This story of a loving, innocent trusting young girl and a group of children who mistake a mysterious fugitive for Jesus Christ has seen two changes of location since it started life as a novella by Mary Haley Bell. For the film version Bryan Forbes and Richard Attenbourgh moved it from the south of England to North Lancashire and in this musial version the setting is the American state of Louisiana. Despite this move to the states the musical has been a more consistent hit in...

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