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Could I get info on the train station musical?

posted at 8/26/16 11:17 AM by MCKEVAHEARN

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Our church recently produced a modern musical called "The Last Train to New Haven: A Christmas Story". It was written in-house and was about a rock band, a fighting couple, a pregnant military wife and a back-slidden preacher whose lives converge in a train station while trying to make it home for Christmas. The message of the gospel was very simply delivered-it was told to a child, so there was no way it could be misunderstood. It met all of the requirements that our leadership asked: it was a musical, it was funny, the people were real, it shared the gospel, it reached both the saved and the unsaved on a personal and emotional level, and it was NOT cheesy (yes that is one of our pastor's explicit instructions!).

posted at 1/15/10 5:59 PM by GODONSTAGE

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I wrote 2 musicals for our church called "The Halo Projects". They are the Christmas and Easter stories told from the perspective of those glorious inhabitants of heaven...angels! 14,000 people attended and many came multiple times, bringing their unsaved friends. Check out www.haloprojectministiries to read about them and to find out about how you can stage them in your community. My deepest desire is for these to reach a "bored" church (who knows the stories "too" well) and an unsaved world with the greatest events of history - Christmas and Easter. I'll work with your church to afford putting these on and help with any production work you may need. I'm passionate about these musicals because I've seen many people come to Christ through them - they are PACKED with Scripture, humor, drama, and great songs, and God has drawn many to Himself through these productions. Check it out and let me help in any way I can. God bless you1 Until the twinkling of an eye, Kelly Thoreson Writer of "The Halo Projects"

posted at 1/3/09 4:24 PM by HALOPROJECT

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Can you post how other groups can get a copy of the play?

posted at 8/9/08 12:19 PM by WELOVEJESUS

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We wrote an immersive dinner theater called "The Buzz in Bethlehem". The people enter into the Bethlehem marketplace and experience appetizers-found in the middle east at that time-from the "street vendors" . Then they are served a dinner and become a part of play that takes place all around them. The idea is that we get to see what people were thinking, feeling and struggling with at the time of Jesus' birth. We see that we deal with the same kinds of things today and Jesus is still the answer. It has been a lot of fun, and has become a kind of tradition for many in our community. We keep tweaking it every year.

posted at 8/6/08 4:36 PM by MARYHACKBARTH

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The "Best Christmas Pageant Ever" Books can be obtained through Samuel French, Inc. The author is Barbara Robinson, in case you want to search elsewhere by name. As for Christmas Productions - we performed a play called Small Town Miracle that I wrote - it was performed as a dinner theater and went over very well. If you are looking for some more good scripts a good site to visit is www.dramashare.org. They have various Christmas pieces, inculding dinner theater pieces.

posted at 9/11/07 3:18 PM by VICTORIA1

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Last year at my church we did a musical called "smoky mountain christmas, the homecoming". Its only about an hour long so we did it as a dinner theatre, the whole thing went over really well. You said you did the best christmas pageant ever, I was wondering where i could get the script for that. Thanks.

posted at 6/18/07 2:12 PM by TYLERCROSSLEYPA

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For the past two years we have produced a production of "Best Christmas Pageant Ever." Though a non-religious script in the form that it is not fully "spiritual" the play tells the importance of Christmas and what is truly meaningful during the season. We have had good audiences and the casts involved have had a good time. We are seeking other options this year, however and are looking for any suggestions. Right now we're looking to do a production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Not Christmas but definitely a way to get the community to the church to see what we're all about and what opportunities we offer for the upcoming Christmas season. What is everyone else doing????

posted at 6/2/07 5:58 PM by KSWAGES