The First Candle
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$25.00
$25.00
A Christmas & Kwanzaa musical for young performers from The Holiday Series
It is the first Christmas since Daddy passed. Ten-year-old Amari believes the tree and Daddy's hand-carved kinara are taking turns with the living room now, and that only one of them gets to win. Over three days, from Christmas Eve to the first night of Kwanzaa, each person in the family discloses something Daddy left in their hands: his wooden stars, his word for Nana, his handmade-gift rule, his reason for lighting the center candle. On December 26, Amari lights the first candle and sees it was one room the whole time.
Original story & music by Joseff McKenneth Goodwin:
- All the Lights
- Hold Up the Light
- Which One Is Mine?
- Habari Gani (Happy Kwanzaa)
