Orphan Train, the TV movie, the movie I was so obsessed with as a child that I wrote it out as a novel – is on VHS. Yes, you have to buy it used – there is no such thing as a new copy of Orphan Train – but it can be done. I bought a copy yesterday and should receive it by Monday. I haven’t seen it since I wrote my damn novel, at age 11. I’m almost nervous.
Oh, and Linda Manz – who I just wrote about in my post about Days of Heaven, plays one of the orphans: Sarah, the girl trapped in the house of ill repute before the “orphan train” and Jill Eikenberry chugs her off to prosperity.
I literally cannot WAIT to see this damn movie again.
There is a children’s community theatre group in my neighborhood whose leader happens to be my kid’s music teacher at their school. While at a school function, I passed her table with information on their past and future productions. What caught my eye was a flyer for Orphan Train! It turns out her husband wrote original music and made a musical out of it. Alas, they performed it last February and I missed it. I could have found out what happened to those darn orphans via bad singing and homemade costumes.
Hello, are you in the Facebook group for Orphan Train?
There’s a Facebook group for Orphan Train??