performance Rights) • Play baby Jesus. Warm-hearted and inspirational, A CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER Package: $35.99 (15 but still a hoot! BY: ANDREW HANSEN, JENNIFER HANSEN Scripts and 7 females, 8 males, Performance Rights) 15 total • 40 minutes • THE CASE OF THE MISSING eScript Perusal: $1.99 Yee-haw! Round up the cowboys and MEANING • Script Perusal: $3.99 cowgirls—it's a Western minus the guns, BY: BEN FRY • ePlay Package: violence or even a saloon. Lickety-Split is 5-9 females, 6-10 $20.99 (Digital Scripts such a sleepy little—well, cow town—that the males, 1-4 either, and Performance jail is downright dusty. Its residents are busy 12-23 total, doubling Rights) • Play with their Christmas preparations when a possible • 30 minutes Package: $42.99 (17 series of robberies puts everyone in a dither! Scripts and • eScript Perusal: Gone are a gee-tar, a can of beans, a shawl, Performance Rights) $1.99 • Script Perusal: a sweet 'tater pie and one red sock. Could it $3.99 • ePlay The scene is the army headquarters of be the notorious Corn Puddin' Gang? Yep, Package: $20.99 General Satan. He and his demon officers— (Digital Scripts and and the stolen goods are presents for Performance Rights) • Sergeant Slander, Major Worries, Corporal persnickety Ma, who just wants ham, eggnog Play Package: $49.99 Selfishness, Double Agent Apathy and others and fruitcake. Then, through a setup game of (25 Scripts and —are trying their best to stop the first hide 'n seek, the items resurface and the Performance Rights) Christmas from taking place. Failure to do so sheriff nabs the Gang. The youngsters tell the will let untold gifts like redemption, salvation Beautiful Christina d'Amour has a problem-- criminals about the Christmas baby. He's for and grace into the world. They think their she can't find the meaning of Christmas. She everyone, good or bad. Ma gets the feast she devilish quest will be easy when they gleefully asks "Bogart-esque" detective Sam Heart to craved and more as the townsfolk befriend note that a young, unmarried girl has gotten take her case. In Sam's quest, he encounters her—and the "bad guys" lose the bad! The pregnant—supposedly with God's Son! But many people who have less-than-satisfying cast gets to wear snazzy Western duds and challenges from the good side await them, answers. Just when all seems hopeless, Sam talk "cowboy." It's a toss-up who'll have more complete with a cheerleader angel who urges discovers the real meaning of Christmas in a fun—the young performers or the audience! Joseph to stay with Mary. Many funny-with-a- selfless act of love. point clashes of good vs. evil. Written in the same satirical style as C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters.
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CHRISTMAS IN HAWAII THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL CHRISTMAS LETTERS BY: JILL KRUPELA BY: ARTHUR L. ZAPEL BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 6 females, 5 males, 7 2 females, 2 males, 4 3 females, 3 males, either, 18 total, total • 18 minutes • 8-16 either, 14-22 gender flexible • 30 eScript Perusal: $1.99 total, doubling minutes • eScript • Script Perusal: $3.99 possible, gender Perusal: $1.99 • Script • ePlay Package: flexible • 20 minutes • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $12.99 (Digital Scripts eScript Perusal: $1.99 Package: $20.99 and Performance • Script Perusal: $3.99 (Digital Scripts and Rights) • Play • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) • Package: $20.99 (6 $20.99 (Digital Scripts Play Package: $42.99 Scripts and and Performance (20 Scripts and Performance Rights) Rights) • Play Performance Rights) Package: $42.99 (16 A reading on the meaning of Christmas. Four Scripts and Fresh pineapple, volcanoes and orchids— readers (two couples) are all that is required Performance Rights) wow! A warm and sunny paradise would be to present this classic story by one of the just the ticket on December 25th, right? world's most celebrated Christian writers, Best-selling author Gail Gaymer Martin Wrong. The Smith siblings miss their friends, Henry Van Dyke. In the Country Beyond the returns with another novel program idea for
CHRISTMAS family and even the snow! They go to a Stars, there was discord among the angels children: What if we could write letters and traditional island luau with long faces and low about how peace and charity might be given find out how people felt about the events expectations. As the meal progresses, the to all on Earth—about how the helpless might surrounding Jesus' birth? Children write kids hear a retelling of Jesus' birth beside a be saved from their oppressors. Archangel letters to Joseph, Mary, the Innkeeper, a lei-draped Nativity set. In the end, there's a Michael would bring divine judgment with his Shepherd, an Angel and the Baby Jesus. big surprise for the siblings to share—and a sword. Uriel cautioned that power corrupts— They read the letters aloud, personalizing newfound gratitude that a mele Kalikimaka only knowledge could banish evil. There was them with their own names at the closing. (merry Christmas) can be celebrated indecision until Raphael reasoned that there Then the costumed biblical characters reply, anywhere with the proper heart attitude. With could be no remedy save love. But how might reading their letters from scrolls. Between the requisite leis, Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, men be made like God? There was no answer each pair of contemporary and historical flip-flops and sunglasses, Christmas play until the Christmas Angel that dwelt in the letters, children sing a verse of original lyrics costuming has never been so colorful, heart of a pure virgin said, "The Son of God set to the tune of "The Snow Lay on the unexpected or fun! There are opportunities for shall become man. Though he will suffer at Ground" (music included) that reinforces the several songs within the luau program, plus the hands of the cruel and wicked, his pain content of each letter. The user-friendly instructions for making the coolest prop ever and meekness will draw all to him and to the reading format means practically no —a papier-mâché luau pig! peace of God." memorization is required for the children, yet the simplicity of staging doesn't detract from the beautiful traditional story of Christ's birth. BROADCASTING CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS ON TRIAL BY: MARTI SUDDARTH BY: GREG THOMAS CHRISTMAS MORNING LIVE! 2 females, 2 males, 2 either, 6 total, 4-25 1 female, 6 males, 1 BY: NANCY MOORE extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript either, 8 total, 1-20 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay extras • 30 minutes • 8 females, 7 males, 4 either, 19 total, 11-30 Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 extras, gender flexible • 40 minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) • ePlay Package: Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and $20.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 Revisit the days of 1940s-era radio drama! and Performance (21 Scripts and Performance Rights) The story, as told on WJOY radio: "Miss Rights) • Play Wisecracking anchorwoman Starry Night Placed" seeks a Gumshoe's help in finding Package: $29.99 (10 Christmas. They go to a toy store, to a deli in Scripts and settles in for a special edition of Your Witness search of figgy pudding and to a holiday party. Performance Rights) News in Bethlehem. She is hot on the trail of Finally they stumble upon a church's simple a story – the Messiah’s purported birth. She A cynical Roman prosecutor is determined to pageant performance where they find interviews Matthew and Luke, Eve Creation, prove that the stories surrounding the Christmas - the baby Jesus in a manger. and Jesse Tree to get the facts. All the while, Messiah's birth are nothing but myths. Three Children are delightful as "sound technicians," the prophet Isaiah offers unsolicited key witnesses for the defense testify about using toys, balls, slide whistles, boxes and predictions about what will happen. Starry the events of the night Jesus was born, rhythm instruments to create sound effects. thinks Isaiah is an annoying know-it-all, but followed by appropriate carols sung by the The congregation becomes the live studio he’s one step ahead of her with the inside congregation to reinforce their testimonies. audience. Includes traditional sing-along scoop on the baby Messiah’s gender, name, Included are: 1. A shepherd—"Angels We carols plus one original song, "Santa's and location. Even investigative reporter Holly Have heard on High," 2. A stable boy—"Away Coming" (music included). No memorization! Daze is no match for his amazing in a Manger," 3. A maidservant who The older children may read from their scripts, foreknowledge. Isaiah implores everyone to accompanied the wise men—"We Three and nonspeaking roles for younger children read his book – “It’s been on the best-seller Kings." Total audience involvement. The are included. list for hundreds of years!” Loads of humor verdict and the true identity of the court with fun commercials and many roles, but it’s personnel give the ending a delightful twist. Isaiah who really steals the show!
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CHRISTMAS IN CRICKET CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WITH THE KING AND THE MAIDEN COUNTY THE MAGI BY: LINDA BUFF BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: JACQUELINE HURLEY 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 25 minutes • 5 females, 4 males, 9 1 female, 3 males, 10-11 either, 14-15 total, eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • total • 40 minutes • 5-20 extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 A grandfather tells his grandchildren the tale: $27.99 (Digital Scripts (17 Scripts and Performance Rights) and Performance A king loves a maiden from afar, but he Rights) • Play The sudden appearance of a brilliant new star wonders if she would really love him back or if Package: $42.99 (11 commands everyone’s attention! The magi she would just be in love his power and
Scripts and meet to discuss their astrological observations possessions. He gives up his throne and CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) based on scriptural prophecies. The star crown and goes undercover as a servant to becomes their GPS as the trio prepares for Hillbilly hilarity abounds in this down-home gauge her devotion. As Grandpa’s story their road trip to the prophesied King. They drama with broadly played characters. It's a unfolds, characters pantomime the events. don’t want to go empty-handed, but what to clash of cultures when the well-heeled The ending is open but personal for everyone. give an infant who is destined to fulfill such a preppie city cousins take a limo to their A captivating illustration of John 1:14, “And wonderful but sacrificial prophecy? In the end country cousins' home for the reading of their the Word became flesh and dwelt among us the wise men do select gold representing his Uncle Zeke's will on Christmas Eve. When …” kingly status, but two unusual baby gifts as they discover that they are to receive only one well: incense for worship and myrrh for his hundred thousand dollars apiece, they throw sacrificial burial. A children’s choir may CHRISTMAS RAPPING a tantrum over such a "small" amount of perform selections from “Twinkle, Twinkle” to BY: WALTER K. DAVIS money—but the country cousins are thankful carols. 3 females, 2 males, 6 either, 11 total, 7-25 for their fifty dollars to buy new coats and extras, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript shoes. In their tradition, the country cousins Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay perform a simple Nativity reenactment for the CHRISTMAS RETURNS Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and city kids. Only then do the preppie cousins BY: SCOTT ICENHOWER Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) understand what it means to give without 1 female, 2 males, 4 reservation or condition. A surprise twist at either, 7 total, 1-25 The children of your church can perform with the end gives the country kids an unexpected extras, gender flexible a group of teenage "rappers" to present the bonus. • 25 minutes • eScript story of Christmas in a delightfully youthful Perusal: $1.99 • Script style. While younger children pantomime Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay CHRISTMAS: FAQ Package: $20.99 events centered around the Nativity, teen BY: PATRICIA CALEY (Digital Scripts and "rappers" present their rhyming narrative relating to appropriate Scripture. This 1 female, 6 males, 14-25 either, 21-32 total, Performance Rights) • 1-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Play Package: $29.99 appealing, youth-oriented program may be a 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script (9 Scripts and special event for Sunday school classes or a Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Performance Rights) church dinner during the Christmas holiday Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play This witty yet wise children’s play takes the season. Package: $49.99 (23 Scripts and Performance common experience of returning Christmas Rights) gifts and turns it into a reminder of God’s love. COME AND ADORE HIM Who hasn’t heard a child ask “Why?’ Kids and It’s December 26th and employee Pat works BY: GARY SHANK questions go together like Christmas and her store’s returns counter. Among the 1 female, 5 males, 2 either, 8 total, gender trees. A narrator reads from the second dissatisfied customers is a director who tries flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • chapter of Luke. Right from the start of “And it to return her choir because it’s not Christmas Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 came to pass in those days, that there went anymore and she doesn't need them – but Pat (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play out a decree from Caesar Augustus…” the points out that the choir can sing Easter Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance hapless narrator gets the first of many songs too. Another customer tries to return Rights) queries. The children’s delightfully innocent joy – but when Pat urges him to open the box, There are no lengthy speeches here—just a questions pepper the remainder of the he decides to keep it. Though returns are few well-chosen, beautifully written lines that storytelling as they try to make sense of a down, Pat says, "People should always have give depth and breadth to the Nativity wonderful but at times confusing story. A baby a song in their heart and keep the joy of characters. Mary shares her awe-filled born in a stable instead of a hospital? What Christmas all year long." The children’s choir perspective on Jesus' birth, then takes her about the shepherds “living in the fields”— sings only a few lines of most songs, so place beside the manger. Joseph, a shepherd didn’t they have houses? And why didn’t baby rehearsals aren’t overly time-consuming. A father and his child, and the wise men follow Jesus get a toy instead of gold, frankincense delightful performance with parts for all. with their short monologues, slowly building and myrrh? Other children respond, revealing until the living Nativity is complete. A simple the true nature of Jesus and our need for yet beautiful program that gently encourages Christmas. Carols and dramatic enactments the congregation to participate in worship by are interspersed with the Q and A. May be inviting them to join the Nativity scene and/or adapted for small or large congregations. place slips of paper with their gift to Jesus inside. May be presented by any group regardless of space or budget.
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CHRISTMAS his failures as a father, then gives the baby who find it inconvenient to carry out their roles a startling glimpse of Bethlehem, where Jesus pictures of his two young children and in Jesus' birth. Why? "Too young." "Too old." crowds gather for the census. A rich man, a asks him to watch over their lives. Michael, a "Too many family responsibilities." Like a Pharisee, a private investigator, a homeless young drug addict, is remorseful about how mirror, the biblical characters' excuses allow woman—each seeks a life that matters, he's abused his body. Wanting to come clean, Grant, Polly and Alice to see their own unaware of the coming Deliverer. Throughout, he offers his life. Katherine, a fifty-something weaknesses. They realize that God could a scribe passes on his trade to his bored and businesswoman and adult caretaker, first have used others to further his plan, but then antsy son. As they painstakingly write the grapples with her grief over her Alzheimer's- his "first choices" would've missed out on a Scriptures by hand, the scribe is so stricken mother's approaching death, then blessing. The real Christmas story is beautiful engrossed that he's oblivious to the experiences peace as she gives her mother to because so many gave a no-holds-barred excitement at the nearby stable. He didn't Jesus. yes! to God. know the Messiah was born. We do know, yet we can turn our backs just as he did. An equal distribution of lines among the cast ensures CLUELESS AT CHRISTMAS CRICKET COUNTY CHRISTMAS that no one must memorize a long role in the BY: STEFANIE NOONAN CHARITY hectic holiday season. Beautiful Christmas 2 females, 4 males, 1 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON carols complement the action. Merry and either, 7 total, gender 7-8 females, 5 males, meaningful! flexible • 30 minutes • 12-13 total, doubling eScript Perusal: $1.99 possible, gender • Script Perusal: $3.99 flexible • 45 minutes • COME TO BETHLEHEM AND • ePlay Package: eScript Perusal: $1.99 SEE $20.99 (Digital Scripts • Script Perusal: $3.99 BY: RONALD D. VAUGHAN and Performance • ePlay Package: Rights) • Play 4 females, 5 males, 9 total • 40 minutes • $27.99 (Digital Scripts Package: $29.99 (9 and Performance eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Scripts and Rights) • Play ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Package: $42.99 (15 (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) Everyone's in a dither when baby Jesus turns Scripts and Performance Rights) up missing from the church Nativity set, with There's nothing like audience participation to nothing but a cryptic clue left in the manger. Aw, shucks - do the wealthy City Cousins lift a program's performance from the passive The pastor, the church secretary and a finally have a heart after all? After years of practice of merely watching to an active one deacon wanna-be begin a wild goose chase. trying to wrestle their Country Cousins' vast of total involvement. In this scene, Elizabeth, One note leads to another when the hapless inheritance away at their Christmas family Joseph, the Innkeeper, Shepherd, Wise Man, crew embarks on the wackiest treasure hunt gatherin's, they resolve to steer clear of any Herod, Anna and Mary speak firsthand of their ever. Why was the baby taken? Who did it? money talk. But eavesdropping cousin Elkin impressions of Jesus' birth. Following each There are outrageous guesses and dead overhears something shocking. Are the City biblical character's brief monologue, the ends, but the one thing the baby's absence Cousins really flat broke? Cricket County congregation participates by responding to proves is that "sometimes when you don't residents dig deep in their tattered pockets to him or her. Each short responsive reading have something, it makes you miss it even collect canned goods and used clothing for expresses how we, too, experience some of more." Lots of holiday laughs up until the last the "poor" City Cousins, leaving themselves the very same issues and emotions in our note is read. The mysterious kidnapping is paupers once again. The rich get richer'n the modern lives, establishing a personal finally resolved as all see the ransom was poor get poorer in this encounter between the connection with these biblical persons from paid in full. So easy to stage, with a simple set haves and the hillbilly have-nots—but in the long ago. Suggestions for Scriptures and and small cast. end, it's better to give than receive. Hootin', carols are included. Easy to organize with hollerin' fun with all the Southern only one rehearsal needed to pull the various colloquialisms and side-splitting humor that components together. A traditional service make Cricket County performances so with a contemporary voice. entertaining for y'all!
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A COMMITTEE OF ANGELS A CRICKET COUNTY A CRICKET COUNTY BY: VERLYNN KNEIFL, LAURIE LARSEN CHRISTMAS CAROL CHRISTMAS CRUISE 1 female, 1 male, 57 either, 59 total, 30-60 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON extras, gender flexible • 40 minutes • eScript 9 females, 4 males, 13 total, 1-15 extras • 45 5 females, 7 males, Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script 12 total, 1-10 extras • Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital 45 minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Perusal: $1.99 • Script (20 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Package: $42.99 (15 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Performance Rights) Rights) Package: $27.99 Alarming reports are reaching heaven. (Digital Scripts and Hillbillies past, present and future take the Performance Rights) • Mortals do't seem to remember the true stage in this version of the classic tale. Play Package: $42.99 meaning of Christmas! A bumbling junior Entrepreneur Mimi is the proud owner of a (14 Scripts and CHRISTMAS angel visits earth to investigate. Just what dress shop. Problem is, the more money she Performance Rights) does this holiday mean? There are "answers" makes, the more money she wants. Greed Talk about fish out of water! When the galore. Tree lights. Sugar cookies. Christmas prompts her to spend Christmas Eve at home Country Cousins take an exotic tropical cruise cards and carols and pageants. Just when the alone, counting her day’s take instead of with their City Cousins, podunk 'n pauper angels begin to despair about the state of celebrating with her Country Cousins. At meets prim and proper. The hillbillies are humankind, there is a sudden flurry of activity midnight Glenda Mae and Brenda Mae mistaken for the ship's janitors, they think an on earth. The bakers, carolers, shoppers and appear as the Spirits of Christmas Past. Then actor playing the wise man in a Christmas decorators work together to give a homeless Fester with his ever-present axe shows up as pageant is the real deal, and gol-lee—is that family their merriest Christmas ever! Several the Spirit of Christmas Present. Finally Elkin Glenda Mae and Brenda Mae looking like vignettes are included but each contributes to draped in a long, black robe (the Spirit of supermodels after miraculous makeovers? the story, unlike the "patchwork quilt" Christmas Yet to Come) reveals to Mimi what There's no end to the silliness when the approach of many large-cast Christmas plays. her selfish future holds—and it ain’t pretty. yokels rub elbows with the maitre d', the Features short, easily learned lines with a mix Materialistic Mimi wakes from her dream, cruise director and Michael, the wealthy of secular and sacred Christmas music. wondering what in the Dickens is going on. sophisticate passenger—or is he? Hilarious She actually shares the gifts she’d bought for entertainment with a theme of judging on herself—a true Christmas miracle! A CRICKET COUNTY BLIZZARD outward appearances creatively interwoven BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON with the Christmas story. 7 females, 7 males, A CRICKET COUNTY 14 total • 45 minutes • CHRISTMAS FEUD DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? eScript Perusal: $1.99 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON • Script Perusal: $3.99 BY: LEONE CASTELL ANDERSON • ePlay Package: 9 females, 8 males, 17 total • 45 minutes • 1 female, 1 male, 9 either, 11 total, 1-20 extras, $29.99 (Digital Scripts eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: and Performance ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $49.99 (16 (19 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Scripts and ‘Tis the season for… fussin’? There’s an oil Performance Rights) Performance Rights) field at stake in Cricket County—or is it just Listen! Ringing and singing, the sounds of Of all the tasks on the Country Cousins’ over yonder in Chigger County? Each side Christmas abound—in church, at home, in the Christmas to-do list, becoming ice sculptures tries to lay claim to the field. These neighbors stores, all around. This program for Sunday was definitely not one of them! It's dang near ain’t very neighborly! The opportunistic and school students has an easy and informal freezin’ in the holler—colder’n y’all can shake entitled City Cousins, who think they’re all that feel, as the children explore what we hear at a stick at. As the snow comes down, the and a bag of pork rinds, flirt, flatter and finagle Christmastime with their teacher. All will smile anxiety levels go up. How in tarnation is in a desperate bid to get a cut of the revenue. at the youthful energy of their comments as Christmas supposed to happen when the Everybody jumps into the fray: the world’s they warm to the topic. It’s not just noise, but “chillbillies” are snowbound? And what will most stoic chauffeur, Donna Jo (who seems a veritable orchestra of bells (jingle, sleigh, happen to their traditional pageant? Glenda half angel), Oswald as a hotshot lawyer, and Salvation Army, door and church), weather Mae’s buck teeth are a-chatterin’—and is that the folks in Chigger County, who bear an (the howl of winter winds and the crunch of frostbite or freckles on Brenda Mae’s nose? uncanny resemblance to the Cricket County- snow), people (Christmas greetings, laughter Before Cricket County freezes over and ites (Bertha Mae and Gertha Mae, anyone?). and gift-receiving gratitude), nuts cracking icicles form on Fester’s beloved axe, Bouts of physical comedy and sight gags, and fireplaces crackling. The cadence of good something must be done! Enter the City hilarious misunderstandings, and “well, duh” cheer! Even the sacred hush of silence. Cousins, who learn to trade their opportunistic moments quicken the pace and deliver big Includes the Christmas story from Luke 2 and ways for the joy of Christmas giving with a laughs! Yet after the hullabaloo settles over many opportunities for congregational carol- warmth that thaws the coldest of hearts. A who gets what, the show goes on courtesy of singing and child instrumental solos. A humorous reminder that peace on earth might a simply sweet pageant with a purpose: performance that resonates with joy! seem as though it comes with a price tag, but setting aside differences at the foot of the it is equally available and affordable to all. manger.
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A CRICKET COUNTY A CRICKET COUNTY A CRICKET COUNTY OLD CHRISTMAS WEDDING COLORADO CHRISTMAS FOLKS' CHRISTMAS BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON 6 females, 5-8 males, 5 females, 5 males, 10 females, 7 males, 11-14 total, 1 extra • 10 total • 45 minutes • 17 total • 45 minutes • 40 minutes • eScript eScript Perusal: $1.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay • ePlay Package: • ePlay Package: Package: $27.99 $27.99 (Digital Scripts $27.99 (Digital Scripts (Digital Scripts and and Performance and Performance Performance Rights) • Rights) • Play Rights) • Play Play Package: $49.99 Package: $42.99 (12 Package: $49.99 (19 (16 Scripts and Scripts and Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Love is in the air at The irrepressible Country and City Cousins There’s a new gaggle of oldster hillbillies in the Cricket County ski-daddle on up to the mountains to hit the Cricket County, and these spitfires and ol’ Café. Elmer Crick slopes for their Christmas vacation. Romance geezers are every bit as funny and feisty as proposes to Glenda Mae and insists they get is in the air as the cousins’ feisty Grandma the young’uns. Scheming’s afoot at the old
CHRISTMAS married on Christmas Eve—but gettin' hitched Taylor takes a shine to grumpy Gramps at the folks’ home—but watch out for all the ifs, doesn't go without a hitch. Fester loses the ski lodge. But it’s all downhill from there as a ands, and buts. Grandma Taylor’s friend has ring while ice fishing, Brenda Mae searches blizzard hits, the ski lifts close, and the Altzheimer’s—AND Grandma wants to care relentlessly for her Prince Charmin', ninety- cousins interfere with the budding romance. for her, yet Bobbie’s hubby refuses. The something Orvel pesters Grandma for a date, Or is Gramps too grouchy to care? Hilarious opportunistic city cousins discover a down- the City Cousins think Elmer is marrying misunderstandings and culture clashes are home remedy that’s a true “miracle pill,” BUT Glenda Mae for her money, the phone rings here aplenty. Don’t miss the unfortunate use they want to make a buck, not help the off the hook with carryout orders, and Mimi is of poison ivy instead of mistletoe or the residents. Mimi keeps a therapy journal, BUT the most overbearing wedding planner ever. untimely demise of Mimi’s beloved fluffball, hopes for fame and fortune when it’s She wants exquisite flowers, imported silks FiFi. Christmas carols (Fester sings—cover published. Glenda Mae will marry Elmer—IF and caviar, but all Elmer wants is a simple live your ears!) and a short Nativity play all add up he does as she says, and Oswald will Nativity. Zinging one-liners, homespun to festive entertainment wrapped in a propose to Brenda Mae IF he gets the family’s Southern sayings, a lot of caterwallin', and reminder to appreciate our elderly—“Jesus oil fields. But as Elkin delivers the Christmas solid theology culminate in an unforgettable was born for us old people too, you know.” devotions at the nursing home, Bobbie’s curtain call that is one part live Nativity and Christmas comedy at its finest! hubby maneuvers her wheelchair and attends one part wedding. We reckon y'all will love it! to her needs … No strings attached. Amid big FOREVER AND EVER laughs, the residents unwrap the unconditional love of Christmas for the gift it HAVE YOU HEARD THE BY: MARGARET SMITH truly is. LATEST? 8 females, 8 males, 6 either, 22 total, 1-10 BY: PEGGY A. FORD extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript 6 females, 1 male, 7 total • 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay THE CLOWNS' CHRISTMAS Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and PARTY Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 BY: JAMES BROCK (24 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (9 12 either, 12 total, Scripts and Performance Rights) This dramatic pageant features the familiar gender flexible • 20 The rumors are flying fast and furious around scenes from the biblical Christmas story that minutes • eScript Nazareth about teenage Mary. Has she put we all cherish: Mary and Joseph's trip to Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay on a little weight? She can't be pregnant! And Bethlehem, the shepherds visited by the angels, and the Magi following the star. All Package: $20.99 what about those wild claims of an angel's (Digital Scripts and visit? Surely she's making up stories! And her convene at the humble manger in a Performance Rights) • family? They think Mary's baby will be the Christmas-card-worthy tableau. But the Play Package: $35.99 Savior of the world. Talk about dysfunctional! performance isn't over yet! Apparitions (14 Scripts and The murmurings in the marketplace—like a dressed in white resembling each of the Performance Rights) characters appear: a ghostly angel, shepherd, game of "telephone"—follow Mary wherever Each clown does his stunt, for which he is wise man, and Mary and Joseph. They share she goes. It all seems too preposterous. given his name: Lean & Look, Mr. Quiet, Mr. the rhyme and reason, purpose and plan for What's fact and what's fiction? The story— Honker, Miss Wiggle Waggle, Mr. Big, Mr. the roles in the Christmas story that each starting with Jesus' birth and ending with his Little, The Doctor, The Patient, Run, Stumble figure embodies—at once simple, yet visit to the temple at age twelve—is revealed and Fall! There's a lot of laughter with every profound. Each one contributes to the in juicy tidbits of gossip passed from one skit until a strange clown with no name wants incredible experience of Jesus' birth and the woman to another. Each new revelation builds to join them. They vote him out until he sings ongoing message of Christmas. The pageant on the one before it until a complete picture of a Christmas song so beautifully that everyone concludes with a poignant scene of the grown the Christmas story emerges. Easy to stage. is made happy inside. They vote him back in Jesus holding himself as a baby and speaking Suitable for a women's ministry Christmas because happiness is one of the greatest truth into all our lives. Teens or adults may be program or service. Christmas gifts. mixed with the child performers if desired.
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THE GATEKEEPER A CRICKET COUNTY CITY HOLY HOLLY CHRISTMAS BY: JANIS E. SAARELA CHRISTMAS BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 8 females, 9 males, 17 total • 30 minutes • BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON 3 females, 6 either, 9 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • 8 females, 4 males, total, 1-15 extras, ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and 12 total • 45 minutes • gender flexible • 20 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 minutes • eScript (19 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay It's business as usual at the shabby wooden • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts Package: $20.99 gate leading to the little town of Bethlehem. and Performance (Digital Scripts and Though a wholly transformative event is Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • taking place, life is on autopilot in this sleepy Package: $42.99 (14 Play Package: $35.99
little village. A homeless woman still wanders, Scripts and (11 Scripts and CHRISTMAS a tax collector still collects and the bakers are Performance Rights) Performance Rights) baking (and making a colossal mess along The setting for this most recent installment of Why do we “deck the halls with boughs of with the breads and cakes). One of the angels the popular Cricket County dramas is the big holly” at Christmas? In this easy-to-present watching from above is a self-appointed sin city. Some of the funniest lines yet are here! program, children discover that the spiky buster with a huge reprimand for a young The conflict? The Country Cousins arrive at glossy leaves and bright red berries are more hoodlum's antics and the dishonest words of a their City Cousins' mansion—on the same day than just a festive decoration. They enact the rich man. Meanwhile, the search is on for one as a high-society maven, who decides if the early druids’ use of holly and its secular righteous man in all of Bethlehem who can wealthy cousins will be accepted into an “roots,” then discover that holly really watch the gate and thus protect the city. The exclusive society. The City Cousins, feeling symbolizes Jesus Christ: the evergreen prophet Moriah preaches repentance and their chances are doomed, desperately give foliage reminds us that he is eternal, the announces the birth of Jesus. Who professes their backwoods relatives a crash course in prickly points stand for his crown of thorns belief and who does not? The answers are as etiquette and social graces. Side-splitting and the crimson berries symbolize his shed unpredictable as the weather. Ends with an hilarity abounds as the sophisticated society blood. The drama culminates in children imperative question at the beautiful gate of snob meets the hillbilly cousins, who try— singing the classic carol “The Holly and the heaven: “Why should I let you in?” By turns albeit unsuccessfully—to act civilized. Sight Ivy,” which beautifully highlights each part of reflective and humorous. Fairly equal gags galore! The surprise ending reveals the plant as it relates to Christianity. Includes distribution of lines, with most roles non- everything about the Country Cousins' instructions for creating a pine cone and holly gender-specific. character and their reason for celebrating wreath for a stunning backdrop. The audience Christmas. There's an unexpected coup for receives ribbon-tied holly sprigs as a GOOD TIDINGS TIMES THREE the City Cousins too! A great follow-up to the memento of the plant’s rich meaning. All will BY: CASEY SMITH, SHARON SMITH other Cricket County plays, but easily stands have a holy holly Christmas! alone as well. 2 males, 7 either, 9 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script THE LAST-MINUTE Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS* PAGEANT Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play BY: BOB HOSTETLER Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA Rights) 11 females, 5 males, 16 total, 8 extras • 35 4 either, 4 total, 5-7 extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script The Angel of the Lord’s announcement, “I Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital bring you good news of great joy that will be Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play for all the people…” is familiar to us all. Now Package: $42.99 (18 Scripts and Performance Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and Performance imagine a prequel to the Angel’s appearance Rights) Rights) to the shepherds. First the Angel visits rabbis This is not your typical warm and fuzzy “The Christmas program is only a month Harem and Scarem, who quibble with “for all sitcom. Dysfunctional, sarcastic and messy is away. What are we doing? Argh!” When the people,” insisting, “Surely you mean all more like it. It’s angel vs. demon. The demon rehearsals should have started a month ago, obedient Jewish people.” Next, the Angel tries thinks no one celebrates Jesus’ birthday, but too often the resulting service is hastily thrown religious teachers Shamma and Jamma, who the angel begs to differ. They eavesdrop on together. This delightful impromptu can’t believe that the Messiah would lie in a an extended family gathering with bickering performance with a strong Christmas manger. Ewww! After getting shut down twice, kids, a misanthropic dad, hippie leftovers, message is a quality solution when time is the Angel realizes she must find those who overbearing vegans, a weird stepdaughter, short. Remember, there was no rehearsal for will truly listen out of their deep need, so she and a grandpa who snores like a chainsaw— the first Christmas either! Only three people visits some ragtag shepherds. Third time’s the in short, a bevy of bad habits, confrontations, are required, plus a worship band or soloists. charm! This gentle satire skewers social loopy characters and lifestyle clashes. The Their banter is lively and conversational. The standing, assumptions, and meeting Jesus demon is positively gleeful at the family’s additional cast members come from your where he is, not where we expect him to be. distractions with Santa, shopping, food and congregation, including several children. Live Caribbean vacation dreams. Then, in the theatre is always exciting, and this ups the midst of the chaotic craziness, a small child ante—no one knows exactly what’s going to sings a simple song that cuts to the chase: happen! An unconventional approach, but Christmas is about Jesus, and that truth traditional in terms of the biblical account. unifies even the most disparate groups. From the opening song to the closing Funny, real and unexpectedly touching. candlelighting and benediction, worshipers + kids + music + imagination equals memorable Christmas magic!
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LETTERS FROM SANTA JESSE, THE LITTLE SHEPHERD CREATURE'S CHRISTMAS BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN BY: MARY LEE STEVENS BY: NANCY AMONDSON 1 female, 2 males, 9 1 female, 1 male, 12-22 either, 14-24 total, 4-20 16 either, 16 total, gender flexible • 15 minutes • either, 12 total, 1-50 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 20 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • extras, gender flexible minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Performance Rights) • Play Package: $28.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play (18 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $56.99 (26 Scripts and Performance Package: $20.99 Rights) Not a single human in this charming Nativity (Digital Scripts and story—only animals that speak and sing about Performance Rights) • Jesse, a young shepherd boy, decides to stay the events of the baby Jesus' birth. They Play Package: $35.99 behind when his father, brothers and other relate the complete Nativity story from an (14 Scripts and shepherds go to Bethlehem to see the Holy animal's point of view. In the cast are camels, Performance Rights) Child. He wants to care for a newly born, a donkey, a cow, mice, gophers and several orphaned lamb. As he plays his flute in his For years, children have written letters to other animals. The symbolic animal costumes loneliness, he is visited by five angels who Santa with their hoped-for presents. Now add a wonderful touch of childhood magic to convince him to go to Bethlehem with them. Santa has something to say to them! To kids the world's most beautiful story of Christmas. At the stable he offers his baby lamb as a gift obsessed with Xboxes and Wiis, Santa gives Includes several popular carols. for the infant Jesus. But Joseph and Mary CHRISTMAS his own symbolic gifts with accompanying return it to him saying the lamb needs his letters of explanation. The gifts include: 1. care. A better gift, the angels tell him, would THE INN CROWD Key—Jesus was homeless most of his life/ be for him to play his flute for Jesus. As he BY: JEFF DYER belief in him is key. 2. Lamb—Shepherds plays, each child in the audience goes to the 4 females, 9 males, 14 either, 27 total, 1-10 heard the good news of his birth/Jesus is the stage and attaches a paper heart to the extras, gender flexible • 35 minutes • eScript Good Shepherd. 3. Angel—They proclaimed manger as a symbol of their dedication to Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Jesus as the Savior. 4. Star—Guided the Jesus. Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and wise men/Jesus is the way to heaven. 5. Performance Rights) • Play Package: $56.99 Candle—Jesus is the light of the world. (29 Scripts and Performance Rights) Virtually no memorization—the children read THE LITTLEST ANGEL There's a vacancy at the Holy Day Inn — and Santa's letters aloud. Santa reveals his roots BY: SHARON A. KIRBY-COLE, LINDA an assortment of characters try to claim the as Nicholas, saint to the poor, and the CHEEVER one remaining room, ranging from a leper to a children sing a closing song, "The True 5-8 females, 6-7 males, 5 either, 16 total, Pharisee to a scribe to a prophet with a Christmas." Includes an Advent activity of a doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • penchant for a Magic 8 Ball. As feisty poster and/or small memento cards to give to eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • innkeeper Martha finds fault with each the audience. ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 potential guest, she changes the sign to “No (18 Scripts and Performance Rights) Vacancy.” Even Mary and Joseph get ISN'T THIS WHAT CHRISTMAS banished to the barn! But through the IS ALL ABOUT? Nothing says Christmas like a retelling of the supernaturally holy events of Jesus’ birth, classic tale The Littlest Angel. This charming BY: BERNARD DOUGHERTY Martha softens, and she finds room in her play follows the misadventures of Jimmy, the 2 females, 5 males, 3 heart — and her inn — for some of “the least new arrival in heaven. From his crooked halo of these.” The cast may be smaller or larger either, 10 total, 1-15 to singing off-key in the heavenly choir and extras, gender flexible depending on your group's size. Gentle humor failed flying lessons, he is hopelessly out of • 20 minutes • eScript infused with a timeless spiritual message. Perusal: $1.99 • Script kilter with the rest of heaven’s inhabitants. Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Then God announces the birth of his son on Package: $20.99 earth. The angels all outdo each other with THE NATIVITY -- LIVE! (Digital Scripts and spectacular baby gifts, like a soft cloud to lie BY: DIANNE BUNDT, JUANITA BUNDT Performance Rights) • on and heavenly music to listen to. 4 females, 3 males, 5-20 either, 12-27 total • 15 Play Package: $35.99 Embarrassed, Jimmy presents all he has to minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script (12 Scripts and the throne of God—a box of simple but much- Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Performance Rights) loved objects from his childhood on earth: a Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play The theme is the true Christmas spirit—how butterfly, a bluebird’s egg, two white stones, Package: $35.99 (14 Scripts and Performance Rights) we often lose it amid the stresses of the his dog’s collar, and marbles. God reassures holiday. Interspersed scenes of biblical events Jimmy of his gift’s worth, for it shows the joys This play for children and teens examines contrast with real-life situations. There are and blessings of earth—just what a small boy what the Bible really says about the traditional parts for participants of all ages, both in like his son will need. An endearing, warm- Nativity. At rehearsal, know-it-all Abigail, modern-day dress and biblical costumes. hearted production. bored Mike, eager newcomer Kari and "mover Group rehearsals are few, and some walk-on and shaker" Sue try to decide how to tell the roles may ben performed without any Christmas story. The question of why Jesus rehearsal. The total effect is a mini- was born in a manger is raised. Kevin says, spectacular. The congregation participates by "Maybe he wanted everyone to know they singing carols between the scenes. This were eligible for his love." Concludes with a program is very adaptable to any size church live Nativity tableau and Scripture reading. or chancel area.
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THE LITTLE SHEPHERD THE LITTLE STARS OF bad angel—it's just that he has too many BY: RACHEL OLSON BETHLEHEM other ideas of what an angel should do. In an 5 females, 10 males, 18 either, 33 total • 45 BY: JANET MEILI outrageous breach of conduct, he crosses the minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script 22-40 either, 22-40 barrier to earth to become the friend of a boy Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital total, gender flexible • suffering from polio. At midnight on Christmas Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play 15 minutes • eScript Eve, the decision will be made whether the Package: $63.99 (35 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script boy lives or dies. To save his life at the last Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay moment, angel Dana must rebuke his friend This heartwarming play features a small Package: $12.99 and destroy the friendship to make the boy (Digital Scripts and fight to live. He succeeds. Mr. Angelo then shepherd boy named Thaddeus who Performance Rights) • possesses a special gift—the ability to talk to Play Package: $32.99 realizes that Dana is a perfect angel even though his approach to angel work is animals. His earnest conversations with his (24 Scripts and CHRISTMAS dog. Mary and Joseph's donkey, a cow, a Performance Rights) unconventional. sheep and a camel convince him that a very Delightfully simple for young children to special baby—the Messiah—is about to be perform. A charming Christmas story about LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS born in Bethlehem! But Thaddeus's friends the five little stars of Bethlehem who search BY: JUDY GATTIS SMITH find this hard to believe. After all, he got his for a very special star to shine over the information from animals! Eventually the 7 either, 7 total, 5-25 manger on Christmas Eve. They talk with the extras, gender flexible children see the holy family for themselves moon, the constellation Orion, the Jerusalem • 20 minutes • eScript and share in the wonder of the newborn Star and Polaris. All of the distinguished stars Perusal: $1.99 • Script Jesus. Includes several well-known carols are unable or unwilling to be the Christmas Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay and one original song, "God's Own Son." Package: $20.99 star. When time is about to run out, the five Children in the nursery class through junior (Digital Scripts and little stars all combine to become a single high may participate. The youngest students Performance Rights) • brilliant "star." may serve as a choir and the flock of sheep. Play Package: $29.99 Older children may handle the speaking parts, (9 Scripts and Performance Rights) kept brief for easy memorization. An easy-to- CHRISTMAS SPIRIT? LET'S perform, memorable pageant. HEAR IT! A creative approach to help children BY: TILDA BALSLEY experience the spirit of Christmas. A unique THE LITTLE STAR: A 1 female, 5 males, 14-25 either, 20-31 total, participation resource designed to make CHRISTMAS FANTASY gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: Christmas a real experience for church school $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: students and all who witness it. Everyone is (PAGEANT) $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) involved as the Christmas story unfolds BY: GEORGENE C. MEDDOWS • Play Package: $32.99 (22 Scripts and through hearing, seeing and touching. Even 8-40 either, 8-40 total, Performance Rights) gender flexible • 35 the audience participates. The program itself What’s more heartwarming than a traditional minutes • eScript is presented unrehearsed, although some Perusal: $1.99 • Script Christmas pageant? This one gets back to the preparation is required. All the major Nativity Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay basics, with appearances by Mary and characters are represented. Package: $20.99 Joseph, the innkeeper, stable animals, (Digital Scripts and angels, shepherds and wise men—because Performance Rights) • “the real Christmas story never gets old.” The THE NIGHT THE ANIMALS SANG Play Package: $29.99 characters’ lines rhyme to make it easier for BY: KATHERINE BABB (10 Scripts and children to learn and remember them. They 8 either, 8 total, 15-30 Performance Rights) don’t merely recite what they did back then, extras • 15 minutes • A narrative with child actors is punctuated but fast-forward to today, with life applications eScript Perusal: $1.99 with traditional Christmas carols sung by a for all. Each quatrain is interspersed with a • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: children's choir. Children of many ages may verse from “Deck the Halls” with new lyrics. $20.99 (Digital Scripts participate as actors or singers. The story Wonderfully elastic casting may and Performance "stars" Little Star, who yearns to shine as accommodate a small or large group. The Rights) • Play other stars do. The Starlighter cannot light Christmas spirit can seem elusive—but who Package: $29.99 (10 Little Star until God gives permission. Little can resist the charms of children? With one Scripts and Star waits sadly until surprisingly, he/she is performance, all will see that the Christmas Performance Rights) chosen to be the Star of Bethlehem! God tells spirit is indeed alive and well. This play, based on the tradition that the Little Star about the Baby Jesus—why he was animals learned to speak on the first chosen to be born in a stable and how his A MOST UNLIKELY ANGEL Christmas Eve, is heartwarming and easy to love will bring peace. May be performed as a BY: JAMES BROCK produce. Children are adorable as costumed candlelight play. Also available as a musical. stable creatures who delight in their newfound 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ability to talk. They scurry about to prepare ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and their stable for the baby King. Includes carol- Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 singing plus the upbeat original song "It's a (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Miracle!" Narration and pantomimed parts (including a tableau of Mary and Joseph at Mr. Angelo, the chief angel in charge of star the manger) keep memorized spoken lines to polishing, simply cannot get Dana to follow a minimum. A perfect length for use in a multi- any of the celestial rules. It isn't that Dana is a
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event Christmas program. way. NOT WHAT I EXPECTED BY: COLLEEN ISON SCHEID OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS OPERATION CHRIST CHILD 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN BY: DANIEL WRAY Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and 2 females, 1 male, 5 either, 8 total, 1-20 extras • 1 female, 7 males, 7 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 (4 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script either, 15 total, Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital gender flexible • 40 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play minutes • eScript Laura and John take turns sharing about their Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script first five Christmases together: the great Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay debate over whose family to celebrate with, Package: $20.99 broken plumbing, a holiday ski getaway gone The sweet nostalgia of this program hearkens (Digital Scripts and wrong, sickness, adventures volunteering at a back to the simpler celebrations of yesteryear. Performance Rights) • soup kitchen, accidents, congealed gravy, In anticipation of their grandmother’s visit, Play Package: $42.99 and on the fifth Christmas, the premature birth children question their mother about what (17 Scripts and of their twins. Each vignette relates to a piece Christmas was like “back then.” They learn to Performance Rights) of the Nativity set: Mary, Joseph, a shepherd, make cranberry and popcorn strings, greeting There’s something brewing at headquarters. wise men and Jesus. They realize they’ve card ornaments (“found art” and recycling Archangel Saraphiel interrupts the angels’
CHRISTMAS never had the “perfect Christmas” but, while before it was the norm), pine cone softball game for an emergency meeting to you rarely get what you expected, you always decorations and red-and-green paper chains. discuss an “intervention in the human world.” get Jesus. Amid a holiday too often focused on He rolls out the master plan of Christ’s birth consumption, this program highlights the (with PowerPoint projected images). The holidays of days gone by when the pace was angels receive specific assignments to be ONE CLEAR STAR a bit slower ... when making crafts, sharing fulfilled in accordance with prophecy: BY: DICK CHARLTON memories, enjoying a home-cooked dinner arranging the census so Mary and Joseph will 3 females, 7 males, 10 total • 25 minutes • and especially the Bible story from Luke 2 be in Bethlehem when the baby is due, setting eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • took priority over the gifts—a breath of fresh up donkey transportation and parking, ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and air! Features several songs, including “Deck hanging the star, and making sure every room Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) the Halls” with new lyrics. Also contains at the Squeeze You Inn is full. Features a split instructions for making the handmade scene with Mary and Joseph where clever We consider this as memorable a play as ornaments used in the script. Extra ornaments dialog volleys back and forth, as well as futile Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It was written by may be handed to the audience as a attempts to get Herod to “knock-knock” it off. a British churchman stationed in Kenya, keepsake gift at the program’s conclusion. A fun behind-the-clouds glimpse of the Africa. Though first performed in Nairobi, its heavenly realm and its celestial inhabitants setting is a town in England. The incredible ORNAMENTS ALIVE! B.C. (Before Christmas). event of the drama could occur in any city of BY: SCOTT ICENHOWER any country. It is the story of a lonely, selfish man visited on Christmas Eve by several 2 females, 3 males, 8 RETURN TO CRICKET COUNTY "holy" unexpected guests. In his own heart either, 13 total, 5-15 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON extras, gender flexible the nativity event is re-enacted. He is united • 15 minutes • eScript 6 females, 4 males, again with all of the hope and joy of Christ Perusal: $1.99 • Script 10 total • 40 minutes • and Christmas that had been drained from Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 him through the years. This play promises to Package: $12.99 be a classic for Christmas performance. (Digital Scripts and • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) • $27.99 (Digital Scripts Play Package: $24.99 and Performance Rights) • Play OUR GIFTS TO JESUS (15 Scripts and BY: DAWN E. CONROY Performance Rights) Package: $42.99 (12 Scripts and 2 either, 2 total, 20-50 extras, gender flexible • Trimming the tree and “decking the halls” Performance Rights) 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script yields a surprising discovery for Chris. The Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Y'all come back now for more hillbilly fun! It's walls of the house don’t speak, but the Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play back to the hills for the snooty city kids as decorations and ornaments do! A sheep that Package: $24.99 (4 Scripts and Performance they pay a return visit to their backwoods Rights) ran away from the Nativity scene wonders country cousins. Though the cousins' primitive aloud what everyone’s celebrating. Is accommodations make them shudder, they Highlight the unique contributions of a variety Christmas Jesus’ birth? Or is it jingle bells and have an ulterior motive: to get their hands on of workers, from medical personnel to mistletoe? A tree-topper angel, an ornament the loot from Uncle Zeke's inheritance. Hilarity farmers, firefighters to educators. Parents and family (including children who spell out J-O- ensues as the savvy city kids find their volunteers are included too! The narrative Y), a Christmas ball, a reindeer and a wise bumpkin cousins unwittingly swindled out of relates each career to our relationship with man in turn discuss the many ways of their riches by some scheming New Yorkers. Christ. Each person places a prop symbolic of celebrating one remarkable birth. Includes But who's cheating whom? True confessions his/her profession at the manger — a ornament costume ideas for children with follow as the country cousins discover the city stethoscope, some books, a hardhat, etc. — adorable “hook hats.” So imaginative – their kids' less-than-honorable intentions. Many as a gift to Jesus. He was, after all, God’s gift faces and ornaments peek out from holes in a laugh-out-loud lines and sight gags. A study in to us! Makes everyone feel valued and fabric tree. Bridges the secular traditions with forgiveness with a country Christmas flavor. special. the sacred in a lively and visually interesting
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A PAGEANT OF LOVE PEPITA'S POINSETTIA THE ROAD TO CHRISTMAS BY: ARTHUR L. ZAPEL BY:* GAIL GAYMER MARTIN BY: MARY ANN SMITH 6 females, 5 males, 3 either, 14 total, gender 4 females, 3 males, 7 total, 1-30 extras • 20 1 female, 5 males, 12 flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script either, 18 total, 6-40 Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital extras, gender flexible (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • 20 minutes • eScript Package: $42.99 (16 Scripts and Performance Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script Rights) Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Celebrate Christmas with a special church Cheery poinsettias used to “deck the halls” (Digital Scripts and fellowship breakfast of fresh fruit and over the holidays are the focus of this play Performance Rights) • Christmas breads. Renew acquaintances with within a play. Secular tradition just for show? Play Package: $42.99
old friends that are home for the holidays. Not so fast! A mother shares fun facts and (20 Scripts and CHRISTMAS Then sit back and enjoy as children present little-known biblical symbolism of this crimson Performance Rights) an easily-staged pageant that beautifully plant native to Mexico with her children. The How would you go back in time to the first recaps the Christmas story. One adult reader scene comes to life in the old country, where Christmas? You’d need markers to point the speaks the poetry of beloved hymns while the children uphold tradition by going before the way. Four children hold up signs to other narrates the Christmas story with brief Nativity set in the chapel to lay a gift before emphasize key events of the first Christmas. lead-ins to the boys and girls. Each child the baby Jesus. One niña, Pepita, has Our journey begins at the first sign, carries a symbol relating to the story and nothing. In desperation, she grabs some “Prophets,” which takes us back hundreds of speaks a few lines of Scripture. When the weeds. As she shyly lays them at the manger, years before Jesus’ birth to the promised complete story of Jesus' birth through his suddenly they turn a vibrant red! Her gift given Messiah in the Old Testament. The second baptism is told, all the children form a pageant with love becomes beautiful. Includes a song, sign, “Nazareth,” guides us to the hometown line and sing a closing carol. Instructions for “Flower of the Holy Night,” with original lyrics of Mary and Joseph, where they encounter making the simple prop symbols as a class set to the familiar tune of the doxology. the angel Gabriel. The next sign, “Bethlehem,” activity are included. Program may also be Features flexible casting, with any number of leads us to the census and the stable where used in a worship service. children participating as singers or gift-givers. Jesus was born. The final sign, “You and I,” Includes an optional Advent activity of making points us to the end of the Christmas road – A PRIMETIME CHRISTMAS paper poinsettias for decorating or distributing or is it? No — it’s just the beginning. The birth to the audience. Your congregation will walk BY: SEAN SLAGLE of the baby means the birth of Christian living away with a renewed appreciation for the in our hearts. The beauty of this pageant is its 2 females, 2 males, 5 ubiquitous “Christmas flower.” either, 9 total, 4-7 multifaceted approach, with a responsive extras, gender flexible litany, carols, poetry recitation, and Scripture • 30 minutes • eScript SANTA GIVES BACK reading so many children may take part. Perusal: $1.99 • Script CHRISTMAS Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: JOHN V. BARTOCCI Package: $20.99 THE SHEPHERDS' PLAY (Digital Scripts and 1 female, 2 males, 22 either, 25 total, 0-25 BY: MICHELLE R. WILLIAMS Performance Rights) • extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript 3 females, 5 males, 8 total • 20 minutes • Play Package: $35.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • (11 Scripts and Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $63.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (27 Scripts and Performance Rights) Channel surfing at church? Absolutely – no (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) remote required! These snippets from popular This visual extravaganza will look like a Your youth group will have fun with this one, television formats include spoofs of a talk Christmas card come to life on your stage! loosely based on the medieval script The show where “Opriah” interviews Mary and The setting is Santa's workshop. Santa is Second Play of the Shepherds. Three Elizabeth, a game show where “What is the worried because he is so popular with today's shepherds are on duty in a field, trying to stay meaning of Christmas?” stumps contestants, children that he fears they've forgotten the awake while counting sheep (no easy task) a reality show about a pastor vs. a Hollywood real reason behind Christmas. He decides to and shooting the breeze about the end of the director at his church’s pageant and a bring all the children (adorably costumed in world and its effect on the calendar industry. newscast featuring field reporters interviewing pajamas) to the North Pole to teach them Mack, a known troublemaker with sticky shepherds. Interspersed are hilarious about Jesus' birth. Even the elves and fingers, shows up under the guise of learning commercials for Jonah’s Deep Sea Fishing, reindeer get in on the act! Who can resist the how to be a shepherd. The shepherds Abel’s Canes, the Miracle Diet (five loaves appeal of these stock characters of the suspect a trick and send him away. They are and two fishes) and more – a pastiche of season? Yet this play goes deeper than the distracted by how easily he leaves – until they approaches! May involve many actors or just frolicking fun. It doesn't glorify the commercial, realize one of the sheep is missing. Their a few with doubling and tripling – up to ten materialistic aspect of Santa. It merely uses search for stolen “Curly” sets in motion a characters for the shows and only one the beloved characters familiar to all kids to chain of events that includes a hilarious spokesperson for most commercials. Only a point them to the real reason we celebrate misunderstanding as Mack’s wife tries to pass few all-cast practices needed. These short Christmas. The music ranges from the bouncy off the cloak-wrapped lamb as a baby, a and snappy episodes create a fast-paced "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" to a confrontation with an angel, Mack’s comedy revue that reveals the complete story reflective rendition of "Silent Night" to close repentance and the shepherds’ journey to of Jesus’ birth. the production. Bethlehem to see the Christ child. Comes full circle from the ridiculous to the divine.
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SCROOGE AND THE THREE OUR FAMILY MEMORIES OF SLEEPOVER AT THE STABLE WISE GUYS CHRISTMAS BY: DOUGLAS J. EBOCH BY: JONATHAN DEIBLER BY: PETER WILLIAMSON 8 either, 8 total, 4 males, 1 either, 5 1 female, 2 males, gender flexible • 20 total • 20 minutes • 6-22 either, 9-25 total, minutes • eScript eScript Perusal: $1.99 15-40 extras, doubling Perusal: $1.99 • Script • Script Perusal: $3.99 possible, gender Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay • ePlay Package: flexible • 25 minutes • Package: $12.99 $20.99 (Digital Scripts eScript Perusal: $1.99 (Digital Scripts and and Performance • Script Perusal: $3.99 Performance Rights) • Rights) • Play • ePlay Package: Play Package: $20.99 Package: $29.99 (7 $20.99 (Digital Scripts (10 Scripts and Scripts and and Performance Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Rights) • Play It's bedtime at the stable and the menagerie is Package: $42.99 (17 This is not Scrooge’s night. He’s about to get Scripts and snoozing soundly. Suddenly, two humans visited by three ghosts when he’s rudely Performance Rights) crash the scene! The humans' donkey strikes awakened by three strange travelers. They’re up a conversation with the other animals. the Wise Guys with gifts of diapers, formula, The sharing of Christmas stories across the Their repartee gives a play-by-play of the birth
CHRISTMAS and a bib (because gold, frankincense, and generations will inspire your congregation to of baby Jesus. You'll love the characters: the myrrh aren’t practical or safe). It’s Bethlehem feel like a close-knit family. This program trio of chickens who say everything in or bust – but they’re hopelessly lost. Scrooge features the holiday reminiscences of the triplicate, the grouchy Goat who's trying to breaks the news to them that not only are older members of your church. Children sleep, the weary Donkey who carried Mary to they 1,800 years late and on the wrong interview senior citizens ahead of time with Bethlehem, the kind Cow, the chatty Sheep continent, they’re in a fictitious story! Through the help of a provided questionnaire that and the wisecracking Mule. Not a single Scrooge’s attempts to get them back on track covers music, visits to Santa, special foods, human in this charming performance—but still (taking them to church), and into the right traditions, church pageants and more. The the complete Nativity story is told. The animal story (via time travel), the traditional narrated script is a structure for the insertion costumes add a fun touch of childhood magic. Christmas story plays out with new of the seniors' anecdotes, read by children. Includes opportunities for four popular carols. implications. First-century Palestine plus Clear instructions tell how to prepare and present the project. Also included are two nineteenth-century England equals humbug STARBRIGHT humor for all! traditional pageant scenes and a delightful rhymed choral reading. The program serves BY: WILLIAM C. DIXON as a reminder that though the language and 1 female, 4 males, 3 SCROOGE REVISITED must-have toys may change over the years, either, 8 total • 25 BY: DANIEL WRAY the message of Christmas is timeless. minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script 6 females, 5 males, 3 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay either, 14 total, Package: $20.99 gender flexible • 35 SHOW AND TELL CHRISTMAS (Digital Scripts and minutes • eScript BY: MARY ANN SMITH Performance Rights) • Perusal: $1.99 • Script 10-24 either, 10-24 total, doubling possible, Play Package: $29.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: (10 Scripts and Package: $20.99 $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • • Play Package: $24.99 (12 Scripts and A lonely shepherd boy gazes up at the night Play Package: $42.99 Performance Rights) sky and wishes upon a thoroughly modern (16 Scripts and star, Starbright, complete with laptop and cell Performance Rights) This children’s Christmas program opens with a storyteller sharing a dramatic and easily phone. Wise-cracking and brash, Starbright is Three years after Scrooge's transformation understood version of Jesus’ birth to the clip- all business. Does the boy want an iPad? from a miserly old humbug into a benevolent, clop of donkey hooves. Then with a spin of Maybe something from the Sharper Image generous soul, he has lost his mirth. The the globe, Christmas customs worldwide, from catalog? Toys R Us? Mary pines for a room at Spirit of Christmases Yet to Come visits him Poland to Holland, take center stage. Next are the Holyday Inn. The wise men dream of a first. She shows him a materialistic family of traditional items: Christmas cards, an Advent GPS that works. But the deepest longing of the future, for whom Christmas has no deeper calendar, a Santa, and stockings, with a the boy's heart is to see the world at peace. In meaning. Christmas Present offers Scrooge a narrative and children’s impromptu sharing frustration he blurts out, "I just wish God glimpse of the Crachit home, where Bob is about their family experiences with these would show us the way!" The "wish" word sets feeling uneasy for not telling Scrooge about items. Includes a poem on the fruit of in motion the birth of Christ – the true the Someone he is missing. Christmas Past Christmas using apple cuttings to illustrate. A culmination of hopes past, present, and takes Scrooge to a stable in Bethlehem 2,000 vibrant and varied program. future. Beautifully descriptive narrative years ago. There, he sees Mary, Joseph and interspersed with fast-paced, witty dialogue a baby -- the Messiah, Jesus. The Spirit tells sprinkled with pop references and whimsy. him, "He came for you, Ebenezer." Scrooge's When the laughter dies down, the ending is a emptiness is filled with joy! hushed and tender recitation of the names for Jesus, from Wonderful Counselor to Prince of Peace.
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THE TWELVE DAYS OF THROUGH THE EYES OF A VOICES OF BETHLEHEM CHRISTMAS CHILD BY: MARY LOU WILLIAMS BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN BY: CHRISTINE FERGUSON 11 females, 8 males, 4 females, 3 males, 7 either, 14 total, 1-20 6 either, 6 total, 8-40 extras, gender flexible • 40 1 either, 20 total, extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script gender flexible • 30 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital minutes • eScript Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay (16 Scripts and Performance Rights) Rights) Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and This program will introduce your audience to a Almost no rehearsal needed. Children + Performance Rights) • whole new meaning behind the popular costumes + camera = Christmas pageant! Play Package: $32.99
Christmas song. Have you viewed "The Take digital photos as your church's children (22 Scripts and CHRISTMAS Twelve Days of Christmas" as strictly a play dress-up. They portray scenes from the Performance Rights) secular song of lyrical nonsense? Well it isn't! story of Jesus' birth, from Gabriel appearing to No rehearsal necessary! This Christmas Its hidden meaning is Christian instruction of Mary to the magi presenting their gifts. Then drama is like no other with its irresistible the catechism, with each "gift" relating to import the nineteen staged shots into a element of surprise. Members of your some aspect of the Christian faith. The computerized PowerPoint presentation. In the congregation are recruited to be the actors on program's dialog explains that long ago adults final performance, only one adult and four the spot! When the service begins, the pastor prohibited from practicing religion taught their children are needed. The rest of the children assigns the roles of the characters. The children key aspects of Christianity using the may watch themselves on the big screen. No Innkeeper, Caspar's wife, a census taker, a symbolism of gifts that my "true love" (God) memorization is required! The narrative is a midwife, and many other characters read a gave to "me" (all believers). The song became blend of Scripture and charming childlike mini-monologue describing their roles in the a mnemonic device whereby a "partridge in a observations about the birth of Christ with an Nativity happenings. Involving congregants pear tree" stands for Jesus on the cross and appropriate picture shown on a screen or wall. draws them into the joy and wonder of the "six geese a-laying" means the six days of The projected image gives everyone excellent events of that first Christmas. Because the creation. Includes an optional Advent craft visibility, even from the back pew! An parts are short, it's easy to do a cold reading. activity of Christmas gift props and a new appealing, no-fuss pageant alternative. This exciting impromptu format is certain to version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" cause your congregation to sit up and take based on the original religious meanings. A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS notice! PAGEANT SWEETHEART'S MANGER BY: NANCY SEALE THE STORY OF SILENT NIGHT BY: NINA WELDING 1 female, 6 males, BY: MICHAEL C. VIGILANT 1 female, 4 males, 15 either, 20 total, gender 10-14 either, 17-21 2 males, 1 either, 3 total, 10-30 extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • total, 1-30 extras, flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 doubling possible, Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play gender flexible • 20 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $32.99 (22 Scripts and Performance minutes • eScript Package: $16.99 (5 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $1.99 • Script Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay This delightful dramatization explores what Package: $20.99 Your church choir will sing "Silent Night" as might have happened in the stable that first (Digital Scripts and the climax to this beautifully dramatized story Christmas—if the animals could talk. The Performance Rights) • of how the song came to be written in Austria action begins with the wise men presenting Play Package: $42.99 175 years ago. Father Joseph Mohr and gifts to the newborn baby and ends with the (19 Scripts and church organist Franz Gruber become real Performance Rights) holy family's flight to Egypt. Lots of humor and people as they face a last-minute dilemma of whimsy in between as donkeys, sheep, cows, Nothing can ever take the place of an old- providing music for the Christmas Eve doves, an owl, a mouse, a spider and a dog fashioned Christmas pageant with many worship service. Together they create the try to figure out why everyone is making such children participating as angels, shepherds, world's most famous carol for Christmas. a fuss over the little baby who unexpectedly the wise men, etc. Mix this with traditional "Silent Night" is performed as it was in that shows up in donkey Sweetheart's manger. Christmas carols, and you have a beautiful service so long ago—with guitar Each child has something to say and holiday event. A joy for everyone! The accompaniment. Chords are included with contribute as a cast member. The abbreviated Heavenly Host may be an entire class of lyrics. Authentic story, beautiful song. A lines are ideal for younger children who can't children wearing wings and halos. An memorable program for a worship service or a sustain lengthy parts. Your church group has endearing back-to-the-basics event for a special program at Christmas. the option of keeping costuming to a minimum flexible number of participants. or going all out with animal dress-up.
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TWINKLE, THE CHRISTMAS WHY THE CHIMES RANG WAITING FOR THE CHRISTMAS STAR BY: WALTER S. HORSLEY GUEST BY: MARY BRENDAN CONLON 1 female, 2 males, 6 either, 9 total, 1-15 extras, BY: JANET MEILI 3 females, 3 males, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: 2 females, 4 males, 1 14-17 either, 20-23 $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: either, 7 total • 20 total, 3-20 extras, $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) minutes • eScript doubling possible, • Play Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Perusal: $1.99 • Script gender flexible • 15 Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay minutes • eScript You may well remember the wonderful story Package: $20.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay of the little boy, Pedro, whose small offering to Performance Rights) • Package: $12.99 the Christ Child awakened the long-silent Play Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts and bells of the great cathedral. The gifts of the (9 Scripts and Performance Rights) • mayor, the queen and even the king himself Performance Rights) Play Package: $29.99 all failed to stir the bells. Only the unselfish A poor cobbler and his wife prepare their table (25 Scripts and gift of the little child had the power to make on Christmas Eve for a visit of the Lord Jesus. Performance Rights) the bells ring out joyfully on that memorable The cobbler has dreamed that he will come. Christmas Eve. This beautiful story has been Children of several ages can participate in this They wait patiently, but their only visitors are
CHRISTMAS adapted to an easy-to-stage format that uses easily staged tableau presentation. There are a beggar, an old woman and a child. Each of a narrator, interpretive music and several both nonspeaking and speaking parts. The these visitors is in need. The cobbler and his processionals down the aisle. story centers around Twinkle, the tiny star that wife share their goods and time with each was chosen by God to freely move across the visitor. The evening nears an end and they sky while performing many special tasks. The WE THREE KINGS ask the Lord's forgiveness for not spending angel Michael, by God's wish, tells Twinkle to BY: ROBERT A. ALLEN the evening in prayer. The voice of the Lord lead the shepherds and the wise men to the answers them, saying that he had visited manger. Twinkle becomes the symbol of 4 females, 3 males, 4 either, 11 total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript three times that evening, and each time, he Christian hope that shines from the top of Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay had been treated with love and respect. every Christmas tree. He is the shooting star Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall for making wishes when asking for God's gift Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 see God." of happiness. (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) The angel Cymbal, sent by Gabriel to guide THE TRUE ROYAL the wise men to Bethlehem, gets her time THE UNWRAPPED GIFT BY:* BETH TROOP BY: GREG MOORE frame wrong and ends up in the twentieth century, where she meets the three bickering 3 either, 3 total, 6-15 extras, gender flexible • 20 4 females, 3 males, 6 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script either, 13 total, 1-20 King siblings, Mel, Balthy, and Kas. They Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital extras, gender flexible think she's crazy when she talks about Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • 20 minutes • eScript Christmas as the celebration of a baby's birth. Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script To them, Christmas isn't a birthday party. It's Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay presents! Goodies! Frosty the Snowman! But Package: $20.99 First George, then Charlotte. Royal Highness as they follow her on a journey to find the (Digital Scripts and baby fever is everywhere! This children’s play Christ child, they learn about giving. Mel gives Performance Rights) • contrasts two Reporters’ views of the frenzy the gift of kindness. Kas gives the gift of Play Package: $35.99 surrounding a prince’s birth with a Bible friendship. And Balthy gives the gift of (15 Scripts and Commentator’s narrative of Jesus’ humble Performance Rights) unselfishness. beginnings. Instead of riding in a limo to the Yo, sample this – a Christmas rap hospital, Mary rode a donkey to a stable. About baby Jesus, who was wrapped While throngs of well-wishers received word In snug and comfy swaddling clothes, WHERE LOVE IS, THERE IS of the baby prince, Jesus’ birth was So much to tell, the lyric flows. GOD announced to lowly shepherds. Rather than a It starts with the present, then the history BY: DOLORES JAEHRLING christening with lavish gifts, young Jesus With shepherds and the wise men three. 10 males, 1 either, 11 total • 20 minutes • received three symbolic gifts from the wise Every word, all the scenes eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • men. A study in opposites for the Christmas Point to what Christmas truly means. ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and season. Perfect for the smaller children’s As you listen to the kids spittin’ rhyme, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 department, with few speaking parts and a Everyone chillaxin’ the entire time, (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) flexible number of spectators. Though Jesus And the keyboard set to a rockin’ beat, An easy-to-perform adaptation of a short story was not afforded the respect and adoration he Your listeners might just tap their feet! by the great Russian writer Tolstoy about the deserved, the reign of the “King of kings” is a spirit of Christmas. A grumpy and lonely old study in “the last shall be first” (Matthew shoemaker thinks only of shoes and never of 20:16). “He shall reign… forever, and of his people. Then a friend and some Bible kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:33). passages change his perspective—not only on shoes, but also on humankind. His growth in love to God and others is rewarded by the unexpectedly touching Christmas visit of a young child, who turns out to be Christ.
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WHAT THE MICE KNEW Tishwater’s shrill-singing diva sister agrees to animals present in the stable, angels to BY: KATHLEEN B. HINDMAN present a Christmas concert at First Church, represent their message of peace and 5 males, 29-35 either, 24-40 total, 1-20 extras, the Tishwaters panic at the thought of Virgil goodwill, hearts to symbolize God’s love for gender flexible • 40 minutes • eScript Perusal: and Margaret tainting the refined atmosphere. us in Jesus, bells as a symbol of salvation, $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: They go to great lengths to keep them away, and stars because Jesus is the light of the $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) but when Rev. Davis catches wind of their world. Concludes with the “Children of the • Play Package: $49.99 (25 Scripts and scheme, he devises his own plan to bring World Song.” A spiritually educational journey! Performance Rights) about peace on earth ... or at least at First These mice were stirring on the night before Church. A heapin’ helpin’ of hillbilly fun, with Christmas, and so were the other creatures! sight gags, comic misunderstandings, WOULD YOU BELIEVE... A The children in your church will love “profound ponderin's” and a cultural divide bigger’n the Grand Canyon. See who has the STABLE? pretending to be animals and dressing the CHRISTMAS BY: LINDA THOMAS part in this delightful retelling of the story of last laugh! the first Christmas. From the perspective of 3 females, 4 males, 2 either, 9 total, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • mice that are "seen but not heard." Jesus' THE WISDOM OF THE PINE Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 birth is shared in wide-eyed wonder. The lines BY: LES MCCLAIN (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play are substantial enough that each child will feel Package: $24.99 (11 Scripts and Performance 1 female, 1 male, like a valued part of the overall production. Rights) 10-29 either, 12-31 Other animal characters are doves, cows, total • 10 minutes • Here's a playlet that fits almost any donkeys, sheep and camels. Many roles for eScript Perusal: $1.99 Christmastime occasion. It offers a touch of extras, including pantomimed parts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 warm humor and it ends with an inspiring singers. Includes easy and charming ideas for • ePlay Package: Nativity message. The 22nd Angel Flight animal costumes and song suggestions that $20.99 (Digital Scripts Division, arriving in Bethlehem, has been are a blend of familiar carols and newer and Performance commissioned to prepare the way for the music. Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (14 Lord. They find themselves at the humble Scripts and stable and cannot believe that this is to be the WITH EVERY CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) birthplace of the baby King. The Almighty CARD I MAKE The trees of the forest are fighting because quiets their worries, and they accept his BY: BENJAMIN MARTIN each one wants to be the first-ever Christmas command with reservations. Next, they begin 1 female, 1 male, 24-50 either, 26-52 total, 1-30 tree. But the wise pine silences the oak, the cleaning and redecorating the stable. Again, extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 walnut and the others by reminding them that the Almighty reissues firm instructions, and minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script they are all special in different ways. now the sergeant, Uriah, does exactly as he is Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Reassured, they agree that he should be the told. A proclamation from the Almighty is read Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Christmas tree because of his peacemaking from a celestial scroll. After hearing it, Package: $56.99 (28 Scripts and Performance everyone knows why this is the right time and Rights) ways.They make a pact to shed their leaves so the villagers will pick the pine, the only place for Jesus to be born. Charming! It’s hard to believe that there could be a green tree left in the forest. At the play's staged program for up to fifty children. And for conclusion, audience members receive a pine YOU CAN'T CANCEL children of all ages! Structured for easy sprig to symbolize that God blesses us all with rehearsal of separate groups. No hassle. CHRISTMAS! unique talents. Easily adaptable with flexible BY: ANDREA N. BURTON Humor, sentimentality, song and drama work casting. Narration keeps children's lines to a 4 females, 4 males, 8 total, 1-60 extras • 20 together as a charming interlude of minimum. entertainment and celebration. The central minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital staging device of Mr. and Mrs. Miles planning A WORLD OF CHRISTMAS Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play themes for Christmas cards makes possible a Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance series of Christmas vignettes highlighting the CUSTOMS Rights) spirit of the season. A chorus is used BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN throughout to include all who may not be part 4-8 either, 4-8 total, 10-25 extras, doubling "Dude, your mom has totally lost it," Noah of one of the sketches. possible, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript tells Nate. She's so busy fretting about Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Christmas dinner that she forgets about Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and helping the kids practice for the church VIRGIL'S FIRST CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 pageant. The dog eats the pumpkin pie and BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) she's sick of having her hands inside a cold, 5 females, 6 males, 11 total, 6-20 extras • 45 “All the children of the world” celebrate dead bird—but her blood pressure really rises minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Christmas in a unique way. Tag along and when she discovers Nate peeked at his Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital sightsee with your church’s children in Christmas present. Mom cancels Christmas! Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Poland, Alaska, Northern Europe, Lebanon, The kids are left to prepare the pageant on Package: $42.99 (13 Scripts and Performance their own. King James it's not—but funny it is! Rights) Germany, Russia, and Italy. Through Scripture and readings, they explain the rich Convoluted meanings and modern First Church’s homegrown hypocrites, meaning behind international holiday expressions are wrapped around fun snippets haughty Mrs. Tishwater and her spoiled customs. Includes patterns for an Advent of well-known songs with new lyrics. When daughter Tisha, can’t believe that simple activity where Sunday school students create Mom unwittingly stumbles onto the scene of backwoods couple Virgil and Margaret are tree decorations which are used in the the performance, the beautifully simple truth part of “their” posh and privileged program: bundles of hay to represent the of Jesus' birth emerges from the humor. Try congregation this Christmas. When Mrs. as you might, You Can't Cancel Christmas!
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE CHOSEN STAR BY: SANDRA NORDGREN BY: WILMA ATKINSON MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 5 either, 14 total • 1 male, 13 either, 14 75 minutes • Script Perusal: $5.50 (For reading total, 2-25 extras, only, no Performance Rights conveyed.) • gender flexible • 45 eScript Package: $61.60 (Digital Download of minutes • eScript scripts with permission to print/photocopy 16 Perusal: $1.99 • Script scripts.) • Script Package: $88.00 (Includes 16 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay hardcopy scripts. Must be purchased with a Package: $27.99 First Performance Royalty) • Royalty: $50.00 (Digital Scripts and per performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 In this unusually funny and dramatic (16 Scripts and adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic Performance Rights) Christmas tale, comedic ghosts teach Scrooge that there is more to life than running It's time for choir practice in heaven, and one a business and making money. Through the of the stars is late—again. He stumbles in, lessons that they teach, Scrooge is brought brushing off cosmic dust and mumbling back to his humanity and realizes that the excuses to the angel choir director. He is
CHRISTMAS forever out of step with the rest of the stars, 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: A most important thing in this world is loving and caring for people. out meteor-gazing when he should be CHRISTMAS PAGEANT practicing for the upcoming concert the BY: RACHEL OLSON heavenly Father has requested. After singing 1 female, 7 males, THE BEST CHRISTMAS the wrong songs in practice and a series of 8-16 either, 16-24 PRESENT EVER other mishaps, he is unexpectedly chosen by total, doubling BY: RACHEL OLSON God for a very special task: to shine his possible, gender 2 females, 2 males, brightest to lead the wise men to Jesus. Great flexible • 45 minutes • 19-27 either, 24-31 "starring" role for that irrepressible ham in eScript Perusal: $1.99 total, 1-30 extras, • Script Perusal: $3.99 your children's Sunday school department. doubling possible, • ePlay Package: Either a boy, "Andrew," or a girl, "Amanda," gender flexible • 45 $27.99 (Digital Scripts may play the main role. Many extras may minutes • eScript and Performance participate as singing stars in the heavenly Perusal: $1.99 • Script Rights) • Play Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay choir and Nativity characters. Costume notes Package: $49.99 (18 Package: $12.99 and instructions on how to make the star light Scripts and (Digital Scripts and up are included. Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $36.99 "'Twas the night before Christ's birth and far CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM above earth/The angels prepared to (26 Scripts and BY: JANE BOLDENOW announce Jesus' birth." Two readers hold an Performance Rights) oversized storybook and present a rhyming One pageant to meet all your Christmas 1 female, 6 males, 23-60 either, 30-67 narrative of the events surrounding the birth of programming needs! A large group of children total, 1-25 extras, Jesus. A large cast of shepherds, angels, of varying ages and abilities may participate in doubling possible, townspeople and others contribute singing this song-filled performance—a clever gender flexible • 60 and brief dialogue. Based on the beloved balance of the contemporary and the minutes • eScript poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, this traditional. Left alone in the house one Perusal: $1.99 • Script version will delight both children and adults evening, five toys come to life and argue Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay with its familiar rhyme pattern and the about which of them is the best present. Then Package: $27.99 inspirational message about salvation and the the Nativity characters stop by, and Joseph (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Nativity event. proclaims that Jesus was the best present Play Package: $63.99 ever—but the toys are skeptical. They can't (32 Scripts and THE ABC NATIVITY believe a baby would be the best when he Performance Rights) wasn't even gift-wrapped! As the story BY: TEISHA STRELOW Children of all ages from preschool to high unfolds, the toys see that God's gift of Jesus school may participate in this traditional 10-65 either, 10-65 total, doubling possible, is far more significant than the charms they gender flexible • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: pageant of Christmas carols, Scripture offer. Run time can greatly vary with the $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: readings, poetry and drama. After the addition or subtraction of musical selections. $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) prophecies of the Old Testament are read, the • Play Package: $36.99 (10 Scripts and Nativity story, a shepherd's dialogue and the Performance Rights) story of the wise men are dramatized between An over-sized book children construct the singing of carols. Included are eight depicting the Nativity is placed on an easel. Christmas favorites for children, adult choirs Children read from A, "Angels told the and the total congregation. Staging and wonderful news about our Savior's birth," to Z, costuming are minimal. An all-family program "(Don't) Zip through this season without that allows church members of all ages to remembering his birth." Also includes a participate. Adaptable to churches large and pastor-congregational responsive reading and small. Scripture readings. 44 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC CHRISTMAS
THE CHRISTMAS STORY THE GREATEST JOY JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM BY: PAULINE E. SPRAY BY: SYLVIA WASHER BY: CAROLE I. ADAMS 2 females, 7 males, 2 2 females, 4 males, 1 1-10 females, 1-10 either, 11 total, 4-20 either, 7 total • 60 males, 2-20 total • 60 extras • 60 minutes • minutes • eScript minutes • eScript eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $1.99 • Script • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay • ePlay Package: Package: $20.99 Package: $20.99 $20.99 (Digital Scripts (Digital Scripts and (Digital Scripts and and Performance Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • Rights) • Play Play Package: $29.99 Play Package: $35.99 Package: $35.99 (13 (9 Scripts and (12 Scripts and
Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) CHRISTMAS Performance Rights) A dramatic program that seamlessly There's simply no substitute for a traditional combines congregational candle lighting and Very minimal rehearsal time required to re-enactment of the Christmas story. Many Communion as part of the action. The time is present this beautiful hour-long traditional churches find that there is something several years after Jesus' death. Luke is service. No memorization necessary. Two reassuring in returning to the beautifully writing an account of the life of Jesus. He readers can present the entire service—one simple scriptural account of Jesus' birth. This goes to Jesus' aged mother Mary's house to man and one woman recommended. The play features the gospel accounts from gather information about Jesus' birth. Mary, readers tell the Christmas story in ten parts Matthew and Luke, synthesized together into the innkeeper and his wife, and a shepherd between carol singing. Sections include: The one cohesive narrative. The whole story is and his grandson reminisce about the Prophecy, The Annunciation, Christmas told in eight scenes, from the earliest Old happenings of that night in Bethlehem. Luke Story from Luke, Journey to Bethlehem, Testament prophecies to the visit of the wise takes notes for what will later become his The Shepherd's Visit, Christmas Story men a couple years after Jesus' birth. A gospel. Their reminiscing complete, the from Matthew, Journey of the Wise Men, reader provides the framework for the story characters discuss how they best remember The Modern Journey, Lighting the Christ while costumed children pantomime the Jesus now—through the bread and the cup. Candle and Let Us Go to Bethlehem. The action. Only a few rehearsals are needed. Then the "lamps" (the small candles held by service ends with candlelighting by the entire Absolutely no memorization required! Familiar everyone) are lit, "for we cannot speak of the congregation. Christmas carols enhance the drama. A solid joy of Christ in the darkness." The yet stunning script for any church's Sunday congregation sings a closing carol in the school department. glowing candlelight. NATIVITY IDOL BY: CATHY GRAHAM FESTIVAL OF CAROLS AND 6 females, 4 males, HOW FAR IS IT TO 10 total, 1-15 extras • CANDLES BETHLEHEM? 45 minutes • eScript BY: SUSAN PARGMAN BY: MARY LOU WILLIAMS Perusal: $1.99 • Script 3 either, 3 total, 1-25 8 females, 10 males, 8 either, 26 total • 60 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay extras, gender flexible minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Package: $20.99 • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $56.99 (28 Scripts and Performance Play Package: $35.99 Package: $12.99 Rights) (12 Scripts and (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • There's no substitute for audience "This… is Nativity Idol!" Using the same Play Package: $16.99 participation to involve your group in the (5 Scripts and thoughts and mystery of the first Christmas. format as the popular TV show, contestants Performance Rights) Many members of the congregation may join compete for a role in the Christmas pageant. in the program by reading mini-monologues, That’s where the similarity ends, however. All Everything you need to present this pre- the judges are wholly original: the nasty and Christmas service is included, from suggested simply standing up right from where they are seated. A very comprehensive and condescending Prudence Peacock, has-been music to a brief sermon. Your pastor and actress Bea Sting, and aging hippie singer spouse or readers offer Scripture and educational approach—no major player in the Christmas story is left out. Uniting all the Misty Dawn. Contestants and the role they’re narration, wondering aloud what that holy auditioning for include a teen girl with an night in Bethlehem must have been like. characters' musings in the common refrain from a poem, "How Far Is It to Bethlehem?" overbearing stage mother (Mary), a carpenter Children trim the Christmas tree and place by trade and a holistic healer on the side gifts for the needy around it. The familiar Stanzas of this delightful poem are woven in and around the various parts with Scripture (Joseph), a too-good-to-be-true teen with an carols that everyone loves are sung by the Air-Miles card (angel), an iPod-obsessed teen choir, soloists and the congregation. Candle readings and carols. An easy-to-stage and effective program with no rehearsal required. (shepherd) and an intellectual who holds lighting provides a unified ending, celebrating Ph.D.s in mathematics, medicine and new life in Christ. A dessert social follows. computer science (wise man). Throughout the This program could easily become a yearly hilarious auditions a Nativity tableau slowly tradition. builds, and the performance ends in candlelight, with the flame passed from one person to the next in a symbolic gesture of Christ as light of the world.
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O SAVIOR, WHERE ART THOU? SANTAPHOBIA BY: KECK MOWRY BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD 2 females, 8 males, 12 either, 22 total, 3-5 MS HS • 8 females, 6 males, 14 total • 90 extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript minutes • Script Perusal: $5.50 (For reading Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay only, no Performance Rights conveyed.) • Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and eScript Package: $61.60 (Digital Download of Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 scripts with permission to print/photocopy 16 (24 Scripts and Performance Rights) scripts.) • Script Package: $88.00 (Includes 16 hardcopy scripts. Must be purchased with a This play echoes the spirit of the movie O First Performance Royalty) • Royalty: $50.00 Brother, Where Art Thou? It starts "in the per performance beginning" as Adam and Eve plead for the Messiah, "Oh Savior, where art thou?" The Yikes! The fear of Santa Claus has taken over question is repeated by Jeremiah, the angels the Gruber family! As a result, they never in heaven, the wise men and shepherds, with want to see each other again. But Alice, the humor and in the rural vernacular. It is finally Matriarch, has a plan. Relying on their greed, answered by the coming of Jesus Christ. The she offers each of her grown children and play concludes with Mary affirming, "O Savior, their families a portion of her vast estate if they will spend one Christmas Eve with her in
CHRISTMAS thou art with us!" The spunky dialogue is punctuated by good "old-time" gospel, the Gruber mansion. But the plan backfires country, bluegrass and folk music. The music when each sibling is determined to scare the may be performed in simple a cappella others away so that they can keep the entire arrangements or your church's musicians may fortune for themselves (Scooby-Doo style!). form a bluegrass band. After a madcap night of booby traps, sleepwalking, and dressing up as Santa and his elves to scare each other away, Alice WHILE COWBOYS WATCHED must resort to desperate measures to cure THEIR HERDS BY NIGHT her children so that the family can finally learn BY: DANIEL WRAY the true meaning of Christmas. 3 females, 8 males, 10 either, 21 total, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 WINDOW DRESSINGS (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play BY:* KARA WILKINS Package: $56.99 (23 Scripts and Performance 2 females, 8 males, 2 either, 12 total, 1-60 Rights) extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay There's lots of horsing around in this spaghetti Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Western version of the Christmas story. A Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 young ranch hand, Little Joe, and his (14 Scripts and Performance Rights) betrothed, Mary Jane, who is in a family way, Ever strolled past big-city store windows travel to Davidson to pay the taxes on their decked out for Christmas? Their magical dude ranch. Sure as shootin', the hotels are scenes are absolutely captivating! The setting plumb full and the Savior is born in a barn. here is a department store gearing up for its Some cowpokes lollygaggin' in a field wonder annual holiday window decorating. Because what in tarnation is going on when two Masons has a rich tradition of award-winning Stetson-wearing angels tell them about a new displays, designer Jack must go bigger and little feller lying in a feeding trough. better every year. He arranges Mary and Meanwhile, the posse from W.I.S.E. Joseph, shepherds and wise men in a first (Worldwide Institute of Space Exploration) is Christmas diorama—not from any deep saddled with the responsibility of searching for personal convictions, but merely as an artistic the baby courtesy of mean ole cuss Dirty novelty. With his deadline looming he’s up Harry (Herod). Whoa! Can a showdown be far late, frantically fixing fuses so Gabriel will light behind? Your youth group will love this rootin'- up for the Black Friday shoppers. Then Jack tootin' romp through the wild, wild West. comes literally face to face with a miracle. Is the display real? Merely a window dressing? It all comes together in this one: modern, traditional, secular, sacred—plus spirited carol-singing. The ending is open and thought-provoking—a “window” into the very essence of Christmas.
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THE ANIMALS CELEBRATE CRIES OF FAITH EASTER BY: JEFFREY B. SNYDER BY: WILLIAM C. HASSEL 1 female, 1 male, 2-11 1 female, 1 male, 2-12 total • 6 scenes, 2 total • 11 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • minutes per scene • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • Script Perusal: $3.99 Package: $24.99 (4 Scripts and Performance • ePlay Package: Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance These charming, kid-friendly children's Rights) • Play sermons are told from the standpoint of Package: $24.99 (4 animals and insects who witnessed the first Scripts and Easter. Each Sunday a costumed animal Performance Rights) character holds a spirited conversation with These 11 monologues are the personal the pastor, telling his version of the events capsule thoughts of those acquainted with that unfolded years ago. The use of animals Christ during his short time on earth. These to tell the story holds special appeal to monologues don't attempt to tell the whole children while reinforcing the important details Lent/Easter story. Instead, they beautifully yet IN THE SHADOW OF THE of the biblical accounts of Jesus' crucifixion succinctly capture one aspect of Jesus' LENT CROSS and resurrection. The series may be used for earthly ministry. Their three-minute length BY: GALEN L. SCHWARZ each of the six Sundays of Lent to set the means they may easily be integrated into a 2 either, 2-9 total • 6 stage for Easter or for the six Sundays worship service. Includes: Zacchaeus, the scenes, 2 minutes per following Easter until Ascension Day. Teens Samaritan Leper, Thomas (feeding the scene • eScript or adults may fill the roles. 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Package: $20.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 They all present a view of the Crucifixion as (Digital Scripts and • ePlay Package: seen from the viewpoints of different Performance Rights) • $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance participants. Play Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts, Photocopy Rights) • Play Rights, and Package: $29.99 (6 EIGHT DAYS IN JERUSALEM Performance Rights) Scripts and Performance Rights) BY: MARK JENSEN, KARLA JENSEN These effective portrayals combine so many Characters walk from the pages of Scripture 6 either, 6-30 total • 5 scenes, 5 minutes per appealing elements: a crown of thorns wreath; into your sanctuary to express how their lives scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: both contemporary and biblical perspectives; $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts overlapped and intertwined with Jesus in the the fresh, vibrant Scripture of The Message and Performance Rights) • Play Package: wake of his impending crucifixion. Their and a short performance length. Each week of $29.99 (8 Scripts and Performance Rights) feelings range from skepticism to grief, but all Lent one anonymous biblical character and an were deeply affected by the man Jesus and A one-of-a-kind approach! The week of Jesus’ ordinary person of today reflect on an issue, his ministry. Each character extinguishes one crucifixion is segmented into five readings for followed by a Scriptural response and snuffing candle every week to symbolize a growing Lent. Readers discuss the important events of one candle. Included are: 1. Jesus in the darkness of heart as Christ’s death on the from this pivotal time in history. Their spirited Wilderness—We all crave peace, 2. Warned cross nears. Includes monologue vignettes for dialog draws on influences as diverse as the by Pharisees—Discernment means knowing all six Sundays of Lent plus Good Friday and “Happy Birthday” song, TV commercials, whom to follow, 3. The Fig Tree—Plants and Easter for maximum continuity. Biblical cartoon characters, Elvis, memorized people both need nurturing, 4. The Prodigal characters included are: 1. Simon of Cyrene, childhood prayers and other icons from pop Son—There's forgiveness for our prodigal 2. A Lamenting Woman, 3. The Sneering culture, as well as the everyday stuff of life, ways, 5. Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet— Ruler, 4. Jesus’ Mother, 5. John, 6. from lost car keys to bickering children. These Whether it's perfume for Jesus' feet or Barabbas, 7. Joseph of Arimathea and 8. assorted influences are seamlessly outreach programs, giving comes from the Mary Magdalene. Easter morning brings joy synthesized with biblical commentary. Sounds heart, 6. Jesus Enters Jerusalem—Palm and light as the Christ candle is relit! unbelievable, but it works! Very easy to sunday ponderings on parades past and present with minimal rehearsal. Though present, 7. Jesus Is Risen!—Easter—with initially the approach is light, the spiritual Jesus' resurrection, hope is alive! impact of Jesus’ last week is undeniable.
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS AM I GUILTY? JERUSALEM SPEAKS BY: KARLA JENSEN, MARK JENSEN BY: AUDREY SURMA BY: ROCHELLE M. PENNINGTON 3 females, 4 males, 3 either, 10-31 total, 1-10 1 female, 1 male, 2-7 total • 6 scenes, 3 1 female, 2 males, extras, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 5 minutes minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • 3-24 total • 6 scenes, per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 10 minutes per scene Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • eScript Perusal: Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (4 Scripts and Performance $1.99 • Script Perusal: Package: $35.99 (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) $3.99 • ePlay Rights) Package: $20.99 These meditations for Lent and Easter are a (Digital Scripts and Biblical setting? Contemporary? Neither and serialized Tenebrae service. A reader Performance Rights) • both. This series fuses the best of each extinguishes one candle each Sunday of Lent Play Package: $24.99 against a hotel backdrop. Vacationers Hope after presenting a third-person account about (5 Scripts and and Chase are much like their names: Hope, these characters: 1. Caiaphas, 2. Performance Rights) a true optimist, wants nothing more than to Moneychangers, 3. Voice from the Mob, 4. meet her dream Messiah. Chase is a skeptic. Claudia (Pilate's wife), 5. Barabbas and 6. This Lenten series features two monologs The unfolding events of Holy Week meet Cornelius (a centurion). "Am I guilty?" asks each week with related readings from them right where they are, yet challenge their each reader, drawing a parallel between the Scripture. The author deftly weaves biblical assumptions. Included are: 1. Repent for the biblical character and ourselves today in the research with gripping emotive power as Forgiveness of Sins—Is the Messiah really Lenten spirit of self-examination. On Easter twelve characters come alive from the pages all that John the Baptist says he is? 2. Sunday, Mary Magdalene makes a dramatic of the New Testament with passionate Entrance into Jerusalem—A parade to beat appearance in costume and shares her confessions: Pilate's anguish over his political LENT all parades passes by the hotel, 3. By What personal story of triumph: The tomb is empty! manipulation in sentencing Jesus to death, Authority?—Jesus in the temple, 4. The Last She lights a beautifully decorated white Barabbas' confusion over Jesus' dying in his Supper—Hope seeks a pedicure but instead candle symbolizing the resurrected Christ, the place and Jesus' mother Mary's heartache sees Jesus washing the disciples' feet, 5. Light of the World. Suggestions for creative and hope. The characters in each of the six Jesus' Death—In the aftermath of the ways to arrange and adorn the candles are weeks of Lent are: 1. Servant Girl, Peter, 2. Crucifixion, Hope and Chase are offered included. complimentary extra nights to see if Jesus will Caiaphas, Judas, 3. Herod, Mary rise again. Magdalene, 4. Pilate, Barabbas, 5. Roman ENCOUNTERS BEFORE THE Soldier, Malchus, 6. John, Mary (mother of DAWN Jesus). No memorization required. GOING DEEPER BY: KEITH MADSEN BY: LINDA S. ALLEN 2 females, 2 males, THE I AMs OF JESUS 2 females, 3 males, 5-30 total • 6 scenes, 5 4-12 total • 6 scenes, BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • 3 minutes per scene • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 1 female, 1 male, 2-14 total, doubling possible • (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • Script Perusal: $3.99 7 scenes, 2 minutes per scene • eScript Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance • ePlay Package: Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and and Performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (4 A recurring cast is led by clueless Alan, who Rights) • Play Scripts and Performance Rights) can’t quite wrap his head around Lent—what Package: $29.99 (6 Only two people are required to present these it is and why it’s important. With each Scripts and successive week, his understanding evolves Performance Rights) short dramas for each week of Lent and and he starts asking the tough questions. Easter. Included are: 1. I Get to Be First—A These insightful two-person encounters Included are: 1. An Attitude Of…?— Alan brother and sister argue over what's fair and demonstrate the varied reactions of key thinks giving up chocolate chips for Lent is a whose turn it is, 2. Where's the Bread?—A biblical figures to Christ's crucifixion. Included huge deal until he gets a crash course in self- PB & J sandwich-making session amuses a are: 1. The Powers That Be—Two powerful discipline, 2. In the Garden—How do you husband and wife, 3. Follow the Leader—A men, Joseph of Arimathea and the Centurion figure out God’s will, and where do you find parent and child discuss following the Good at the Cross, feel humbled by Jesus' the motivation to do it? 3. On Trial—Alan Shepherd, 4. Who Turned off the Lights?— impending power over death. 2. Payment ponders the big whys of Christ’s crucifixion, 4. A couple is left in the dark when the electricity Must Be Made—Peter denied him. Judas Choose Love Or…—Alan doesn’t feel all goes off, 5. Daddy, Can I Have a Puppy?—A betrayed him. Only one accepts Jesus' warm and fuzzy inside, but the others point father and daughter discuss a pet that died, 6. forgiveness, 3. This Cross Has Made Us out that love is a choice, 5. What Cross?— Pruning the Branches—A mom and her son Family—Mary and John discover the depth of What would you be thinking if you were in the prune a tree, 7. Did You Bring the Map?—A Jesus' words, "Woman, behold your son! crowd at Christ’s Triumphal Entry? 6. Who Is husband and wife get lost on a drive—again! John, behold your mother!" 4. Through a Christ?—Some actions and attitudes need to Excellent for a Lenten sermon series. Mother's Eyes—Mary and "Hannah," mother die before we can experience true of Judas, commiserate over their sons' resurrection. No memorization, props or deaths, 5. Right There in Front of Me— costumes required. Pilate's wife "Julia" hopes for Jesus' resurrection while PIlate remains skeptical, 6. When We Had No Hope—Mary's emotional grieving contrasts with Martha's seeming control, but both are devastated by Jesus' death. 48 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC LENT
MEET THE BEST THE LENTEN CANDLES THE LOVE ATTITUDES BY: JACQUELINE SHARER ROBERTSON BY: PAUL DYCK BY: SUSAN PARGMAN 5 either, 5-13 total • 5 5 either, 5-35 total • 8 3 females, 3 males, 6-19 total, 1-20 extras • 6 scenes, 5 minutes per scenes, 2 minutes per scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: scene • eScript scene • eScript $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $1.99 • Script $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay • Play Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts and Package: $20.99 Package: $20.99 Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • These short and often humorous Play Package: $29.99 Play Package: $29.99 intergenerational sketches focus on the self- (7 Scripts and (7 Scripts and examination of Lent from the different Performance Rights) Performance Rights) perspectives of two middle school kids, a married couple, two women neighbors, three On Lenten Sundays your congregation A unique and easily presented series. On men on a fishing trip, and a little brother and becomes a talk show audience at Meet the each Sunday of Lent ending with Good big sister. Even a children's Sunday school Best, hosted by the engaging Starling Bright. Friday, five participants present a short class participates. The Love Chapter (1 The guest? None other than The Cross (TC) reading as a call to worship, then extinguish Corinthians 13) is the theme. Included are: 1. himself. TC shows up every week—he's got a the flame of one candle, just as in a Tenebrae Burying the Past, 2. Love Is Patient, 3. lot to say! He offers an insider's view of the service. The six purple candles and large
Love Does Not Envy, 4. Love Is Not Rude, LENT Crucifixion. The weekly summaries included center white Christ candle are arranged on a 5. Love Does Not Delight in Evil, or, Can are: 1. TC's cross to bear: he was feared grapevine "crown of thorns" wreath, similar to We Talk? 6. The Love of God, or, How because he represented execution. 2. TC an Advent wreath. On Easter Sunday, when Charlie the Dog Was Saved from Certain shares a brief history of Roman crucifixion. 3. the flame has been snuffed out on all the Death. TC talks about "his book"—the Bible. 4. TC candles, the Christ candle is lit to symbolize urges the audience to "take up your cross" the Resurrection as the congregation sings a and continue what Jesus started. 5. Q & A joyous hymn. THE MASTERS with the studio audience. The small cast size BY: KARLA JENSEN, MARK JENSEN makes these sketches so easy to stage. With A LENTEN JOURNEY 3 females, 4 males, TC's lines voiced off-stage while a wooden BY: LINDA S. ALLEN 7-27 total, doubling cross sits onstage and a clipboard for possible, gender Starling, there is no memorization required. 4 females, 1 male, 2 flexible • 5 scenes, 8 either, 7-27 total, 1-15 minutes per scene • extras • 6 scenes, 2 eScript Perusal: $1.99 THE POWER OF HIS LAST minutes per scene • • Script Perusal: $3.99 WORDS eScript Perusal: $1.99 • ePlay Package: • Script Perusal: $3.99 BY: SUSAN PARGMAN $20.99 (Digital Scripts • ePlay Package: and Performance 1 female, 1 male, 2-14 $20.99 (Digital Scripts Rights) • Play total • 7 scenes, 5 and Performance Package: $29.99 (9 minutes per scene • Rights) • Play Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 Package: $29.99 (9 Performance Rights) • Script Perusal: $3.99 Scripts and • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) Each week of Lent your congregation will $20.99 (Digital Scripts meet a new craftsperson from Jerusalem. You’ll appreciate these six readers scripts that and Performance They unknowingly create the very items that are both thoughtful and concise. Longer isn’t Rights) • Play are used for Jesus' crucifixion. These scripts Package: $24.99 (4 always better! Included are: 1. The Curtain explore the complex emotional relationship Scripts and Tore—We’re all damaged in some way. 2. between the objects and the One for whom Performance Rights) The Seekers—A Greek couple mirrors the they were destined. Included are: 1. Leather seeker in all of us. 3. Cleanup Day at the These testimonials from the foot of the cross Tanner – He fashions a whip by Pilate's Temple—Like the indignant money-changer, are snapshots of who Jesus was and is. The order. 2. Weaver – The purple cloth he we all need cleansing. 4. The Loving Father monologues seamlessly interweave Jesus' weaves may have been used to mock Jesus' —Two sons, the perfect and the prodigal, seven utterances from the cross with the kingly claim. 3. Winemaker – Judas and John illustrate our human dichotomy. 5. Jesus on stories, thoughts and feelings of familiar purchase wine for Passover, unaware that a Trial—Who do you say that he is? 6. Jesus biblical characters who had unforgettable cup from the same batch will quench Jesus' Enters the City—King today, condemned encounters with Jesus during his earthly thirst. 4. Blacksmiths – They prepare the tomorrow. A special touch for Lent when ministry. The monologue titles and featured Crucifixion nails and the sword that will pierce service time is limited. characters are: 1. Forgiven—Zacchaeus, Jesus’ side. 5. Stonecutter – He makes With Him in Paradise—John, 3. Behold Joseph of Arimathea's tomb, which holds Your Son—Leah, 4. Forsaken—Martha, 5. I Jesus' body. A unique and thoughtful Thirst—Woman at the Well, Into Your perspective on Jesus' final days. Hands—Nicodemus, It Is Finished—Mary, Mother of Jesus. May be used as a total Lenten program or as a series for the six Sundays of Lent and Good Friday.
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SPHERE OF INFLUENCE MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCES THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY BY: MARK JENSEN, KARLA JENSEN BY: ELIZABETH ANN JAEGER BY: MARY ANN SMITH 2 males, 3 either, 5-21 1 female, 6 males, 1 either, 8-43 total, doubling 1 female, 1 male, 9 either, 11-39 total, gender total • 5 scenes, 5 possible, gender flexible • 7 scenes, 5 minutes flexible • 5 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • minutes per scene • per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 • ePlay Package: Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) and Performance This Lenten series of five sketches cleverly Rights) • Play Here’s a peek at the peaks! This series integrates the familiar games we've all played Package: $29.99 (7 featuring various biblical mountains stars and illustrates how they can unwittingly Scripts and famed mountaineer Sir Everest Hillervalley become an integral and even detrimental part Performance Rights) with various biblical characters. Included are: of our lives. Included are: 1. Solitaire—This 1. Mount Ararat – God’s new creation began Influence can be a powerful force—for good game of isolation may be harmful to your here with Noah and his family. 2. Mount or evil. Each week a dialogue between a spiritual health, 2. Hide and Seek—Hiding Moriah – Abraham expecting to sacrifice biblical character and “voices” explores this from God and responsibility strips life of its Isaac was a mountain of faith hard to climb. 3. impact. The characters and their guiding meaning, 3. Follow the Leader—We're lost Mount Sinai – Moses waited for the Ten questions are: 1. Peter—He ruminates on his without a leader, but how do we know which Commandments up there. 4. Mount Carmel – mistakes and wonders if he has any sphere of one to follow? 4. King of the Hill—Would you The God of Israel reigned supreme against influence left. ”Have you ever felt like a do anything to get to the top? 5. Twenty Baal – no contest. 5. The Sermon on the failure?” 2. Judas—He hoped to be “the Questions—Solid answers for challenging
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REFLECTIONS BY SIX LIVES -- SIX STORIES The Violence Sign (boiling-over pot)—Cain CANDLELIGHT BY: MICHAEL W. MASSA and Abel, 2. The Covet Sign (basket of BY: HENRY PAETKAU 1 either, 1-6 total • 6 scenes, 5 minutes per "stuff")—Adam and Eve, 3. The Cold, Hard 1 either, 1-7 total • 7 scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: Sign (stone)—Good Samaritan, 4. The Fear scenes, 2 minutes per $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts Sign (blanket)—Israelites wandering in the scene • eScript and Performance Rights) • Play Package: wilderness, 5. The Sign of the Cross. This Perusal: $1.99 • Script $24.99 (3 Scripts and Performance Rights) last sign is an antidote to each of the previous Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay This series of dramatized monologue signs, with a dialogue of healing and hope. Package: $20.99 sermons is written with two different This Lenten series asks all the right questions (Digital Scripts and and probes a little deeper. 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Garden of Gethsemane (the real Olive character shares a short monologue, then surprise ending. Because the impromptu jury LENT Garden) and the trial with gentle humor and another character provides a counterpoint for actually dictates the trial's outcome, both a poignancy. Who will carry the cup of Christ his or her observations. Easily presented and "guilty" and a "not guilty" conclusion are when Jesus is crucified? Jesus himself effective with a bare stage and simple included. A powerful play guaranteed to hold doesn’t want it—but then accepts his Father’s costumes and props. any audience's attention. will. Through his sacrifice, Jesus offers all his “living water.” May your cup overflow! THE CASE OF THE CONSPICUOUS CROSS JERUSALEM BOOK CLUB BY: KEITH ELLERBROCK BY:* MARK JENSEN, KARLA JENSEN 1 female, 2 males, 6 either, 9 total • 20 minutes 6 females, 3 males, 9-37 total, 3-15 extras • 5 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • scenes, 10 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) We all have crosses to bear—but none as obvious as Sam's. It's huge, it's cumbersome Take a group of women, someone’s living and it's inconvenient. Humor ensues as Jesus room, spirited literary discussions and snacks, asks him to carry it throughout his day and he and you’ve got yourself a book club! But these reluctantly agrees. First stop: work. His boss aren’t just any women—they are followers of observes, "Ever since you got that cross, you Jesus. And the book is a best seller: the Bible! haven't been making the kind of deals that put Every week they meet to discuss the stories the company ahead." He loses a promotion. with their writers. The Bible scenes are Then he takes it on a date, where his enacted as they talk. The guest authors and embarrassed girlfriend asks, "Can't you just topics are: 1. Mark—The bleeding woman THE BURDEN hide it for one minute?" She breaks up with touches Jesus’ cloak and the daughter of BY: GREG L. SULLIVAN him. Dejected, he seeks out his "friends" for Jairus is raised. 2. Luke—Young Jesus 2 males, 1 either, 3 total • 15 minutes • eScript solace, but they leave for a wild party without teaches at the temple and Mary and Martha Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay him, saying, "You'd be a lot more fun without face off. 3. Matthew—Pilate’s wife warns her Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and that cross." Friendless, penniless and husband to leave Jesus alone. 4. Dr. Phil— Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 (5 dejected, Sam tries to give the cross back. Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples and Scripts and Performance Rights) Jesus gently reminds him that he will never praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. 5. Burdens both literal and figural are central to leave or forsake him, then helps him carry his John—The woman at the well and the raising this short drama. A man encumbered by a burden. Originally written for a special youth of Lazarus. This merging of the cultural heavy bag slowly trudges toward his Lenten service. phenomenon of book clubs with Scripture is destination of “freedom.” He struggles under an unlikely pairing—but the result is a the weight of his failures and bad memories. relatable yet fresh take on Jesus’ earthly Then he meets the Liberator, a Christ figure, ministry for the weeks of Lent. who offers to help shoulder the load, but says , “I can’t take it from you—you have to give it to me.” A powerful dramatization of 1 Peter 5:7—"Cast your cares upon him, for he cares for you."
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ASH WEDNESDAY - THE DAY ORDINARY SINNERS SIGHTLESS VISION OF ATONEMENT BY: LOUISE MUNRO FOLEY BY: ELISABETH A. MARLOWE BY: JUNE M. TODD 2 females, 3 males, 1 either, 6 total • 20 1 female, 3-4 males, 7 either, 7 total, minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script 4-5 total • 40 minutes • gender flexible • 30 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital eScript Perusal: $1.99 minutes • eScript Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts and Performance • ePlay Package: Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Package: $20.99 A quartet of contemporary characters' (Digital Scripts and Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • personal stories involve your audience in a Package: $29.99 (7 Play Package: $29.99 powerful way. 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He is joyful that he can at last help All-around "Joe Average" guy, Jess Goodnuff, children get to “act their age” with his King by offering his precious pearl as is shocked when he is arrested for continually monologues of actual child characters that ransom for Jesus' life. But again, his quest is falling short of God's desire for his life. Cut to appear in Scripture: Seizure Boy, Resurrected interrupted as he saves a young woman from a courtroom, where Jess tries to defend Girl, Kingdom of Heaven Child, Blessing slavery by giving the pearl to her captors. himself by calling forward a parade of Child, Temple Child and Gentile Child. Artaban is in despair that his life was a failure witnesses: a co-worker, his wife, his pastor Between each, Leader asks, “Why did they until he hears the voice of Jesus say, and his mother. Through their sometimes take him?” The reflective conclusion is the "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of humorous testimonies, Jess's major character reading of a Psalm as the altar is stripped, the least of these my brethren, you have done flaws emerge, suggesting that perhaps he after which all exit in silence. Includes a very it unto me" (Luke 25:40). isn't "good enough" after all. Enter the Public short Easter recitation to connect the two Defender to help. He advises Jess to change services. his plea to "guilty." Just when Jess is convinced all is lost and sure punishment awaits, the Public Defender (Christ) is handcuffed and led away in Jess's place. A moving illustration of Christ's act of sacrificial love.
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WHO IS JESUS? I WONDER WHY? A MIRACULOUS LIFE BY: JUDITH BECKER, AMY RIDGEWAY BY: MARY SUE ROSENBERGER BY: SHELLY SELLEPACK 15 either, 15 total, gender flexible • 15 minutes • 1 female, 3 males, 1 either, 5 total, 1-30 extras • 4 females, 17 males, 25 either, 46 total • 60 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • 50 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play (17 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) and Performance Rights) A children's Lent-Easter program that answers questions about Jesus. A beautiful A beautifully solemn, complete service to Your congregation's children will thrive on banner that is designed to look like a stained focus your congregation's thoughts on the day recreating the important milestones of Jesus' glass window visually answers the question, of penance. The program includes Scripture life in this comprehensive program that covers "Who Is Jesus?" It depicts Jesus by using his and readings by four persons representing: a the main aspects of Jesus' earthly ministry. own words, in the form of analogies from the denying Peter, a woman in the crown of The feeding of the five thousand, Judas's gospel of John. The images included are: hill, jeering Crucifixion witnesses, a taunting betrayal, Jesus' trial before Pilate— all is wheat, sun, shepherd and sheep, path, Roman soldier, and a defensive Pilate. included in short scenes, from the calling of grapevine, empty tomb. Children affix the felt Interwoven with the Scripture sequences and the first disciples to the Crucifixion. It uses the symbols to the banner as Scripture and a readings are periods of silence for reflection, fresh and understandable Contemporary related narrative are read. After the program, followed by appropriate verses of the lovely, English Version of the Bible, an excellent the window remains a visual reminder of who haunting song "I Wonder Why?" by Richard translation that faithfully captures the meaning LENT Jesus is and why we need his light in our Avery and Donald Marsh. Music arranged of the original languages, for the narrative and lives. SATB for choir with piano accompaniment. dialogue. There are short, easy-to-learn lines for many children, or parts may be combined SEDER if your group is smaller. Include songs and WHO WAS THAT MAN ON THE Scripture. Originally performed for Palm BY: PHYLLIS E. PRICE CROSS? Sunday. The whole story, from beginning to BY: DAWN E. CONROY 2 females, 3 males, 3 end! 20 either, 20 total • 15 minutes • eScript either, 8 total • 60 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay minutes • eScript Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $1.99 • Script FROM GARDEN TO TOMB Performance Rights) • Play Package: $32.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: GEORGE HALITZKA (22 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and 4-6 females, 7-12 males, 2-6 either, 13-24 total Physician, Teacher, Savior and Friend … Performance Rights) • • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Jesus is all these and more! In this easy-to- Play Package: $29.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play stage program, each child holds up a placard (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $42.99 (15 Scripts and Performance with one biblically-based name or Rights) characteristic of Jesus. In just a few short “Why is this night different from all other Discover the ancient tradition of the way of lines, the child explores the trait and relates it nights?” The seder comes alive as your the cross by following the path of Jesus from to his or her own life. At the program’s congregation follows a modern Jewish family the Garden of Gethsemane to his tomb. conclusion the stage is a veritable testament through their Passover celebration and Characters at eight stations pantomime key to the diversity and range of our Savior, from experiences it right along with them. Learn the events from our Savior’s final hours, including “Servant” to “King of Kings!” Lines are significance of the horseradish, charoseth and his betrayal and arrest, his condemnation by interchangeable between boys and girls. No other special foods—why each meaning is Pilate and his crucifixion. As they walk memorization necessary! A celebration of the rich in symbolism. This special Lenten season through, the congregation participates in each multifaceted Messiah we know as Jesus. feast for the whole church family replicates station’s scene in unusually poignant ways the last meal Jesus ate before his Crucifixion with activities as varied as signing a funeral as a reminder of Jewish slavery and God’s gift guestbook, receiving Communion, betraying a of freedom. Includes customs like looking for friend for a reward, washing their hands in the Passover matzoh, the Elijah chair and a imitation of Pilate, handling a crown of thorns, responsive reading. The conclusion examines carrying a crossbeam, pounding a spike into Jesus’ claim to be Messiah—our own wood, writing their names on a “Remember Passover, sacrificed for us. Faithful to the me” placard and placing a lily by a memorial Jewish tradition, yet accessible for any to Jesus. Complete descriptions of the setup congregation. Recipes and instructions and how-to are included. An unforgettable included for recreating this one-of-a-kind, experience in homage to the one who died so well-researched experience. An enriching we could live. activity that will enhance Judeo-Christian understanding. Shalom!
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IS IT I, LORD? I WILL SING OF MY REDEEMER BY: WILLIAM D. WEBBER BY: SUSAN LYTTEK 7 males, 7 total • 10 1 female, 1 male, 2-40 minutes • eScript total, doubling Perusal: $1.99 • Script possible, gender Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay flexible • 40 scenes, 5 Package: $12.99 minutes per scene • (Digital Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 Performance Rights) • • Script Perusal: $3.99 Play Package: $20.99 • ePlay Package: (9 Scripts and $27.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) and Performance Rights) • Play "One of you will betray me," says the unseen Package: $31.99 (4 voice of Jesus. Thomas, Peter, James, Judas Scripts, Photocopy and John each step up from the darkness of Rights, and the table and speak their thoughts and fears. Performance Rights) The listener identifies with at least one of The lyrics to our most beloved Easter season these disciples. We become aware that we, songs were the creative inspiration for this each of us, have the potential to deny Jesus. FRIDAY... GOOD FRIDAY... collection of monologues that dramatizes A simple yet moving presentation that familiar hymns by telling stories that parallel FRIDAY NIGHT provides an excellent lead-in to participation the meanings of the songs. Some of the BY: CARL W. SIMPSON in a Eucharist ceremony. characters are from the past (Mary 5 either, 5 total, gender flexible • 40 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Magdalene, Peter and Joseph of Arimathea) ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and THE LAST WORDS and some are from the present (a Choir Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (7 BY: RONALD D. VAUGHAN Member, a College Student and a Widower), Scripts and Performance Rights) 3 females, 5 males, 1 but they were all affected by the Easter miracle of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. Three interpretive readers are the only either, 9 total • 30 Featured hymns include "Were You There?" requirements in presenting this Tenebrae minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script "Go to Dark Gethsemane," "O Sacred Head, reflection on the words, the acts, and the life
HOLY WEEK Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Now Wounded," "When I Survey the and death of Jesus. The free-form narrative Package: $20.99 Wondrous Cross," "Christ the Lord Is Risen leads the audience into a contemplative (Digital Scripts and Today" and many more. reverie of seeing, hearing, thinking and feeling Performance Rights) • the spirit of Christ. The service ends with the Play Package: $35.99 extinguishing of all candles except the (11 Scripts and OUR FATHER'S WORLD "Tenebrae." This presentation requires little or Performance Rights) BY: JUDY GATTIS SMITH no rehearsal while providing all the drama The darkened atmosphere of this Tenebrae 10 either, 10 total, gender flexible • 20 minutes • appropriate to the event. service makes distractions fade into the eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • shadows. All attention is focused on Jesus, as ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 biblical characters share how their lives were HE CAME ON A DONKEY (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) BY: JOHN W. MINGUS SR. touched by him. Each mini-monologue Since Jesus used objects from nature to 1 male, 2 either, 3 corresponds to one of Jesus' last words on total, gender flexible • the cross. Featured are the woman caught in teach his followers, from lilies in the field to 15 minutes • eScript adultery, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary and the rocky ground where a solid house could Perusal: $1.99 • Script John, Simon of Cyrene, the woman at the be built, it’s easy to imagine the natural Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay well, Caiaphas and the centurion. A candle is environment that surrounded him. Child Package: $12.99 extinguished following each segment. Songs readers deliver monologues from the unique (Digital Scripts and for the choir are suggested. A highly dramatic perspectives of a Spider, Mother Hen, Rock, Performance Rights) • Tenebrae service for any time during Lent or Raven, Thorn Bush, Camel, Lump of Clay, Play Package: $16.99 (5 Scripts and Holy Week. Olive Tree and Anemone, who are Performance Rights) eyewitnesses to the transition from palms and honor on Sunday to death on a cross on This presentation has a marvelously simple Friday. Seeing this event through objects from dramatic format. Only three readers are the natural world gives a fresh take on the needed: a man or woman crowd member, a account and lends a rich understanding to the Pharisee and a disciple. They interact in the progression of events. Includes a Bible study first part to describe the entrance of Jesus follow-up for older elementary students. May into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. After their be performed on Palm Sunday or any time positions are established, they reflect through during Holy Week. monologues on their feelings about the unusual event. They look into themselves and into the future.
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SOUNDS OF GUILT AND GLORY THE DECISION BY: CALVIN SAYLES BY: WINONA POOLE 2-4 females, 5-9 males, 7-13 total, 1-25 extras • 8 either, 8 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and Performance (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Rights) He was given a hero’s celebration and then, These monologues are a study in contrasts: days later, killed. How could society move biblical and modern personalities, those who from the high of Palm Sunday to the low of ran from Jesus and those who revered him. Crucifixion? The atmosphere is electric as From the first to the twenty-first centuries, your congregation becomes a meeting of the some characters disengage from him while Sanhedrin, with the speakers planted others delight in him. Some express doubt throughout your sanctuary. As the members and others, devotion. Some choose denial rise and make their cases with increasingly while others practice discipleship. The biblical impassioned responses, the congregation characters and their contemporary must decide what to do with Jesus and his counterparts are: Pilate and a contemporary alarming popular following. Then Nathaniel questioner, the Centurion and a businessman, THE AWFUL SILENCE OF GOD takes the floor. He proceeds to calmly appeal Thomas and a scientist, Mary Magdalene and BY: DONALD M. STEWART to the rational-thinking Sanhedrin, even a woman seeking deliverance, Peter and a 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 20 minutes • eScript quoting Scripture to prove his point that Jesus student who fell away from his faith, the thief Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay should be crucified. His "logical" arguments crucified with Jesus and a guilty but forgiven Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and sway the tone of the meeting. As people person of today. Many opportunities for music Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 (4 realize they’re being persuaded to discredit HOLY WEEK – hymns, contemporary choruses, or a Scripts and Performance Rights) Jesus, chills will go up their spines. The mixture of both. Watch the cross come alive Only two talented actors needed for this Holy decision of the Sanhedrin becomes a mirror through the barriers of time! Week play. The roles of Peter and Mary are for the fickleness of humankind. Involving and challenging and fleshed out in absorbing suspenseful. WHO ARE WE ON PALM detail. Their conversation instantly pulls you in SUNDAY? with its suspense and secrecy, as Peter HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON? BY: KAY BASCOM furtively looks for the temple police. He is BY: JON MCCAULEY SMITH afraid he'll be discovered, but Mary wants to 4 females, 5 males, 1 6 females, 1 male, 7 know everything. The disciple gives Jesus' either, 10 total • 15 total • 15 minutes • minutes • eScript mother the truth. He discloses Judas' betrayal eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script and then the disciples' betrayal, as they ran • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay away when the guards seized Jesus. He then • ePlay Package: Package: $20.99 reveals Pilate's decision to crucify three $20.99 (Digital Scripts (Digital Scripts and people on the eve of Passover to scare off and Performance Performance Rights) • political demonstrators. Mary despairs that Rights) • Play Play Package: $35.99 even though Jesus healed and helped many, Package: $29.99 (9 (12 Scripts and Scripts and Rome still rules the world. She feels Performance Rights) Performance Rights) abandoned by God. Peter gently reminds her, Nine individuals who observed Christ's entry "Sometimes a person has to die in order to Five mothers are helpless to intercede for into Jerusalem share their insights. Some of really live." Ends just before sunrise on the their sons as the greatest event of history the spectators are close friends of Jesus, Sabbath. Eloquent and poignant. unfolds. Using the Bible as reference, Simeon some are enemies, others are indifferent or and Anna tell the story of each mother's confused. This presentation gives listeners a anguish as their sons live out their roles dramatic look into the thoughts and emotions DENIED during the last days of Christ. The mothers of surrounding the battle over Christ's identity in BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON Judas, James and John, John Mark, those final days. May be used as Readers 3 females, 6 males, 9 total • 20 minutes • Barabbas and Jesus each cry out for the Theatre or as an impromptu production eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • protection of their sons. But, in every inviting audience participation. The ending ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and instance, there is a loss. After each mother's Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 may be adapted to include music, prayerful episode a candle is extinguished, leaving only (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) meditation or further discussion based on the one still burning at the climax. The mother of Scripture references provided in the script. Josh, a new Christian, doesn’t understand Jesus loses her son, but she does not lose how Peter could deny Christ. He comes face the Light. Through the death and turmoil there to face with his own weakness when he remains the triumphant cry, "Have You Seen hangs out with his buddies from work. My Son?" A stirring portrayal for Holy Week or Mirroring Peter’s moment of failure, Josh acts a preamble for a mother-centered Easter indifferent about his faith. Interspersed with message. the drama are plaintive phrases from the traditional hymn “O, How I Love Jesus.” The past and present scenes of denial converge in a stirring conclusion with an unspoken gesture of forgiveness, healing and grace.
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THE DAWNING OF FAITH GOOD FRIDAY GRACE IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME BY:* BRADLEY K. HILL BY: TERYL CARTWRIGHT BY: CAROL FEICKERT 11 females, 10 males, 21 total • 45 minutes • 6 either, 6 total • 20 2 females, 3 males, 5 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • minutes • eScript total • 20 minutes • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $1.99 • Script eScript Perusal: $1.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $56.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay • Script Perusal: $3.99 (22 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $20.99 • ePlay Package: (Digital Scripts and $20.99 (Digital Scripts Many of those who knew Jesus or attended Performance Rights) • and Performance his crucifixion the day before now gather to Play Package: $29.99 Rights) • Play commiserate in their grief. They return to the (8 Scripts and Package: $29.99 (7 same upper room where the Last Supper took Performance Rights) Scripts and place to reflect and remember. A mix of Performance Rights) Christ’s robe, his crown of thorns, a whip, monologues and dialogues illustrate who nails, cross and stone … simple objects, yet This is one-stop planning for Maundy Jesus was, the present reality post- collectively they tell the story of Christ’s Thursday. Everything is here for a complete Crucifixion, and what might happen in the crucifixion. This series of interwoven evening’s program, including suggestions for unknown future. Several of those whom Jesus monologs introduces the craftspeople who a simple meal, a musical number, a drama, raised to life after death share their made them. Fascinating historical facts are Communion, and a solo – or the drama may experiences, and the long-shot question interwoven with the biblical account in a stand alone. It features five characters: the lingers—could the same happen to him? For unique point of view. All the “makers” ponder Centurion; Mary, the Mother; Joseph of now the answers are inconclusive, and all are their role in the unfolding events of Arimathea; Mary, the Sister; and John. They left to wonder as the women head for the Crucifixion, then end with the same reflect on the hollow emptiness of time tomb. Great involvement for a couple families realization: “Look at what I gave Jesus, and following the Crucifixion. Scripture references with parents and children, plus several others. look at what he gave me.” The very objects are included for each monologue. The Originally written for a Maundy Thursday that were intended for destruction resulted in preparation is streamlined, with no props or service, but equally effective for Good Friday. revelation for their creators. sets, only simple costumes, no memorization and minimal rehearsal. A thought-provoking IN A WEEK'S TIME piece. All depart in silence to ponder its FROM BETHLEHEM TO message. BY: MARILYN D. BACON CALVARY
HOLY WEEK 2 females, 1 male, 2 either, 5 total, 1-25 extras, BY: CAROL FEICKERT gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 20 minutes • DENIED, BETRAYED $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: BY: ANGELA JOYCE $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • • Play Package: $20.99 (7 Scripts and ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • 15 minutes • Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (7 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Scripts and Performance Rights) ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Five short scenes interspersed with seemingly Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (7 The quiet, the darkness, Communion, tailor-made song suggestions tell the Scripts and Performance Rights) music… it’s all these elements working complete story of Holy Week through the eyes together to create solemn and focused Two from Jesus' inner circle failed him at his of a widow and her young son. Josiah returns Maundy Thursday worship. The evening may time of deepest need. The stories of Judas from a parade with a palm branch and, to the start with an optional light Lenten meal. This and Peter intertwine in this reading that dismay of his mother, a dirty cloak – he variation on theatre-in-the-round features four captures the solemnity of Holy Week. The placed it in King Jesus’ path. Then he comes podiums placed around the sanctuary. In scenes that sparked their downfall are home with a shekel from the melee at the silence a figure clad in black lights a candle at enacted: Judas' chagrin over the woman temple with the money changers. Miriam each one. The action moves from one place anointing Jesus' feet with costly perfume, and grows concerned about Jesus and his to the next as costumed characters Zechariah Peter's denial of Jesus to the maidens. The influence on her son, but after hearing that and Elizabeth, Mary Magdalene, Pilate and men stand at lecterns, so no memorization is Jesus healed her friend, she agrees to let Judas share heartfelt monologues, then snuff required. There are also parts for three Josiah go to the temple on Friday. She has out a candle. Includes suggested musical women—two small speaking roles and one second thoughts as the sky darkens and interludes. Communion may occur at any nonspeaking role. The author synthesized all Jerusalem erupts in chaos – and then Josiah point or at the service’s conclusion, after four gospel accounts in this well-researched comes home with the sad news of Jesus’ which congregants depart in hushed stillness adaptation. Much is said economically—the death. Sunday changes everything when to ponder all they’ve seen and heard on this succinct drama fits easily into a Maundy Jesus lives! A simple yet complete look at the night of remembrance. Thursday or Good Friday service. A most extraordinary week in history. Written to captivating portrait of failure—and alleviate time constraints with a small cast forgiveness. and simple staging.
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COMPELLED THE LAST SUPPER LIVING THE LAST SUPPER BY: TERYL CARTWRIGHT BY: PAT UNDERWOOD BY: TERYL CARTWRIGHT 1 female, 1 male, 4 either, 6 total • 20 minutes • 14 either, 14 total, 5 either, 5 total, gender flexible • 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • gender flexible • 25 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and minutes • eScript ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (8 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $20.99 Spare and thoughtful, this piece will capture (Digital Scripts and Step inside Da Vinci’s famous painting The you with its stillness, its haunting music, its Performance Rights) • Last Supper for this dramatic presentation shadowy darkness and the holy solemnity of a Play Package: $42.99 that creates a memorable upper room pounding gavel pronouncing irreversible (16 Scripts and experience. Because this artwork is expressly judgment. Includes the seven last words of Performance Rights) Christian, we can and should claim it by Christ coupled with fascinating parallels from No rehearsal necessary! This Maundy offering an interpretation. The artist captures Psalm 23. Though the Lord is our Shepherd, Thursday drama is like no other with its four emotions on the faces of the disciples at he first became the lamb through his irresistible element of surprise. Members of Jesus’ words, “One of you will betray me.” crucifixion. Even those who wanted to be your congregation are recruited to be the Monologues by four of them showcase bystanders at that time, like Simon of Cyrene, actors on the spot! When the service begins, Peter’s denial, John’s consternation, were compelled to take part in his story – as the pastor assigns the roles of the disciples to Nathanael’s disbelief and Matthew’s are we. Nobody is a bystander! Many Holy men or to teens and women also, to confusion. Just as Jesus is in the center of the Week programs journey with Jesus from the symbolize that all are called to be disciples. In painting, he is in the midst of humanity, calling courtroom to the cross – but this one retraces Last Supper style, they sit at a long table. us to serve others. Includes a sample order of Jesus’ route backward, from cross to Each disciple reads a mini-monolog service. Concludes with the disciples serving courtroom. This short play’s small cast with descriptive of his background and his Communion. May be included in a Maundy gender flexibility and novel approach will association with Jesus, concluding with, "Is it I Thursday worship service or church meal. HOLY WEEK challenge you. (who will betray Jesus)?" Involving congregants draws them into the heartbreak THE LONGEST NIGHT INTERVIEW WITH A STONE and suspense of the eve before the BY: AUDREY SURMA Crucifixion. Because the parts are short, it's BY: KENNETH ONSTOT 2 females, 1 male, 3 easy to do a "cold" reading. This exciting 2 either, 2 total, total • 20 minutes • gender flexible • 15 impromptu format is certain to make your eScript Perusal: $1.99 minutes • eScript congregation sit up and take notice! • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script • ePlay Package: Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $12.99 (Digital Scripts Package: $12.99 LEST WE FORGET and Performance (Digital Scripts and BY: DR. GENE WILDER Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • 2 males, 3 either, 5 total, 1 extra • 30 minutes • Package: $16.99 (5 Play Package: $16.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Scripts and (4 Scripts and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (7 Finally, a Maundy Thursday script that Scripts and Performance Rights) “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones touches on the Last Supper but doesn't call would cry out,” Jesus said, when asked to In the hush of your Holy Week service, five for 13 men to play the parts of Jesus and the quiet the crowd at his Triumphal Entry. A readers express heartbreak and betrayal from disciples. The scene is the Upper Room, still stone on the road to Jerusalem really does tell Jesus’ last Thursday and Friday. Each littered with the remains of the previous all in this play! A reporter strikes up a moment is one step closer to his crucifixion: night's Passover meal—the Last Supper. discussion with the rock in her hand. The the disciples’ confusion at Jesus washing their Mary, John and Mary Magdalene sit at the Stone seems credible enough, as it bears feet, Judas’ betrayal, Peter’s denial, the table, numbed by grief. Together, the three testimony to events in biblical history. But disciples falling asleep instead of praying, and search for meaning in the face of tragedy. what about the strange figure that rode in with Jesus carrying his cross. This is not merely a Why did Jesus have to die? And will he really honor on Palm Sunday and staggered out in rehashing of history. It lifts the accounts off rise again? The play's short length means it despair on Good Friday? The Stone’s the pages of Scripture and into our souls, may easily be incorporated into a Maundy eyewitness account offers a unique point of prompting self-examination – “We all have the Thursday or Good Friday service with ample view of the events leading up to the seed of betrayal in us.” There’s no need for time left for the sermon, Communion and Crucifixion. It’s easy to present, with minimal props or costumes – the poetic and music. Smaller churches will find it easy to Reporter lines and the Stone voiced offstage passionate telling says it all, with the lyrical cast. A poignant play of tender introspection. – the perfect role for someone who wants to and haunting instrument of the spoken word. participate without being onstage or Some solo lines, others blended together – memorizing lines. For Holy Week services or whispered, louder or overlapping for impact. A a segue to your Easter sermon. reflective prelude before a service of Communion that is equally effective for Maundy Thursday or Good Friday.
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A SERVICE OF SHADOWS SURELY NOT I, LORD TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME BY: NORMAN H. WIEGEL BY: ELIZABETH ELGERT BY: KARLA JENSEN 2 females, 7 males, 4 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 20 minutes • 4 females, 2 males, 2 either, 8 total, gender either, 13 total, eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • gender flexible • 15 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Perusal: $1.99 • Script (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $20.99 (10 Scripts and Performance Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Rights) Package: $12.99 Host Joe reads a devotional to his dinner (Digital Scripts and guests where Jesus says to his disciples, A tumbler, a Communion chalice, a mug ... Performance Rights) • "One of you will betray me." Each guest every cup tells a story. This unique service Play Package: $24.99 grapples with the implications of betrayal in uses Jesus' impassioned plea in the Garden (15 Scripts and his own life. In turn, they share their inner of Gethsemane, "Take this cup from me," as Performance Rights) thoughts on the sin that trips them up, from a the basis for these contemporary slice-of-life No memorization is needed for this easily salesman's struggle with envy to a child’s episodes. In every instance, there is pain. A presented service. Several readers relate the habit of lying. Because many ages, mother picks up her heirloom teacup and history of the Tenebrae service, or "service of occupations and personalities are reflects on a "hand-me-down" family problem. shadows," as an introduction. Then they, with represented, their soul-searching acts as a A youth's glass represents the loss of his several players, tell of the tragedy of Jesus' mirror to our own spiritual condition: How do family's mealtime as their closeness last hours. The Christ Candle is strategically we betray Jesus in our daily lives? A simple unraveled. A lonely single's chipped cup placed to correspond with the key points of yet thought-provoking presentation that reminds her of her flawed life. A nurse's the story: The Last Supper, the Agony in the places this biblical passage squarely into the medicine cup symbolizes her sadness when Garden, the Betrayal, the Denial, the Trial, the twenty-first century. patients don't heal. Just as Jesus grew to Crucifixion, and the Death. As the drama accept his Father's will for him even when it builds, the church lights grow dimmer and involved pain, each character repeats a TRAIL'S END scriptural promise seemingly custom made for dimmer as a symbol of the withdrawal of BY: SCOTT HERREN Jesus' friends and disciples until only the his or her situation, concluding the service 13 males, 1 either, 14 total • 15 minutes • Christ Candle is left. with hope. eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 TORN
HOLY WEEK SLAVES SET FREE (16 Scripts and Performance Rights) BY: SHERI LYNN ESSIAN BY: JEFFREY B. SNYDER 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 20 minutes • It captures the drama of the Last Supper and 1 female, 5 males, 2-3 either, 8-9 total • 25 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • recasts it from the Upper Room in Jerusalem minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and to the wide-open range of an 1890s cattle Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 drive. Manny tells his followers that the sheriff Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $24.99 (11 Scripts and Performance is coming for him. Seems one of their own Rights) If you really want to know what's going on, spied him on a wanted poster and turned him The curtain separating the Holy of Holies from just ask the help. These behind-the-scenes in. Manny explains the meaning of the biscuits the rest of the temple was four inches thick, servants were the eyes and ears of Jerusalem and the potion in the jug. Concludes with sixty feet long and thirty feet wide. Three in the turbulent days leading up to the Manny and Pete serving Communion to the hundred priests were required to lift the four- Crucifixion: Demetrius, the high priest's slave congregation. ton curtain into place! The ripping of this who observed the Triumphal Entry; Malchus, curtain when Jesus was crucified was who went from military slave to brother in the THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF remarkable – but what was it really saying? Lord when his ear was healed; Miriam, a ME This play imagines a meeting between a slave girl in the courtyard of the high priest BY: CAROL E. DULMES young temple priest and John, Jesus’ disciple. who heard Peter deny Christ; Asher, Pilate's Both have lost the source of their power: the slave, who witnessed Jesus' trial; Benjamin, 11 males, 1 either, 12 total, 2 extras • 10 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script temple curtain and all it symbolizes for the Joseph of Arimathea's slave, who was sent to Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital priest, and Jesus himself for John. In tearing, the marketplace to get spices and linen for Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play the curtain that was designed to keep people Jesus' burial in his master's tomb and Sarah, Package: $24.99 (14 Scripts and Performance out now lets them in. That changed a slave in Cleopas' Emmaus home who Rights) everything! Themes include loss and God’s prepared a meal for Jesus. Each slave This re-enactment of the Last Supper is availability, with a final challenge to the experiences a moment of personal epiphany structured as a dialogue with speaking parts congregants witnessing the performance. as his or her life intersects with the Messiah, for all of the apostles except Thaddeus and transforming their work—and their lives—into Thomas. It is a recreation of the events of that a labor of love. evening as told in the Gospels. Jesus is characterized in actual dialogue. The personalities and relationship of each disciple to one another and Jesus is made clear. Simply staged. Most parts are easily memorized. The dramatization can be used as part of Maundy Thursday worship service or as a special presentation during Holy Week.
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WILL YOU WAIT WITH ME? leading up to the Crucifixion, their perceptions THE WOMEN AT CALVARY BY: MOLLY M. GARNETT differ. If Christ is the same “yesterday, today BY: MARTHA SLITER SHEERAN 11 females, 1 male, 12 total • 40 minutes • and forever,” then humanity is fickle! A fresh 7 females, 7 total • 12 minutes • eScript eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • take on these familiar passages. Includes Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and instructions for making crosses out of palm Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 branches which are used in the performance. Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (14 Scripts and Performance Rights) An easily presented readers play with uses for (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) In this Holy Week play, modern-day and Pam Sunday, Maundy Thursday or Good Few, if any, of the men who followed Jesus biblical women keep vigil with Mary. Mary Friday services. were there as he carried his cross to Calvary, looks on with a breaking heart as Jesus' body was nailed to it, and died in crucifixion. The is lowered from the cross. Yet her heart of men were afraid to be there. It was mostly the faith still clings to his promise to return. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THE women who were able to be faithful to him Longing for support, she turns to other women NIGHT HE WAS BETRAYED? until the moment of his death. An unknown of faith and asks, "Will you wait with me?" BY: STEPHEN C. LOVELADY woman and the three Marys tell the Good One by one, ten women arise from the Friday story in successive monologues. Their 15 males, 1 either, 16 total • 30 minutes • congregation to comfort her. They offer Mary words increase our understanding of the eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • their own experiences of loss mingled with ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and passion and the death of our Lord. faith as they reassure her, "Yes, Mary, I will Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Presentation adaptable to any worship wait with you." (18 Scripts and Performance Rights) service. "One of you will betray me," Jesus announces THE UPPER ROOM at his Last Supper with the disciples. Each is BY: GARY SHIPLETT fearful, wondering, "Is it I?" Judas's betrayal,
9 males, 2 either, 11 the foot-washing and the Passover meal are HOLY WEEK total, 1-15 extras • 15 re-enacted. Speaking parts for all characters minutes • eScript are based on Scripture for authenticity. The Perusal: $1.99 • Script mood of the drama ranges from lighthearted Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay jesting in the beginning, to disbelief and dread Package: $20.99 over the betrayal and tragedy ahead, to a (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • closing hymn of quiet hope. Includes optional Play Package: $35.99 concluding narrative on each disciple's (13 Scripts and ministry after Jesus' death. Performance Rights) Though this presentation is designed for TRILOGY Maundy Thursday, it may be presented at any BY: RENAE MEREDITH worship service during Lent. A "living" Jesus 1 female, 2 males, 1 re-enacts the events of the Upper Room as either, 4 total • 25 two readers and seven "living" disciples minutes • eScript interpret his actions. Peter, Andrew, James, Perusal: $1.99 • Script John, Philip, Thomas and Judas talk with Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay THE GREATEST OF SERVANTS Jesus as the Master washes their feet. Package: $12.99 BY: BRENDA TROYER (Digital Scripts and Following each washing, each disciple tells 5 males, 1 either, 6 total • 60 minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay his inner thoughts to the audience. The Play Package: $20.99 narrative of the readers, together with dialogs Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and (6 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 and monologs of the disciples, gives a living Performance Rights) Scripts and Performance Rights) perspective to the Eucharist event. Your pastor or a narrator reads the If the Last Supper took place in today's Gethsemane narrative from Mark as the society, would Jesus choose foot-washing as WHAT CHANGED? Tenebrae candles are extinguished. Out of an act of humble servitude? Because we don't BY: SUSAN LYNN GLEASON the darkness, three voices—Mary Magdalene, travel down dusty roads in sandals, perhaps 2 males, 16-17 either, 18-19 total, 0-20 extras, Peter and the Centurion—grapple with the he would wash the hands of his disciples gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: reality of Jesus' imminent crucifixion. Mary instead. This script tells you how to conduct a $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Magdalene feels her life ebb away, just as congregational hand-washing service. After a $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Jesus is about to lose his. Peter is bitter, light meal is shared by the congregation, four • Play Package: $28.99 (20 Scripts and feeling that he wasted the three years he was Performance Rights) disciples converse while cleaning up the a disciple. The Centurion wonders whom he dishes. They inquire about the other disciples One man, two responses – from the adulation offended to be given execution detail. Then and learn that they couldn't be there due to of Jesus’ Triumphal Entry to the their Savior is crucified. Their anguish is contemporary church commitments. This condemnation of his Crucifixion. First palpable as he suffers and dies. "Surely this leads to bickering about issues of “Hosanna!” and days later, “Crucify!” This was the Son of God!" the Centurion gasps, as responsibility and fairness. Their petty presentation opens with a reading of the he exits with the Christ candle and the argument is silenced when Jesus enters and Gospel lesson, which segues into a congregation leaves in silence. An intense washes their hands, demonstrating that he discussion between the Narrator and two worship experience with only a small number came not to be served, but to serve. members of the crowd. Though they of participants required. witnessed the same events in the days
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LOVELIGHT HE IS COMING Judgment. The rest of the cast is your pastor BY: JANET LITHERLAND BY: JUNE M. TODD and congregation. All are drawn into the 1 female, 1 male, 2 7 either, 7 total, 1-20 events and feeling of the Crucifixion as they either, 4 total, 5-30 extras, gender flexible participate in the service by reading from a extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • eScript bulletin insert. The drama is heightened by • 50 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script the tension between two voices: Judgment Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay chastises us for our role in Christ's death, but Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Mercy soothes us with words of grace and Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and hope. This sensitively rendered script creates (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 a sacred, contemplative mood for a Holy Play Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and Week service. (7 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Six or more readers provide many images of A VIGIL OF REMEMBRANCE Candlelight, music, and narration combine to Jesus' ministry that lead to the significant BY: MARY LU WARSTLER recreate the mood of an ancient 18th-century event of Palm Sunday. The readers, in 1 female, 4 males, 5 Tenebrae service, enhanced by projected interlocking passages, tell how they, as total • 45 minutes • images of appropriate art via PowerPoint. The people of Judea, came to discover the Christ, eScript Perusal: $1.99 suffering and death of Christ is told by two his work and his teachings. Also included are • Script Perusal: $3.99 people: Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a gospel readings and suggested hymns. • ePlay Package: narrator. Mary extinguishes six candles as the $20.99 (Digital Scripts story unfolds. 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This is a quietly really that different from those in Bible times? feet, Judas, Jesus, Peter and Pilate tell of beautiful service appropriate for Good Friday This Tenebrae service shows just how parallel betrayal and unrest in Jesus' final days. One or any evening of Holy Week. our lives really are. It features a varied by one, the seven lit candles on the altar are contemporary cast, each with a biblical extinguished as the tale of darkness unfolds counterpart. Included are: A workaholic through their monologs until the sanctuary is INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND businessman with bankrupt morals (Judas), enveloped in shadows and silence. MY SPIRIT an overzealous activist (one of the mob), one BY: JON MCCAULEY SMITH who denied Jesus in the responsibilities of life WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY 8 males, 8 total • 45 (Peter), someone who causes Jesus pain LORD minutes • eScript (crown of thorns maker) and a materialistic BY: MYRA SHOFNER Perusal: $1.99 • Script person (soldier who gambles for Jesus’ robe). 3 females, 3 males, 3 either, 9 total, gender Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay For each character there is a hymn, Scripture Package: $12.99 flexible • 60 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • (Digital Scripts and reading, candle and prop as he or she lays a Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Performance Rights) • burden at the altar — from a bag of coins to a (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Play Package: $20.99 coat. Memorable for any time during Holy Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance (10 Scripts and Week. 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EASTER AND AFTER THE MARY MONOLOGUES BY: VIRLYNN REX BY: LYNNE K. JESSUP 5 females, 4 males, 9-27 total, doubling 1-4 females, 1-4 total • possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 2 minutes 2 minutes • eScript per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $12.99 Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, (Digital Scripts and and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 Easter is too joyous to recognize on just one (3 Scripts and day! These sketches extend the celebration Performance Rights) with scripts for Easter Sunday and four weeks afterward. A congregational reading, a Jesus gave each of these four women an monolog and several sketches draw on the understanding of who they were. This was key events that immediately followed Jesus’ their personal reason for devotion and love to resurrection. All selections are short enough him as man and Savior. These short readings that they may easily be incorporated into may be used together or singly as part of a worship services. Included are: 1. A worship service or for a woman's circle Easter THE STONES OF PASSION Congregational Affirmation - A Morning of program. Included are monologues by: Mary, the Mother of Jesus; Mary of Bethany; BY: RON MOTLEY Celebration that may be used for a sunrise service. 2. Women of the Resurrection - Mary, the Mother of the boy Mark who 7-18 either, 7-18 total, gender flexible • 20 Women discuss the disbelief of the disciples watched the betrayal of Jesus at the minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Garden of Gethsemane and Mary Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital at the news of the empty tomb. 3. Emmaus Magdalene. Though each Mary tells a Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Travelers - Cleopas and Luke encounter a Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, stranger on their trek – or is he? 4. The different story, their messages converge into and Performance Rights) Doubter - Thomas voices his uncertainty one brilliant expression of the light of his love. The theme of stones unifies this unique series about the authenticity of the risen Christ. 5. of readings for a sunrise service. Seven Fishers of Men - Peter, Andrew, James and readers represent the stones of: 1. Jubilation John remember when they were called from —A pebble along the road at the Triumphal the nets to the network of believers. Entry, 2. Anger—A stone pillar outside the EASTER temple, 3. Self-Righteousness—A rock used MEMORIES OF THE in stoning, 4. Remembrance—A stone table RESURRECTION in the Upper Room, 5. Anguish—A stone in BY: MICHAEL O. COLVIN the Garden of Gethsemane, 6. Rejection— 3 females, 6 males, 9 Pilate's stone seat and 7. Death and total • 20 minutes • Resurrection—The stone that sealed Christ's eScript Perusal: $1.99 tomb. No props or costumes are required. • Script Perusal: $3.99 Smooth stones are handed out to the • ePlay Package: congregation to carry out the theme. Includes $20.99 (Digital Scripts a suggested order of service. and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (11 I SAW HIM Scripts and BY: EMILY PARDUE Performance Rights) 12 either, 12 total, gender flexible • 25 minutes • This is the perfect drama for the church that ALL THINGS ARE BRIGHT AND eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • wants a beautiful sunrise service with a ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and BEAUTIFUL minimum of preparation. This series of BY: ARTHUR L. ZAPEL Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 interwoven monologs allows for individual (14 Scripts and Performance Rights) 13 either, 13 total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • rehearsal. 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Includes Supper), Gethsemane, Caiaphas' house, Readers Theatre production, or more readers, the children’s choir and flower Whip, Scarlet Robe, Crown of Thorns, Stone elaborately with memorization of lines and bearers. The symbolism of three Easter Pavement, Golgotha, Tomb, Cross. Each costumes. Included is a plan for a complete flowers is told with Scripture readings. Easter speaks in vivid images of the tumult worship service with appropriate hymns and lilies are then added to form first the design of surrounding those dark days in Jerusalem: Scripture readings interspersed among the the Holy Trinity, then the design of the Cross. the indignant Scarlet Robe, the busybody first-person accounts. Six or more well-known hymns are used Garden of Gethsemane, the ashamed Tomb. during the program.
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THE ABCS OF EASTER 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE Triumph, Eternal Life and Resurrection. Then BY: SHARON A. KIRBY-COLE EASTER children come forward and display the 10-27 either, 10-27 BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA banners, explaining the significance of each word. At the conclusion of the program the total, doubling 3 females, 4 males, 3 either, 10 total, 1-40 possible, gender extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript children rearrange themselves, revealing that flexible • 20 minutes • Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay the first letter of each banner's word spells eScript Perusal: $1.99 Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and "Easter." Music may be inserted.Directions for • Script Perusal: $3.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 making banners are included. • ePlay Package: (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance “’Twas the week before Easter and all through THE CASE OF THE EMPTY Rights) • Play the street/Crowds gathered, hoping the Lord TOMB Package: $29.99 (10 they would meet./Palm branches waving, they BY: KENT SYVERSON Scripts and started to sing/ Honsanna! Hosanna to the Performance Rights) 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 15 minutes • King of Kings!” So begins this rhyming eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • B for Barabbas and narrative of the events surrounding Christ’s ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and betrayal, S for sunrise and silver ... This A to final days on earth – his Triumphal Entry, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (8 Z journey through the Easter story is clever capture for arrest, crucifixion and resurrection. Scripts and Performance Rights) and surprisingly comprehensive! Children A large cast, including the disciples, the An outrageous rumor is circulating that Jesus, brainstorm for appropriate words starting with Marys, a soldier and the crowd, contributes recently crucified for blasphemy, has risen each letter of the alphabet in a relaxed and singing and brief dialog. Based on the well- from the dead. The skeptical Sadducees, who conversational style with short lines for easy known poem ‘Twas the Night before claim there is no Resurrection, hire attorney memorization. The children may also draw Christmas, this Easter version will capture the Mason Perry to disprove the rumor. He asks and paint posters depicting each letter's attention of all with its familiar rhyme scheme B.J. Fetch Her, Sam Shovel, Nancy Dreary, words during rehearsals. Their simple, sunny and the inspirational message of salvation Sherkey Homely and sidekick Dr. What's creations will charm the audience while through Jesus’ crucifixion. Flexible casting. Wrong to help him. The detectives conduct reinforcing the message. Children may wear Easily prepared costumes and props. their investigations, then report back to Mason their posters with a string around their necks with their theories of why Jesus couldn't have or they may hold them with their lines written ALL ON AN EASTER EVENING risen from the dead. Each argument is cross- on the back. Simply charming! BY: JOHN B. WINTERMUTE examined through Scripture, the obvious 1 female, 1 male, 1 either, 3 total • 15 minutes • holes pointed out. Finally they huddle together AN EASTER CAROL eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • in desperation and come up with one BY: KENNETH ONSTOT ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and ridiculous theory - until Dr. What's Wrong 3 females, 3 males, 3 either, 9 total, gender Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (5 makes a startling discovery that changes Scripts and Performance Rights)
EASTER flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • everything. Their unanimous conclusion? Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 A dialog sermon for Eastertide. As most of the "Jesus really is the Son of God!" (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play disciples sleep, weary from the awesome Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance events of Easter day, Thomas and Mary from Rights) CELEBRATE EASTER! Magdala discuss the miracle. Thomas doubts BY: CHRISTINE FERGUSON There's no Scrooge in this Easter play, but that Mary and the others have really seen the 4 females, 3 males, 14 either, 21 total • 15 true to Charles Dickens' form, there are risen Christ. He questions, probes and minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script several mysterious nighttime visitors. Kevin challenges Mary's every statement at length Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital and Kim Marley die in an accident, leaving until he is able to glimpse and realize the Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Jeri and their other teenage friends grief- meaning of faith. An excellent presentation of Package: $49.99 (23 Scripts and Performance stricken and confused. The Marleys visit Jeri the Good News of Easter. Needs only two Rights) at midnight and tell her that three spirits will good readers speaking from lecterns. Stage fright? No way! For this easy visit her and reveal differing views of what presentation, adorable digital photos of your happens after death. For the Spirit of Atheism, church's children are taken ahead of time it's nothing. For the New Age Spirit, it's A BANNER EASTER according to the script's structure and detailed reincarnation, preceded by chanting and BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN descriptions. The photos taken "on location" channeling. Ommmm ... Then a voice calls 3-7 either, 3-7 total • give depth to the storyline about celebrating Jeri's name. "Aren't you going to appear to 20 minutes • eScript Easter. The story doesn't require children to me?" Jeri asks. The unseen Angel of Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay assume grown-up biblical roles but gives Resurrection answers her, "Faith is the Package: $12.99 them a parallel modern story that expresses conviction of things not seen." Your new life (Digital Scripts and the essence of Easter. During the with Jesus can start now, and it will never Performance Rights) • performance, the images are projected on a end. Written specifically for teenagers to Play Package: $20.99 screen or wall as the older children with explore Jesus' resurrection and its (9 Scripts and speaking parts read their lines from off-stage implications – here and in the hereafter. Performance Rights) for a voice-over effect. Everyone may sit back Six colorful banners – each featuring a key and enjoy the show - even those in it! Your word of Easter – provide a centerpiece for this congregation will truly enjoy this personalized easy-to-present program for children. A program totally customized for your church! narrator reads Scripture references that relate to each word: Empty Tomb, Arisen Savior,
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A CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR A CRICKET COUNTY CITY DR. LUKE AND THE CASE OF EASTER EASTER THE EMPTY TOMB BY: JACQUELINE HURLEY BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: HEATH CLOUTIER 2 females, 6 either, 8 total, 1-25 extras, gender 6 females, 5 males, 11 2 males, 9 either, 11 total, 1-50 extras • 30 flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • total • 45 minutes • minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Script Perusal: $3.99 • Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (10 Scripts and Performance ePlay Package: $27.99 Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and Rights) Performance Rights) • No humans allowed in this barnyard bonanza! Play Package: $42.99 It’s hard to say which is best about this Children will love pretending to be a hen, owl, (13 Scripts and program: its high-energy creativity or its dog, goose, fox, chick, and bunny in this play Performance Rights) entirely flexible casting. Author Dr. Luke and within a play. Silly Goose rallies the animal his sidekick Theo embark on a comic caper to Surprise, y’all! The troops to act out Jesus birth on a lazy spring research Jesus’ identity for the book Luke is Country Cousins leave day. Although the season isn't right, the stable writing. They interview eyewitnesses to key the sticks and take the setting is perfect. They divvy up the parts of moments of Christ’s life for a complete big city by storm. Their the angels, shepherds, and wise men, with biography, starting with his birth and moving unexpected little visit Hen volunteering to be the Virgin Mary. In the to his baptism, temptation, miracles, parables, throws a big ol’ knot in manger, she lays a beautiful egg that death, burial and resurrection. The seven the City Cousins’ represents Jesus. Suddenly, two Roman short scenes grab attention with colorful networking plans for their Easter service: Pete foxes storm in and smash the egg! But just approaches including rhyme, pantomime, hopes for a romance with Cassandra, Mimi is when it seems their dreams are as shattered candlelight, a Western, a military cadence and dressed to impress the church’s resident as the eggshell, a tiny chick emerges from the ample opportunities for bits of music. Each fashionista and Oswald wants to land a nest! A metaphorical play about new life. The scene may be assigned to a different class to contract. They go to great lengths to keep costumes may be as simple as decorated rehearse separately and then all are brought their Country Cousins at home fixing Easter visors. Includes an opportunity to share together just before opening night. A user- lunch, but – surprise again – they show up memorized Bible verses - as many as fits your friendly format to organize all your Sunday anyway! When they interrupt the elegantly group. school classes, from kindergarten through formal service at the First Church of Stained high school, into a single, seamless Easter Glass, even the pastor is distressed. Then he pageant.
THE COLORS OF EASTER receives some astonishing news that changes EASTER BY: RHONDA WRAY everything. There’s a laugh a minute, but by 13 either, 13 total, gum, there’s timeless truth about the role of THE EASTER PUZZLE 1-50 extras, gender the church in our fast-paced and often self- BY: AMY RIDGEWAY flexible • 15 minutes • centered world. Hillbillies to the rescue! 16 either, 16 total • 20 eScript Perusal: $1.99 minutes • eScript • Script Perusal: $3.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script • ePlay Package: DON'T YOU SEE? Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $20.99 (Digital Scripts BY: ELEANOR N. BEACHY Package: $20.99 and Performance 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 15 minutes • (Digital Scripts and Rights) • Play eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Performance Rights) • Package: $35.99 (15 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Play Package: $42.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 (18 Scripts and Performance Rights) Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) Exuberant children waving streamers and The sky is dark and Jerusalem sleeps — save Where is Jesus? As your Sunday school dressed head to toe in various bright hues for a morose group gathered around Rachel's children "puzzle" over that question, they lend this program Easter joy! Each child table. Two days previously, Jesus was gradually assemble - you guessed it - a jigsaw shares how his or her shade symbolizes an crucified. Now they are bolted inside, fearful puzzle. With each added piece and aspect of Easter. Collectively, the colors paint that the Romans will find out that they are accompanying bit of narrative, they discover a complete picture of the key events – purple Jesus’ followers. They are haunted by new places where Jesus is: in the hug of a for the King of the Jews royalty, brown for the feelings of failure and helplessness, left only friend, in the sunrise, and in your heart. When cross, black for death and sorrow, red for with memories and sentiments left unsaid. all the puzzle pieces have been assembled, a Jesus' blood, orange for the dawning sun on Then Peter and John visit and tell them that beautiful picture of Jesus emerges. Minimal the third day, gray for the empty tomb, blue the tomb holds only Jesus’ white burial rehearsal needed. Includes a pattern and for heaven and baptismal water, white for clothes! They wonder where Jesus’ body is. ideas for assembling the oversized puzzle. An purity and forgiveness of sins, yellow for the Did he ascend to God as Elijah did? Then unusual, attention-getting visual display Light of the World, and green for growth and Mary Magdalene visits and exults, “I have accompanied by a thought-provoking new life. Any number of children may sing seen the Lord!” and Matthias unbolts the door, narrative. verses of "The Easter Colors Song" hoping Jesus will visit them. This play’s short interspersed with the color explanations. As a length and small cast makes it easy to Lenten activity, children may make small bags rehearse and fit into a sunrise service. of jelly beans (one of each color included in the program) with "A Jelly Bean Prayer" inside to distribute to the congregation.
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THE GLORIOUS RAINBOW OF EASTER...THE MYSTERY AND THE EASTER TREE EASTER THE PROMISE BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN BY: CHERYL J. BUSHWEILER BY: JANI BARBATI 1 female, 1 male, 6 14 either, 14 total, 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 15 minutes • either, 8 total, 1-40 gender flexible • 15 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • extras, gender flexible minutes • eScript ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (6 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and "With the rising of the sun, darkness ends... (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • with the rising of God's Son, new life begins!" Performance Rights) • Play Package: $28.99 A poetic narrative for an Easter sunrise Play Package: $29.99 (16 Scripts and service using two male and two female voices (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) (mature teens or adults) that reflects on Performance Rights) The entire congregation becomes a part of Jesus' earthly ministry, his suffering at the Everyone enjoys decorating a tree at this children's program when each member crucifixion, his joyful resurrection, and his gift Christmastime. Why not do the same at receives a little rainbow badge of yarn. The to the disciples—and all of us—of the Spirit. Easter? This innovative program has as its "rainbow" proclaims Christ's victory over Scripture references form the basis of the centerpiece a cross tree made from three death. Using color symbolism, several reading, and the narrative makes the bare branches. Children decorate the tree children tell how their color represents one of connection between the 2,000-year-old Easter with symbols of Easter to celebrate Christ's the events of the Easter story. A reader story and its impact on our lives, today and resurrection. Patterns are included for angel, (pastor) follows each child's presentation with eternally. butterfly, lamb, cross, crown and lily a passage of Scripture that characterizes ornaments. Each child places his or her each child's color -- yellow for cowardice, blue EASTER Q & A ornament on the tree and briefly explains the Scripture-based meaning behind it. Verses of for sadness, red for bloodshed, etc. When the BY: MICHAEL R. BUCKLES story of the Passion is complete, the colors "The Easter Tree Song" (set to a familiar 1 female, 2 males, 8 either, 11 total, gender tune) are interspersed with the symbol taken together represent the "rejoicing flexible • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • explanations. Many children may participate rainbow" of Easter. Play Package/ePlay Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Package includes information about how to (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play as singers and tree trimmers. The stage a total activity. Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance construction of the Easter tree ornaments are Rights) an excellent Lenten activity for Sunday school children. If desired, children may make and Three visitors, circa two thousand years ago, EASTER IN CRICKET COUNTY distribute additional ornaments to the show up at your church on Easter. Naturally, BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON congregation to save for use on their there’s curiosity about these followers of 5 females, 5 males, Christmas trees. EASTER 10 total • 30 minutes • Christ. When the floor is opened for eScript Perusal: $1.99 discussion, several audience “plants” ask a • Script Perusal: $3.99 variety of questions in an informal town hall EASTER'S CREATURES • ePlay Package: meeting style: Peter on fishing – on the Sea of BY: KAREN HANELY $27.99 (Digital Scripts Galilee or among people, Mary’s frustration at 6 females, 6 males, 7 either, 29 total, 1-20 and Performance her inability to help the One who helped her at extras, gender flexible • 25 minutes • eScript Rights) • Play the Crucifixion, and Andrew describing Jesus’ Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $42.99 (12 Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Scripts and appearances post-resurrection, reassuring Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 Performance Rights) believers today with Jesus’ own words, “Blessed are those who do not see, yet (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) It’s a sunrise service in Cricket County, and believe.” The congregational participation the hillbilly Taylor clan is hosting it in their lends a spontaneous feel to the interplay This charming Easter play features animals front yard! The bucolic pre-dawn darkness is between audience and actors. Only minimal that speak and sing about the events of interrupted by the arrival of their highbrow, rehearsal required. An involving and Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. They opportunistic city cousins. They’re forever memorable experience for the entire relate the complete Easter story from an after the coal mines and oil fields the Taylors congregation. animal's point of view. Some contribute inherited from their late Uncle Zeke, and this anecdotes from their own species: Donny year is no exception for these money- Donkey tells of his ancestor's ride into grubbing kinfolk, as they surreptitiously Jerusalem amid waving palms, then Robert search for a new “treasure” Grandma Rooster tells of Peter's denial, after which a supposedly found. But when the sunrise rooster crowed three times. Other cast service begins, thoughts quickly turn to the members are rabbits, a pig, a cow, chickens, true meaning of Easter as everyone, including sheep and more. Includes ides for animal the city bunch, shares what the Resurrection costumes that add a delightful touch of means to them. When Grandma’s treasure is whimsy to the most significant Bible story of revealed, greedy hearts soften. More all. Many children may join in the singing, with homespun theology from these irresistible original lyrics set to familiar tunes. characters from the holler. Fun but appropriately reverent.
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THE EMPTY TOMB HARRIET'S EASTER HUNT HE IS RISEN BY: CAROL SECORD BY: KAREN HANELY BY: JUNE M. TODD 3 females, 3 males, 1 2 females, 1 male, 9-21 either, 12-24 total, 1-30 6 females, 2-5 males, either, 7 total • 20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 8-11 total • 20 minutes minutes • eScript minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script • eScript Perusal: Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital $1.99 • Script Perusal: Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Package: $35.99 (14 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and and Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 Your audience will be charmed by Harriet, a Play Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and delightfully mixed-up character who only (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) hears half of what is said. When she is invited Performance Rights) on an Easter egg hunt, she thinks it’s an Six characters give first-person accounts of This stirring dramatization may precede or be Easter hunt, so she sets off in search of the how they are affected by the discovery that part of a total worship service. The play holiday. Along the way she encounters a Jesus' tomb is empty. 1. Caiaphas—He includes a proposed order of worship with donkey, a stream, some flowers and other realizes that the empty tomb represents the responsive readings and prayers. The drama characters who were acquainted with Jesus. beginning of trouble, rather than its end. 2. recreates the first Easter morning. The Each one has something special to share Mary—She marvels at how quickly she forgot women, led by Mary Magdalene, are on the about his life and ministry. The characters the early assurances of her son's divinity. 3. way to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. give her signs with the first letter of their Joseph of Arimathea—He sees the irony of They discuss the events leading to the names to help her remember their stories of his legalism about proper burial for a man Crucifixion. As they come upon the burial site, the various events surrounding the who would rise again. 4. Mary Magdalene— they see the frightened soldiers and talk with Crucifixion. She pieces the clues together and She recognizes that her anxiety overwhelmed two angels. then rearranges their letter signs to find they her faith in Jesus' promise to return. 5. John spell Easter! Whimsical rhymed stanzas —He finally understands that Jesus was the bridge the transitions between the characters. HE LIVED, HE LIVES, I LIVE sacrificial lamb who overcame death. 6. Even the Easter Bunny makes an BY: BLAKE MOORE Jairus's Daughter—She wonders if her appearance, though it’s appropriately reverent second chance at life means she should live 7 either, 7 total, gender flexible • 25 minutes • — he points Harriet to the spiritual meaning of differently. An order of worship with music eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • the holiday. A chant, Easter songs, and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and suggestions is included. imaginative and easy costume and poster Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (9 EASTER ideas are featured. Scripts and Performance Rights) EASTER AT THE MUSEUM An Easter sunrise meditation using six BY: DEBI OLSTHOORN HE IS NOT HERE! HE IS RISEN! teenage voices in a narrative recalling the life 3 females, 3 males, 6 BY: JOHN B. WINTERMUTE and resurrection of Jesus. Biblical quotations total • 20 minutes • are interspersed with running comments of eScript Perusal: $1.99 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • personal discovery and realization of the • Script Perusal: $3.99 Lord’s promise to us all. • ePlay Package: ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and $20.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (5 and Performance Scripts and Performance Rights) HEAVENBOUND Rights) • Play This play within a play opens with the pastor BY: AL SCHNEIDER Package: $29.99 (8 and two "seekers" enacting a short Easter Scripts and 3 females, 2 males, 1 either, 6 total, gender Performance Rights) drama from the Middle Ages. The seekers are flexible • 10 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • looking for Jesus' body at the tomb. When the Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 When two of the arts join together – in this brief Middle Ages play is over, the seekers (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play case, visual art and theatre – it’s a sensory persist. "If Jesus really rose from the dead, Package: $20.99 (8 Scripts and Performance delight! An insurance agent visits an art then why isn't he here?" they ask. A lively Rights) museum after hours. As she assesses various dialog ensues between the pastor and the Ascension Sunday—what is it? A group of paintings, they come to life, giving insight on seekers - a study in apologetics, or defense of lively children, including the new kid, the different facets of the Easter story. The Christianity, in layman's terms. Through the clueless one, and the shy girl who knows her audience first sees the projected artwork, then questioning and doubt, the ending is a Bible, debate and discuss one of the lesser- on cue the lighting changes to reveal actors triumphant celebration of faith for the "seeker" known holy days of the church calendar costumed as they are in the painting, as if in us all, with the congregation filing out into (celebrated forty days after Easter) with they’ve stepped out of the framed artwork to the Easter morning sunrise singing "Christ the typical childish charm. Jesus rising into share their stories. Features four paintings Lord Is Risen Today." heaven reminds them of "Superman ... or a and monologists: Tintoretto’s Cristo in Casa di Power Ranger!" Through the humorous Marta e Maria – Mary, Martha’s sister; misconceptions, a surprising amount of Mantegna’s Agony in the Garden – a disciple; information gets dispensed in an entertaining Schmalz’s Return from Calvary – Jesus’ manner. What could possibly be good about mother Mary and Caravaggio’s Supper at Jesus' departure from earth? He left us the Emmaus – the man on the road to Emmaus. Holy Spirit to guide us in our daily lives. Monologues make rehearsal scheduling easier. Culturally educational and spiritually inspirational!
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LISTEN TO EASTER jumps in. Cut to 33 A.D. They emerge from KNOWING JESUS BY: JUDY GATTIS SMITH the time machine to three empty crosses. As BY: BETH TROOP 5 either, 5 total, 1-30 extras • 20 minutes • Clark meets biblical characters, he snaps into 5 females, 3 males, 1 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • reporter mode, asking the who, what, where, either, 9 total, gender ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and when, why and how of the Crucifixion. A basic flexible • 25 minutes • Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (7 understanding of Christianity emerges, and eScript Perusal: $1.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) Clark gets the biggest story after all – a whole • Script Perusal: $3.99 lot more than just the facts! • ePlay Package: A unique participation resource designed to $20.99 (Digital Scripts make Easter a real experience for church and Performance school students and all who witness it. 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One of the 5,000 knew him as his Provider. He was the Adulteress’s Defender 4 females, 4 males, 1 Children costumed as animals dramatize a and Martha’s Comforter. Today we know and either, 9 total • 15 warm and touching Easter story about Dusty, experience him in many ways: the single minutes • eScript a little donkey that yearns to have a purpose. Perusal: $1.99 • Script mother, the unemployed, the addict, the AIDS He has given up hope until surprisingly, he is Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay patient – in short, Everyman and Everywoman Package: $20.99 chosen to carry the grown Jesus into – a friend to all who understands our needs, (Digital Scripts and Jerusalem amid shouts of "Hosanna!" Dusty for he was human. Particularly good for youth Performance Rights) • and his friends rejoice, then despair several group participation with a simplified Play Package: $35.99 days later at the awful news of Jesus' monologue format. (11 Scripts and crucifixion. The animals sadly walk home Performance Rights) along the Emmaus road when they unexpectedly encounter a "stranger"—the LIVING WATER The most unusual cast of characters ever to risen Lord! Narration keeps children's lines to BY: CHERI MUELLER enter your church are featured in this EASTER a minimum. 3 females, 9 males, 15-25 either, 27-37 total, whimsical Easter play. Included are John the 1-30 extras • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: Baptist, Martha and her sister Mary, Paul, $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Timothy, Mary Magdalene, Peter and Mary, HONEY, I'M HOME! $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) the mother of Jesus. A speaker begins a BY: MARK WYATT • Play Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy sermon which is interrupted by a shouting 2 females, 2 males, 1 either, 5 total, gender Rights, and Performance Rights) John the Baptist. Others enter in sequence, flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • This vigil program is a creative feast for the Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 all endeavoring to tell who Jesus was. Each senses. It celebrates Easter by revisiting Bible (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play character tells a story from the New stories from Genesis to John with an Testament. The dialogue is lively and Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance Rights) emphasis on Living Water. Includes eight sprinkled with touches of humor. While there scenes: 1. Easter Thirst – An introduction. 2. is friendly disagreement, in the end all agree Shock. Joy! Fear ... Life after death takes on a In the Beginning … The Creation story with that more important than who Jesus was is literal and immediate tone in this most percussive sound effects. 3. "Ark"-itecture, who Jesus is, for today and all eternity. unexpected homecoming. Jashub, who died a Noah-Style - A zany retelling with a flood of year ago, appears to his family. His still- memories. 4. Road to the Red Sea – The IT'S ABOUT TIME grieving wife is skeptical. His daughter is Israelites faced a rough road. So do we in the cautious. His son surprisingly believes the BY: WALLACE N. DAVIS, BRENDA NORRIS wasteland of our modern circumstances. 5. visitor really is his father! Jashub eagerly 7 females, 3 males, 10 total • 15 minutes • Valley of the Dry Bones - A rap from shares the joyous experience of heaven and Ezekiel. 6. Joe Knows – A modern-day eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • his certainty that his Redeemer lives, savoring ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Jonah monologue. 7. Mighty to Save – A the time with his family before he returns to Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Scripture reading and song. 8. Desert Hearts (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) heaven. This intriguing scenario with equal – The finding of the empty tomb re-enacted. parts love story, humor and gentle theology is Interspersed with each scene is a responsive Cynical reporter Clark Dent's assignment to based on an often overlooked Scripture about do an Easter story for the six o'clock news reading. An unforgettable performance about Jesus' resurrection: "The tombs broke open the only Water that quenches God-thirst. doesn't go over so well. Clark wants an edgy and the bodies of many holy people who had story – not a warm and fuzzy piece about died were raised to life" (Matthew 27:52). A bunnies and chickies – so he quits. Then most unusual yet biblical approach for sharing disgruntled Clark happens upon Alberta the message of new life at Easter. Einstein, testing her new time machine. Clark wishes aloud that he could go back to yesterday, when he still had a job – so he 68 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC EASTER
MARY MAGDALENE'S GOOD MISSION: EASTER PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER NEWS BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA BY: BETH TROOP BY: E. NELSON JAMES 4 females, 2 males, 3 18 either, 18 total, 4 females, 1 male, 5 total • 30 minutes • eScript either, 9 total, 1-20 gender flexible • 20 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay extras, gender flexible minutes • eScript Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (7 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and "I felt as though the Crucifixion were taking (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • place in our sanctuary," said an audience Performance Rights) • Play Package: $28.99 member of this drama's original production. Play Package: $24.99 (20 Scripts and But elaborate scenery and complicated props (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) aren't necessary to achieve this moving One of the joys of this program is that you'll realism - it is the compelling power of Super spy Ray Smith gets a message: “Your only need a few rehearsals to "piece it all suggestion. The congregation is transported mission, should you choose to accept it – and together". Easy set-up, few props, and no back to 30 A.D. as Mary Magdalene, Mary you don’t really have a choice, because you memorization aid those with busy schedules. and Salome linger on the fringe of the don’t want to get fired – is to find out the true Narration and illustrative Scriptures team up Crucifixion scene. They strain to see and hear meaning of Easter.” Ray investigates all the to highlight key events from Jesus' life, from what is being said and done. Their urgent, usual suspects: the Easter Bunny, candy, the start of his ministry on earth to his death present-tense commentary and gestures as if dyeing eggs, egg hunts, new outfits and and empty tomb. The speakers read from the Crucifixion were taking place just beyond Easter dinner. With all the evidence in, Ray oversized cards with a letter on the reverse the congregation bring an immediacy to the cracks the case faster than an Easter egg side, hidden from view. The readings build to Gospel story. The cast is kept small to make they forgot to hard-boil: Easter is the a joyous conclusion where, at the appointed rehearsing easier. All but one of the parts are celebration of the resurrected Christ! All the time, the speakers turn their cards around and for women. This short play was originally other stuff is fun, but fluffier than the tail on hold them over their heads with the letters performed for a church sunrise service. the Easter Bunny. A high-energy romp displayed, spelling out “He Lives!” An through the secular customs to arrive at a excellent choice for youth, but any age from THE OTHER CARPENTER sacred conclusion. elementary school through adult may be BY: JOHN F. WELLS involved. The number of participants needed is flexible and may be customized to fit your 4 females, 3 males, 7 ONCE UPON A CATERPILLAR EASTER group. A simply effective component of any total • 40 minutes • BY: KATHLEEN T. PELLEY sunrise service. eScript Perusal: $1.99 2 males, 19 either, 21 total, 4-6 extras, gender • Script Perusal: $3.99 flexible • 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • • ePlay Package: Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 $20.99 (Digital Scripts THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play BY: WALLACE N. DAVIS, BRENDA NORRIS and Performance Package: $49.99 (23 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Rights) 9 either, 9 total, 1-20 extras, gender flexible • 10 Package: $29.99 (9 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and An adult narrator tells this charming tale while Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Performance Rights) costumed children participate with pantomime Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play and short lines. A caterpillar reluctantly begins Package: $24.99 (11 Scripts and Performance As a Jewish family prepares for Passover, Rights) father Dathan, an unemployed carpenter, is the metamorphosis process and sheds his offered a job. Good news? Hardly. He is skin. He dreads the changes he's going This readers play has such a natural and asked to build the cross that the through and longs to stay the same. Though relaxed feel, you'll think you just popped into a "troublemaker," Jesus, will be crucified upon. he protests each new stage, he is elated with Sunday school classroom! Children rehearse He approaches the job in a matter-of-fact the end result, when he is created anew as a and discuss their upcoming Easter play. Their way. He's been there, done that many times brilliantly colored butterfly. The play's theme: questions and wonderings are voiced aloud before. But his daughter, Mirah, is distressed change is necessary for growth. Jesus had to as they find their costumes and props. Then at her father's agreement to do the job. She die in order to rise again. Although the play is each child takes a turn at holding the cross has heard Jesus speak, and she believes he suitable for performance any time of year, the and telling about a life-changing event. The is who he claims to be. After building the message of change and rebirth is especially characters share as themselves in the present cross, Dathan feels an uncharacteristic fitting for Eastertide. Clever costume ideas and also as a biblical character, including despair over what he's done. But how can and suggested songs are included. Simon, Peter, a Bystander, the Centurion and Jesus, who has died, ever forgive the one Mary Magdalene. A simple, unpretentious who made his cross? He can—and he does. look at the Crucifixion with clear and concise Mirah goes to Jesus' tomb, where she mini-monologues interspersed with typical kid discovers he has risen from the dead! With observations of today. Ends with a recitation great kindness and mercy, Jesus reassures and a song. her of his love for her family. A heartwarming drama of help and hope.
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THE PLACE OF THE SKULL THE ORDINARY MADE RISEN! BY: JEFF DYER EXTRAORDINARY BY: KAY W. CAMENISCH 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • 30 minutes • eScript BY: BETH TROOP 6 males, 1 either, 7 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • 20 minutes • total • 30 minutes • Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (5 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (4 • ePlay Package: Scripts and Performance Rights) $20.99 (Digital Scripts How can a performance be simple and and Performance complex? The small cast of only three makes Biblical characters and objects come to life in Rights) • Play this play easy, but the rich emotional this sunrise service about God's transforming Package: $29.99 (9 landscape is complicated (yet fascinating!). power. Various readers narrate while Scripts and Experienced janitor Benjamin trains rookie Eli costumed actors pantomime the actions of Performance Rights) to clean up after Roman crucifixions and gives Jesus' mother Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, him a new sponge as a gift. They are on the shepherds, John the Baptist, Jesus, disciples Only two participants stand before your job at a crucifixion that's anything but typical and the sinful woman. Inanimate objects also congregation in this easy presentation: Jesus where they meet Mary Magdalene, who "speak," like the cross and tomb. Owing to the and the Narrator. The other character voices pleads with them to help Jesus of Nazareth, early morning time of the service, even the come from within the congregation, reflecting who is innocent! But what can they do? sunrise reinforces the theme. This ordinary the attitudes of humanity throughout time. The They're just the janitors. As the painful event event becomes extraordinary because each drama tells the story of Easter from the wears on, Jesus says, "I thirst." Eli offers his day brings hope and new possibilities when Triumphal Entry through the Resurrection with new sponge, dipped in hyssop and lifted to living for the Lord. Originally performed by a the inclusion of Old Testament prophecies, Jesus' mouth. He dies soon after. Benjamin youth group. Simply and expressively Scripture from the Gospels and realistic and Eli grapple with the reality that "dying for presented with no memorization and only a dialog. Because acting on-stage is not the whole world is a dirty job, but someone's minimum of practice. required, recruiting the inexperienced to gotta do it." The ending empty tomb caps a participate is easier—and the focus is on the gritty yet mesmerizing performance that helps story rather than the actors. No need to worry us all face our own Golgothas. A RAINBOW OF PROMISE about costumes, scenery or props—and no BY: LAWRENCE H. BALLEINE memorization! Though only minimal PROPS FOR EASTER! 4 females, 3 males, 7 preparation is needed, the result is a moving total • 40 minutes • worship experience. At the original BY: SHELLY SELLEPACK eScript Perusal: $1.99 production's conclusion, "there was a hush • Script Perusal: $3.99 21-26 either, 21-26 over the room that nobody wanted to break." total, gender flexible • • ePlay Package: 15 minutes • eScript $20.99 (Digital Scripts Perusal: $1.99 • Script and Performance
EASTER THE ROCK Rights) • Play Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: MARK JACOBS Package: $12.99 Package: $29.99 (9 (Digital Scripts and Scripts and 2 females, 2 males, 4 Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) total • 18 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 Play Package: $32.99 This spectacular visual centerpiece will (23 Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 Performance Rights) capture the attention of your entire • ePlay Package: congregation with its colorful symbolism. It $12.99 (Digital Scripts A large Easter basket captures the attention utilizes a previously constructed papier- and Performance of two children. Wow! Did the Easter Bunny mache rainbow in seven separate sections Rights) • Play visit? Did he leave jellybeans? Marshmallow (one for each color). Scripture readings and Package: $20.99 (6 Scripts and chicks? Chocolate? None of the above. There narrative by youth participants describe what Performance Rights) are some mighty strange items in this basket each hue stands for as they construct the —but several child storytellers explain the role rainbow one color section at a time. The A creatively rendered piece told by four the contents played at the first Easter. The colors and the event each symbolizes are: readers who interpret the events surrounding props are: perfume bottle, towel and bowl, Green—the palm branches of Jesus' Christ's final hours. Unifying these vivid bread and goblet, bag of coins, praying Triumphal Entry, Blue—sadness at Jesus' last images is the theme of rocks: hurled handfuls hands, lily, crown of thorns, cross, nails, dice, supper with his disciples, Indigo—the night of pebbles thrown by onlookers as Jesus sponge, torn curtain, dogwood, rock, lamb, sky as Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, Yellow faced the angry mob, a heavy stone in the egg and an empty basket. These visual —the light from torches on the night of Jesus' hand of a callous Roman soldier who pounds symbols tell the whole story, from Palm arrest, Orange—the fire at high priest's the nails for the Crucifixion, and the huge Sunday to the empty tomb. Children may courtyard that Peter stood by when he denied boulder sealing the entrance to Jesus' tomb. hand out craft gifts as the congregation Jesus, Violet—the robe placed on Jesus by Amid this darkness, the women discover the departs. A concise yet complete presentation the Roman soldiers and Red—the blood tomb's rock has been rolled away! They exult that is easy to prepare. Jesus shed at his crucifixion. in the risen Christ, the Rock of Ages who became our Cornerstone. Very easy to perform. Actual rocks as props make effective visual aids. Excellent for a sunrise service or an easter celebration.
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SYMBOLS OF THE CROSS SUN DAY tomb! Live interviews with two Roman soldiers BY: BETH TROOP BY: LAWRENCE H. BALLEINE and Nicodemus and Caiaphus, plus 13 either, 13 total, 3 females, 5 males, 1 either, 9 total • 25 investigative reporter Scoop Johnson's on- gender flexible • 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script location segment with Peter and John offer a minutes • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital few clues. Weather and traffic reports add Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play humor to the unfolding show, which presents Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance complete coverage of Jesus' last days. The Package: $20.99 Rights) women who were at the tomb break into the (Digital Scripts and live broadcast for an exciting and victorious Performance Rights) • This seamless blend of poetry and Play Package: $35.99 monologues against a stunning backdrop of a conclusion! Your church children will love (15 Scripts and fabric sun opens pre-Resurrection, with the playing these grown-up roles. Performance Rights) empty tomb not yet discovered. The language is contemporary but the costumes are So easy to present WOWED BY THE CLOUD traditional in the dialogue between Pilate and for a sunrise service! BY: SUSAN SUNDWALL his wife and the monologues by disciples All parts may be read. Props add visual John, James, and Simon Peter, as they 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 20 minutes • interest and are easy to obtain. Various eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • grapple with Jesus' death. Includes song readers “speak” for inanimate objects ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and suggestions, directions for making the sun, associated with Christ’s last days, crucifixion Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 and an opening for Communion if desired. and resurrection. The water and towel Jesus (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) The joyful conclusion features the used to wash his disciples’ feet, the bread and congregation singing "The Sun Arose on The "great cloud of witnesses" or heroes of chalice from the Last Supper, prayer in the Easter Morn," with original lyrics set to a the faith in Hebrews 12:1 live again in this Garden of Gethsemane, the bag of coins familiar tune. This script was originally written dramatic program. Each biblical character is Judas received for betraying Jesus, red strips for Confirmation students, but adults may paired with a contemporary partner: two of cloth signifying Christ’s wounds, water perform it as well. Marys, Peter and Pete, Mary Magdalene and Pilate used to wash his hands, the crown of Mary Jones, Doubting Thomas and Tom, and thorns placed on Jesus’ head, nails used on the Angel and Angelina. All share brief Jesus at the cross, forgiveness, the stone THE VERDICT monologs. Though their situations differ, both used to seal the tomb, the linen cloth left BY: PETER C. NICHOLS the New Testament and modern believers behind in the empty tomb, and the cross. A 2 females, 2 males, start from a place of fear -- symbolized by a thorough recap of the events leading up to 18 either, 22 total • 15 rock each holds. As they speak, the EASTER Easter, concluding with a celebration of minutes • eScript individuals reveal how Jesus helped them forgiveness and the promise of eternal life. Perusal: $1.99 • Script through their trials. They exchange their Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay heavy rock for a white cloud representing the Package: $20.99 love, forgiveness and salvation that the risen A SUNRISE PAGEANT (Digital Scripts and BY: RHONDA WRAY Performance Rights) • Lord offers to everyone. Instructions for making the clouds are included. You may 4 females, 3 males, 9 Play Package: $49.99 make extra clouds to hand out to the either, 16 total, (24 Scripts and gender flexible • 15 Performance Rights) congregation. minutes • eScript What a powerful playlet this is! And so simple Perusal: $1.99 • Script to stage and perform. Absolutely guaranteed Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay THE EASTER STORY to hold an audience through every word. It's a Package: $20.99 BY: PEGGY HASLAR (Digital Scripts and jury trial. The defendant is Judas Iscariot. And 5 males, 6 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 60 Performance Rights) • his defense counsel is Jesus! The prosecuting minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Play Package: $42.99 attorney calls Jesus, Judas, Caiaphas, and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (18 Scripts and Mrs. Iscariot as witnesses. The case for the Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) prosecution is strong. Defense counsel, Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) The mood of this pageant moves from the Jesus, calls only one witness. The ending is a solemn reflection of Holy Week to surprise, yet everything you would expect. This reading's perspective sets it apart from Resurrection joy! The playing area is bare Excellent drama for amateurs or the others. The events of Good Friday and except for a simple unadorned cross. Adults professionals. Easter are not simply retold, but are read the seven last words of Christ. For every presented as the fulfillment of the prophecies "last word" a child responds by reading a WAKE UP, JERUSALEM of old. Moses, David, Micah, Malachi and fitting, parallel Scripture promise as he or she BY: DON LOTT, DONNA LOTT Isaiah make appearances to tell how the places flowers in the cross. When all the crucifixion and resurrection of the Messiah 4 females, 8 males, 6 either, 18 total, gender were foreshadowed in their respective Old "promises" have been read, the stark cross flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • has been transformed into a blossoming Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Testament writings. Christ himself said it: creation, just as words of mourning are turned (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play "Everything written about me in the law of to words of hope and triumph! Complete Package: $42.99 (20 Scripts and Performance Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must instructions for making the grapevine cross Rights) be fulfilled" (Luke 24:44). When we see the Resurrection not as circumstantial but as are included. Only a minimum of rehearsal is It's the third day after Jesus' crucifixion. fulfilling God's ancient plan, we can be needed, and no special costumes are Anchors on Jerusalem's morning news show reassured that God continues to care for us required. are determined to uncover the truth behind with loving foresight. Easy staging indoors or rumors that Jesus' body is missing from the out. No memorization required.
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THE BEST OF THE JEREMIAH THE 'ONE ANOTHER' CHURCH PEOPLE #1 BY: PAMELA URFER BY: BOB HOOSE 3-9 females, 2-4 males, 5-13 total, doubling 5 females, 4 males, 9-28 total, doubling possible • 5 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • possible • 9 scenes, 3 minutes per scene • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts and Performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Rights) (11 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and These short two-character sketches show Performance Rights) what happens when people pretend to serve A variety pack of nine sketches full of wit and each other while really serving their own self- fun by the popular Jeremiah People. interest. The "Christians" portrayed here Guaranteed to hold everyone's attention as follow the Word of God in a most half-hearted Christian principles in everyday situations are way. Includes: 1.Bearing One Another's illustrated. Included are: 1. Who's Gonna Burdens—Galatians 6:1-5, 2. Encouraging Pray?— A church committee disagrees on Good Works—Hebrews 10:24, 3. Accepting praying in public. 2. Bored—Tom and Keith One Another—Romans 15:7, 4. Being know what is good for their bodies but ignore Hospitable—1 Peter 4:9, 5. Praying for One BUGBY AND CANDLE the health of their minds. 3. Old Folks—Marty Another—James 5:16, 6. Listening to One BY: JEFF MORROW convinces Mazzy that she is useful despite Another—James 1:19. May be used 1 either, 1-17 total, doubling possible, gender her age and wheelchair. 4. 20-Year Reunion individually on successive weeks of a sermon flexible • 7 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • —Jason and Bonnie realize that the past is series or together as a dramatic presentation eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • not to be relived. 5. $685.00 Air Filter—A with a themed message. ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and simple car repair turns into a major expense Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 (4 when dishonest Buck discovers Vickie's Scripts and Performance Rights) husband is out of town. 6. Call Me Any Time CHANGED BY HIS LOVE BY: AUDREY SURMA These plays require only one performer with a —Sam's church activities are more important 1 female, 1-6 total • 6 sock puppet on each hand. He/she talks with than a hurting friend. 7. The Elevator—Jim scenes, 5 minutes per Bugby and Candle and they talk back—a glibly preaches about trusting the Lord but finds it hard to practice. 8. The Party—A scene • eScript charming three-way conversation. Beautiful Perusal: $1.99 • Script ideas simply presented. All seven of the short swinging single Christian guy is too cool to Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay plays offer the message of God’s love through befriend Kathy. 9. Basketball—Two hot- Package: $20.99 Jesus. tempered Christians find the thrill of (Digital Scripts and competition too competitive. Performance Rights) • Play Package: $24.99 THE BIBLE ADVENTURES OF (3 Scripts and MONTANA HOLMES THE BEST OF THE JEREMIAH Performance Rights) PEOPLE #2 BY: BRUCE HENNIGAN These New Testament women tell warm and BY: BOB HOOSE, JIM CUSTER 1 female, 4 males, 3 either, 8-36 total, doubling human stories that women of today can easily possible, gender flexible • 6 scenes, 7 minutes 2-8 females, 5-17 males, 0-4 either, 7-29 total, relate to, from the priority of tiresome doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 minutes • per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script household chores (Martha), to encountering Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and the business world (Lydia and Priscilla). Each OTHER SEASONS Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $36.99 (9 woman's "ordinary" life is transformed by the and Performance Rights) Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Performance renewal of knowing Jesus. Includes: 1. Rights) Martha of Bethany; 2. Abigail and the This action-packed spoof of the Indiana Jones Widow's Mite; 3. Dorcas, Seamstress for “Warm and forgiving satire” best describes the movies will delight your vacation Bible school the Poor; 4. Mary of Bethany; 5. Lydia, spirit of these humorous sketches by one of or Sunday school children. Famed Woman of the Purple and 6. Priscilla, the America’s best Christian repertory groups. archaeologist Montana Holmes and sidekick Tentmaker. Rollo Rotundo experience exciting and Included are:1. A Typical Drive to Work?— perilous escapades just like his big-screen Commuting brings out the dark side of a two- alter ego—only Montana's adventures are set faced Christian. 2. Sneak Previews—Roger CLOWN HITS AND SKITS in Bible times. Includes six sketches of Éclair and Gene Smiley ask, “Do the movies BY: MARTY SHERMAN, RICHARD STRELAK fantastic expeditions to: 1. The Ark, 2. The we see really affect us?” 3. In the Sanhedrin 1 either, 1-50 total, doubling possible, gender Fiery Furnace, 3. David and Goliath's Waiting Room— Three blind men with newly flexible • 20 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • Battlefield, 4. The Lion's Den, 5. Lazarus's restored sight argue about whose healing was eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Tomb, and 6. The Nativity Stable. Thrilling most miraculous. 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CHURCH LADIES Ladies! These gals are real spark plugs – the • Script Perusal: $3.99 OTHER SEASONS BY: KATHY FRADY attitudes, the habits, the sublime to the • ePlay Package: 8 females, 8 total • 20 ridiculous. New characters dropping by for a $20.99 (Digital Scripts minutes • eScript chat are Matchmaker Marge who volunteers and Performance Perusal: $1.99 • Script with the singles ministry, Fasting Fran, whose Rights) • Play Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay "fast" could induce a diabetic coma and Package: $24.99 (5 Scripts and Package: $20.99 Penny Pastor’s Wife, a sweety-sweet Performance Rights) (Digital Scripts and Southern belle who says everything is "such a Performance Rights) • No church—or its members—is perfect. Play Package: $29.99 blessing." Return visitors are Take Charge (10 Scripts and Tess, organizing VBS in all her bossy glory; Sometimes insincere attitudes sneak in and Performance Rights) Mafia maw Mama Rosa and her – ahem – masquerade as acceptable. These sketches "connections;" set-in-her-ways Miss Myra, uncover those areas—preoccupation, nit- Hang on - it's a wild ride with the irrepressible whose favorite verse is "The Lord changest picking, "me first" and more. All exaggerated Church Ladies! Each one has her own quirks, not" and gossiping Praying Patsy. It's sugar and in good fun, yet each contains an honest yet they're all part of the same zany and spice and everything nice – uh, not quite! stinger. Audiences, from retreats to youth sisterhood. Foyer Box Betty has a collection A definite crowd-pleaser! group meetings, will appreciate their wit—and compulsion. Mrs. Myra teaches the old ladies' their message. Includes: 1. First Church of Sunday school class. Take-Charge Tess is a Convenience—Is church a place to serve or power-hungry leader wannabe. Hapless be served? 2. First Church of Trivia— Hannah destroys everything she touches in Contestants know their trivia, but little of the her zeal to be of service. Mama Rosa holds real truth. 3. First Church of Lethargy—Rev. the dubious dual roles of deacon's wife/Mafia Laid-back and flock value comfort over all maw. Does-Everything Ethel's motto is, "If you else. 4. First Church of Substance—They're want something done right, do it yourself." too busy getting spiritually fed for outreach. 5. Praying Patsy disguises gossip as prayer First Church of Misplaced Zeal—They're requests. Most parts may be doubled. So lost without a cause to fight. easy to present in monologue form with humorous narrative transitions. Ideal entertainment for a women's conference or other ladies-only event.
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FIRST CHURCH OF POLITICAL FIVE MORE PARABLES FOR FOR ALL THE SAINTS CORRECTNESS THE PRESENT IMPERFECT BY: GORDON C. BENNETT BY: ROBERT A. ALLEN BY: BUCK KOHR 4 females, 2 males, 6-16 total, doubling 2 females, 2 males, 1 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8-27 total, possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 5 minutes either, 5-18 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 5 per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script doubling possible, minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital gender flexible • 5 Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play scenes, 5 minutes per (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts and Performance scene • eScript Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $1.99 • Script Rights) Each of these five playlets has the evocative Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 More modern dialogue parables, including power of a great sermon, yet they were (Digital Scripts and The Prodigal Son, The Parable of the designed to entertain. Their uses are many Performance Rights) • Barren Fig Tree, The Parable of the Friend because they can easily be presented by a Play Package: $29.99 at Midnight, The Parable of Talents, The group of readers at a church dinner, before a (7 Scripts and Parable of the Good Samaritan. meeting, at a retreat, or even as part of a Performance Rights) worship service. Superbly written. A very You laughed your way through Robert Allen's versatile packet of readings. A great resource FIVE PARABLES FOR THE to have ready for unexpected needs. first collection of zany "First Church" PRESENT IMPERFECT happenings. Now he's back with five more BY: BUCK KOHR tongue-in-cheek looks at churches that don't THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON really exist. You'll recognize the well- 1 female, 5 males, 6-24 total • 5 scenes, 10 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • GIVING intentioned confusion, yet you'll be challenged Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 BY: MICHAEL BERNE by the themes of spiritual growth. Includes: 1. (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play 2 females, 2 males, 1 either, 5-25 total • 7 First Church of Political Correctness—Do Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts and Performance scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: we change Scripture to fit our culture or do we Rights) $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: change our culture through Scripture? 2. First Modern dialogue parables for sermon $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Church of Fast Food—Can we expect to supplements or Youth Sunday specials. • Play Package: $29.99 (7 Scripts, Photocopy become mature Christians without time and Rights, and Performance Rights) Excellent also for retreat programming. effort? 3. First Church of Contention—Do Included are: 1. The Unforgiving Debtor, 2. These sketches look at lifestyle issues and we provoke one another to love, or do we just The Unprofitable Servant, 3. The Two attitudes through the lens of Christianity. provoke one another? 4. First Church of Sons, 4. The Pharisee and the Publican, Included are: 1. Hobbies—Piano player Reminiscence—Are we content to count our and 5. Laborers in the Vineyard. Fanny Fumblefinders and others haven't past blessings, or do we continue to seek new learned that their faith requires more effort ones? 5. First Church of Fortune—Is the than they devote to their hobbies, 2. The Gift Christian life just a gamble? FIVE WOMEN, BEAUTIFUL That Keeps on Giving—Miss Flowing WITHIN Withcash and her wealthy peers learn a FIVE EASY PIECES ON PRAYER BY: JANET LITHERLAND lesson about giving from a widow with two BY: JEANNIE ALEXANDER 1 female, 1-5 total • 5 pennies, 3. A Deadly Virus—Gossip infects a scenes, 5 minutes per 8 either, 8-28 total, gender flexible • 6 scenes, 5 doctor and his patient, 4. A Parable of scene • eScript Caterpillars—Two cocoons learn that growth minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Perusal: $1.99 • Script and change require necessary risks, 5. Sorry, Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay
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INTERRUPTIONS FROM LIFE HATS OFF TO YOU, LADIES! several actors to participate - both women BY: KEITH MADSEN BY: RHONDA WRAY and men. The stories feature: Charlotte Elliot 1 either, 1-7 total • 7 2-4 females, 2-4 total • 15 minutes • eScript (popular gospel hymn "Just As I Am Without scenes, 2 minutes per Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay One Plea"), Frances Ridley Havergal ("Ever, scene • eScript Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Only All for Thee"), Cecil Frances Alexander Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (6 ("Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult"), Carl Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Scripts and Performance Rights) Boberg ("How Great Thou Art"), and B.B. Package: $20.99 McKinney ("Have Faith in God"). (Digital Scripts and Women wear a lot of hats these days! Mother, Performance Rights) • wife, employee, sister, grandmother and so Play Package: $24.99 many more! This short sketch illustrates just THE LAKESHORE PIRATE (3 Scripts and how with a variety of hats – a police cap for BY: DAN CRAWFORD Performance Rights) mediating disputes between children, a 2 females, 2 males, 5 either, 9-19 total, gender cowboy hat for riding the workforce range, a It's a typical Sunday morning in your church. flexible • 6 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • The pastor is in the pulpit when suddenly he crown signifying "queen of the castle" and eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • is interrupted by a woman who stands up and more, including a vintage hat, mortarboard, ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and tells the pastor how things really are in her jester's hat, bridal veil, hard hat, stocking cap, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 situation. The woman, an elderly widow, is but helmet, chef hat and beret. Concludes with a (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) "Mary" headpiece and a short meditation one of several characters included in this Well, shiver me timbers – it's an honest-to- recognizing this extraordinary woman's collection: a workaholic businessman, a single goodness pirate come to shake up your mission as mother of the Messiah. mother, a teenage girl, a woman who was children's sermon time! Recurring character Performance may be customized depending abused as a child, a young father in financial Pirate Roger doesn't preach to the children. on time constraints or available hats. No trouble and a person with a physical disability. Instead, he learns about forgiveness through memorization required, and only minimal Actors play the parts. Seven monologue his interactions with others. Each "visit" brings rehearsal needed. Fun for a hat-themed event "interruptions" are included: 1. Pretty Words a new discovery. He’s in search of a treasure, but will work for any women's program. —fellowship, 2. So Little Time—grace, 3. and he’s thinking gold – but it's really Jesus! Broken Dreams—family, 4. Talk to Me!— In the end, he gives the heave-ho to a life of fear, 5. The Pastor Doesn't Know My Father THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO plundering and pillaging as he realizes he's —forgiveness, 6. No Thought for Tomorrow CLOWNS "betrayed the pirate’s code." The lessons are —worry, 7. A Disabled Body—the Church as BY: MARK D. STUCKY all scripturally based and presented in weekly the Body of Christ. serialized style. Roger's costume and 1 either, 1-8 total, 3-30 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 10 scenes, 3 minutes "piratey" dialogue really resonates with little I WAS THERE IN BIBLE TIMES per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script swabs and big swabs alike! Aargh, me Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital hearties – you'll all get a kick out of these fun
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OTHER SEASONS Whether an injured traveler or a clueless Authenticity is at the heart of these creative nerd, we’re called to help. 5. The Universal Gravity, 6. Rich and Famous Sports Guys, sketches for women. Unless we are real with Fruit Factory—In court, the unexpected and 7.Just the Fly and Me. God, others, and ourselves, we will not truly happens when the judge takes the rap for the grasp our identities as wives, mothers, accused. working women, friends, and daughters. PARENTING 101 Includes: 1. Today's Virtuous Woman—The BY: MARLYNNE FINCH woman from Proverbs 31 is examined through MORE PUPPET-TIME 3 females, 1 male, 4-18 total, 10-25 extras • 7 the eyes of today. 2. Hi My Name Is God— PARABLES scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Unique addicts, including a craftaholic and a BY: JEANNE S. FOGLE $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) shopaholic, learn to put God at the center of 2 females, 2 males, 5 either, 9-23 total, • Play Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and their lives. 3. No Makeup Required—A doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 4 Performance Rights) woman removes her makeup while sharing minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • "beauty from within" tips. 4. Serving God— Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Parenting is the hardest job you’ll ever love. The waitress knows about God, but now she (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play These sketches cover ages 0-18 with humor Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, experiences what it's like to serve him for the and grace. Included are: 1. Parenting by and Performance Rights) first time. 5. One of Those Days—A Comparison— Two moms try to one-up each stressed-out wife and mother turns to three By popular demand, here are five more other with their kids’ academic and sports biblical women from the past for wisdom. parables for puppet performance or for use as successes. 2. Parenting 101— Dr. Wiseman Ideal for women's retreats, luncheons, teaching tools for Sunday school classes. overwhelms nervous expectant parents with conferences, Bible studies, devotionals, Included are: 1. The Mustard Seed, 2. The tons of suggested reading. 3. Connecting Mother's Day programs and more. Unforgiving Servant, 3. The Lost Coin, 4. Generation to Generation— A mom lists her The Great Banquet Feast and 5. The parents’ flaws to a friend, oblivious that Laborers in the Vineyard. Adaptable to they’re present in her own parenting. And 76 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC OTHER SEASONS more! PARABLES FOR THE TV collection is its choice roles for women. GENERATION Included are: 1. Joanie and the Whale— MOTHERING MOSES BY: J. P. MARTIN Jonah’s adventure retold with a contemporary feminine twist. 2. Marta Snewart—The BY: ERIN WATHEN 2 females, 4 males, 4 either, 10-26 total, 5-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 domestic queen shares tips for getting rid of 4 females, 1 either, 5 total • 20 minutes • eScript scenes, 3 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: pesky prophets. 3. The Prodigal Daughter— Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Gender matters not, for we can all relate to Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) the one who went astray. 4. The Runaway Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (7 • Play Package: $35.99 (12 Scripts and Scripts and Performance Rights) Bride—If the church is the bride of Christ, Performance Rights) why can’t its members do their part? 5. Real Only four women are needed for this simple These spirited spoofs will provide an instant Estate—There’s more than one way to get and compelling dramatic program on Moses. connection with your audience members who the Word out. 6. The God Squad—A TV His writing of the Ten Commandments and grew up watching TV. Includes: 1. I Love spoof roasts rah-rah Christians who ignore leading Israel out of slavery could not have Looney—After yet another financial fiasco, others’ needs. Excellent sermon starters. happened without the intervention of four key Looney learns what it means to be a good women who saved his life: Midwife Shiphrah, steward. 2. Leave It to Cheaver—A broken NOW AND AGAIN who disregarded Pharaoh’s command to kill toaster leads to a lesson on broken lives. 3. BY: VIRLYNN REX all baby boys; his mother Jochebed, who Far Trek—A decidedly non-routine mission to reluctantly sent her baby boy down the river in the Alpha Omega solar system leads Captain 3 females, 5 males, 1 either, 9-24 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 scenes, 5 a basket with her prayers for God’s protection; Quirk and company to experience a close minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • his sister Miriam, who kept a close watch on encounter of the celestial kind. 4. The the basket; and Pharaoh’s Daughter, who Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Twinight Zone—Rob Sterling tells of one (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play brought Moses out of the water to safety and man's failed attempt to make it to heaven on Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance raised him as her own. Requires almost no the basis of his works. 5. People Courts—A Rights) rehearsal. The broad theme is that God pair of good ol' boys face Judge Hopper when These scenarios from the Gospels are given performs great works through everyday acts they are sued by their former employer. of faith. an "extreme makeover" with the plot played out in today's world. Includes: 1. The PUPPET-TIME PARABLES Applicant—Christ interviews for a job as SEA COWS, ANYONE? BY: JEANNE S. FOGLE pastor—and is rejected. 2. Let It Be—A BY: BARBARA VANDER HAAR 10 either, 10-35 total, thoroughly modern Mary tells her mom that 3 females, 7 males, doubling possible, she's expecting. 3. Nails for the Carpenter— 10-31 total, 1-4 gender flexible • 5 From the timbers of the stable to the extras, doubling scenes, 5 minutes per carpenter's workbench to the cross, the nail possible, gender scene • eScript followed Jesus. 4. Because We Believe— OTHER SEASONS flexible • 5 scenes, 8 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Mary and Martha and guess who's coming to minutes per scene • Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay dinner? 5. Thursday Night News—A CNN eScript Perusal: $1.99 Package: $20.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 (Digital Scripts and on-site reporter interviews bystanders outside • ePlay Package: Performance Rights) • Jesus' trial. These fresh and engaging $20.99 (Digital Scripts Play Package: $35.99 interpretations will captivate any crowd. and Performance (12 Scripts, Rights) • Play Photocopy Rights, Package: $35.99 (12 and Performance PUPPET PLAYS FOR HOLIDAYS Scripts and Rights) BY: SAM GOVER Performance Rights) Written for elementary-level performers, these 3-18 either, 3-18 total • 5 minutes • eScript These sketches are loaded with humor. puppet plays may also be used by older They're great fun for youth group performers Perusal: $1.99 • Script children for adult audiences. They can be Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay or audiences. Teen encounters take a crazy used as in-class teaching tools, as well as for Package: $20.99 twist, yet communicate Christian truths performance. Included are: The Prodigal (Digital Scripts and through the laughter. Includes: 1. Sea Cows, Son, The Talents, The Good Samaritan, Performance Rights) • Anyone?—A parade of wacky characters The Sower and the Seed and The Lost Play Package: $24.99 tries to sell Brian their wares, then he learns Sheep. Adaptable to many types of puppets. (5 Scripts and about true giving; 2. Weird Parents ... and Performance Rights) Their Kids!—Teens share "you can't top this" Everyone will enjoy the delightful human- stories about their parents, yet agree that they THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER PLUS FIVE puppet interaction between your pastor and should show they care; 3. Can Anybody Tell two impetuous puppets. 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SEASONED WITH DRAMA PUPPETERIA III their lives. In sequence, they are: Mrs. Noah, BY: BARBARA ROWLAND BY: LINDA THOMAS Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, Woman of 4 females, 4 males, 3-20 either, 3-20 total, doubling possible, Endor, Deborah, Delilah, Queen of Sheba 8-42 total, doubling gender flexible • 4 minutes • eScript Perusal: and Miriam. Each carries a single prop to possible, gender $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: characterize her life story. This presentation flexible • 10 scenes, 5 $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) may be used as part of a worship service or minutes per scene • • Play Package: $24.99 (5 Scripts and as the featured event for a church dinner. eScript Perusal: $1.99 Performance Rights) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: Our customers keep asking for more, and PUPPETERIA I here they are! 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On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!—1 puppet plays to illustrate how Christian in length and are easily staged with no special Cor. 12:26, 7. The Problem—Matthew 5:16, principles bring happiness and security to sets or costumes. Perfect for Sunday morning 8. Something's Coming—The Advent everyone. These puppet plays are easy to worship. Includes: 1. Redeem the Time— Wreath. stage in the chancel area of any church. New Year's, 2. The Call of the Cross—Lent/ Excellent for the special children's sermon Easter, 3. What Is a Mother?—Mother's Day, PUPPETS CELEBRATE THE portion of a worship service. They may also 4. What? Know Ye Not?—Pentecost HOLIDAYS be used as part of any other programming for Sunday, 5. Freedom!—Fourth of July, 6. A BY: JANE BUSEY, KATHY HUMPHREY little ones. Simple vocabulary. Titles and Car at Any Cost—Stewardship Sunday, 7. themes included in this first series installment Back to School—August, 8. Working It Out 3-14 either, 3-14 total are: 1. Hide and Seek—Forgiveness, 2. —Labor Day, 9. Psalm 118—Thanksgiving, • 5 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Hollered Be Thy Name—Prayer, 3. Mirror, 10. A Word for Christmas—Advent. Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Mirror—Self-acceptance, 4. Tug of War— Package: $20.99 Working together, 5. The Terrible Day— PUPPETERIA II (Digital Scripts and Frustration, The Runaway—Facing problems, Performance Rights) • 6. The Gift Exchange—Christmas and 7. BY: LINDA THOMAS Play Package: $24.99 3 either, 3-22 total, (5 Scripts and Moving On—Dealing with loss. doubling possible, Performance Rights) gender flexible • 8 scenes, 4 minutes per Only a few puppets are required to stage PUPPETTEACHERS 1 scene • eScript these charming celebrations explaining to BY: LINDA THOMAS Perusal: $1.99 • Script children the significance of each holiday. Your 4 either, 4-22 total, doubling possible, gender Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay own puppet characters steal the show, with flexible • 8 scenes, 5 minutes per scene • Package: $20.99 the help of one to four puppeteers and the eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • (Digital Scripts and pastor. Includes scripts for: Thanksgiving, ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 Reformation Day, Advent, Christmas Eve, OTHER SEASONS Play Package: $24.99 (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) (5 Scripts and Valentine's Day and Easter. Instructions and Performance Rights) patterns for making rod-arm puppets are also What a fun way to learn moral values and part of the package. self-acceptance! Animal characters Freddy The Puppeteria I series was so successful the Frog and Lily the Lamb demonstrate how that our customers kept asking for more. positive values can be applied to everyday Puppeteer Linda Thomas created these REMEMBER US, THE WOMEN situations. Simple vocabulary. Easy to stage additional scripts in the same style. Titles and BY: ALINE SPEER, BETSY WARREN in any classroom. Plays and themes included themes included in this second series 10 females, 10 total, 4 are:1. Mirror, Mirror— Self-acceptance, 2. installment are: 1. The Frog Prince—Lying, extras • 15 minutes • Tug of War— Working together, 3. The 2. Babysitting—Family relations, 3. The Lost eScript Perusal: $1.99 runaway— Facing problems, 4. Moving On • Script Perusal: $3.99 Lamb—God's care, 4. The Gold Pig— — Dealing with loss, 5. The Frog Prince— Dealing with limitations, 5. Common Ground • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts Lying, 6. Common Ground— Making friends, —Making friends, 6. 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Too few Christians know the fascinating stories of many women of the Old Testament. In this Readers Theatre presentation, ten famous personalities walk down the center aisle of your church to tell the biblical tales of
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STRIKE UP THE BAND SKITS FOR CLOWN MINISTRY THE SOUND OF FREEDOM BY: PAMELA A. MARX BY: ELIZABETH WILKINSON BY: CATHY CONKLIN WILSON 1 either, 1-8 total, 2 either, 2-8 total, 3 females, 2 males, 5 5-30 extras, doubling 5-20 extras • 7 total • 30 minutes • possible, gender scenes, 5 minutes per eScript Perusal: $1.99 flexible • 8 scenes, 2 scene • eScript • Script Perusal: $3.99 minutes per scene • Perusal: $1.99 • Script • ePlay Package: eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay $12.99 (Digital Scripts • Script Perusal: $3.99 Package: $20.99 and Performance • ePlay Package: (Digital Scripts and Rights) • Play $20.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) • Package: $20.99 (7 and Performance Play Package: $24.99 Scripts and Rights) • Play (4 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $24.99 (3 Performance Rights) Scripts and "The sound of freedom is pure and true Performance Rights) Each skit is based on a passage of Scripture. because it calls from the heart of the Creator." All clown action is mimed. A narrator provides America, the Land of the Free, was founded These delightful participation stories for lead-ins and closings where needed. All skits on the right of all people to "life, liberty, and primary grade children feature xylophones, are short. Most are designed for musical the pursuit of happiness." What better place to claves, triangles, bells, tambourines, cymbals accompaniment. Includes: The Farmer's celebrate that than in church? In this patriotic and other percussion instruments to enact Dream, Topsy-Turvy World, Good News, presentation, a Pilgrim, Betsy Ross, a Civil New Testament stories. Children play rhythm Junior Jolly Joins the Circus, The Caring War soldier and an immigrant tell their stories instruments to help set the tone as a narrator Touch, The Circus Train, and To Have of faith and freedom. Interspersed with their tells each story. Includes: 1. The Love Friends. monologs is charming commentary by a witty Chapter, 2. The Good Samaritan, 3. The and wise Storyteller. Patriotic music may be Wise and Foolish Builders, 4. The Prodigal added. Son, 5. Jesus' Birth, 6. Jesus Calming the SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN Sea, 7. Jesus and the Children and 8. DEADLY SINS AND OTHER Jesus' Resurrection. This collection of FAIRY TALE PLAYS STREET THEATRE SKIT KIT stories may be used as either a Sunday BY: DOUGLAS OLSEN BY: MARJORIE CLARK school class project or as a performance 2 females, 2 males, 8 3 either, 3-59 total, vehicle for many children. All may participate either, 12-25 total, gender flexible • 10 in a meaningful way! doubling possible, scenes, 3 minutes per gender flexible • 4 scene • eScript scenes, 8 minutes per Perusal: $1.99 • Script scene • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $1.99 • Script Package: $20.99 OTHER SEASONS A SKETCH FOR ALL SEASONS Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay (Digital Scripts and BY: MISSY MCCOSKEY Package: $20.99 Performance Rights) • (Digital Scripts and Play Package: $24.99 1 female, 2 males, 4 either, 7-49 total, doubling Performance Rights) • (5 Scripts and possible, gender flexible • 12 scenes, 5 minutes Play Package: $35.99 Performance Rights) per scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script (14 Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Performance Rights) A dynamic new method for Christian Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play witnessing. This medium provides an arena Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, Fairy tales make wonderful symbolic Christian where the gospel message can be presented and Performance Rights) stores—at least these do! Their charm and to those who might not otherwise encounter entertainment value carries with it provocative The annual rhythm of special days and the Christian faith. This package tells how to questions about Christian values and beliefs. seasons gives our lives structure and use a series of short sketches on the street, in Kings, princes, kingdoms and fanciful meaning. Why not celebrate them with a a park or a shopping mall to provide an characters echo the imagery of the Bible and dozen scripts – one for each month of the enlightening Christian experience. Several help focus on its true message. Included with year? Includes the days you’d expect – ideas about how to encourage interaction with biblical references are: 1. Snow White and Christmas, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Easter strangers to the faith. It is meant to provide the Seven Deadly Sins, 2. Little Red Riding – and those you may not, like back to school insight and invitation but not "hard sell." Hood and the Devil, 3. The Three Little and Labor Day. Your congregation will be Package includes five mime routines and five Pigs Build Their Churches and Goldilocks surprised and delighted by the varied and sketches with dialogue. Unlimited and the Three Prayers. Discussion questions creative approaches. They’ll glean spiritual performance rights with a Play Package are included. Plays may be used in middle truths from all – even the sketches for purchase. and high school youth groups or performed holidays like Valentine’s Day and April Fools for an audience. bridge the secular to the sacred. Sample titles: The Brain Transplant, Conversation Hearts from the Heart of God, The Greatest Place on Earth, A Letter to God and more.
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THELMA AND JIM BOB'S GUIDE THE VOICES OF TODAY WHO TOOK THE BUDGE OUT TO CHURCH LIFE BY: MARIA FEELY OF BUDGET? BY: MARILYN WALKER HAVNER 2 females, 2 males, 7 either, 11-41 total, 4-6 BY: ROBERT A. ALLEN 2 females, 2 males, extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 7 1 female, 3 males, 1 4-16 total, doubling scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: either, 5-14 total, possible • 6 scenes, 5 $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: doubling possible, minutes per scene • $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) gender flexible • 4 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Play Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts, Photocopy scenes, 5 minutes per • Script Perusal: $3.99 Rights, and Performance Rights) scene • eScript • ePlay Package: These sketches skewer lifestyle issues with Perusal: $1.99 • Script $20.99 (Digital Scripts Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay and Performance gentle humor. They feature a wonderful Package: $20.99 Rights) • Play variety of characters and approaches paired (Digital Scripts and Package: $29.99 (6 with many relevant and timely topics. A bonus Performance Rights) • Scripts and is their casting flexibility, with many Play Package: $29.99 Performance Rights) interchangeable male/female roles. The (7 Scripts and sketch titles and their themes include: 1. Be Performance Rights) Your congregation will enjoy the homespun All You Can Be—Life goals, 2. The Black Money ... root of all evil or gift from God? Any theology of these hillbilly characters Box—Materialism, 3. Ten Great church who operates on a less-than-cushy reminiscent of TV's Hee Haw. Ample Suggestions—The Ten Commandments, 4. budget will recognize the dilemmas of opportunity for Thelma and Jim Bob to "ham it Psychics Today—The fraud of the occult, 5. stewardship presented in these pithy and up" as they hash over life's issues in these Christian Company C—Service, 6. House of playful sketches. Includes: 1. The Inheritance topical sermon-starters. Includes: 1. A Good Beauty—Inner vs. outer beauty, 7. The Tri- —Though F. I. Nance and the rest of the Enough Reason—Involvement in church life. Centennial—The environment. A must-have budget committee quibble, they eventually 2. Not an Event—Outreach. 3. Teeter-Totter drama resource! see that Jesus provides for all their church's —Family life. 4. Why Bother, Anyway?— needs. 2. A Word from Our Sponsor—A Church attendance. 5. Don't That Jest Beat A WEIRD ANGEL IN OUR MIDST church who seeks corporate sponsorship for All?—Friend Sunday. 6. Seldom Is Heard an BY: PAMELA DIANE GIBSON its worship service is foiled when the sermon Encouraging Word—Dealing with is canceled due to lack of corporate interest. 2 either, 2-12 total, depression. Countrified costumes and props 3. The Church Goes to Hollywood— 1-20 extras, doubling are a snap to assemble. possible, gender Anytown Church produces a million-dollar flexible • 6 scenes, 5 movie that solves all its budget woes—NOT! SIMPLY GOD minutes per scene • 4. Taking Inventory—The Parable of the eScript Perusal: $1.99 Unjust Steward from Luke 16 delivers its point BY: SANDY JOHNSON • Script Perusal: $3.99 with a modern-day punch. Sketches may be 2 females, 2-23 total • 5 scenes, 6 minutes per • ePlay Package: combined for a special stewardship or scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $20.99 (Digital Scripts fundraising presentation. $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance and Performance Rights) • Play Package: Rights) • Play $24.99 (4 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $24.99 (4 THE WOMEN SPEAK Scripts and Love for God and others is at the heart of BY: MARION FAIRMAN Performance Rights) these funny yet poignant sketches. You’ll 1 female, 1-5 total • 5 connect emotionally with the message and Why use a predictable and commonplace scenes, 5 minutes per
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WWJD-TV PRESENTS... Divide presents an intimidating obstacle to the BY: J. ERIC JACKSON runners. Then Jesus lays the cross over this 2 females, 3 males, 1 either, 6-25 total, 1-15 obstacle and helps the smallest contestant, extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 5 the Child, across. The others follow, scenes, 5 minutes per scene • eScript Perusal: illustrating Jesus as the source of help and $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: hope. This one-act play in six short scenes $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) may be performed as a whole for a worship • Play Package: $29.99 (8 Scripts, Photocopy service, or as a series for vacation Bible Rights, and Performance Rights) school or camp. Originally written for “What would Jesus do?” is part of our pop "unchurched" children ages 8-12 and culture – but what does that really look like? performed by teenaged actors. Theology on These modernized parables show and tell us grace, forgiveness, and Jesus' love is via televised live reports, dramatic episodes wrapped in humor, accessible to all. Includes and game shows. Includes: 1. Of Grapes and Scriptures that relate to each character for Greed - Some workers labored all day and further discussion. others a half day, but all got what was promised them. 2. Who’s My Neighbor? - ALL IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN Inna Innkeeper emcees this game show – will BY: SARAH PATRICIA ROKER the real Good Samaritan please stand up? 3. ACCESSORIES 'R' US 3-20 females, 3-20 total • 16 minutes • eScript Mercy Me - While an unpaid debt creates BY: DAWN E. CONROY friction, we’re to extend mercy as God does to Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay 3 females, 3 total • 16 Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and us. 4. Prodigal Protest - Whether a son stays minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 or strays, love awaits him. 5. Multiplication Perusal: $1.99 • Script (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Facts - When it comes to money or our Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Performance Rights) talents, growth is the goal. Ideal for a sermon Package: $12.99 series or a week of vacation Bible school. (Digital Scripts and A short play—by females, for females—that Performance Rights) • traces the lifespan of a woman from infancy to Play Package: $16.99 grandmotherhood. The action is humorous SAINTS FOR THE SEASONS (5 Scripts and and fast-moving through these stages of life: BY:* PATRICK DORN Performance Rights) pregnancy, newborn, one-year-old, toddler, 1 male, 1-4 total • 4 scenes, 10 minutes per A shopper in search two-and-a-half-year-old, four-year-old, going scene • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: of a new look visits a to school, the elementary school years, $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts boutique. She wants teenager, learning to drive, borrowing the car, and Performance Rights) • Play Package: her personal style to the prom, graduation, college student, young $16.99 (3 Scripts and Performance Rights) OTHER SEASONS reflect her Christianity. A zealous clerk mother and grandmotherhood. A narrator These monologues put the “holy” back in working on commission comes on strong and provides continuity between the sequences of several popular but misunderstood holidays. doesn't let go! She suggests earrings for drama. Perfect entertainment for a mother- Four Christians with famous names but less hearing the word of God, bracelets for making daughter tea or banquet. familiar legacies step out of the past to share a joyful noise, an ankle bracelet for walking historically accurate accounts of their heroic with Jesus, a watch for making time to serve HOTEL HEAVEN yet sacrificial lives. Don’t let the word “saints” the Lord, a scarf for wrapping herself in God's BY: DOROTHY E. DRENNAN scare you off. These spiritual giants have love and loads of other doodads and baubles. 7 females, 6 either, 13 total, gender flexible • 15 much to teach us, yet there is an undercurrent The shopper looks like a walking Christmas minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script of gentle humor that makes them eminently tree! One by one, her friend removes each Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 • Play relatable. Included are: 1. Saint Nicholas— accessory, reminding her that she shows the Package: $24.99 (15 Scripts and Performance The man behind the myth had a heart for the heart of Christ from the inside out. All she Rights) poor. 2. Saint Valentine—This defender of really needs is a simple cross necklace. A A stream of new arrivals at Hotel Heaven Christian marriage awaits martyrdom in worthy message wrapped in comical demonstrates the truth of the words to the old prison, sending notes to friends signed “from entertainment for your next mother-daughter song. A receptionist angel checks for the your Valentine.” 3. Saint Patrick—A teenager event! becomes a slave, escapes captivity, learns to reservations of many unworthy guests: love his enemies, then answers God’s call to Cassandra Clubwoman, whose weakness has return to the “dreaded” Emerald Isle. 4. Saint THE AMAZING GRACE RACE been pride; Golda Gotrocks, whose god has Francis of Assisi—Friend to animals, BY: MICHELLE LYNN SENTERS been material things; Nora Narrow, whose Francis abandons wealth and comfort for a 2 females, 3 males, 2 either, 7 total, 2 extras, judgmental ways disqualify her aspirations life of holy simplicity and brotherhood, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: and Tille Tittle, whose endless gossip did inadvertently inventing the Nativity scene $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: more harm than good. These and several $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) along the way. 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THE CHURCH IS BURNING! THE BALLOON PARTY DAD, YOU'RE THE GREATEST! BY: JOHN FAIRWEATHER BY: MONICA B. HILDER BY: RUBY WELSH WILKINS 7 either, 7 total • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: 14 either, 14 total, 1-15 extras, gender flexible • 7 females, 7 males, 15-30 either, 29-44 total, $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script doubling possible, gender flexible • 15 minutes • $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • • Play Package: $29.99 (9 Scripts and Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $42.99 (16 Scripts and Performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 Rights) (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and A humorous play that captures the essence of Performance Rights) Pentecost: Spirit-transformed lives. Six Why don't people celebrate their spiritual disgruntled church members—Ms. Grump, gifts? Step into the fairy tale world of a king, Isn't it about time to celebrate dear old Dad? Mr. Pious, Ms. Blame, Mr. Status Quo, Ms. who gives all his subjects brightly colored Use as many children as you like in this Worry and Mr. Stingy—convene for a board balloons that symbolize a unique aspect of unique Father's Day program that can be part meeting to discuss the future of their church. their personalities. But in time the balloons of a worship service. With songs by the junior They bicker endlessly over everything: the pop or get lost, and some people even forget choir and recitations by a variety of boys and noisy children in the service, the pastor, the they own one. The King decides to host a girls, the importance of fathers today and lack of church growth. On Pentecost Sunday, grand balloon party to build up the flagging throughout Bible history is told. the pastor's sermon focuses on the Holy spirits of his subjects. But Quitter Orange, Spirit. He reminds the congregation that the Selfish Blue, Ignorant Pink and the others FRUIT FOR THOUGHT have a litany of excuses why they can't loving, serving nature of Jesus can be ours BY: REBECCA A. EGBERT today with the help of the Spirit. Later, the attend. Eventually they overcome their 1 male, 10 either, 11 board members reconvene for another negativity and attend the party in celebration total, 1-30 extras, of the varied and important gifts each has meeting. This time their hearts are renewed, gender flexible • 20 as reflected in their genuine love for their been blessed with. minutes • eScript congregation. Even their names have Perusal: $1.99 • Script changed for the better, to Ms. Praise, Mr. CRICKET COUNTY ACADEMY Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Worker, Ms. Caring, Mr. Vision, Ms. Joy and Package: $20.99 BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON Mr. Giving. An easily presented play with (Digital Scripts and roles that may be played by either gender. 8 females, 4 males, Performance Rights) • 12 total, 1-20 extras • Play Package: $35.99 45 minutes • eScript (13 Scripts and DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) BY: CINDY DAVIS Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 Bananas, apples, apricots and cherries ... 3 females, 16-20 either, 19-23 total, 1-20 (Digital Scripts and cleverly costumed children are animated fruit extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 Performance Rights) • characters who represent the Fruits of the minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Play Package: $42.99 Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (14 Scripts and goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self- Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Performance Rights) control. They recite messages on each of Package: $49.99 (25 Scripts and Performance Rights) When Elkin inherits these nine virtues in a simple rhyme easy for huge wealth from children to learn. Your church's teens will enthusiastically Uncle Zeke, he recreate this living scrapbook of scenes of enrolls his hillbilly cousins into Gold-Leaf those who dared to step out from their comfort GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH Academy, a highbrow private school. The
OTHER SEASONS zone. A foreign exchange student joins a AND A DUCKY school wants to reject the kinfolk when their lackluster youth group and is amazed at their BY: ROBERT REISTER cultural gap becomes a black hole of hilarious religious freedom. His joyful attitude prompts miscommunication. But when the school 2 females, 5 males, 2 either, 9 total, gender the group to see that Christ himself came to flexible • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • administration discovers that super-rich Elkin visit, all because one teen wasn't afraid to be Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 may endow the academy, everything different. Cut to "First Jerusalem Temple." (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play changes. Cousin Fester even wins the role of Package: $35.99 (11 Scripts and Performance What if the early Christians had been so Prince Charming in the school production of Rights) satisfied with ho-hum Christianity that God Rapunzel, as his sisters become the Evil couldn't use them to spread the Gospel The wise men (and a wise woman) confirm Witches. The country cousins have never beyond Palestine? Where would we be the existence of a star heralding a new king. been in a school play, so everything turns today? The final scene, a three-word sermon, They meet up with Herod, who questions comically chaotic. Despite his ineptness, is deceptively simple: "Love one another." them about the king. When the wise persons hayseed Fester wins the affection of the class Only when the church begins to "walk the visit, they present gifts of gold, frankincense, beauty, Kayla, who plays the Princess. Kayla talk" does it flourish. An easily presented myrrh and … a toy duck? The angel warns chooses Fester to be her date to the school drama that asks: Are we satisfied to stay the the family of Herod’s intentions, so they dance. Then Fester decides to take all the same, or do we dare accept the bigger hastily leave—then worry about financing their girls to the dance in his limo. The school adventure God created us for? trip. They reason they can sell the gold, snobs who ridiculed them learn that frankincense and myrrh—and Jesus will still homespun charm and courtesy wins the day. have his duck!
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DEATH OF A CHURCH Judas, Thomas, Thaddeus, James the Less, FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT BY: ALAN DENNEY Phillip, Nathanael and Matthias. One child BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 4 females, 5 males, 1 reads interesting facts from their profiles, 12-23 either, 12-23 either, 10 total, followed by “Google-Eye Maps” to zoom in on total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • 15 projected images of each one’s ministry gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript hotspots. At the end of each disciple minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script presentation a child asks the congregation, Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay “Should we ‘like’ him?” Includes maps and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Package: $12.99 songs with well-known tunes and original (Digital Scripts and (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • lyrics. Appropriate for Lent or any other time Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 of the year. Informative and accessible with Play Package: $24.99 (12 Scripts and the borrowed interest of today’s technology. (14 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) A church has been murdered. It was a slow, ELEVEN WOMEN TOWARD THE The whole congregation enters into this poisonous death, and now the people CROSS children's program for Pentecost when the responsible for its demise are on trial. Who BY: BARTIE JONES children give each person a piece of fruit— are they? Unfortunately, they are every either a paper cutout or an actual apple. This 1 either, 1 total, 14 extras, gender flexible • 30 person in the church who has forgotten what it minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script small gift is a reminder of the Fruits of the is to be a true Christian: a Sunday school Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Spirit—those wonderful character attributes teacher, a member without a sense of Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play that are a result of Spirit-activated lives. One mission, an unthinking vice-president of the Package: $24.99 (3 Scripts and Performance by one, children display paper cutouts of youth group, an unfriendly new member, the Rights) different pieces of fruit bearing the name of choir director and the pastor himself. Each of Without the narration, this program would each Spirit Fruit found in Galatians 5:22: love, these people is brought to the witness stand. appear to be a biblical fashion show, for ten of joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, Each tells his or her story, and it is soon the Bible's most fascinating women are seen faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, as evident why this church no longer lives. dressed in the clothing of their time and well as humility and generosity. Their station. But the narration makes it much more! inspirational observations about each fruit and FROM OLD TO NEW It tells the story of each woman's life in the life impact it can have reinforces the Pentecost emphasis on the Holy Spirit. BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN forming The Elect Lady of Today - the eleventh woman toward the cross. Mothers 4 females, 5 males, 9 total • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • and daughters will enjoy being part of his THE GREAT RACE ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and program as performers or as part of the BY: STEFANIE NOONAN Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 audience. With minimum effort and no acting 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 20 minutes • OTHER SEASONS (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) experience, eleven women can participate eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • creatively in an inspirational evening of Humor and audience participation make this ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and beauty. This is the best mother-daughter program for New Year's a real treat. It Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 script we've seen. Scripts and Performance Rights) features a short drama which doesn't require memorization. Wally Whiner, Bill Bucks, Dan On your mark, get set, GO! There is great Dawdle and others convene at the yearly GIVING THANKS IS A WAY OF cheering and carrying on as biblical saints planning meeting at Somewhere Christian LIFE watch from the grandstands of heaven. The Church. Everyone has an excuse why there BY: JANET LITHERLAND event? The congregants of your own church isn't time to do volunteer work in church. Then 10 either, 10 total, are running their race on earth. They are the a well-timed question, asked by one of the 1-30 extras, gender real all-star cast, though unseen: your church committee members (whose identity is a flexible • 15 minutes • pastor, Sunday school teachers, youth group complete surprise!) causes them to eScript Perusal: $1.99 sponsors, those who pray, nursery reconsider their motivations and the One they • Script Perusal: $3.99 attendants, etc. The "cloud of witnesses" ultimately choose to make time for. • ePlay Package: whoops it up for their acts of kindness, and $12.99 (Digital Scripts then the crowd goes wild as each one and Performance completes the race successfully! The fun is in FRIEND 'EM ON SAINTBOOK Rights) • Play the humor and personalizing of the script to BY: JACQUELINE HURLEY Package: $24.99 (12 Scripts and make it truly your own. An encouragement to 35 either, 35 total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • Performance Rights) Christians of today to persevere in the great 25 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script race as the Apostle Paul did. Gives an Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Use this joyous group reading on enthusiastic nod of recognition to those who Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Thanksgiving Day or within any Sunday unselfishly serve your congregation. A feel- Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts, Photocopy Rights worship service where the chosen theme is good play with an encouraging message. and Performance Rights) thanksfulness. A brightly paced expression Clearly social media is here to stay – and that remembers the many things for which we what a tremendous vehicle to educate your can be thankful. Also a statement of how to child performers and audience about the lives overcome bitterness, how to find joy, and how of the disciples. Children furiously type away to bring happiness to others with a spirit of on clever but simple laptop props to locate gratitude. each of the disciples on “Saintbook”: Peter, Andrew, John, James, Simon, Matthew,
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LET FREEDOM RING! less than perfect: her heart. She interviews a MOM AND DAD, IT'S YOUR DAY BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN series of hearts to find the best match. Heavy BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 8-15 either, 8-15 total, doubling possible, Heart, laden with chains, carries all the 9-17 either, 9-17 total, 1-30 extras, gender gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: world’s burdens. Trembling Faint Heart is flexible • 10 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: scared of everything. Broken Heart is Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 $12.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) perpetually upset. Bundled-up Cold Heart just (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play • Play Package: $28.99 (17 Scripts and doesn’t care, and Artificial Heart is a phony! Package: $24.99 (11 Scripts, Photocopy Rights, Performance Rights) At last she meets True Heart, one who seeks and Performance Rights) Children will perform admirably in this easily God, and it's a match made in heaven! The The natural sweetness and spunk of children staged program that celebrates our country's wacky costuming adds to the fun. Originally comes through in these warm-hearted rights as set forth by our forefathers. It written for an all-women cast. Great for presentations honoring moms and dads. Their explains how our civil rights and God's women's meetings or retreats, or men may fill short length makes them easy to include in a commands are not at odds, but rather support some roles and it can serve as entertainment worship service. Includes: 1. A Special one another. Child readers discuss liberty, at a Valentine’s Day banquet. Sewing Lesson (Mother's Day) - Moms are peace, protection and the pursuit of compared to various sewing implements like happiness, matching each topic to an LET'S DO LUNCH thimbles (they protect) and sewing machine appropriate Scriptural response. God, the oil (they keep things running smoothly.) 2. A BY: DAWN DEANNA WILSON great I Am, is the focus when children enter Kettle of Blessings (Father's Day) - Children holding placards that say I AM. More children 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 20 minutes • eScript put an empty wallet, a telephone, a baseball Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay enter holding placards that spell CARE while and other ingredients into the cooking pot, Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and the readers tell of God's loving care for our Performance Rights) • Play Package: $16.99 (4 and it all adds up to a kettle of fatherly love. country. Then the children unscramble Scripts and Performance Rights) Each program includes a delightful song. The themselves to spell AMERICA. The program language used is inclusive of adults who concludes with the singing of the great This small-cast play features hotshot aren't parents. Fun for all! patriotic song "America" while the child Hollywood agent Rayanna Stone, who schedules a power lunch at a trendy café in singers hold small American flags. For the PURSES 'R' US Sunday closest to Independence Day or any Los Angeles ... with Jesus. They were once BY: DAWN E. CONROY time a patriotic emphasis is desired. close, but she lives life in the shallow Tinseltown fast lane now, and who has the 3 females, 3 total • 15 time? The queen of “It’s all about me” talks a minutes • eScript HOW MISTER LURCH STOLE mile a self-centered minute, then drops the Perusal: $1.99 • Script THE CHURCH bomb that she wants to produce Jesus’ life Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: MARIA FEELY story on the silver screen. It will be faaaaa- Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and bulous! Robert De Niro will play Jesus! And, 3 females, 1 male, 10 either, 14 total, 1-15 Performance Rights) • extras • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • based on market surveys, hopefully more Play Package: $16.99 Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 P.C. “All this hell and damnation, I mean, (5 Scripts and (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play ouch! It’s just not that heart-warming.” Jesus Performance Rights) Package: $42.99 (16 Scripts and Performance gently challenges her with thoughtful What woman doesn't Rights) questions. Box-office bust or boffo? When “of carry a purse? This This clever comedy is all-out fun. Told in the world” and “not of this world” break bread short sketch will rhythmic, rhyming cadence, it is an obvious together, you’d better believe that deliciously parody of Dr. You-Know-Who. Mr. Lurch, a funny and unexpectedly tender dialogue is on delight the women of your congregation with
OTHER SEASONS Grinch-like grump, despises the local church. the menu. Check please! its relatable approach. A customer tries to buy He hatches a devious plan to take everything a purse to hold all the "stuff" she carries out of it, then makes the building vanish as THE MISS OUTS around each day. The clerk tries to help her well! The Yous of Youville are crushed. They BY: JOANNE OWENS by suggesting a different type of bag for each fear they can't have church without a physical item – a shoulder bag to "shoulder" her many structure. Then a long-time Sunday school 4 females, 5 males, 1 either, 10 total, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • responsibilities, a tote bag for the anger and teacher helps them understand that a church Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 resentment that she carts around each day, is its people, not the building that houses it. (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play and more, including a briefcase, evening bag, The charming ending features a variation of Package: $24.99 (12 Scripts and Performance backpack, cosmetic bag, fanny pack, hobo the traditional child's finger play, 'This Is the Rights) satchel and duffel bag. Eventually she is Church.' Celebrate adult Sunday school! Though this laden with too many to carry! Then the skit is humorous, it is full of the truths about manager offers her one purse to replace all HOW'S YOUR HEART? ourselves and our excuses. To promote the others – a "change" purse with a small BY: DAWN E. CONROY Sunday school attendance, use this playlet for Bible inside. Easy to cast and rehearse – only 7 females, 7 total • 20 minutes • eScript Christian Education Sunday, a churchwide three women needed. Includes ideas for Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay fellowship supper, a Sunday school worker's carrying out a purse theme for a complete Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and conference or a Sunday school teacher's mother-daughter event. Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (9 appreciation banquet. Characters include Scripts and Performance Rights) such familiar faces as Willie Worm-out, Daisy Here's a heaping helping of humor! In search Drop-Out, Carrie Cop-Out and Randy Reach- of the perfect body, a woman has surgery Out. A happy and inspirational reading. from head to toe. There's only one part that is
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PROJECT (OLD TESTAMENT) PARIS (S.D.) FESTIVAL OF POPPIN' PROVERBS RUNWAY FASHION BY: FAYE SPEIKER BY: JACQUELINE HURLEY BY: LEROY KOOPMAN, MARJORIE 1-3 females, 2 males, 4 females, 3 males, KOOPMAN 5-20 either, 8-25 total, 10 either, 17 total, 20-36 either, 20-36 1-20 extras, doubling gender flexible • 30 total, doubling possible, gender minutes • eScript possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Perusal: $1.99 • Script flexible • 30 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 Package: $20.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: (Digital Scripts and • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) • $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Play Package: $42.99 and Performance Rights) • Play (19 Scripts and Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (10 Performance Rights) Package: $49.99 (24 Scripts, Photocopy Scripts, Photocopy Rights, and Hold that pose! Costumed Old Testament Rights, and Performance Rights) characters strut down the catwalk as a Performance Rights) Pop goes the Proverb! This peppy program fashion-forward hostess, biblical bookworm based on the short, pithy sayings from and historian set the stage. Sunday school Paris, France, definitely comes out second Proverbs delivers a wallop of wisdom. It children act as the runway models wearing best to Paris, South Dakota, in this amusing consists of a series of playful vignettes geared specially designed outfits, from Adam and program spoofing fashion. The original for children, yet appropriate for the entire Eve’s fur stoles to rain slickers, boots and creations featured in this mock fashion festival congregation. Eccentric Professor Proverb umbrellas for Noah. They recite appropriate must be seen to be believed and enjoyed. introduces each selection. Children act out Bible verses and sing familiar songs like Any woman's group can present this show passages with the help of Wise Guys and “Father Abraham” and “Dare to Be a Daniel.” and make it the most hilarious event of the Fool Dudes. Interspersed with each scene is The “click” of the cameras is in the audience’s year. Everyone ... or almost everyone ... gets a chorus with original lyrics to the tune of "Pop mind—a mental snapshot of these prominent a chance to participate and be a comedienne Goes the Weasel." The flexible cast may patriarchs and matriarchs: Adam and Eve, for a day. The fashion commentator's script is include many children or a small group. Noah, Job, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, as funny as the styles. Features super-easy costumes and props. Deborah, Samuel, David, Solomon, Esther, Fun poppin' sound effects too! A fast-paced Elijah, Isaiah and Daniel. Highly Flexible— MOTHER AND CHILD frolic through a succinct yet relevant book of girls may play traditionally male roles, or parts BY: JAN GERDEL the Bible. may be doubled or deleted. Book your 2 females, 2 total • 15 “supermodels” and enjoy an informative minutes • eScript performance with style! Perusal: $1.99 • Script THE TOO-TOO SYNDROME OTHER SEASONS Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay BY: JOANNE OWENS Package: $12.99 4 females, 4 males, 3 PENTECOST: EVERYONE'S (Digital Scripts and either, 11 total, TALKIN' Performance Rights) • gender flexible • 15 BY: ANDREA N. BURTON Play Package: $16.99 minutes • eScript (4 Scripts and 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, 0-20 extras Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • 10 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Only two women are needed to present this Package: $20.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play touching narrative about parenting and (Digital Scripts and Package: $20.99 (9 Scripts and Performance childhood. No memorization required! The Performance Rights) • Rights) Play Package: $35.99 Mother and Child characters share poignant (13 Scripts and Newscaster Kelly wants the scoop: Why is reflections ranging from the birth of the Child Performance Rights) everyone talking about Pentecost? What to the Mother's elderly years. In between are exactly is it? She interviews a group of humorous and tender glimpses of growing up, Several well-meaning church members all children and a lively exchange ensues over from bedtime stories and best friends to bridal suffer from an insidious malady that causes when it is, what it means and what happened gowns and babies. The well-crafted dialog is them to forget their membership vow to on the first Pentecost with kid-friendly and sure to elicit nods of recognition, sympathetic uphold the church with their prayers, their humorous dialogue. Kelly listens intently but chuckles and perhaps a few misty eyes as presence, their gifts and their service. They wonders, “What has any of this got to do with every mother and daughter present are suffering from the "Too-Too Syndrome" us today?” She soon realizes that the work of recognizes herself in the life journey with symptoms of apathy, laziness, self- Pentecost is ongoing as she discovers that portrayed. An endearing and enriching look at centeredness and ignorance. They are: Tillie the gospel is for everyone. With the help of the noblest profession of all: Mother. Too Old, Tina Too Young, Tom Too Dumb, the Spirit, we can relate to those very different Todd Too Busy, Timothy Too Poor, Teddy from ourselves. A complete picture emerges, Too Shy and Tanya Too Tired - all "too which provides insight into an oft- something" to help get the church's work misunderstood holy day with charm and done. energy. Its concise length makes it easy to include in a worship service.
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SHOES 'R' US NOAH AND THE ARKETTES these unexpected visitors from the Far East. BY: DAWN E. CONROY BY: CINDY ROGERS They tell him the significance of their gold, 1 female, 1 male, 2 either, 4 total, gender 4 females, 5 males, 1 either, 10 total, 1-50 frankincense, and myrrh gifts to Christ. In flexible • 15 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • extras, gender flexible • 15 minutes • eScript return, the pastor tells them about Christ's Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay gifts to the world. (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and Performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Rights) (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) This sketch's theme of shoe-shopping will The beloved story of Noah and the ark is SPRING CLEANING resonate with women of all ages. A woman updated in this new rap version, where Noah BY: JUDY KERRICK CLARK with worn-out shoes seeks a new pair so she forms his menagerie of animals into a hooting, can walk with Jesus. The clerk suggests squawking, purring choir of Arkettes! The 11 females, 11 total • 20 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay various possibilities, including high heels for story is told by a cool rappin' narrator and the Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and standing tall, flip-flops for helping those who children through pantomime and animal Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 are wavering in their faith, sandals because sound effects. Ample room for costuming fun. (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) WWJW? (What Would Jesus Wear?) and The rap ends with a reminder that the rainbow many more, including Crocs, sneakers, signifies God's promise to never flood the It's time for spring cleaning. Christy and a orthopedic shoes, waterproof boots, penny whole earth again. Great for vacation Bible maid tackle the clutter in the rooms of loafers, Oxfords, and even skis! Then the school, summer camp or children's Sunday. Christy's house. Junk is everywhere. Lazy is woman’s husband points out that her old asleep in an easy chair. Me First keeps stepping in the way of the cleaners. Envy is shoes are beautiful! They’re holy, not just SHAKESPEARE IN CRICKET "holey," because she has served so faithfully. lurking in a green, moldy corner. Worry is This is a "shoe-in" for any mother-daughter COUNTY huddled in a blanket and rocking furiously in a banquet or tea, and so simple to present with BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON rocking chair. Self-Pity's black robe is its small cast of three. A memorable evening’s 10 females, 6 males, obscuring the lamp's light. Gluttony has taken entertainment. 16 total • 45 minutes • over the kitchen. Greed, Anger and Pride are eScript Perusal: $1.99 hiding in the closet. None of the "clutterers" • Script Perusal: $3.99 wants to leave. Even Christy isn't sure she THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF • ePlay Package: wants to get rid of them at first. But through CRICKET COUNTY $27.99 (Digital Scripts the maids gentle guidance, she finds the and Performance BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON Rights) • Play courage to confront each one. 7 females, 6 males, Package: $49.99 (18 13 total, 0-15 extras • Scripts and THE TATE FAMILY 40 minutes • eScript Performance Rights) Perusal: $1.99 • Script BY: JOANNE OWENS Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Shakespeare? Elkin Taylor and his kinfolk 8 females, 9 males, Package: $27.99 down home in the hollow never heard of him. 17 total • 15 minutes • (Digital Scripts and When city-cultured Mrs. Featherred hears eScript Perusal: $1.99 Performance Rights) • about Elkin's huge inheritance, she visits • Script Perusal: $3.99 Play Package: $42.99 Cricket County with two Shakespearean • ePlay Package: (15 Scripts and actors eager to get an endowment for her $12.99 (Digital Scripts Performance Rights) and Performance theatre. But when Romeo and Juliet perform Rights) • Play Welcome to Cricket County – the land that with their lofty language, the kinfolk haven’t a
OTHER SEASONS Package: $24.99 (19 cool forgot. With characters named Bodean clue about what is going on. Even their Scripts and and Chigger, what's not to love? The gals confused dog, Mudhole, attacks them. Pile on Performance Rights) think being a housewife is the highest callin' one silly misunderstanding after another and Everyone will enjoy the humor of this clever there is. They're happy with their cookin', mix it together with madcap action, and you skit. A great way to get everyone laughing at gardenin', cleanin' lifestyle, with neighbor- have a hilarious hillbilly play that’s fun for both a church dinner or to provide a humorous spyin' and coon-huntin' on the side – until the performers and the audience. focus on stewardship during a Laity Day "richer'n clabbered cream" Monica Northcutt worship service. The Tate family consists of crashes their quilting bee with her women's RETURN OF THE MAGI familiar church personalities: Dick Tate, who rights spiel. Discontent brews faster'n a jar of BY: L. ELMO SNEDAKER wants to run everything; Ro Tate, who keeps sun tea, and suddenly cookin' frog legs don't changing churches; Agi Tate, who loves to look so appealing. Though the gals say if you 3 males, 1 either, 4 gossip; Vege Tate, who does nothing. Many offered their husbands a penny for their total, gender flexible • 20 minutes • eScript more funny Tate family members are thoughts, you'd get back change, the good ol' Perusal: $1.99 • Script included. The Tates represent our human boys have the last word as they show their Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay imperfections, but we forgive them in wives the true meaning of beauty: Package: $20.99 Christian love. contentment! Fun side gags involving a (Digital Scripts and scarecrow and "muscadine juice." May be Performance Rights) • used as dinner theatre. Play Package: $29.99 (6 Scripts and Performance Rights) In the middle of your normal church service, three costumed men suddenly appear. A lively dialog ensues between your pastor and 86 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC OTHER SEASONS
THIS IS GOD... I NEED YOU! (the Protestants) that made the Reformation a THE WORD IS LOVE BY: JUDY KIRKPATRICK turning point. This play can be performed in a BY: MIKE CAIN 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • church sanctuary, meeting room or in any 13 females, 11 males, eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • theatrical setting. Educational and 1 either, 25 total • 45 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and entertaining. Excellent for local cable TV minutes • eScript Performance Rights) • Play Package: $29.99 (8 presentation. Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 Four petitioners, on behalf of all humankind, WE ARE PULLED (Digital Scripts and request an audience with God to protest BY: CHARLES WHITE Performance Rights) • hunger, poverty, injustice, disease and Play Package: $29.99 3 males, 8 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 30 loneliness. They are stunned when God (10 Scripts, minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Photocopy Rights, appears before them as a rather plain-looking Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital and Performance woman or man. God responds to each with Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Rights) humor and compassion, but shows that Package: $24.99 (13 Scripts and Performance humankind has been empowered to solve Rights) The many aspects of love—love of God, these problems. God needs all of us to make A teen wears a coat on which are pinned romantic love, family love and love of country the world a better place. Each of us must several of his hidden thoughts, like "There is —are the focus of this variety-packed plant the seeds of compassion, peace, justice no God." Satan's demons use their evil presentation. Short vignettes including a and charity. Only in this way can God's will be influence to attach ropes to the unsuspecting Charlie Chaplin slapstick routine, poetry done. This unusual chancel drama may be guy, then try to pull him into hell. The ropes reading, humorous skits, and music keep easily staged in any church sanctuary or get twisted in a hopeless tangle, representing dinner guests entertained while expressing chapel. No costumes required. A stirring his jumbled state of mind. Just in time, a the importance of love. The music may be presentation with a humorous touch in the Christian cuts the cords leading to the sung live by a choir or recorded and played. spirit of the movies Bruce Almighty and Oh, negative hidden thoughts and fastens gold Although titles are suggested, you may God! ribbons with Scripture promises in their place. choose your own songs to fit the occasion, An evangelistic script for teens with an from a teen Valentine's Day banquet to an all- HOLY SPIRIT CELEBRATION imaginative but pull-no-punches approach. church dinner. Many may participate, or parts may be doubled to accommodate a smaller BY: GLENN SCHWERDTFEGER cast. 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 20 minutes • WEE LITTLE MAN eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • BY: KEVIN STONE ePlay Package: $12.99 (Digital Scripts and THE DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT Performance Rights) • Play Package: $20.99 (6 3 females, 5 males, 2 either, 10 total, 1-25 GIRL Scripts and Performance Rights) extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript BY: MATT BUCHANAN Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay OTHER SEASONS Two couples may present this Scripture- Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and MS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total, doubling based account of the events of Pentecost told Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Script in lyrical prose. Solo and unison voices (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) Perusal: $4.25 (For reading only, no Performance Rights conveyed.) • eScript describe the imagery of the wind and fire, Like a musical, only way easier! You'll be revealing a powerful Holy Spirit who came to Package: $29.75 (Digital Download of scripts utterly charmed by the clever banter between with permission to print/photocopy 10 scripts.) • earth in a remarkable way and is with us still. the actors and choir and the narrator's droll Script Package: $42.50 (Includes 10 hardcopy The Spirit unifies the church "like a weaver, repartee in this energetic take on the story of scripts. Must be purchased with a First making one cloth form many threads" and Zacchaeus, the "Scrooge of Palestine." He's Performance Royalty) • Royalty: $30.00 per comforts us "like a blanket to a crying child." short in stature yet long on greed—but don't performance be fooled. There's more to the story than his The Day Boy and the Night Girl is a free THE TRIAL OF DR. MARTIN sycamore tree claim to fame."Blast from the adaptation of a George MacDonald fairy tale LUTHER past" Sunday school choruses are about a boy raised never to see darkness and BY: MARIAN MOYER interspersed with the drama. Familiar songs a girl kept always in the dark. The two mean less rehearsal! Includes: "Zacchaeus 2 females, 9 males, 11 total, 2 extras • 30 children accidentally meet and eventually Was a Wee Little Man," "I've Got the Joy minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script learn that they need each other. The story is Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (Down in My Heart)," "If You're Saved and framed by a parallel story of two children in a Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play You Know It," "Hallelu, Hallelu" and "Seek London orphans' hospital. This is a wonderful Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance Ye First." Zacchaeus was forever changed archetypal fairy tale, yet it will be new and Rights) when "the Lord he wanted to see"! fresh for most audiences. Though it can be Too few of us ever find the time to learn the done very simply, it also offers creative historical beginnings of the Reformation. Who opportunities for your technical people, were the key personages that made it especially your lighting designer. happen? Was it Martin Luther or a series of circumstances? This courtroom trial tells of Luther’s youth, his parents, and his reasons for becoming a monk. It shows why he nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door. It explains the church’s abuse of indulgences, political powers and accusations of heresy. Luther was the spark, but it was the protestors
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THE FLECKS have only a few minutes left; and must devise Prince William is the ugliest child on the BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN their own ending. They ask young audience planet. Children run from his face, and even MS • 2 females, 1 male, 5 either, 8 total, gender members to create their own endings and strong men quail. The spell can only be flexible • 40 minutes • Script Perusal: $4.25 • submit them to either their parents, teachers broken when the prince makes a real friend— eScript Package: $29.75 (Digital Download of or to the company... Suitable for classroom but how can he, when everyone is afraid of scripts with permission to print/photocopy 10 use or tour. him? A fun, often zany story about identity scripts.) • Script Package: $42.50 (Includes 10 and friendship. hardcopy scripts. 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Rejected by everyone, the station manager informs them this locally- and Jenna are two angels in training who are Valjean once again turns to theft, only this produced show is about to make its about to be sent back to Earth for their final time he is shown an act of mercy by a kindly nationwide debut and Life magazine exam. When Nick and Jenna return to Earth, priest. Humbled by the priest's kindness, photographers are coming to do a story on they find Dave, a guy who is even more Valjean violates his parole and dedicates his them, they are thrilled, but not about having to mixed-up than they are. He is at the church life to goodness. Meanwhile, Valjean is wear the outrageous western costumes long before he should be on his wedding day, pursued by Inspector Javert, whose relentless chosen for them. Behind the scenes, trying to decide whether he should go forward dedication to the law requires him to bring the however, trouble is brewing, as the actor with the wedding. 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Must be performance an unexpected quest that requires venturing back into the story after hours, members of purchased with a First Performance Royalty) • Royalty: $50.00 per performance Based on the cherished novel by Louisa May the Happily Ever After Group find themselves Alcott, Little Women tells the story of the four sneaking through The Wood, battling a When a twister carries Dorothy and Toto to March Girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they rhyming curse, and trying to keep from being the Land of Oz, the result is…wacky! Dorothy grow to adulthood in Civil War era New blown up—all while facing their fears and steps out in her ruby crocks and onto a England. The girls endure hardships and learning each other's secrets. 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THE COLORS OF EASTER: A CHRISTMAS LETTERS: THE A BANNER EASTER: THE CHILDREN'S MUSICAL MUSICAL MUSICAL BY: RHONDA WRAY, CHRISTY S. LONG BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN, CHRISTY S. BY: GAIL GAYMER MARTIN 13 either, 13 total, 1-20 extras, gender flexible • LONG 7 either, 7 total, 1-40 extras, gender flexible • 20 30 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 3 females, 3 males, 8-30 either, 14-36 total, minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript and (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance Rights) • Musical Package: $44.99 (15 Scripts, Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Score and Performance Rights) • Musical 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Painting, singing and dramatic speaking - Rehearsal CD: $26.00 This popular pageant featuring six colorful many children may be involved in this creative banners bearing a key word of Easter is musical that highlights events of the first This children’s musical is so easy to stage! enhanced with songs especially for child Easter as they relate to a palette of hues: Because children are able to read their lines singers. Scripture narrative, the songs and green for the palms at the Triumphal Entry, instead of memorizing them, more time may explanation of each banner all relate to the pink for the sunrise on the third day, gray for be spent learning the songs. Just as in the key words: Empty Tomb, Arisen, Savior, the tomb and eight others. A child reader popular original play, children write letters and Triumph, Eternal Life and Resurrection. The shares how his or her shade symbolizes an read them aloud to Joseph, Mary, the six original songs with piano accompaniment aspect of Easter as a child artist paints a Innkeeper, a Shepherd, an Angel and the are: Beautiful Savior; He Ain't Here; simple outline of each object or symbol. Baby Jesus. The biblical characters reply, Victorious, Triumphant; Forever and Ever; He Interspersed are color-coded portions of reading from their scrolls. Between each pair Rose Again and Just As He Said. At the MUSICALS "Easter Colors," an infectious tune with piano of letters, children sing a song that illustrates conclusion of the program the children accompaniment especially keyed to children's their content. Includes six original songs rearrange themselves, revealing that the first voices. The eleven verses build to a stirring arranged for children’s voices with musical letter of each banner’s word spells “Easter.” finale, after which children may hand out bags accompaniment: “Part of the Plan,” “Little Parts for both younger and older children are of candy with "A Jelly Bean Prayer" inside. Baby Boy,” “Maybe a Stable,” “Hey, I’m Tryin’ included, as well as unlimited singers. The Easy to present with highly flexible casting, to Work!” “Pierce the Darkness” and banners may be made by the children as a charming children's voices and great visual “Welcome.” Features upbeat melodies Lenten activity and displayed on Easter appeal! coupled with humorous and insightful lyrics. Sunday. An easy-to-present musical – artistic “The inn may have no room for you, (but) in and melodic charm galore coupled with the my heart, I do…. Welcome, baby Jesus.” biblical basics of the Easter account.
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The Inniscap family of Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Ma, Pa, Dick and Jane is all abuzz with pre- (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Christmas merriment when a hip delivery Rehearsal CD: $26.00 The original play, about those who stayed dude delivers a sad telegram—Santa has away from the manger due to a variety of been delayed somewhere in Timbuktu. The same delightful Nativity drama using the excuses, has been set to music. Five original Although the kids are disappointed, they rhyme structure of Clement Moore's classic songs with piano accompaniment are realize that Christmas is really about the birth poem is the basis for this musical version of included. Both solo and ensemble parts for of the Christ child. Not to worry, though. Pa 'Twas the Night Before. We didn't tinker with children and adults. The rousing finale invites Inniscap is recruited to be Santa. His initial the basic story line of the play version, which all to be a part of the birth of Jesus. reluctance gives way to ho-ho-hos as he dons was enthusiastically received by so many of the requisite beard and red suit. Just as Pa you – we just enhanced it with instantly memorable new songs that build on the BATHROBES, TINSEL AND asks to see a mirror, the real Santa pops TINFOIL WINGS down the chimney. A hilarious mirror rhyming narrative. Seven original songs with BY: BEVERLY E. PIPER, JOHN W. WALKER pantomime ensues, with great rejoicing when musical accompaniment in the range of everyone realizes that Santa has saved the children's voices are included: "'Twas the 3 either, 3 total, 1-30 extras • 30 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital day. Features nine original Broadway-style Night Before," "Christ Is Coming Tonight," Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • songs. "Too Many People in Town," "The Good News," "The Promise Is Here," "Hey, Look at eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance Rights) • That Star!" and "Merry, Merry Christmas to Musical Package: $36.99 (5 Scripts, 1 Score, DAVE! You!" plus short musical narratives and a Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) BY: HANK BEEBE reprise. Songs feature a variety of tempos 3 females, 4 males, 7 total, 1-20 extras • 35 and stylistic approaches. Solo parts are A traditional children's bathrobe Nativity minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 (For reading featured with the choir numbers. This musical pageant set to music. This musical places the purposes only. Does not convey performance hits all the right notes! "bathrobed" performers in a proper rights.) • Script Perusal: $4.99 (For reading perspective for a historical celebration of purposes only. Does not convey performance Christ's birth. The emphasis is on the songs rights.) • Script: $4.99 (Purchase of 1 script per COMPANY'S COMING and the Nativity setting. Cast is variable to performer is required) • Royalty: $24.99 per BY: ANN W. YEAGER include the entire Sunday school performance • Vocal/Piano Score: $8.99 • 8-20 either, 8-20 total, gender flexible • 30 membership. Production/Rehearsal CD: $20.00 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 The most joyful, action-packed and (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: suspenseful musical ever offered to members $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital THE BEST PLACE TO MUSICALS of your church choir! They will love brave Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, young Dave—that easy-ridin', Bible-readin', BY: ELEANOR MILLER, ROLAND A. 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A teacher assigns her class original songs with piano accompaniment are of angels the task of finding the best place to included: "Out of the Inn," "Why Can't People celebrate Christmas. Though they look Be More Like Us?" "You're Not Listening," around the world, they realize the best place "Only a Stable" and "Company's Coming." is in your heart. Features eleven original Simple but endearing animal costume ideas songs with musical accompaniment. are included. Any number of children may participate.
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CRICKET COUNTY CHRISTMAS THE EASTER PAGEANT THAT HARK THE ANGEL SANG OFF- (MUSICAL) ALMOST WASN'T (MUSICAL) KEY BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON, LAUREN MAYER BY: KAREN HANELY, STEPHEN DE CESARE BY: ANN W. YEAGER 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 40 minutes • 1 female, 3 males, 7 either, 11 total, 1-20 8-14 either, 8-14 total, 1-20 extras, gender eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital extras, gender flexible • 25 minutes • eScript flexible • 30 minutes • eScript and eScore Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Only.) • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Package: Digital Music Score and Performance Rights) • Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Score and Musical Package: $44.99 (12 Scripts, 1 Score, Score and Performance Rights) • Musical Performance Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Package: $44.99 (13 Scripts, 1 Score, (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • Digital Production/ (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 Rehearsal Album: $20.00 (Digital Download of Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Album) • Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Rehearsal CD: $26.00 A musical version of Christmas in Cricket The angels' choir room is abuzz with County. Come on over and stay a spell! The When Mr. D. opens the auditions for the excitement—the Son of God is about to be original best-selling play, with its hilarious children's Easter pageant, he's stunned to born, and they're to announce his birth! They culture clash between the prissy and proper hear a wide variety of modern worship music! gather to rehearse, singing a splendid song of city-slicker cousins who visit their redneck Easter Bunny, who claims to deliver colored praise—but one voice is hopelessly out of cousins "in the sticks," inspired this new eggs without anyone ever seeing him, rocks tune. It's Hark! Earlier she went to an musical just bustin' with laughs and darn good when he/she sings "The Easter Bunny Hop." instrument factory, where they were tuning tunes. Six original songs with musical Next to audition are the Three Wise Men hundreds of harps. All those notes continue to accompaniment are included: What Christmas whose long journey made them miss bounce around in her head so she can't pick Means to Me," "Remember the Money," Christmas. They sing a hip-hop version of up the melody! Hark seeks the counsel of "Whatever Happened to Pete?" "Ain't No Use "We Three Kings". Next enters Miss Butterfly Gabriel, who tells her, "It's easy for our heads for Fightin' and Fussin'," "Too Much Money who sings and dances to a lovely ballad. to fill up with the wrong kind of things—not (Ain't Good for No One)" and "The Story 'bout Unsure of what to do, Mr. D. consults with the just sounds, but thoughts and fears and Mary and Joe." Features a range of styles, children's choir about how best to express the worries too. They can drown out the one thing from good ol' twangy country tunes to Easter message. They sing "O Christ, Our we need to hear most: God's voice." After a highbrow, pseudo-classical pieces by the city Hope, Our Heart's Desire" (choral style), then heartfelt prayer, Hark rejoins the choir. Much cousins. There's even hoedown music for "No Longer Lonely" (bossa nova tempo), "My to everyone's relief, her voice is beautifully optional simple square dance choreography. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" (70s disco), restored! Five original songs with musical Includes both solo and ensemble parts. A and "In My Heart There Rings a Melody" accompaniment are included. traditional Nativity concludes the fun. We (slow polka). Includes a gift idea children may reckon you'll love these down-home, foot- make for an audience handout. A GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS stompin' tunes! BY: SALLY BESKE HARK AND THE NOT-SO- 25-80 either, 25-80 total, gender flexible • 25 THE FIRST EASTER MORNING HEAVENLY CHOIR minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 BY: MARY PEACOCK BY: ANN W. 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MUSICALS Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Humorous events conspire to keep the Rehearsal CD: $26.00 The Easter story is told with Scripture (based children from playing their assigned on the KJV) and children's music of beautiful Hark, a member of the angel choir who snowflake, shepherd and sheep parts. Then simplicity. It gives many youngsters a chance announced Christ's birth to the shepherds, each group is given new roles: to be to participate. Six original children's songs. has been commissioned to return to earth. Christmas gifts. Fun costumes ideas included, Included are: "This Is the Story of Easter," She is to spend time with children and help from pajamas to life-size presents. The best "Happy Birthday, Little Christ Child," "He Died them understand how important God's gift of Christmas present isn't a new computer or a That We Might Be Forgiven," "Our Dear Lord his Son is for them. She winds up at a pair of roller blades. Because God loved us Jesus Grew," "Sing Hosanna," and "A children's choir rehearsal, where she enough to give us the gift of Jesus, we should Prayer." A beautifully simple service like this discovers that the world has changed give others the gift of our love - our very is hard to find. significantly. She asks the children what selves! Five memorable original songs with Christmas is, and they tell her it's presents, piano accompaniment are included: "Give candy canes, decorated houses, Santa Claus This Song Away," "The Shepherds Revolt," and cookies. She gathers them around for a The Snow Song," "Look at You" and "You Are story, where they see that Christmas isn't just a Gift." At the conclusion, children pass out about Jesus being born. It's about Jesus gift bows to the congregation to carry out the dying—giving his life for all of us. Five original theme. songs with musical accompaniment included.
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HERE COMES PETER WHO? HUP 2-3-4 EASTER! LETTERS FROM SANTA: THE BY: ANN W. YEAGER BY: JOEL WALTON MUSICAL 1 female, 4 males, 5 either, 10 total, 1-25 5 females, 9 males, 14 total, 1-25 extras • 20 BY: LAUREN MAYER, GAIL GAYMER extras, gender flexible • 35 minutes • eScript minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 MARTIN and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: 1 female, 2 males, 11 either, 14 total, 1-25 Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • eScript Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Score and Performance Rights) • Musical Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Package: $44.99 (12 Scripts, 1 Score, 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: Score and Performance Rights) • Musical Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 Atten-tion! 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When she meets "Peter," a man in small boy with crippled legs and a real Roman spiritual blessings. Spirited songs in various robe and sandals, she is terribly disappointed. soldier guarding the tomb of Jesus. With the styles convey the meaning behind symbolic Yet in conversations with this follower of honesty and whimsy of a child’s-eye view, the gifts from Santa, including a key, lamb, angel, Jesus, she gets an up-close view of the life dialogue poignantly delivers the Crucifixion star and candle. Includes six original songs and ministry of the Messiah and awakens with and a "story within the story." Features four with piano accompaniment: “What’s Up at the a new grasp of the Easter message. Features catchy melodies with styles from a military North Pole?” “I Want!” “Santa’s Blues,” “A five songs with piano accompaniment, march to ballads and an upbeat chorus with Letter from Santa,” “See the Light” and “True including: "All These Prayers," "I Can't See piano accompaniment: "Give Me a Cause, Christmas.” The memorization pressure is off You," "Fishing for Men," "God Loves Me," and "Stardust," "Heaven's Knocking at Our Door" – the children simply read Santa’s letters "I'm Leavin' It Up to Him." and "Jesus Is Risen." Though Jesus is never aloud. The performance ends with Santa’s big seen, he is referred to and felt throughout in reveal: his origin and inspiration is Nicholas, saint to the poor. HOW TO HAVE A MERRY this testament to the power of his healing CHRISTMAS (IN TWENTY love. MINUTES OR LESS) A LIGHT AT CHRISTMAS BY: SALLY BESKE JESUS IS THE REASON FOR BY: CONNIE PEASE 6 females, 5 males, 11 total, 1-25 extras • 20 THE SEASON 3 females, 6 males, 20-50 either, 29-59 total, minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 BY: STEPHEN DE CESARE 1-30 extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital 2 females, 5 males, 9 either, 16 total, 1-25 Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Digital Music Score and Performance Rights) • Rights) • Musical Package: $44.99 (13 Scripts, Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music MUSICALS Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Score and Performance Rights) • Musical Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) • Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Little Elizabeth wonders – just how do you Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: $20.00 have a merry Christmas, anyway? She (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ Everyone from the nursery class to an adult Rehearsal CD: $26.00 discusses it with some other kids and choir may be included in this musical guesses you need snow, a Christmas tree, Your adult choir and Sunday school children extravaganza that celebrates the first Nativity characters and a whole Santa sackful together may perform this program of eleven Christmas. The "oldest star of all" narrates the of other stuff! Eventually Elizabeth sees that unique choral numbers interspersed with tale, with all the important details from the the “Merry” in Christmas comes from within, short dramatic vignettes about the meaning of biblical account. Some just-for-fun characters and there is no better time than remembering Christmas. Eleven original songs and carols. crash the scene, like a stressed innkeeper the birth of Jesus to celebrate love – pure and Traditional carols include: "Ballad of Mary," with a mile-long to-do list. The music adds simple, no strings attached. Five original "Silent Night," "In a Manger," "Three Kings zing to the narrative through the songs' many songs featuring piano accompaniment are Are They," "Jesus Is the Reason for the styles, from ballads to be-bop. Nine original included: “The Snow Song,” “Shepherds and Season," and five more. The short scenes songs with piano accompaniment are Kings,” “God Sends the Angels,” “Love Like with Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper and other included: "Once upon a Winter Night," "You've Jesus” and “Choose Love!” traditional characters of the Christmas story Found Favor," "Quiet Delight," "Joseph's are performed by children. Unlike most Choice," "Innkeeper's Lament," "Shepherd's holiday presentations, this program features Bop," "God Is with Us," "We Are Some Wise the talents of the church choir. The music and Men" and "Lullaby, My Little Boy." There are the drama sections may be rehearsed simple choreography options for the angels (a separately. dance with streamers) and the shepherds. An impressive musical performance with few memorized lines.
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THE LITTLE STAR: A WE BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS LIVE FROM THE STREETS OF CHRISTMAS MUSICAL BY: JANET LITHERLAND BETHLEHEM BY: GEORGENE C. MEDDOWS, MICHAEL C. 4 females, 1 male, 16 either, 21 total, 9-30 BY: CHRISTY S. LONG VIGILANT, GERALD V. 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Ages 4 to 12 are of Bethlehem with an unconfirmed report that shine as other stars do. The Starlighter represented. Other participants include Mary a mighty king has arrived in town. She cannot light Little Star until God gives and Joseph, a narrator, and the church interviews a number of passers-by -- both permission. Little Star waits sadly until pastor. Also included is an interpretive dance people and animals -- to get the inside scoop surprisingly, he/she is chosen to be the Star climax on the theme, "We Believe in on the story. Their tell-it-like-it-is responses of Bethlehem. God tells Little Star about the Christmas." The dramatic narrative tells of the are fueled by a double shot of campy humor. Baby Jesus--why he was chosen to be born in long walk to Bethlehem, the crowded city, the In the end, Barbara gets a greater gift than a stable and how his love will bring peace. stable where the baby Jesus was born, and information for her on-the-spot report -- she Four specially created songs for children's the visitors, great and humble, bearing gifts. sees the baby Jesus and recognizes him as voices: "I Want to Shine," "What's Going On?" the Messiah. Seven original songs with "Three Wise Men" and "We Shall Follow." musical accompaniment are included. Five solo parts are featured with choir MADRIGAL MOCKERY numbers. BY: JANET LITHERLAND 15-40 either, 15-40 total, gender flexible • 45 MINI-MUSICALS FOR SPECIAL minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 DAYS LITTLE STARS OF BETHLEHEM: (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: BY: MARTI SUDDARTH THE MUSICAL $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital 4-8 females, 1 male, 4-16 either, 9-25 total, BY: JANET MEILI, CHRISTY S. 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Originally performed in the call to varied heights to create a large star with five they've been deserted, the Little Angels set off worship section of the service. points. A bright and melodic celebration of to find the irresponsible Teen Angels. When Christmas! they finally find them, they get a wonderful surprise - the birth of baby Jesus. Ten original songs with musical accompaniment are included.
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ONE LITTLE STAR PEACE IN THE KINGDOM WHERE THE HEART IS BY: CHRISTY S. LONG BY: CYNTHIA MARION, MICHAEL MARION BY: CYNTHIA MARION, MICHAEL MARION 7 either, 7 total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • 45 16-40 either, 16-40 total, gender flexible • 30 8 females, 6 males, 7 either, 21 total, 1-30 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 extras, gender flexible • 40 minutes • eScript (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance Scripts, Digital Music Score and Performance Package: $29.99 (Digital Scripts, Digital Music Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, Rights) • Musical Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, Score and Performance Rights) • Musical 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance 1 Score, Photocopy Rights, and Performance Package: $40.99 (10 Scripts, 1 Score, Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: Rights) • Digital Production/Rehearsal Album: Photocopy Rights, and Performance Rights) $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • $20.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 This unforgettable musical is an excellent kickoff to a Christmas mission project. It The celestial creation receives amazing news: A musical parable about shalom. A beautiful sensitively dispels the myth of the "typical" Father God is sending his only Son to earth! musical with a message of love and hope homeless person. Their circumstances are as Each has a special job to do: Cumulus the inspired by Isaiah 11:6-9 and the famous complex and varied as the characters cloud will carry the Child to earth, Sonny the American painting, The Peaceable Kingdom themselves: a farmer caught in the farm crisis sun will give the most amazing dawn ever, by Edward Hicks. As the show opens, of the eighties, a woman who was evicted Luna the moon can light the night sky for the children and adult actors assume the image of from her apartment, a man who was robbed. three kings, and Windle the wind can blow the the painting in the art gallery, then unfreeze to Their revealing stories bring a personal face winds of change over the earth. The littlest become the citizens of the Global Village. to this widespread problem, yet speak of star, Stella, wants to help too. As if! What They sing and speak of their dream of shalom hope. These characters don't ask for pity— could she do? Stella shocks them all by for all the world. "Shalom" is everything good only understanding. After all, Joseph and revealing her extreme brightness, a gift from —a gift from God so that all may live in Mary were homeless the night they were God himself. Why would God allow a little harmony and health. The story is told with turned away from the inn. Ten original songs nobody to light the way to Bethlehem? For the four small choruses and eight actors in —the kind you'll leave the performance same reason he allowed the King of Kings to costume. Included are thirteen musical humming—are featured, including "Throw- be born in a stable: because he uses the numbers, including "It's a Jungle Out There," Away People," "Even the Hairs of Your Head humble and lowly things of this world to reveal "Shalom Is More," "We've Gotta Change Our Are Numbered," "Welcome the Stranger" and himself. Includes seven songs with music Style" and "Peace in the Kingdom." "There Is Room in Your Heart." Solo and accompaniment: "There's Gonna Be a Party," chorus parts are included. The monologue "Winds of Change," "Rider of the Clouds," YOU CAN'T CANCEL format and simple staging make rehearsals "New Day," "Singing Hallelujah," "One Little CHRISTMAS: THE MUSICAL easy in the busy months leading up to Advent Star" and "Humble Hearts." Upbeat, easy-to- or Christmas. sing songs! BY: ANDREA N. BURTON, CHRISTY S. LONG 4 females, 4 males, 8 total, 1-30 extras • 30 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 SLEEPOVER AT THE STABLE: A OPERATION ANGEL (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: CHRISTMAS MUSICAL UNDERCOVER $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital BY: DOUGLAS J. EBOCH, CHRISTY S. LONG BY: MELANIE A. 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Take one stressed-out mom Production/Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Digital Download of Album) • Production/ and a passel of spirited kids, and you have a Rehearsal CD: $26.00 This pitch-perfect musical retains all the recipe for chaos, creativity and Christmas childhood charm of the original play with its Minimal dialog and many easy-to-learn songs shenanigans! All thoughts of the church cast of sweet and sassy animal characters characterize this upbeat musical. The angel pageant are forgotten as Mom deals with and amps it up a notch with instantly choir is excited beyond words, for they all holiday crises from "the dog at my pie" to kids memorable songs that tell the Nativity story. have their special jobs lined up for the Big snooping in their presents. She does the It’s groggy chaos when the stable animals Event. Amid their flurry of activity, they stop to unthinkable—she cancels Christmas! The wake up to the news of Jesus’ birth. The speculate: Why would God go to all this kids take matters into their own inimitable chickens, goat, cow, sheep and mule interact trouble for humans? After Jesus is born and style. Five original songs created especially with Mary and Joseph’s donkey to get the they witness the miracle of God sent to earth, for children's voices featuring musical scoop on the holy baby’s arrival, and they get an angel observes, “It’s no wonder God so accompaniment are included: "Story to Tell," a melodic earful! Five original songs created loved his people that he sent his Son to be "Don'cha Wanna Know?" "Christmas Is especially for children’s voices featuring like them. They’re no saints, but they have Canceled," "Please, Mr. Innkeeper" and musical accompaniment are included: great potential!” Ten original songs with piano "Glory to God." “Bethlehem Lullaby,” “One Foot in Front accompaniment are included. of the Other,” “Star, Star, Star,” “Glory Be to God on High” and “Wake Up!” From the engaging tunes to the adorably costumed kids, your congregation will be inspired by this
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musical! 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE CHRISTMAS ON THE BRINK EASTER: THE MUSICAL BY: LARRY NESTOR, JIM THOMSON THE CHRISTMAS GUEST BY: CHRISTY S. LONG, KIMBERLEE R. 2 females, 5 males, 4 either, 11 total, 4-20 MENDOZA extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • eScript BY: BEVERLY E. PIPER, JOHN W. 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Everything sung or said in Creator to help the stressed-out Wilson family been one of our best sellers. Now we have this clever musical is so easy for children to at Christmas time. He is instructed to brush adapted it into a dramatized musical that tells remember with the aid of music and rhyme. up on the customs of today but accidentally the story of Conrad, the shoemaker. The Lord It's the beloved "'Twas the Night before reads a '60s manual instead. His "groovy" appeared to him in a dream, saying he would Christmas" with a musical Easter twist! "'Twas hippie get-up and "like wow" vocabulary get visit on Christmas Eve. All night long, Conrad the week before Easter" when the countdown double takes from the Wilsons, who think he's waits for Jesus. But his only visitors are a begins with Jesus' donkey ride on the first a total dweeb. But through some surprises, weary beggar, an old woman and a lost child. Palm Sunday. It continues through the Last Slipstream shows the family real Christmas He fulfills each of their needs. The voice of Supper, Jesus' arrest, his crucifixion and love amid the commercialism and stress. Four the Lord later reveals, in song, the truth of his resurrection – all key events on the week that original songs with piano accompaniment visit: "Conrad, three times I came to your led up to the first Easter. Five singable include: "What a Lot of Things to Do," "Tell friendly door, Three times my shadow was on numbers with piano accompaniment illustrate Them," "Do You Look Like an Angel?" and your floor. I was the beggar with bruised feet; these important aspects of Jesus' journey: "It's So Good to Be With You." I was the woman you chanced to meet; I was "Happy Hosanna," "Remember Me," "By His the child lost on the street." Four original Stripes," "Risen!" and "Things Are Looking songs with musical accompaniment are Up." The flexible cast may be small or large, SEEDS OF JOY included: "He's Never Broken His Promise," "I with younger children pantomiming the action. BY: JOHN W. WALKER Thought It Was Him," "Come, Lord Jesus" An easy Easter musical delivering a 10 either, 10 total, 1-30 extras, gender flexible • and "When Did We See You, Lord?" meaningful message. 15 minutes • eScript and eScore Perusal: $4.99 (For Digital Reading Only.) • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eMusical Package: $29.99 (Digital PROVE IT! STRANGER AT THE TABLE Scripts, Music Score and Performance Rights) • BY: CHRISTY S. 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Pat Swayback Rehearsal CD: $26.00 (Oak Tree, Tomato, Corn and Marigold), step and his lovely assistant, Vanity White, host A transient in search of his next meal arrives from their packets as "seeds" for new growth five contestants who try to convince a at church. The congregation experiences his as part of the song "God Isn't Finished." skeptical rabbi that Jesus Christ is the long- passion for the Christian faith. As the Stranger awaited Savior come to earth. Anna, John, breathes new life into the rite of Communion, Mary Magdalene, Cedric (a Roman soldier) the congregation captures a fresh vision of and Thomas tell their stories of encounters their true calling. When the Stranger vanishes with Jesus. The rabbi steadfastly dismisses everyone realizes they received a holy Visitor. their claims, but listens attentively. Who wins? Includes nine memorable original songs: Stay tuned. Six songs with piano “Thank You, God,” “Don’t Forget to accompaniment. Remember,” “One Together in Christ,” “Two on a Road,” “Where Two or Three Are Gathered” and more.
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AND SO THEY HAD NONE DEATH BY DESSERT BREAKFAST IN BETHLEHEM BY: ROBERT ALAN WARD BY: NATHAN HARTSWICK BY: ALENE H. BETTS, SANDRA MACK 5 females, 4 males, 1 MS HS • 4-5 females, 4-5 males, 1 either, 9-11 1 female, 4 males, 2 either, 10 total, total, 2-5 extras, doubling possible, gender either, 7 total • 90 gender flexible • 40 flexible • 75 minutes • Script Perusal: $6.50 (For minutes • eScript minutes • eScript reading only, no Performance Rights Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $1.99 • Script conveyed.) • eScript Package: $50.05 (Digital Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Download of scripts with permission to print/ Package: $20.99 Package: $20.99 photocopy 11 scripts.) • Script Package: $71.50 (Digital Scripts and (Digital Scripts and (Includes 11 hardcopy scripts. Must be Performance Rights) • Performance Rights) • purchased with a First Performance Royalty) • Play Package: $29.99 Play Package: $35.99 Royalty: $55.00 per performance (9 Scripts and (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) For a generation, the feud between the Donnaducce and Duccedonni families has The world embraces breakfast with Santa. The fun doesn't stop with this zany parade of rocked New York's Little Italy. Slinging Why not offer an outreach program keeping colorful characters at a dinner party—one of spaghetti and meatballs, these competing the fun atmosphere but replacing the secular whom has made off with a delectable Boston Italian restaurants share only two things: a with the spiritual? Mary and Joseph host this cream pie. Could it be the globe-trotting common wall and distaste for the other family. Saturday morning activity for children and business tycoon? The health food and fitness So when the building's landlord is found dead their parents. The guests enjoy a delicious fanatic? How about the computer marvel? Or at center stage, everyone is a suspect – from breakfast with charming character interactions —gasp—the straight-laced deacon? Strictly the old-world Italian grandmother and mafia and entertainment. The drama segments silly stereotypes for actors who like to ham it don grandfather to the passionate chefs and highlight Gabriel's visit to Mary, the journey to up. The clues are as goofy as the characters bumbling wait-staff. Flashing back in time, the the census, no room at the inn, Jesus' birth, themselves and involve everything from a story is told by its victim, who alternately and the accounts of the shepherds and wise skateboard to a nursery rhyme. Great narrates and participates in the action. Your men. Also includes activities and sing-along entertainment for a fundraising dinner with— audience will be customers at the restaurant, Christmas carols. Supplemental information what else?—Boston cream pie for dessert. can be served a delectable meal (no poison, includes a sample invitation, menu we swear!), and may cast their vote for suggestions, table centerpiece instructions, ART TO DIE FOR whodunit! Will the murderer be ferreted out? and the how-to's for a take-home favor. Everything you’ll need to create a Bethlehem BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA Will the feud ever be reconciled? What are the hidden truths? This deceptively delicious atmosphere is here! Even fun "photo opps" in 5 females, 5 males, mystery in one set has colorful characters, the lobby to preserve the memories. A family- 10 total, 2 extras • 50 friendly special event for your whole minutes • eScript fast-paced dialogue, and an interactive story Perusal: $1.99 • Script that's to die for! community! Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and THE BODY IN THE BELFRY CAPERNAUM P.D. Performance Rights) • BY: DORIS A. WALD BY: DANIEL WRAY Play Package: $42.99 5 females, 10 males, 15 total • 40 minutes • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 40 minutes • (12 Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Performance Rights) ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 An art museum's fundraising gala is genteel, (17 Scripts and Performance Rights) (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) classy, sophisticated, and—the scene of a crime? Shocking but true. The victim is Fran, Every church family loves a special night of There are a million stories in the naked city, the callous curator. The suspects? Everyone entertainment. These hilarious mystery and Capernaum is no exception. This prequel else, including her mousy assistant, her scenes served up between dinner courses will to "Jerusalem P.D." focuses on Jesus' DINNER THEATER brother Casey who (with God's help) loves his satisfy every appetite. The setting is ministry years and the "series of fortunate sister warts and all, a pretentious artist (with Jerusalem, one week after the Crucifixion. events" that he brought about. Detectives perfectly awful paintings), a wealthy woman Two women, Ruth and Maggie, prepare an extraordinaire Frank Cannon and Joe with a penchant for baby talk to her wittle elaborate feast. Pilate, Caiaphas, Peter, and Thursday try to substantiate the reports of puppy-wuppy, and the most eccentric couple other biblical characters are the guests. miracles throughout Galilee. Are they real or ever - the narcoleptic old man and his hard-of- Maggie goes upstairs to retrieve some faked? True miracles or blasphemy? First up hearing wife. When Fran takes a blow to the napkins, when - eek! She finds a dead body! is a 44-82, "making wine without a license" at head, Detective A.J. and pint-sized sleuth Whose body? Not just anybody. That's the fun a wedding in Cana (assuring a competitive Billy jump on the case—then turn it over to the of this whodunit. The coroner, Daedulus wine vendor that he still has his "whine"), then artsy-smartsy audiences. As information is Bodicus, offers a few theories. Gradually the healing the leper (who's now contemplating added in drips and dabs, a portrait of an clues pile up. Guess who? We'll never tell! doing skin-care ads), calming the storm unexpected perpetrator takes everyone by Many funny running gags, such as Pilate's (confounding "Stormie," the meteorologist) surprise! A fun evening's entertainment. propensity to punctuate his prattle with p's. and feeding the 5,000 (to the chagrin of hot Artists in your congregation may auction their Your audience will guffaw from the beginning dog vendors Benjamin and Jeremiah). The work for a fundraiser. right through the end, when the body begins dynamic duo tries to determine what the truth to talk and is arrested! Originally used as a is through unforgettable interviews and fundraiser. experiences. The conclusion, featuring an unexpected witness, is both bitter as bad coffee and sweet as homemade dessert - definitely thought provoking.
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CAPISCE? THE CASE OF THE THE CASE OF THE SHOW- BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA MYSTERIOUS STRANGER STOPPING NUN NABBER 4 females, 7 males, 11 total • 30 minutes • BY: BRIAN BOPP BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • 6 females, 7 males, 13 total • 40 minutes • 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total • 35 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital (13 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Holy cannoli! It's an Italian restaurant in (15 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $29.99 (10 Scripts and Performance Rights) Chicago circa 1930 with all the ingredients for Welcome back to the Café Flambe! The a mystery in the style of old detective films. author of one of our most enduring dinner What fun you'll have with this play-within-a- There's corruption, cynicism and situations theatres has written a sequel (but it may stand play! It's opening night of the cheesiest play stickier than overcooked pasta, featuring Tony alone) with humorous scenes interspersed ever, a romance set in the 1940s. Everyone "The Tough" Moretti with rumored mob with the meal courses. Returning are the thinks it stinks, but one thing is clear: The connections, a has-been private eye, an "old syrupy Sweetwater sisters, the gradnparently show must go on. The aging starlet, the world" matriarch named (what else?) Mama Amos and Eunice Allman, the tuxedoed and young prima donna, the veteran Broadway Mia, a gorgeous femme fatale, a bodyguard snooty Garcon, and the full-of-herself Mrs. actor and the rest of the cast "break a leg." with a penchant for lollipops, a waitress who Pippenpopple, and introducing newcomers Shockingly, an actress playing the nun knows more than anyone suspects and a Sparky (ze kitchen manager), the all- disappears! Then another and another! Now simply dreadful cook – not to mention a city American Countryman family, and the you see them, now you don't. When cast full of thugs bent on getting their mitts on the Stranger. Who is he? What does he want? members come up missing, it's time to call Moretti family business. Can Detective Why is he at the Café Flambe? Is it "stranger Detective Smith. During the intermission, the Thursday crack the conspiracy case? Are the danger" or something altogether different? detective stops by each table to solicit help alibis flimsy, al dente or rock solid? Grab a Matthew 25:35 comes alive in a new and from the dinner guests in an effort to solve the clue! Includes character profiles and unexpected (and delicious!) way. Raise fun mystery. Each character has a motive and an motivations, impromptu bit parts for audience and funds with this entertainment package! alibi. Let the mind games begin! It's all here ... members and ideas for a striking black-and- mystery and humor, a spititual angle and even white set in the film noir genre. The theme is a little romance. The ending speaks volumes forgiveness. Chow on Italian cuisine until it’s A PARTRIDGE IN A PALM TREE when the culprit is revealed, along with time to say ciao! BY: MEGAN ORR thoughts about grace and forgiveness. A fun ALL • 4 females, 5 males, 9 total • 90 minutes • evening for all. 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Nothing is as it appears at this poor are included: The stuffy maitre d' with the fake overzealous but lovable security guard with excuse for an island getaway. There are a accent, the snooty rich woman, the sugary- an itchy trigger finger; a grouchy old airline couple wealthy snobs who are on their sweet sisters, the slightly batty old mayor, the manager, ironically named Mr. Smiley; and honeymoon (or are they?), a retired mysterious stranger. Someone did a number (horror of all horrors) Kevin's dictatorial DINNER THEATER psychologist, an Australian drifter, a mute of good deeds for the town residents— mother, who is determined to Martha Stewart- cook – and Jarvis, a pirate. A treasure’s still anonymously. Whodunit? Only quantum ize the entire airport - and everyone in it! But out there, and he’s bent on finding it. Problem physics is harder to figure out. 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GRITS AND GRAVY A MEDIEVAL FEAST wants to buy the shop (and then demolish it), BY: BURTON BUMGARNER BY: CLAUDIA HAAS but Pop's not selling out. In despair, he MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 10 either, 23 total, MS HS • 25 either, 25 total, doubling possible, considers burning the place down. "I wish I'd 0-8 extras • 90 minutes • Script Perusal: $5.50 gender flexible • 60 minutes • Script Perusal: never been born," he says. Enter Clarabella, (For reading only, no Performance Rights $5.50 (For reading only, no Performance Rights his guardian angel. She shows him what it conveyed.) • eScript Package: $96.25 (Digital conveyed.) • eScript Package: $103.95 (Digital would be like if that were true. All those who Download of scripts with permission to print/ Download of scripts with permission to print/ benefited from his helping hands and photocopy 25 scripts.) • Script Package: photocopy 27 scripts.) • Script Package: generous heart would be left in need. In the $137.50 (Includes 25 hardcopy scripts. Must be $148.50 (Includes 27 hardcopy scripts. Must be end, his friends chip in and he gets to keep purchased with a First Performance Royalty) • purchased with a First Performance Royalty) • Royalty: $50.00 per performance Royalty: $50.00 per performance the shop - oh, and Clarabella gets her wings! Many opportunities for fun fifties music if you In a desperate attempt to save money and It's a hilarious romp through medieval Europe wish. boost ratings the President of the Letz Eat in search of the long lost rose of St. George. Television Network, Robert Gourmet sends Accompanied by her cuckoo servant, Kukola, his reporters to the small town of Magnolia Lady Candida meets a vast array of wacky THE GIFT OF A SON Blossom, Alabama, to cover the town's annual characters from all over Europe on her BY: MARLIN E. THOMAS Grits and Gravy Festival. Held annually at the adventure. Lord Chaser, Lord Entree, Kukola, 44 either, 44 total, local truck stop, this extravaganza features a Lady Wantalot, Mademoiselle Nez and 1-20 extras, gender pageant with three very competitive Gesundheit are all in the chase! flexible • 60 minutes • contestants, whose talents include taxidermy eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 and putting a Corvette engine on a John A KNOCK AROUND THE BLOCK • ePlay Package: Deere tractor. Citizens, visitors, reporters, and BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA $27.99 (Digital Scripts network viewers and actors all combine to tell and Performance a truly hilarious tale of small town quirkiness, 4 females, 6 males, 10 total • 50 minutes • Rights) • Play network mismanagement and fried food. eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • Package: $42.99 (12 ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Scripts, Photocopy Performance Rights) • Play Package: $42.99 Rights, and JERUSALEM P.D. (12 Scripts and Performance Rights) Performance Rights) BY: DANIEL WRAY This blast from the past has all the good clean Enjoy an evening with your church family at a 1 female, 8 either, 9 total • 40 minutes • eScript fun of a ’50s sitcom. It’s like eating dinner potluck dinner followed by entertainment Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay from TV trays and watching a black-and-white where you are the cast! Each table performs a Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and set. The neighborhood boys’ idyllic afternoon scene, beginning with prophecies from Micah, Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 of backyard baseball is interrupted by a (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) Isaiah, and others anticipating Jesus' birth couple motorcycle-riding hooligans. Credo’s and concluding with a glimpse at Jesus' adult The story you are about to hear is true. None the rhyme and Dune’s the reason behind years. Singing is interspersed between of the names have been changed, because these resident bad boys with their swagger scenes and the program concludes with a the innocent don't need protecting. As your and threats. Then someone smacks Dune birthday cake for Jesus. guests enjoy dinner, they meet Joe Thursday with a baseball bat! But who? The audience and his sidekick Frank Cannon, assigned to plays detective, so the questions fly faster investigate the stealing of a criminal's body. than at a ’50s quiz show—and there’s just as THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE SS Between baklava breaks, the two gather "just much scandal! Music and menu suggestions GIGANTIC the facts." The investigation takes some set the scene from this era, as do the poodle BY: DANIEL WRAY hilarious turns as the detective duo tries to pin skirts, saddle shoes and ducktails. The ending 3 females, 5 males, 1 the crime on those who followed this man will blindside you, but forgiveness is key. This either, 9 total • 30 (Mary Magdalene and disciples Peter and one’s got it all—greasers, jocks and a cheesy minutes • eScript
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MISSION: POSSIBLE THE MYSTERY OF MONTLEY'S SUMMER IN CRICKET COUNTY BY: SHELLY SELLEPACK MANOR BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON 5 females, 4 males, 3 either, 12 total, gender BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA 7 females, 7 males, flexible • 40 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • 6 females, 9 males, 15 total • 45 minutes • 14 total • 30 minutes • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play ePlay Package: $27.99 (Digital Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 Package: $42.99 (14 Scripts and Performance Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 • ePlay Package: Rights) (17 Scripts and Performance Rights) $27.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance A sequel to Murder, Mayhem, and It appears old Montley was murdered. Or was Rights) • Play Marshmallow Salad—no murder this time, but he? If so, who, what, where, when, why and Package: $49.99 (16 there's plenty of mayhem—and marshmallow how? The family and staff of the wealthy man Scripts and salad, of course! Features the same cast of gather for the reading of his will. All gasp in Performance Rights) quirky characters. They attend the annual surprise as Montley's airhead nurse, Psst! Have y’all budget meeting. Nobody can agree where the Charlotte, inherits his mansion. But that's just heard about Fester? money should go, or even what the church's the beginning of things not being as they At a church picnic, mission truly is. Suddenly super-slick PR appear. Unpredictable fun, with bickering two gossips start scandalous rumors that consultant Stuart Ship crashes the meeting! money-grubbing relatives and the eccentric spread like wildfire. Did Fester really steal an He delivers a fiery pep talk to pump up the butler, klutzy maid, drill sergeant cook, oh-so- axe from the hardware store? The picnic bickering bunch. The next scenes are snobby sister and gold-digging ex-wife, plus a devolves into hearsay and hullabaloo that hilarious TV-inspired bits: M.T. stages an phony, a wimp and a hothead! Your guests culminates in a visit from the town sheriff! "extreme church makeover." "Dr. Phyllis" get involved as they dine by asking That’s not all. Somehow Brenda Mae and interviews Mrs. Keal on her talk show while "whodunit" questions of the cast (answers Glenda Mae reckon their prissy city cousins shamelessly plugging a multitude of self-help provided). Everyone's got a theory, but there Mimi and Petunia are fixin’ to steal their books. And there's a cooking infomercial are more twists than a plate of rotini! Humor, hillbilly boyfriends! Something’s got to stop! where, much to her horror, Tess's infamous intrigue and conjecture with a challenging Grandma Taylor refuses to play the game and marshmallow salad gets tweaked beyond theme: What does it profit a man to gain the takes matters into her own hands. When she recognition. Finally all see that whether it's world, yet lose his soul? Excellent for a fund- turns the tables on the two gossips and making spreadsheets, outreach to raising or outreach event. they’re the talked-about ones, there’s a whole newcomers, or even making marshmallow lotta whinin’ at the Cricket County grapevine! salad, sharing their gifts will make their Through hilarious misunderstandings, the church's mission possible. THE ROOM UPSTAIRS BY: JOHN W. CARTER truth that rumors can get out of hand and ruin reputations is heard louder’n a yappin’ dawg! 2 females, 13 males, Great with a fried chicken country meal! MURDER, MAYHEM, AND 15 total, 1-15 extras • MARSHMALLOW SALAD 30 minutes • eScript BY: SHELLY SELLEPACK Perusal: $1.99 • Script 4 females, 4 males, 8 Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 VIRGIL'S FIRST EASTER total • 75 minutes • BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON eScript Perusal: $1.99 (Digital Scripts and • Script Perusal: $3.99 Performance Rights) • 5 females, 8 males, 2 • ePlay Package: Play Package: $35.99 either, 15 total, 1-15 $27.99 (Digital Scripts (15 Scripts and extras • 40 minutes • and Performance Performance Rights) eScript Perusal: $1.99 Rights) • Play • Script Perusal: $3.99 Those in the audience are not only observes • ePlay Package: Package: $36.99 (10 but participants in the Last Supper with Jesus. Scripts and $27.99 (Digital Scripts Your church assembly room "becomes" the Performance Rights) and Performance Upper Room where Jesus has asked his Rights) • Play A church potluck seems a benign enough disciples to join him to celebrate the Package: $49.99 (17 setting, right? Ha! Something's come up Passover. As the biblically told event is Scripts and missing, and it's the beloved marshmallow reenacted, the audience is called on to Performance Rights) salad. This scandalous discovery is only the respond in word, song and action. The meal is Delicious dining done dramatically! Teens will tip of the iceberg. The real deal is Pastor structured around an actual Jewish Passover love these hilariously exaggerated characters Evan Keal keeling over. What's the proper Seder with appropriate foods. from our popular playwright. Holier-than-thou protocol when there's been a murder? No one Ms. Tishwater and her spoiled daughter Tisha DINNER THEATER knows—not to mention who would do such a are so wrapped up in appearances that they thing. Was it the bizarre-o clad-all-in-black are appalled when good ol' boy Virgil and Phil (osopher)? Or drama queen wanna-be girlfriend Margaret, who are new to the church Molly Kean? How about the unemployed scene, fumble and bumble their way through pastor, who is manic about networking, or their first service. Many side-splittingly funny someone you'd least suspect, like the no- scenes between meal courses as hayseed nonsense, matronly Tess? The audience puts Virgil tries to fit in with the buttoned-up on their detective hats to try to solve the case congregation. At the heart of it all, a question: as they dine. So many theories, and huge Did Jesus die only for a select number who laughs along the way! Includes a recipe for dress the right way or use the right words? the infamous marshmallow salad. So far out Concludes with an Easter celebration of new there that it's great fun. life in Christ. 110 www.christianpub.com | order toll free: 1-844-841-6387 * = New Title CHRISTIAN PUBLISHERS LLC DINNER THEATER
WCAL RADIO PRESENTS 'A WHO GOT THE SHERIFF? WINGIN' IT DOWN-HOME CHRISTMAS' BY:* KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA BY: FAYE SPEIKER BY: PAT HINES 4 females, 5 males, 9 total • 75 minutes • 6 females, 7 males, 13 total • 90 minutes • 10 females, 6 males, 3 either, 19 total, 4-20 eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • extras • 45 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $27.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 Performance Rights) • Play Package: $35.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play (11 Scripts and Performance Rights) (15 Scripts and Performance Rights) Package: $56.99 (21 Scripts and Performance There’s gold in them thar hills… along with a An interactive family evening loaded with Rights) passel of problems. Ma and Pa picked out a “doing”: playing, looking, listening, crafting, This dinner theatre serves as a showcase for pretty prospective wife for son Levi, but she’s creating, eating and more! Tables are preset the musical talent in your congregation, from taken a shinin’ to the Sheriff – and Levi, too, with a Christmas-themed game or craft. In the children to seniors. It transports the dinner has another love. Then there’s bad blood midst of the playing or crafting, robed Bible guests to a country music radio station between the Sheriff and his sister, the characters mill about, including a shepherd broadcasting a live Christmas show, where saloon’s shenanigans cause a ruckus, and ol’ boy, a wise man, Anna and Mary. All were they become the live studio audience! looney tunes prospector Obadiah claims the without a blueprint for the extraordinary Features Christmas music, jokes, and silly town’s rugged frontier land is his. There’s a events of the first Christmas, so they had to advertisements, all with a country flavor. A (very tame) “shootout” at the end (“guns” are “wing it” – but each one made a decision to highlight is the retelling of the biblical fake or even squirt guns). After guests polish choose sacrifice or complacency. The angels Christmas story by WCAL’s own storyteller. off their fried chicken dinners, they try to reflect on that night and connect it to our Ample opportunity for the church choir, figger out who’s crooked and who’s not – and human nature. soloists, dancers, musicians, or small group guessing who’s the outlaw proves trickier than ensembles to participate with the Christmas panning for gold! Old-timey 1800s fun, with a A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS number of their choice. Includes a sample crazy cowboy’s endless one-liners to rope in BY: DOUGLAS KOTWICA easy-to-prepare menu and suggestions for the guests. The real gold nugget is the table decorations. A festive and musical conclusion, which reinforces “judge not” and 7 females, 6 males, 9 either, 22 total, 5-20 family-oriented event for a season when forgiveness amid the entertainment. A family- extras, gender flexible • 90 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay everyone feels like celebrating! friendly romp in the wild, wild West. Package: $20.99 (Digital Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play Package: $49.99 WHO DUN STOLE THE BRIDE? THE WILD WEST ADVENTURES (24 Scripts and Performance Rights) BY: KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA OF NEHI JONES It’s London circa 1844 and Christmas is in the 5 females, 5 males, 1 BY: HELEN JAMESON air -- but Charles Dickens’ holiday is horrible. either, 11 total, 3 females, 7 males, 1 either, 11 total • 45 The newspaper prints a disparaging article gender flexible • 50 minutes • eScript Perusal: $1.99 • Script about his selfish wealth-hoarding ways in the minutes • eScript Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $20.99 (Digital face of charitable needs. Scrooge visits and Perusal: $1.99 • Script Scripts and Performance Rights) • Play urges Dickens to contact Huppense, the Perusal: $3.99 • ePlay Package: $35.99 (13 Scripts and Performance newspaper’s editor. Though Dickens reasons Package: $27.99 Rights) (Digital Scripts and with him, Huppense refuses to print a Performance Rights) • Yee-haw! A rootin-tootin’ adventure’s on the retraction. Dickens wallows in self-pity. Then Play Package: $42.99 horizon as unassuming armadillo stew-taster/ a chance meeting with children shines a light (13 Scripts and dishwasher Nehi is summoned by singing on his dark despair! His reputation is fleeting, Performance Rights) telegram to his hometown of Fort Judah. He but God’s love is eternal. The tasty meal, Come sit a spell and rolls down the road like a tumbleweed in the lively music, and recognizable characters share some supper breeze to find trouble brewin’, and the outlaws make this evening festive and fun! are to blame. They’re trying to tear down
while the action DINNER THEATER unfolds! When every building in town, brick by brick. Nehi country gal Katie Sue rallies the troops to rebuild the walls. Then and classy Bill get a hankerin' to tie the knot, Bad Toby and No-Honor Sam steal Miss not everyone jumps for joy at "the Yankees Fairchild’s puppy, Schnookems – but Nehi invadin' the South." Katie's clan is suspicious saves him, using his “knee-high” in a daring of Bill's snobby family from over yonder, and rescue. Foiled again! A dippy gypsy fortune- Bill's parents think the Eckley family isn't of teller says Nehi’s just a glory hog – but Nehi their same caliber. Just as they're fixin' to get gives God the glory and exposes her as a big hitched, Katie dun disappears! Is she a fake. Then our hero lassoes the bad guys. So runaway bride who got cold feet? If not, then there! Great fun based on the book of whodunit? The audience guesses up a storm. Nehemiah. Includes menu ideas. Beverage Is it wild and crazy Bob, who's secretly suggestion? Why, Nehi soda, of course! swooning for Katie? How 'bout Bill's too-good family? Alibis abound. In the end, the lost bride is found, unforgettable wedding vows are exchanged, and whoo-eee! A rip-roarin' good time is had, while Katie reminds that "judgin’ each other by how we live, look or talk ain't God's way." Includes menu suggestions and ideas for audience questions.
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ACTING UP IN CHURCH AGAIN of the words is great for out-loud reading, and tested sketches from many on-the-road Book: $15.95 | BY MARY KAYE BOYLE the richly-colored oil painting illustrations performances, all in the group's trademark Whether it's running alone tell the story to nonreaders. All the style. Performance rights and permission to on a treadmill to familiar elements are there: the shepherds, reproduce sketches are included with the nowhere or a Twilight the stable, the angels, the wise men. Reading purchase of the book. Zone spoof, M.K. it will become a family holiday tradition. An Boyle brings home excellent gift book or addition to church BANNERS FOR ALL SEASONS the humor and libraries. Book: $24.95 | BY JOYCE PIKE, ANNE pathos of the human ROBINSON condition. The ACTS FOR GOD You’ve never seen popularity of her first Book: $15.95 | BY HOWARD SHIRLEY banners like these book of comic True confessions before! These sketches prompted over lattes, making stunning designs this follow-up. deals with God, a were created to Eminently relatable heavenly special enhance worship, and incredibly goofy, there's a year's worth of operations team, an and they do just that sketches for many themes and occasions. infomercial, a support —beautifully. For Small casts and simple to no props make group, and playing banner-makers who these performances headache-free, but the phone tag—there’s wish to try something clever lines pay off with a big audience something for all in new, this book response! The theme and Scripture reference this proven collection introduces a wide indexes help you find just the right script for of compelling variety of innovative techniques and ideas. It your congregation and service. dramatic sketches. goes far beyond pieces of felt glued on a These seeker-friendly background. There are unique designs for ACTING UP IN CHURCH sketches don’t attempt to tell the whole story. Advent and Christmas, Palm Sunday and Book: $17.95 | BY MARY KAYE BOYLE They are designed to inspire thought and Easter, Pentecost, Communion, weddings Act up in church and even raise questions as an introduction to the and more. The book is spiral-bound so it lays get away with it! Your sermon. The themes include materialism, flat during banner construction. A chapter on congregation will marriage, accountability, commitment, self- basic banner-making techniques provides applaud the wit and control, faith vs. works, forgiveness, valuable tips and answers many questions. whimsy in these parenthood, and more. These lively scenarios Supply lists, step-by-step instructions and sketches. Jump-start will add a distinctive flair to your services – patterns are included for each design. your church's worship attentive congregation guaranteed! Gorgeous color photographs of the banners routine with a fresh are interspersed throughout. These artistic take on Christian THE CHRISTMENT TREE expressions of worship will inspire you to new concepts with help PATTERN BOOK -- VOLUME 1 heights in your banner-making! from fun props (like a Book: $12.95 | BY ELAINE CLANTON spray can of HARPINE THE CHRISTMENT TREE "Grouch-Be-Gone"), A pattern book which PATTERN BOOK -- VOLUME 2 settings (an interrogation room), and illustrates how to Book: $12.95 | BY ELAINE CLANTON characters (e.g., wacky psychiatrist Dr. construct these HARPINE Fraud). The Bible stories have a modern twist beautiful religious The first collection of to the retelling or characterizations. Due to ornaments for your Christment patterns their humor, the sketches manage to address tree at home. This was so successful some weighty issues in a nonthreatening book shows how to that we asked the manner. Contains scripts on a variety of make twenty-one author to come up topics and some special-use material, such as different Christments with twenty-one more a promo for a marriage retreat and seasonal with a supply list, all-new beaded pieces. There are forty-five total scripts in this bead counts, a ornaments. This new drama book that you won't want to miss. designated difficulty level, a construction collection, with the "Sacred satire" is not an oxymoron! diagram, and a photo of the finished product theme of "We Follow provided for each Christment. Jesus," will add 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE beauty and Christian Book: $14.95 | BY RACHEL OLSON, ARTHUR THE BEST OF THE JEREMIAH significance to your Christmas tree. These L. ZAPEL PEOPLE Christments may be used alone or as a "'Twas the night Book: $14.95 | BY JIM CUSTER, BOB HOOSE complement to the first set. New features in before Christmas, One of America's best Christian repertory this set include braided beads, twisted and far above earth / groups tells how you too can have a first-class figurines, varying sizes and colors of beads, The angels prepared drama troupe. The popular Jeremiah People and writing in script. Christments for every to announce Jesus' group has successfully used drama to impart age and skill level are included with a birth." Clement Christian truths to audiences nationwide for designated difficulty level for easy reference. Moore's beloved over twenty years. This book outlines their Supply lists, construction diagrams, and a rhyme scheme forms expertise on topics such as theatre games, photograph are provided for each Christment. the basis of this picture book for young rehearsals, organization, blocking, lighting Great for an Advent workshop! children about the birth of Christ. The rhythm
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DIVINE COMEDIES THE DRAMA OF EASTER FOOL OF THE KINGDOM Book: $15.95 | BY T. M. WILLIAMS Book: $17.95 | BY RHONDA WRAY Book: $14.95 | BY PHILIP D. NOBLE Though all the A wondrously helpful It's a collection of dramas have their resource for pastors, clown sketches—it's origins in Scripture, Christian education skill-building how-to they are more than directors, or anyone —it's clown history— just biblical re- responsible for it's a philosophy of enactments—each Easter programming. life, and more! Philip has an innovative There are selections Noble's lively stories spin guaranteed to in this drama ministry clarify the drama win over even the book for all the most ministry text, much most challenging frequently celebrated as parables unlock audience. The story Easter season times the mysteries of the of Job is told through —Lent, Palm New Testament. the eyes of Joe Bob, Sunday, Maundy Though he a native Texan with Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter—in many encourages clown Texas-sized troubles. Pontius Pilate's Press formats, including Tenebrae services, sunrise ministers to develop their creativity by Conference features a pack of feisty services, Passion plays, children's programs, developing original routines, he also shares reporters, including Bryant Gumbo, Tom readings and monologues. Sample titles the secrets behind origami, string tricks, Brokejaw, Walter Crankcase, and Diane include: Resurrection on Trial, Who Am I?, juggling, and other skills in short segments Sawhorse, who interrogate Pilate after the The Carpenter and the Cross, Christus, interspersed between the chapters. crucifixion. Guaranteed fun! They are ideal for The Morning of the Marys, Death Day—Life Illustrations and thorough instructions church fellowship dinners, youth gatherings, Day, Faces of the Cross and thirteen others. facilitate learning. The magical, mystical world fund-raisers, and for special church services. of clown ministry is all here - and it's made This drama book includes permission to EVERYTHING NEW AND WHO'S accessible for beginners, yet challenging for reproduce the scripts and royalty fees are WHO IN CLOWN MINISTRY experienced clown ministers! included in the price of the book. Book: $21.95 | BY JANET LITHERLAND Clown ministry has ISAAC AIR FREIGHT: THE DON'T GIVE UP THE SCRIPT! grown, changed, and WORKS 2 Book: $12.95 | BY ROBERT A. ALLEN flourished in the Book: $16.95 | BY DAVE TOOLE, DAN At last, a book that decade-plus since its RUPPLE guides you through inception. This drama the process of writing ministry book your own sketches - updates through Another helping of a trend that is inspirational features sketches from the sweeping churches and dynamic new premier Christian across the country. material. Part I: comedy group. Isaac Chapters cover all Who's Who contains Air Freight's first book the basics of great profiles of the of sketches was such playwriting, including "movers and a big hit that we evaluating your shakers" in the clown ministry field. Part II: urged them to dig in resources, choosing Everything New contains seventy-five clown their files for more. a theme, conflict, skits for all the traditional holidays and a few They delivered in a characterization, planning your setting, dialog, nontraditional ones as well, such as Good big way with 51 first drafts, revision, and tailoring drama to fit Neighbor Day and National Procrastination previously unpublished scripts culled from six your congregation's needs. Assignments help Week. Skits are included for any number of of their albums, their live performances, their you use what you've learned. Includes ideas, clowns, and prop lists and production notes radio program The Isaac Air Show and their technique, examples from church drama accompany each skit. television program. Your drama ministry won't productions, how to work with your pastor to want to miss out on this collection of get a drama ministry off the ground, wonderfully witty, incisive sketches with a anecdotes from the annals of church drama, a wacky cast of characters, including the glossary of stage terms, and many other tools irrepressibly over-the-top radio talk show host to help you get started. Rev. Moe Tormouth, a single guy without a clue, and a stressed-out teen. Though all the sketches were written in the group's heyday in the late '70s and early '80s, they are still on target for believers today. Whether broad comedy, obvious parody, satire or subtle humor, each sketch is both laugh-out-loud funny and a dynamic tool to reinforce scriptual truths. The complete production information that precedes each sketch takes the guesswork out of your performances. Permission to reproduce sketches and
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ISAAC AIR FREIGHT: THE choruses to hymns and original numbers. An MORE SERVICE WITH A SMILE WORKS exceptionally helpful book for the growing Book: $15.95 | BY DANIEL WRAY Book: $23.95 | BY DAVE TOOLE, DAN number of groups organizing human video Service with a Smile RUPPLE ministries nationwide. has been such a popular seller that LET'S PLAY A BIBLE GAME! demand prompted Isaac Air Freight Book: $14.95 | BY ED DUNLOP this follow-up drama pioneered the use of Every church has on ministry book. Those sketch comedy from overhead projector who have discovered a Christian and classes of how laughter perspective in the children to teach on promotes learning late '70s/early '80s. Sunday morning. Put know that these short Their eclectic blend them together with dramas will reinforce of satirically humorous sketches are still innovative games many worship service relevant and imbued with deep spiritual truths. and the combination themes including This drama book contains all the best material is terrific! You've unity, relationships, materialism, family, and from their concert tours and top-selling finished teaching the compassion. The characters are great fun to comedy albums. Each sketch is preceded by lesson. Now beam up play in both ordinary and extraordinary helpful information about the cast, setting, the game! The situations. Some outrageous spoofs, some props, and costumes. Cast sizes vary from interesting visuals capture the children's physical humor, but every sketch supports one to twelve characters. Performance rights attention. Competition makes the game- Christian concepts. As with the original and permission to reproduce sketches are playing exciting. And the biblical concepts of collection, these scripts feature small casts included with the book's purchase. Watch the Sunday school lesson are reinforced at and short playing times. Included with each is comedy work its magic on your audience by the same time! Masters for the sixteen games a theme, Scripture reference, synopsis, cast breaking down barriers so the message gets and thirty-two puzzles are included -- simply list, and a setting with props. Scriptural and through. copy onto a transparency and use! The handy topical indexes aid in matching the dramas to 8½" x 11" size makes photocopying easy -- your pastor's sermon. Performance rights and THE HUMAN VIDEO HANDBOOK no need to enlarge the masters. The author's permission to photocopy sketches for your Book: $15.95 | BY KIMBERLEE R. MENDOZA previous book of Bible games was such a group are included with the book purchase. A Human video is an winner that we know you'll love this one, too. great way to involve youth or other members explosive newer art Sample games: Pirate Treasure, Bible of your congregation. form that churches Football, Space Race, Matchit! and The and ministry groups Bermuda Triangle. MORE WORSHIP SKETCHES 2 are discovering and PERFORM embracing as a MIME MINISTRY Book: $14.95 | BY STEVEN JAMES means of expressing Book: $17.95 | BY SUSIE KELLY TOOMEY Two thumbs up! You their faith. There isn't won't want to miss another book like this this first-rate - it is the first The silent art of collection of small complete text on the pantomime can cast scripts. Steven art of human video. speak volumes! Akin James is back with Elements of mime to the power of more of the same and dance merge with music to create an stained glass creative and unforgettable performance that connects with windows, choral insightful sketches the MTV generation - but unlike music videos, music, and ritual, a found in his popular it's live! It combines the visual art of theatre beautiful mime first drama ministry with the auditory sound of music to express performance can book. Some are Christian ideas with maximum impact. And touch deep and thought-provoking there aren't any lines to memorize! A portable hidden places during serious while some are laugh-out-loud funny, art form, it is equally effective performed on a Christian worship. This drama ministry book, but all are designed to enhance the worship street corner for outreach as it is in a church with art and photo illustrations, tells how to experience - with only two actors! Casting and sanctuary for worship. Includes information on organize, train, and program a troupe of rehearsals are greatly simplified. This book getting started, coming up with ideas, Christian mimes. Included are details about has sections on creative Scripture choosing songs, preparing scripts, and makeup, costumes, techniques, and presentations, interpretive readings, youth performance do's and don't's. The author also performance. Also included are ideas for song ministry dramas, and scripts for children's emphasizes the importance of blocking and and Scripture interpretations and many mime service or puppet plays. As before all the creating the right ending. A user-friendly list sketches with a Christian message for use on sketch titles are organized into theme, verse, pairs song suggestions with a varied list of a variety of occasions. A superb reference and cast indexes for easy reference. Sample themes, from Christian love to volunteer book for mimes of all ages. titles include: Get with the Program, appreciation. Covered in detail are tips on Deaccumulating, When God Doesn't Make movement, with warm-up exercises and a list Sense, A Tidy Little Religion, How Big Is BOOKS of movement suggestions to commonly used Your God?, Laz and the Man from Naz. words. The second half of the book includes There are forty-eight sketches in all - nearly a human video instructions set to a variety of year's worth if performed weekly. songs, from current praise and worship
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ON THE EDGE SERVICE WITH A SMILE STORYTELLING FROM THE Book: $15.95 | BY STEVEN JAMES Book: $17.95 | BY DANIEL WRAY BIBLE These monologues Your congregation Book: $15.95 | BY JANET LITHERLAND are the real deal. will love these fifty- A live retelling of They take an two warmly Bible stories has an unflinching look at humorous sketches exciting impact that the issues that designed to mere reading can't trouble teens - the complement a match. This guide pain and problems of sermon. In this contains the how-to those often-turbulent drama ministry book, and the material. years. This book is a wide range of Part I - The Telling not afraid to explore topics and special gives helpful pointers tough subjects such days are addressed on gestures, vocal as cheating, in dramatic situations inflection and more. addictions, death, that will tickle your Even a beginner may teen pregnancy, body image, abuse, congregation's funny bone - and prepare them learn the expressive depression, popularity and self-image in a for the sermon that follows. The small casts, art of storytelling! sensitive yet startlingly honest manner. Each short playing times, and minimal prop and Part II - The Old Testament Stories and monolog comes with sidebar hints and costume requirements add up to an easy-to- Part III - The New Testament Stories information for the teen actor, as well as tips use collection of drama. Accompanying each contain forty-six fascinating tales adapted for the director. These monologues create just sketch is the theme and appropriate Scripture specifically for the spoken medium. Vibrant the right atmosphere to address modern reference, a brief synopsis, and a cast list, and imaginative renditions of Scripture's most moral dilemmas with tact, poignancy and plus props and setting information. colorful characters to entertain and challenge. truth. The "Ideas for the Speaker" section that Performance rights and permission to Includes: The Replacing of Judas Iscariot, accompanies each script is a practical guide photocopy sketches for your group are Paul Picked on Peter and Let My People to connect the performance with words of included with book purchase. Go - I Mean It! (in melodrama style - Moses is help, hope and instruction afterward. the hero and Pharoah is the villain!). Includes THE OFFICIAL SUNDAY appendix with related resources. SERMONS ALIVE! SCHOOL TEACHERS Book: $17.95 | BY PAUL NEALE LESSARD HANDBOOK TEACHING WITH BIBLE GAMES The 52 three- to Book: $17.95 | BY JOANNE OWENS, LAFE Book: $16.95 | BY ED DUNLOP seven-minute dramas LOCKE included in this This book is full of everything you need to drama ministry book know about being successful at Sunday These interactive are ideal for school. So many workable ideas and timely games were introducing sermons. tips for every age level, from nursery and developed and These entertaining preschoolers to adults. Helpful and hilarious perfected by an sketches illustrate hints for improving the teaching-learning experienced prayer, giving, peer environment in any size church. This book is Christian education pressure, eternal life, the perfect gift for Sunday school teachers, director who has dealing with failure, ministers, committee members, and any worked with children growth, relationships, woman or man who has ever endured, across the country. and other topics of survived, and been molded by Sunday school. All games may be interest to congregations and speakers alike. used on a flannel or Information on simple staging accompanies STAGECRAFT FOR CHRISTMAS Velcro board. Patterns and instructions for each sketch—minimal to no props and set AND EASTER PLAYS making the game pieces out of felt are pieces are required. Performance rights and Book: $12.95 | BY JAMES HULL MILLER included. Teachers may use their own Bible- permission to reproduce sketches for your All the basic based questions to correspond with their group are included with book purchase. knowledge for Sunday school lesson, or they may use the staging almost any sample groups of questions included in the religious play is now book. A game board, felt pieces, biblical in one stagecraft questions, and enthusiastic children are all book. The book gives you need to set fun learning in motion. examples of typical biblical scenes, shows how to build scenery and props with simple tools, and explains techniques for painting realistic scenery. Many illustrations throughout. Effective scenery brings plays to life. BOOKS
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ADAMS, CAROLE I. HAAS, CLAUDIA LETTERS FROM SANTA: THE ROSENBERGER, MARY SUE MUSICAL ...... 103 JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM ..... 45 MEDIEVAL FEAST ...... 109 I WONDER WHY? ...... 55 MCCUSKER, PAUL ATKINSON, WILMA HALITZKA, GEORGE ROWE, TIM CAMP W ...... 89 CHOSEN STAR ...... 44 FROM GARDEN TO TOMB ...... 55 'TWAS WITH A TWIST! ...... 101 MCPHERSON, EDDIE BEEBE, HANK HANELY, KAREN SELLEPACK, SHELLY CRICKET COUNTY DAVE! ...... 101 EASTER PAGEANT THAT CHRISTMAS (MUSICAL) ...... 102 MIRACULOUS LIFE ...... 55 ALMOST WASN'T (MUSICAL) . 102 MISSION: POSSIBLE ...... 110 BESKE, SALLY MEDDOWS, GEORGENE C. HARTSWICK, NATHAN AWAY FROM THE MANGER MURDER, MAYHEM, AND LITTLE STAR: A CHRISTMAS MARSHMALLOW SALAD ...... 110 (MUSICAL) ...... 101 DEATH BY DESSERT ...... 107 MUSICAL ...... 104 GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS ...... 102 SHOFNER, MYRA HASLAR, PEGGY MEILI, JANET HOW TO HAVE A MERRY EASTER STORY ...... 71 WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY CHRISTMAS (IN TWENTY LITTLE STARS OF LORD ...... 62 MINUTES OR LESS) ...... 103 HINES, PAT BETHLEHEM: THE MUSICAL .. 104 SMITH, JON MCCAULEY BOLDENOW, JANE WCAL RADIO PRESENTS 'A MENDOZA, KIMBERLEE R. DOWN-HOME CHRISTMAS' ... 111 INTO YOUR HANDS I CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM ... 44 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE COMMEND MY SPIRIT ...... 62 KLITGAARD, KAMRON EASTER: THE MUSICAL ...... 106 BOSWELL, JERRY SMITH, MARY ANN SANTAPHOBIA ...... 46 ART TO DIE FOR ...... 107 'TWAS WITH A TWIST! ...... 101 LAST PIRATE OF THE PASSION PARALLEL ...... 62 LITHERLAND, JANET BUCHANAN, MATT CARIBBEAN ...... 108 SPRAY, PAULINE E. LOVELIGHT ...... 62 LITTLE WOMEN ...... 90 MYSTERY OF MONTLEY'S CHRISTMAS STORY ...... 45 MADRIGAL MOCKERY ...... 104 MANOR ...... 110 BUCHANAN, RUTH STOLTZ, KEVIN WE BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS . 104 SHOOTING STAR AT STUDIO HAPPILY EVER AFTER HOURS 90 66 ...... 89 LORD'S TABLE ...... 62 LONG, CHRISTY S. WHO GOT THE SHERIFF? ...... 111 BUMGARNER, BURTON STRELOW, TEISHA 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: GRITS AND GRAVY ...... 109 A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 101 MILLER, ELEANOR ABC NATIVITY ...... 44 BEST PLACE TO CELEBRATE BURTON, ANDREA N. 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE SUDDARTH, MARTI EASTER: THE MUSICAL ...... 106 CHRISTMAS ...... 101 YOU CAN'T CANCEL NO ORDINARY NIGHT ...... 104 MINI-MUSICALS FOR CHRISTMAS: THE MUSICAL .. 105 CHRISTMAS LETTERS: THE SPECIAL DAYS ...... 104 MUSICAL ...... 100 MOWRY, KECK CAIRE JR., ROLAND A. COLORS OF EASTER: A THOMAS, MARLIN E. CHILDREN'S MUSICAL ...... 100 O SAVIOR, WHERE ART 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: THOU? ...... 46 GIFT OF A SON ...... 109 A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 101 LITTLE STARS OF THOMSON, JIM BEST PLACE TO CELEBRATE BETHLEHEM: THE MUSICAL .. 104 NESTOR, LARRY CHRISTMAS ...... 101 LIVE FROM THE STREETS OF CHRISTMAS ON THE BRINK .. 106 CHRISTMAS ON THE BRINK .. 106 NO ORDINARY NIGHT ...... 104 BETHLEHEM ...... 104 NORDGREN, SANDRA TODD, JUNE M. ONE LITTLE STAR ...... 105 CARLIN, MATTHEW CHRISTMAS CAROL ...... 44 HE IS COMING ...... 62 PROVE IT! ...... 106 EDUCATION OF ANGELS ...... 90 TOPP, ELIZABETH M. SLEEPOVER AT THE STABLE: OLSON, RACHEL CASTLE, GERALD V. A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 105 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: AWAY FROM THE MANGER (MUSICAL) ...... 101 LITTLE STAR: A CHRISTMAS YOU CAN'T CANCEL A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 101 MUSICAL ...... 104 CHRISTMAS: THE MUSICAL .. 105 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: A TROYER, BRENDA CHRISTMAS PAGEANT ...... 44 DE CESARE, STEPHEN LYNCH, JACQUELINE T. GREATEST OF SERVANTS ...... 61 BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EASTER PAGEANT THAT RADIO RIOT! ...... 90 EVER ...... 44 VIGILANT, MICHAEL C. ALMOST WASN'T (MUSICAL) . 102 MARION, CYNTHIA ORR, MEGAN LITTLE STAR: A CHRISTMAS JESUS IS THE REASON FOR MUSICAL ...... 104 THE SEASON ...... 103 PEACE IN THE KINGDOM ...... 105 CASE OF THE MISSING STRANGER AT THE TABLE ... 106 GOBBLER ...... 89 WALKER, JOHN W. DORN, PATRICK WHERE THE HEART IS ...... 105 PARTRIDGE IN A PALM TREE 108 BATHROBES, TINSEL AND WACKY WIZARD OF OZ ...... 90 TINFOIL WINGS ...... 101 MARION, MICHAEL PARGMAN, SUSAN DRUCE, MICHAEL CHRISTMAS GUEST ...... 106 PEACE IN THE KINGDOM ...... 105 FESTIVAL OF CAROLS AND LES MISERABLES ...... 90 CANDLES ...... 45 SEEDS OF JOY ...... 106 STRANGER AT THE TABLE ... 106 EBOCH, DOUGLAS J. WALTON, JOEL WHERE THE HEART IS ...... 105 PEACOCK, MARY SLEEPOVER AT THE STABLE: FIRST EASTER MORNING ...... 102 HUP 2-3-4 EASTER! ...... 103 A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 105 MARTIN, GAIL GAYMER PEASE, CONNIE WARSTLER, MARY LU FAIRMAN, MARION BANNER EASTER: THE MUSICAL ...... 100 LIGHT AT CHRISTMAS ...... 103 VIGIL OF REMEMBRANCE ...... 62 RIPENING HARVEST ...... 89 CHRISTMAS LETTERS: THE WASHER, SYLVIA MUSICAL ...... 100 PIPER, BEVERLY E. GOOD, WILLIAM GREATEST JOY ...... 45 DECK THE HALLS ...... 24 BATHROBES, TINSEL AND CHRISTMAS GUEST ...... 106 TINFOIL WINGS ...... 101 LETTERS FROM SANTA: THE WHITE, MELANIE A. CHRISTMAS GUEST ...... 106 GRAHAM, CATHY MUSICAL ...... 103 OPERATION ANGEL NATIVITY IDOL ...... 45 UNDERCOVER ...... 105 MAYER, LAUREN PRICE, PHYLLIS E. CRICKET COUNTY SEDER ...... 55 WILKINS, KARA CHRISTMAS (MUSICAL) ...... 102 WINDOW DRESSINGS ...... 46
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WILLIAMS, MARY LOU CHRISTMAS IN JULY ...... 89 HOW FAR IS IT TO BETHLEHEM? ...... 45 WRAY, DANIEL HUMBUG! ...... 24 WHILE COWBOYS WATCHED THEIR HERDS BY NIGHT ...... 46 WRAY, RHONDA BETHLEHEM EXPERIENCE ..... 24 COLORS OF EASTER: A CHILDREN'S MUSICAL ...... 100 YEAGER, ANN W. COMPANY'S COMING ...... 101 HARK AND THE NOT-SO- HEAVENLY CHOIR ...... 102 HARK THE ANGEL SANG OFF-KEY ...... 102 HERE COMES PETER WHO? . 103
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'CHRIST, THE LIGHT OF THE AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS .... 28 CAMP W ...... 89 CHRISTMAS MORNING LIVE! .. 30 WORLD' BANNER ...... 112 AN EASTER CAROL ...... 64 CANDY CANE CHRISTMAS ...... 27 CHRISTMAS NIGHT LIVE ...... 25 'HOSANNA' BANNER ...... 112 AND CAN IT BE? ...... 8 CAPERNAUM P.D...... 107 CHRISTMAS ON THE BRINK .. 106 'I AM THE WAY' BANNER ...... 112 AND SO THEY HAD NONE ..... 107 CAPISCE? ...... 108 CHRISTMAS ON TRIAL ...... 30 'JOY TO THE WORLD' BANNER ...... 112 ANGELS SPEAK ...... 19 CAPITAL C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S ..... 28 CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR EASTER ...... 65 'ONE ANOTHER' CHURCH ...... 72 ANIMALS CELEBRATE CAROL OF WONDER ...... 5 EASTER ...... 47 CHRISTMAS RAPPING ...... 31 'REMEMBER THE REASON' CAROL SING! ...... 5 ARE YOU COMING? ...... 26 CHRISTMAS RETURNS ...... 31 BANNER ...... 112 CAROLING, CAROLING ...... 26 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE .. 114 ART TO DIE FOR ...... 107 CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WITH CASE OF THE CONSPICUOUS THE MAGI ...... 31 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: ASH WEDNESDAY - THE DAY CROSS ...... 53 A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL ...... 101 OF ATONEMENT ...... 54 CHRISTMAS SPIRIT? LET'S CASE OF THE EMPTY TOMB ... 64 HEAR IT! ...... 37 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE: A AT THE CROSS ...... 47 CASE OF THE MISSING CHRISTMAS STORY ...... 45 CHRISTMAS PAGEANT ...... 44 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS 10 GOBBLER ...... 89 CHRISTMAS: FAQ ...... 31 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE AWAKENING ...... 10 CASE OF THE MISSING EASTER ...... 64 MEANING ...... 29 CHRISTMENT TREE AWAY FROM THE MANGER .... 26 PATTERN BOOK -- VOLUME 1 114 'TWAS THE TIME BEFORE CASE OF THE MYSTERIOUS EASTER: THE MUSICAL ...... 106 AWAY FROM THE MANGER BENEFACTOR ...... 108 CHRISTMENT TREE (MUSICAL) ...... 101 PATTERN BOOK -- VOLUME 2 114 'TWAS WITH A TWIST! ...... 101 CASE OF THE MYSTERIOUS AWFUL SILENCE OF GOD ...... 57 'WORSHIP WORDS FOR STRANGER ...... 108 CHRISTMENT TREE PATTERN BOOK -- VOLUME 3 115 CHILDREN' BANNER ...... 112 BABY KING ...... 27 CASE OF THE SHOW- ABC NATIVITY ...... 44 BALLOON PARTY ...... 82 STOPPING NUN NABBER ...... 108 CHRISTMISSED? ...... 32 ABCS OF EASTER ...... 64 BANNER EASTER ...... 64 CELEBRATE EASTER! ...... 64 CHURCH IS BURNING! ...... 82 ACCESSORIES 'R' US ...... 81 BANNER EASTER: THE CELTIC THANKSGIVING ...... 11 CHURCH LADIES ...... 73 MUSICAL ...... 100 ACCLAMATION FOR EASTER ... 7 CHANGED BY HIS LOVE ...... 72 CHURCH LADIES 2: MAMA BANNERS FOR ALL ROSA RETURNS ...... 73 ACTING OUT CHRISTMAS AND CHARACTERS OF CHRISTMAS 25 SEASONS ...... 114 CLOWN ACT OMNIBUS ...... 115 EASTER ...... 25 CHICK FLICKS ...... 73 BATHROBES, TINSEL AND CLOWN HITS AND SKITS ...... 72 ACTING UP IN CHURCH ...... 114 TINFOIL WINGS ...... 101 CHILDREN'S ADVENT ACTING UP IN CHURCH BANNERS ...... 113 CLOWN MINISTRY BATTLE OF JERICHO ...... 10 HANDBOOK ...... 115 AGAIN ...... 114 CHILDREN'S LENTEN BE THOU MY VISION ...... 8 ACTS FOR GOD ...... 114 BANNERS ...... 113 CLOWN SKITS FOR BECAUSE HE LIVES, AMEN ..... 10 EVERYONE ...... 115 ADVENT ANGELS ...... 18 CHILDRENS HOLY WEEK BEHOLD THE LAMB BANNERS ...... 113 CLOWN-GREGATION ...... 73 ADVENT ANTICIPATION ...... 22 (COMMUNION HYMN) ...... 10 CHOSEN STAR ...... 44 CLOWNS' CHRISTMAS PARTY 34 ADVENT ATTITUDES ...... 18 BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD ... 10 CHRISTIAN HYMN WRITERS CLUELESS AT CHRISTMAS ..... 32 ADVENT BANNER ...... 113 COME ALIVE ...... 73 BELLS OF CHRISTMAS MEDLEY 5 COLORS OF EASTER ...... 65 ADVENT CANDLELIGHTING .... 19 BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT CHRISTIAN HYMN WRITERS COME ALIVE 2 ...... 75 COLORS OF EASTER: A ADVENT FOR ALL AGES ...... 19 EVER ...... 44 CHILDREN'S MUSICAL ...... 100 CHRISTIAN HYMN WRITERS ADVENT NOW AND THEN ...... 19 BEST OF THE JEREMIAH COME AND ADORE HIM ...... 31 PEOPLE ...... 114 COME ALIVE 3 ...... 76 ADVENT OUT LOUD ...... 19 CHRISTMAS ANGEL ...... 30 COME TO BETHLEHEM AND BEST OF THE JEREMIAH SEE ...... 32 ADVENT PROCESSIONAL PEOPLE #1 ...... 72 CHRISTMAS AROUND THE (COME, O ROSE) ...... 5 WORLD ...... 29 COME TO ME (A COMMUNION BEST OF THE JEREMIAH SONG) ...... 11 ADVENT TREE ...... 23 PEOPLE #2 ...... 72 CHRISTMAS AT THE CRICKET COME TO SAVE ...... 11 ADVENTUALLY ...... 24 BEST PLACE TO CELEBRATE COUNTY CAFE ...... 29 CHRISTMAS ...... 101 COME TO THE STABLE ...... 32 AGNUS DEI ...... 10 CHRISTMAS CAROL ...... 44 BETHLEHEM BARN ...... 20 COMMITTEE OF ANGELS ...... 33 AGNUS DEI: MUSIC OF INNER CHRISTMAS CAROLS COME HARMONY ...... 10 BETHLEHEM EXPERIENCE ..... 24 ALIVE ...... 18 COMPANY'S COMING ...... 101 ALICE IN BETHLEHEM ...... 26 BETHLEHEM P.D...... 27 CHRISTMAS COMES BUT COMPELLED ...... 59 ONCE A YEAR ...... 29 ALL GOOD GIFTS (FROM BETHLEHEM SPEAKS ...... 27 COMPLETE BANNER GODSPELL) ...... 10 CHRISTMAS COMES TO HANDBOOK ...... 115 BIBLE ADVENTURES OF LICKETY-SPLIT ...... 29 ALL IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN 81 MONTANA HOLMES ...... 72 CONSPIRACY OF BETRAYAL .. 53 CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER .... 29 ALL IS WELL ...... 6 BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR JESUS 28 COSTUMING THE CHRISTMAS GUEST ...... 106 CHRISTMAS AND EASTER ALL ON A STARRY NIGHT ...... 5 BITTER WITH THE SWEET ...... 11 CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM ... 44 PLAY ...... 115 ALL ON AN EASTER EVENING 64 BLESS THIS HOUSE ...... 11 CHRISTMAS IN CRICKET CREATE IN ME ...... 11 ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE BODY IN THE BELFRY ...... 107 COUNTY ...... 31 CREATION HYMN IN CLASSIC STABLE ...... 19 BREAKFAST IN BETHLEHEM . 107 CHRISTMAS IN HAWAII ...... 30 STYLE ...... 16 ALL THINGS ARE BRIGHT AND CREATURE'S CHRISTMAS ...... 36 BEAUTIFUL ...... 63 BROADCASTING CHRISTMAS . 30 CHRISTMAS IN JULY ...... 89 CREDO ...... 11 ALMOST THERE ...... 5 BUGBY AND CANDLE ...... 72 CHRISTMAS JUBILATE ...... 5 CRICKET COUNTY ACADEMY . 82 AM I GUILTY? ...... 48 BUILDING THE NATIVITY ...... 21 CHRISTMAS LEAVES CRICKET COUNTY ...... 28 CRICKET COUNTY BLIZZARD . 33 AMAZING GRACE (MY CHAINS BURDEN ...... 53 ARE GONE) ...... 8 BUS STOP ...... 21 CHRISTMAS LETTERS ...... 30 CRICKET COUNTY CABIN MAKEOVER ...... 26 AMAZING GRACE RACE ...... 81 CALL TO REMEMBRANCE CHRISTMAS LETTERS: THE (FROM HARVEST OF MUSICAL ...... 100 SORROWS) ...... 11
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I PONDER ...... 51 CRIES OF FAITH ...... 47 FESTIVE HOSANNA ...... 8 CLOWNS ...... 75 I SAW HIM ...... 63 CROWN OF THORNS ...... 53 FIRST CHURCH OF GREAT DAY ...... 13 I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY .... 13 CONVENIENCE ...... 73 DAD, YOU'RE THE GREATEST! 82 GREAT EXPECTATIONS ...... 48 I STOOD ON THE RIVER OF DARE TO BE DIFFERENT ...... 82 FIRST CHURCH OF POLITICAL JORDAN ...... 13 CORRECTNESS ...... 74 GREAT FIFTY DAYS BANNER 113 DAVE! ...... 101 I WAIT... 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GOOD FRIDAY... HATS OFF TO YOU, LADIES! ... 75 IN A WEEK'S TIME ...... 58 DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? 33 FRIDAY NIGHT ...... 56 HAVE YOU HEARD THE IN BETHLEHEM INN ...... 23 LATEST? ...... 34 DON'T GIVE UP THE SCRIPT! 116 FRIEND 'EM ON SAINTBOOK ... 83 IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME ...... 58 HAVE YOU HEARD? ...... 54 DON'T LET THE GROUCHES FROM AN UPPER ROOM ...... 12 IN THE SHADOW OF THE STEAL YOUR CHRISTMAS ...... 24 FROM BETHLEHEM TO HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON? ..... 57 CROSS ...... 47 DON'T YOU SEE? ...... 65 CALVARY ...... 58 HE CAME ON A DONKEY ...... 56 INN CROWD ...... 36 DOWNLOADING CHRISTMAS .. 32 FROM GARDEN TO TOMB ...... 55 HE IS COMING ...... 62 INTERRUPTIONS FROM LIFE .. 75 DR. LUKE AND THE CASE OF FROM OLD TO NEW ...... 83 HE IS NOT HERE! HE IS RISEN! INTERVIEW WITH A STONE ..... 59 THE EMPTY TOMB ...... 65 67 FRUIT FOR THOUGHT ...... 82 INTO YOUR HANDS I DRAMA OF EASTER ...... 116 FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT ...... 83 HE IS RISEN ...... 67 COMMEND MY SPIRIT ...... 62 DUELING CHRISTMAS ...... 28 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY ...... 50 HE LIVED, HE LIVES, I LIVE ..... 67 IS IT I, LORD? ...... 56 EARTH IS THE LORD'S ...... 11 GATEKEEPER ...... 35 HE NEVER FAILED ME YET ..... 13 ISAAC AIR FREIGHT: THE WORKS ...... 117 EASTER AND AFTER ...... 63 GENTLE VOICE ...... 12 HE PUT A NEW SONG IN MY EASTER AT THE MUSEUM ...... 67 HEART ...... 13 ISAAC AIR FREIGHT: THE GETTING READY FOR WORKS 2 ...... 116 EASTER IN CRICKET COUNTY 66 CHRISTMAS ...... 21 HEART OF CHRISTMAS ...... 35 ISN'T THIS WHAT CHRISTMAS EASTER PAGEANT THAT GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS ...... 102 HEAVENBOUND ...... 67 IS ALL ABOUT? ...... 36 ALMOST WASN'T (MUSICAL) . 102 GIFT OF A SON ...... 109 HERE COME THE CLOWNS ..... 75 IT'S A COOL LIFE ...... 109 EASTER PUZZLE ...... 65 GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING 74 HERE COMES PETER WHO? . 103 IT'S ABOUT TIME ...... 68 EASTER Q & A ...... 66 GIVE THANKS ...... 12 HOLY HOLLY CHRISTMAS ...... 35 JERUSALEM BOOK CLUB ...... 53 EASTER STORY ...... 71 GIVE THANKS (WITH PRAISE HOLY LORD ...... 8 JERUSALEM P.D...... 109 EASTER TREE ...... 66 FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS HOLY SPIRIT CELEBRATION ... 87 FLOW) ...... 12 JERUSALEM SPEAKS ...... 48 EASTER'S CREATURES ...... 66 HONEY, I'M HOME! ...... 68 GIVING THANKS IS A WAY OF JESSE, THE LITTLE EASTER...THE MYSTERY AND LIFE ...... 83 HOPE, PEACE, JOY, LOVE -- SHEPHERD ...... 36 THE PROMISE ...... 66 ADVENT! ...... 20
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REJOICE! ...... 9 LIGHT OF ADVENT ...... 18 MORE WORSHIP SKETCHES 2 PERFORM ...... 117 OUR GIFTS TO JESUS ...... 38 RISEN TODAY! ...... 9 LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS ...... 37 MOST UNLIKELY ANGEL ...... 37 PAGEANT OF LOVE ...... 39 RISEN! ...... 70 LISTEN TO EASTER ...... 68 MOTHER AND CHILD ...... 85 PAIRABLES ...... 76 ROAD TO CHRISTMAS ...... 39 LITTLE SHEPHERD ...... 37 MOTHER TIME AND THE BIG PARABLES FOR THE TV ROCK ...... 70 LITTLE STAR: A CHRISTMAS EVENT ...... 27 GENERATION ...... 77 FANTASY (PAGEANT) ...... 37 ROLL THAT STONE AWAY! ...... 9 MOTHERING MOSES ...... 77 PARENTING 101 ...... 76 LITTLE STAR: A CHRISTMAS ROOM UPSTAIRS ...... 110 MOUNTAIN ...... 22 MUSICAL ...... 104 PARIS (S.D.) FESTIVAL OF SAINTS FOR THE SEASONS ... 81 MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCES 50 FASHION ...... 85 LITTLE STARS OF SANTA GIVES BACK BETHLEHEM ...... 37 MURDER, MAYHEM, AND PARTRIDGE IN A PALM TREE 108 CHRISTMAS ...... 39 MARSHMALLOW SALAD ...... 110 LITTLE STARS OF PASSION PARALLEL ...... 62 SANTA, BRING MY BABY BACK BETHLEHEM: THE MUSICAL .. 104 MY DOG ATE THE PEACE IN THE KINGDOM ...... 105 (TO ME) ...... 7 LITTLE WOMEN ...... 90 CONSTITUTION ...... 88 PEACE, PEACE ...... 7 SANTAPHOBIA ...... 46 LITTLEST ANGEL ...... 36 MY SOUL'S BEEN ANCHORED IN THE LORD ...... 15 PENTECOST: EVERYONE'S SCROOGE AND THE THREE LITTLEST DONKEY ...... 68 TALKIN' ...... 85 WISE GUYS ...... 40 MYSTERY OF MONTLEY'S LIVE FROM THE STREETS OF MANOR ...... 110 PEPITA'S POINSETTIA ...... 39 SCROOGE REVISITED ...... 40 BETHLEHEM ...... 104 NATIVITY -- LIVE! ...... 36 PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER .... 69 SEA COWS, ANYONE? ...... 77 LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR .... 22 NATIVITY IDOL ...... 45 PLACE OF THE SKULL ...... 70 SEARCH FOR LIVING THE LAST SUPPER ...... 59 UNDERSTANDING ...... 51 NIGHT THE ANIMALS SANG .... 37 POEMS OF THE PASSION ...... 50 LIVING WATER ...... 68 SEASONED WITH DRAMA ...... 78 POPPIN' PROVERBS ...... 85
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