New Christmas Musicals

96 65/2096&97MD-96 Production Notes Creating a new work has its own journey. is one is no different. As we talked through our thoughts for Behold, A Savior! our desire was to create a collection that would serve you in multiple ways. We wanted to provide fresh arrangements of your favorite Christmas songs, as well as give you some beautiful, new original songs. We wanted a work that offered you the option of meaningful and accessible dramatic moments without making them intrinsic to its performance. We realized that this could be a bit of a challenge. We're happy with what developed and we hope you will be too. So, in that light... Need music to carry you over the advent season? You'll find it in this work. It's the first Sunday of Advent and you need a moment for the Prophesy candle during the lighting of your Advent wreath. You can easily present O Come, Emmanuel, Rejoice! along with the short Zechariah monologue either as a dramatic reading or with an actor in costume. ere are equally appropriate moments for the Bethlehem, Shepherd candle and the Angel candle too. Maybe your time is limited and you only want to read the scripture that ties to the song. at's there for you too. You choose. Need a whole piece to present for a special event? is collection covers the broad sweep of the Christmas story with all its glory, as well as its most tender and intimate moments. We have provided an optional opening and closing narration for your pastor or lay person that will create a space for an altar call if you should choose to offer one. Do you have a few good actors that would love to present a short monologue? Adding dramatic moments without committing to a full-fledged production is easy with this workand can add another layer to your production. Monologues can be presented in Reader's eatre fashion if you want to forego costumes and memorization. No matter how you choose to present Behold, A Savior! if Christ is glorified, we will have accomplished our goal. ank you allowing us to be part of your journey. Jay and Rose Some of the cover-art images and graphics from this work are available as free downloads. We hope that you can use them to assist in the making of your bulletins, posters, flyers, website and email announcements, and in any other way that's within your organization and in conjunction with performances of this work. To access these files, please visit www.lorenz.com/downloads and navigate to the desired folder. PC users should right click and choose "Save Target As…" and Macintosh users should click and hold the link, then choose "Save Target As…" We have provided standard file formats that should be usable in most page layout or word processing software. Due to the vast number of differences in computer system setups, we are unable to provide technical support for downloadable images/graphics by either phone or email. For Preview Only

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