The Christmas music presentation of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” has scheduled a student matinee today at 4 p.m. and an evening performance at 8 o’clock tonight in the College Auditorium.
Admission for children and TC students is 50 cents and $1 for adults. The box office opens at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
“Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a one-act Christmas opera sung in English. The roles will be sung by students, and organ, piano and percussion accompaniment will be used.
Mrs. Nancy Keyton is production supervisor, Mrs. Sue McCrossen is music director and Betty McDonald is student director. Organ accompaniment will be provided by James Herrin of the music faculty. James Barone, sophomore music major, will be percussionist.
Jeanne Powers will portray the lead role of Amahl; Mary Ringgold will play Amahl’s mother. Richard Arnett, Paul Walker and Mike Taylor will perform as King Melchior, King Kasper and King Balthazar respectively. Their page will be enacted by John Faunt LeRoy.
The story concerns the visit of the Three Wise Men to a crippled boy, Amahl, and his widowed mother. Amahl, who offers to send his crutch as a gift to the Christ Child, is miraculously cured of his lameness and joins the Kings on their journey to Bethlehem.