Originally Posted By goodgirl Topic: The Holiday Season Question: Share a memory of a Christmas pageant you, a sibling, friend or child appeared in.
Originally Posted By LVBelle Our church used to do a singing Christmas tree every year. Before the choir got into the trees, the youth choir and some other musical acts would do the "pre-tree" and sing songs that were more secular. We did 8 performances every year. I participated for four years, until my church stopped doing the Singing Christmas tree. I have such wonderful memories from that time! It was so much fun!
Originally Posted By jasmine7 In the sixth grade, our school did Hansel and Gretel for the Christmas production. All of the grades participated, with the sixth graders getting the main roles and the younger grades doing little dances in between the scenes. I didn't get cast (I really wanted the role of the witch, lol), but I was made one of the two stage managers. During the main performance, I forgot to put Hansel's axe on stage, and Kyle, the guy playing him, chewed me out royally backstage, so I had to sneak out while the little trees were dancing and put it on stage. I still don't know if anyone notice me, lol.
Originally Posted By DlandJB My first play was "The Littlest Angel" when I was in the first grade. They let me be the narrator because the teacher said I could read better than anyone else. I was so proud of myself. My kids have been in several memorable Christmas pageants as trees, shepherds, wise men/women (Unitarians) and my daughter even got to play Mary one year at the Baptist church where her preschool was. This year is the best though -- my DH is playing one of the Magi in our church musical. He totally rocks.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well, when we were kids my great grandparents had a Ranch in Hollister. We spent one particular Christmas there. Us city kids had't really experience a barn so we were out there playing and in true Mickey Rooney Judy Garland style decided to "put on a show" for our family. So us kids ranging in age from oh say 3 year to 12 years old created the story of the first Christmas. Our big special effects in the show was to have baby Jesus drop from the rafters of the barn into the manger via a hole in the rafter floor. I mean in our minds the fact that Mary was carryin him and needed to give birth was a mute point. So all the parents gather round, we go through our show and we get my little cousin Angela (she's 3) up in the rafters. On cue she jumps the 8 or so feet down and lands kinda sorta in the manger. We hear all these gasps from the adults as Angela kind of rolls around in the hay before popping her head up. In grand style, she jumped up and yelled "ta da!" Everyone started laughing and blessing themselves at the same time. LOL from there the show went on without any other antics
Originally Posted By alexbook When I was in fifth or sixth grade, the public school I went to attempted its first multi-cultural "Holiday" show instead of the usual Christmas pageant. It was called something like "How the Three Grinches Stole Christmas, Hanukkah, and Las Posadas." I *really* can't act.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy In 3rd grade our church's either 1st, 2nd, and 3rd or 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade choirs (can't remember) did a production called "Oh My Stars, It's Christmas!" I had the role of the choir director of stars (complete with 5-point gold star outfit---arms and legs were 4 points, my head was the 5th with a pointy cap). I LOVED it, eagerly got into my part, and I remember the ladies in charges of us were astounded at how well I memorized every single line. Man, to go back to those mega-star days, *sigh*...
Originally Posted By RAM1984 My father was a Baptist minister. We did the Nativity every Christmas. I was pretty young but my sisters were always Mary or the Innkeeper. I think Mary had a cardboard donkey and one of my dolls was always Baby Jesus. We had those robes and beards in our closet for years.
Originally Posted By bloona I was an Angel .....I fell in the snow ...I broke my arm..... I got fired as an Angel....... still traumatised...... lol...I was 8
Originally Posted By MissCandice How funny, I hadn't thought of this in years but last night as I was walking from the living room to my bedroom with a lit candle I flashed back to 10th grade of High School when I was in Choir and we had to walk, sing, and hold a lit candle at the same time without setting ourselves on fire. Candle wax is hot!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I don't think I have any good stories about them. I was in choir for a lot of years. We sang in the state capitol, at the mall, etc. I always enjoyed them but nothing particularly interesting happened during them. Oh, one funny thing was when we were learning "Sleigh Ride" in the 5th grade. During the line "We're riding through a wonderland of snow" the tenor's line is "We're riding through a land of...doodoo, doodoo". Doodoo is always pretty funny.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom Lisann22 I love your story. When my daughter was three she was in her first Christmas performance. It was the children's Sunday school group performing a couple of numbers in the Church musical. Tricia had on a beautiful blue Christmas dress, hair freshly cut and rarin' to go. She was standing in the front row next to the only other three year old, he was the cutest little blonde boy, big eyes and shy. She was the opposite, big grin and very animated. When she saw us she waved, then she saw our neighbor and yelled "hi Betty" at the top of her lungs, then proceeded to sing all the carols with the big kids.
