Christmas Short Works Collection 2023
Various
Enjoy the 2023 Christmas collection, with selections chosen by many volunteers. This year's readings include a combination of sacred and secular; joyful, poignant, and creepy; prose, poetry, and a musical play. You are sure to find something to raise your Christmas spirits! - Summary by TriciaG and Devorah Allen
Cast list for The White Christmas:
Mary and Voice of Angel: Jenn Broda
Joseph: David Purdy
Simeon: Alan Mapstone
Timothy: Larry Wilson
Isaac, Melchoir and Narrator: Brian Fullen
Anna: Lynette Caulkins
Thomas: redrun
Ruth: Norah Nelson
Deborah: Agnes Robert Behr
Rachel: Nicole Wright
Gaspar: TriciaG
Baltasar: Texasbookworm42
Prologue and keyboardist: Beeswaxcandle
Vocalists: TriciaG, Nicole Wright, dc, Verla Viera, Norah Nelson, Alan Mapstone, Amy Gramour, Brian Fullen
(7 hr 12 min)
Chapters
| The Angel's Message to Mary | 10:21 |
| A Christmas Ghost Story | 1:29 |
| Carol | 1:00 |
| Christbaum | 1:40 |
| Christmas | 14:41 |
| A Christmas Carol | 1:26 |
| Christmas Eve | 25:09 |
| Christmas Eve | 46:12 |
| Christmas Folksong | 1:25 |
| The Christmas Ghost: Unemployment in One of our Oldest Industries | 10:30 |
| A Christmas Hymn, 1837 | 3:00 |
| A Christmas Letter | 2:47 |
| Christmas When the West Was Young: Stories of Far Western Christmas Days of Pio… | 26:52 |
| Cradle Hymn | 1:04 |
| A Dark Evening | 8:46 |
| Darling | 6:31 |
| The Epiphany | 5:50 |
| Father Christmas at Home | 21:40 |
| The Heavenly Christmas Tree | 9:32 |
| The House of Christmas | 2:20 |
| How to Wrap Christmas Parcels | 7:22 |
| Jack's Christmas | 19:52 |
| The Little Match Girl | 5:47 |
| My Christmas Burglary | 26:54 |
| Noël | 2:06 |
| Old Hooker's Ghost; or, Christmas Gambols at Huntingfield Hall | 51:40 |
| Polly: A Before-Christmas Story | 12:00 |
| Popgun Plays Santa Claus | 21:33 |
| The Three Kings | 3:57 |
| 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | 3:44 |
| Two Christmas Eves | 26:36 |
| The White Christmas | 48:29 |