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Go tell it on the mountain

Fourteen-year-old John Grimes, the son of a revivalist preacher in Harlem, struggles to reconcile his desires and goals with the expectations of his African-American family and community, while his parents Gabriel and Elizabeth, deal with the sins and sorrows of the past.

Bye bye Birdie

1995
Rock star/teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted and his manager faces unemployment. His manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl will win a goodbye kiss from Birdie.

Prancer returns

2001
A little boy named Charlie finds a baby reindeer in the woods and believes it is Prancer. He brings it home to care for until Santa can pick him up for Christmas. Charlie's attempt to reunite Prancer with Santa marks a direct change in the lives of Charlie and his family as, struggling and nearly broken, they are returned to love through the magical appearance of the reindeer.

Pygmalion

2006
Tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who bets his friend Colonel Pickering, that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a society lady.

The miracle worker

2004
Depicts the story of Helen Keller and her guardian, Annie Sullivan, who broke through Helen's barriers of blindness and deafness to communicate with her.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2002
Story about a respectable Victorian physician whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a potion that transforms him into a destructive creature of unbridled emotions.

Heidi

2005
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.

Animal farm

1999
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
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