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Friday 5...Nativity parts

23/12/2011

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The whale got cast as a shepherd
Today is Friday, which means it is the day we put together a list of 5 things and you ask why we keep doing this. But today is a special Friday because it is the 23rd. So if you aren’t all wrapped up (heh) and ready for Christmas by now you are probably best just concentrating on the anxiety fest that is New Year’s Eve.

For this Friday 5, we have decided to make it festive. We have dug deep to recall a time when Christmas was a simple time of pants wetting excitement. Squeamish Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you our 5 favourite Nativity play parts…

1. Mary. I was Mary, which we all know is the ultimate part, you get to be Mary you have made it my friend. This is because not only is Mary the main part (apart from Jesus but he’s usually portrayed by a doll) but every girl knows the deciding factors that go into Mary’s casting is looks and good behaviour. I was 5 or 6 and got to sing a solo as Mary. At the end of the Nativity for some reason my teacher asked if anyone had any requests and a pair of pre-school twins asked for Wheels on the Bus.

2. Herod. Also a good part, congratulations if you got this, it probably means your teacher saw something inherently evil in you. Or you volunteered, as occasional contributor Glen did, “I got a cape which clearly made me far cooler than any of the other characters.” According to a recent poll of 1000 adults by Christian Research 16% of the men involved said they’d want to play Herod.

3. Mrs. Herod. Well it’s very likely there WAS a Mrs. Herod so why not pop her in the Nativity play? Squeamish Louise was lucky enough as a child to be part of a Nativity musical, though she can’t recall the name of it. My guess is ‘Nativity! The Musical’. “I played Mrs Herod and had a line that ended “and I’m ALWAYS right, aren’t I girls?” Afterwards one of my parents friends said my performance reminded him of Margaret Thatcher!”

4. Angel. Probably the fiddliest costume to make. Some parents really phone this one in and allow their angel on stage with a bit of tinsel wrapped round their head and coat hanger wings. No such festive abortion kit for my back. My mother’s handy with a pair of tights and wire, as Head Angel (after my Mary triumph I moved to a Catholic school and as a Baptist was, uh, barred from playing Our Lady) I had a proper halo and plausible wings.

5. Shepherd. This is a good part because the costume is your dressing gown and a tea towel, possibly a fake beard (a costume that oddly has the most verisimilitude of the whole play) and you get to be part of the Nativity tableau.  It seems Squeamish Louise’s Nursery teachers created a sort of Nativity bar scene, “All I remember about my nursery’s nativity play was that they ended with everyone sat on stage (I think I was a shepherd or something), and had come up with the cunning idea of having bowls of crisps on the tables we sat round, so we just sat there and ate crisps.”

Squeamish Kate
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not squeamish Neil
22/12/2011 07:19:23 pm

being as i was quite good at reading and had the least scouse accent of all the kids, i nearly always got to play the narrator, which personally i thought was the most important part as without me the story couldnt go anywhere. i always had to stand on a raised bit of stage just off from the main action. during our school production of jack in the beanstalk it was also my job to lead the audiences in the syncronized dances, which was great fun (we had a very 'creative' teacher) to watch 50 adults jumping up and down to The only way is up!

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Squeamish Kate link
22/12/2011 08:12:40 pm

I don't know if we had a narrator or if we used songs to describe the action...you're right it's definitely the most important part when they're used.
I would love to see this Jack and the Beanstalk production! Surely there's a camcorder somewhere with a tape in it of you leading the dances!

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