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A Jive Bomber's Christmas (play)
- Plays
- Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Adult
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Musical
- Importance of community, Optimism - power or folly
- Widely available
Musical play set in a World War II concentration camp by Saachiko and Dom Magwili. First produced for the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in 1994, A Jive Bomber's Christmas became a holiday tradition in Los Angeles, enjoying a nine-year run and subsequent revivals in Los Angeles and in Hawai'i. The play was based in part on Saachiko Magwili's childhood memories of Heart Mountain and shares a structural similarity with Dom Magwili's earlier Christmas in Camp , first produced at East West Players in 1981.