Nativity PlaysEvery year the little kids at schools all over get to put on a play. Often it's christmas themed, but the key thing is that everyone gets a part, whether it's Snowflake #12 or Mary or Grendel (yes, really).
Personally I played a 'Rich Husband' who refused to buy matches from some scabby street urchin. Never did see her again...
Who or what did you get to be? And what did you have to wear?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 17:45)
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I obviously went to an odd school.The Nativity Play was a traditional affair with a predetermined number of parts, for which auditions were held. My mother informs me that I once played Joseph. I do not remember this.
I do recall that in subsequent years, I was variously a shepherd with a stuffed sheep (two, in fact; the first contained a bell and was switched for another when I was unable to hold the damned thing perfectly still to stop it sounding) and a choir person; I'd wanted to be in the play proper but was held back for singing on the grounds that I could. In tune, and everything.
In the same years, I played assorted biblical figures in assemblies (for 'twas a Christian school) and then promptly failed to participate in any theatrical undertaking until University, whereupon I did a Sondheim musical. What fun.
My sincerest apologies for the lack of anything interesting or amusing in the above. My only hope is to pad this out with extra tripe just to waste a little bit more of your working day and get you closer to home time.
(, Fri 27 Mar 2009, 11:11, Reply)
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