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    The Very Best Christmas Card Ever
    The Very Best Christmas Card Ever
    The Very Best Christmas Card Ever
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    The Very Best Christmas Card Ever

    By Patrick Rainville Dorn

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    In this easy-to-stage, family-friendly Christmas play/carol sing-along/pageant, a family shops for a Christmas card to send to an overseas orphan they have sponsored. The manager shows them cards related to Santa, Dickens, Angels, Shepherds, Wise Men and finally commemorating the Birth of Jesus. The family decides to sacrifice their holiday plans and visit the child in person. This 20-minute (plus carols) comedy may also be used to support a church or community's overseas orphan-sponsoring organization. Add a choir of Sunday School children or adults, or even an Ensemble to create adorable and hilarious "Living Christmas Card" tableaus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Dorn
    Release dateMay 15, 2019
    ISBN9781393677031
    The Very Best Christmas Card Ever
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    Patrick Rainville Dorn

    Patrick Rainville Dorn is an author, playwright, and theatre critic with a bunch of stories, more than 100 published plays, more than a thousand published play reviews, and three children’s books. He’s also an Anglican priest and full-time chaplain. Patrick earned an MA in Theatre from the University of Denver and has published numerous plays and skits for churches, schools, and other amateur groups. Check out all of Patrick’s stories, plays, musicals, and children's books at www.PatrickDorn.com

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      The Very Best Christmas Card Ever - Patrick Rainville Dorn

      The Very Best Christmas Card Ever

      The Very Best Christmas Card Ever

      A humorous, heart-warming Christmas Play, Musical, or Pageant

      Patrick Rainville Dorn

      Copyright October 31, 2015.

      All rights to this publication — including but not limited to amateur, professional, public reading, inclusion in other published works, translation into foreign languages, and broadcast rights are controlled by Patrick Dorn.

      Reproduction and performance rights are granted to amateur groups without payment of a royalty fee. All inquiries regarding professional rights should be addressed to PatrickDorn.Writer@gmail.com.

      These rights are fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America and of all countries covered by the Universal Copyright Convention or with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations, including Canada, Mexico, Australia and all nations of the United Kingdom.

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