Inspired by the true Orphan Train movement, this epic musical follows six children sent west—where survival, morality, and hope are put to the test.
$250.00
L.E. McCullough is a journalist and author who has written 52 books of fiction, non-fiction and plays, including 222 published stage and script works. He received the Emerging Playwright Award for the 1995 New York premiere of his play Blues for Miss Buttercup, based on the life of blues piano legend Leroy Carr. His commissions include plays on journalist Ernie Pyle, 1920s jazzman Charlie Davis, corporate patriarch Eli Lilly, Catholic activist Dorothy Day, the scientist Galileo, singer-heiress Libby Holman, Holocaust survivor Melvin Goldman and, for the new National Constitution Center, a play on the U.S. Constitution. His most recent production is First Mothers: The Women Who Raised America’s Presidents. Dr. McCullough’s educational plays and monologues are utilized by schools and theatre groups in Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, U.S. and Canada, from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Kennedy Center ArtsEdge Teacher Training Program to a drama studio in rural Mpumalanga, South Africa and Hillingdon Manor School for Autistic Pupils in England. www.educationalclassroomplays.com
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