The Christmas Music Of Mannheim Steamroller – OCPAC

Video Intro/Announcement by Chip Davis saying due to recent neck surgery he can’t play for a while (and in which he stomps fake snow off of his pristine white sneakers)
Act 1:
Hallelujah
Band Introductions by Ron Cooley
Feliz Navidad
Deck The Halls
We Three Kings
Catching Snowflakes On Your Tongue
Messengers Of Christmas
Away In A Manager
Faeries
Good King Wenceslas
White Christmas

Act 2 – This is where the fun really started – the video screen stayed lowered and they played a Renaissance Christmas feast on the upper portion while you could see the band through the bottom half of the scrim:
Gagliarda
In Dulci Jublio
Wassail, Wassail (which is a hot mulled cider)
Carol Of The Birds (projected images of large flocks of birds)
I Saw Three Ships
Video cast member shouts out, “Hey Chip! How about something we can dance to?!”
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Traditional)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Modern)
Christmas Lullaby
Carol Of The Bells
The Fake Ending (with bows)
Silent Night
Angels We Have Heard On High

Cast
Ron Cooley
Becky Kia
Jeff from LA instead of Almeda Berkey
Roxanne Layton
Logan Penington
??? – Some protege of Jackson Berkey…Bobby Kunkle?
And the Mannheim Steamroller Orchestra!

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