Donner Party: The Musical (Short 2013)

Donner Party: The Musical: Directed by Andrew Migliori. With Kendra White, Miguel Fana, Vincent Tomasino, Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton. Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

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