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By Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools

Back To The Manger!

St. Martin de Porres students to perform on RDC Mainstage

Dec 11, 2019 | 1:34 PM

Kindergarten to Grade 5 students from St. Martin de Porres School will soon be performing “Back to the Manger” on Red Deer College’s Mainstage (100 College Boulevard).

The performance is set for December 17 and 18 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. There will also be a matinee performance on December 18 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The public is welcome to attend free of charge but please note the evening performance has limited seats available, so please contact the school for tickets.

“As a fine arts school, our students are blessed to learn from fine arts specialists who teach them the technical and artistic forms of performing,” says Kristie McCullough, assistant principal at St. Martin de Porres School, in a press release. “This year, our cast of 270 students will command the Red Deer College Mainstage with their theatrical talents in our annual Christmas production, ‘Back to the Manger.’ Come and celebrate the Advent season by experiencing this time-travelling adventure!”

McCullough says the cast has been working hard to prepare for what she describes as a musical, faith-filled experience.

“As our characters jump through the decades, you’ll recognize some familiar musical genres and be tapping your toes throughout the show.”

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School officials say Back to the Manager is about “church kids who discover the janitor’s time machine and are suddenly back in 1978, where people are practicing for the church’s annual caroling outreach.”

Characters are then said to be whisked off to other decades in the 20th century.

Jackson, a cool kid of 2010 who is very unenthused about going to this year’s event, suddenly meets his grandma when she was ten years old.

In 1944, he meets Hank Olsen, a poor kid whose mother is picking up a food basket provided by the church.

Hank asks Jackson to play a game of marbles. They are both taken back to the time when Jesus was a babe in a manger.

As the kids look on, Hank is very moved; he gives his marble as a gift to Jesus. Jackson too sees God’s sacrifice and his own ungratefulness.

It’s when they all finally get back home that they realize that their very own Pastor Olsen was that boy Hank.

Once you go back to the manger and see God’s greatest gift, you are never the same.

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