We perform three stories from the following:

“KING HILARY AND THE BEGGARMAN” by A. A. Milne is about an excited king, a haughty chancellor, and a beggarman at the gate. A kid plays the Beggarman

“THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI” by O. Henry is the story of a poor couple who sacrifice their greatest treasures to buy each other a present. This story could be maudlin, but that’s not the way O. Henry wrote it and it’s not the way we do it!. No kids in this one

“THE HARDEST NUT TO CRACK” is the internal story, and the best part, of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker” and it’s not in the ballet, but it explains everything in the ballet. Kids play Mice Children, the Royal Cat, the Princess Perlipat, and three of her Suitors, one of whom turns into the Nutcracker.

“ONE CHANNUKAH IN CHELM” where exactly half the town is beggars and all the rich people give them all their money until the rich become the beggars and get all their money back. So what happens when a beggar from out of town arrives? It’s a Stone Soup type story but where all the people are true givers at heart. Kids play the Beggars and the Rich People of Chelm.

“PERSEPHONE IN HADES” is our feminist interpretation of the Greek myth about how winter came to be. A kid plays Persephone.