Christmas Musicals for Church
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IN HIS PRESENCE Rediscovering the Christ in Christmas A Dramatic Musical to be Performed Using the Musical Numbers from the Christmas Musical Christmas – In His Presence By Deborah Craig-Claar Synopsis Lt. Kyle Hargrove, a new chaplain in the US Army, has just arrived in a distant country on December 24th for his first assignment. Feeling lonely and unable to sense the presence of Christmas in this foreign place, he turns to the solitary object in his bare barracks: a trunk of books and papers left by the retiring chaplain he is replacing. Discovering a renewed comfort and joy through these voices past and present, Kyle comes to realize that true Christmas is not experienced through the presence of familiar objects or surroundings – but through the divine presence of Christ. Setting and Time Barracks on an Army base in a foreign country December 24th, present day Characters LT. KYLE HARGROVE, a new chaplain in the US Army CAPT. BRAD WILCOX, an officer in the company in which Kyle is serving PVT. JENSEN, an enlisted soldier serving on Kyle's base (authors who appear onstage as their work is read) HELEN KELLER, American deafblind author and educator CORRIE TEN BOOM, Dutch Holocaust survivor and author JAMES MONTGOMERY, nineteenth-century Scottish hymn writer CHARLES WESLEY, eighteenth-century English hymn writer REV. MAJ. ROBERT JAMES, the former chaplain of Kyle's company LUKE, author of the gospel and the book of Acts CAITLIN, Kyle's five-year-old niece An offstage PA announcer voice Performance Time: Approximately 60 minutes 113 For Preview Only