On Stage for Christmas
Subtitle: A Collection of Royalty-Free One-Act Christmas Plays for Young People
Publisher: Plays
Published: October 1978
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780823802265
Subjects: Children: Grades 3-4; Christmas; Christmas plays; Children's plays; Drama; Plays
Table of contents: value: JR. and SR. HIGH: Reindeer on the roof / Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen -- A Christmas promise / Helen Louise Miller -- Whatever happened to good old Ebenezer Scrooge? / Bill Majeski -- Red carpet Christmas / Helen Louise Miller -- Star over Bethlehem / Graham Dubois -- The Christmas starlet / Earl J. Dias -- The trouble with Christmas / Paul T. Nolan -- The Christmas visitor / Anne Howard Bailey -- Christmas recaptured / Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen -- Christmas coast to coast / Lewy Olfson.  MIDDLE SCHOOL: The villain and the toy shop / Barbara Winther -- Santa goes mod / Elbert M. Hoppenstedt -- The greatest Christmas gift / John Murray -- Silent night / Madge Crichton -- A new angle on Christmas / Rollin' Albert -- What, no Santa Claus? / Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen -- We interrupt this program / Claire Boiko -- Nine time Christmas / Maurus Jokai; adapted by Lewy Olfson -- He won't be home for Christmas / William Moessinger -- Santa Claus is twins / Anne Coulter Martens.  OWER GRADES: The year Santa forgot Christmas / Sheila L. Marshall -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore; adapted by Sylvia Chermak -- Santa changes his mind / Anne Sroda -- A Christmas tale / Shirley C. Oberacker -- Santa's alphabet / A.F. Bauman -- Three little kittens' Christmas / Joyce S. Christmas / The shoemaker and the elves -- Brothers Grimm; adapted by Alice Very -- Up a Christmas tree / Aileen Fisher.  DRAMATIZED CHRISTMAS CLASSICS:  A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens; adapted by Adele Thane -- A merry Christmas / Louisa May Alcott; adapted by Walter Hackett -- The Christmas Nutcracker / E.T.A. Hoffman; adapted by Adele Thane -- The second shepherd's play / Faye E. Head.