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A Staged Reading of Ogden Nash's

THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN'T

Friday, November 27 10:30 a.m. Burnsville Town Center
Benefit for the Library Expansion Project

Children $1, Grownups $5
Tickets available at the Yancey Library and the Burnsville Town Center

King Oldwin of Lullapat is loved by his loyal subjects - he is a "Christmassy kind of king!" But his sourpuss nephew, Prince Evillard, hates happiness and wants to destroy Christmas. He locks his uncle up, feeds him poison oak and nettles in hopes of starving him into not being jolly, and scours the land for all the nasty people he can find to help him make everyone miserable. They threaten anyone who is joyful at the prospect of a Merry Christmas. All the grownups are afraid, and only a brave shepherd boy named Nicholas Knock steps forward. He journeys to Greengold Hill, where King Wenceslaus sleeps in his throne, waiting the clarion call to waken and vanquish the evildoers.

The whole family will enjoy this presentation! Come to downtown Burnsville the morning after Thanksgiving for the show, shopping, and lunch!

The cast includes Dr. Daniel Barron as King Wenceslaus, Abel Wilson as Nicholas Knock, John Richards as Prince Evillard, Drew Smoker as Nell, Jerry Newton as King Oldwin, and Claudia Dunaway, Kathleen Sioui, Chip Fleckenstein, and Britt Kaufmann as Everybody Else.

A Burnsville Dogs production, directed by Lucy Doll.

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