"A Hatful of Snow" is a full length musical

Musical theatre

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 which premiered in the Palm Springs

Palm Springs

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 area, California

California

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, 1994, at the Desert Rose Theater under the direction of Rocky Kalish. Book, words, and music for this holiday musical are the creation of Matthew Breindel. The show next appeared in 1999 at the High Desert Playhouse in Joshua Tree, California

Joshua Tree, California

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, under the direction of Ed will, and from there it spread throughout the nation playing each holiday season in two or three playhouses.

The musical is a holiday musical with fifteen songs, including the title song "A Hatful of Snow" and a second act acclaimed Christmas

Christmas

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 ballad

Ballad

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 "A Christmas Memory

A Christmas Memory

"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963...

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Fifteen tuneful songs help tell the story of Jean, the mayor's daughter, and her journey to bring Christmas back to the little town of Harmony, which is trapped by the Hatter's curse in a paperweight. Characters in the play are Jean, Nick, Mrs. Flute, Amanda and her mother, the citizens of Harmony... and of course Mr. Hatter, who wiles to keep Jean from finding a true love and filling the town hat with snow.

Act 1

Musical Numbers, Act I:

• Christmas is Just Around the Corner
• I Can Find a Man
• Listen to the City
• True Love
• A Hatful of Snow
• Merry, Merry Christmas
• Wedding Bells and Christmas Bells
• You're a Christmas Cinderella
• Christmas Is, a Christmas Curse

Act 2

• The Christmas Eve Waltz
• The Olde Punch Bowl
• A Christmas Memory
• Whaddya Doin' for Christmas, Baby
• Meet Me There
• Under the Christmas Tree
• Send Down a Hatful of Snow