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Were you in any as a child either school or church?


I was in both school and church. I can remember the first time I got to wear pantyhose was in my school pagent as a 6th grader I felt so grownup at least until I got a run in them and then was mortified lol.


I don't remember this but am reminded of it every so often. I was 2 and I guess my mom had drilled it into my head, instead of saying my line which I knew backwards and forwards I said right into the microphone Mommy told me not to get my dress dirty....out of the mouths of babes.

Jan

[splitimage]

I have to admit I do not remember Christmas pagents fondly.

One memorable school one - I was in a skit where I was a tomatoe (How this related to Christmas I have no idea.) But my costume was carefully shaped Chicken wire, covered in red tissue paper. Every time I moved I scratched myself.

Then as a minister's kid, I was fully expected to participate in all church pagents. When I got too old to be in them, I had to play the piano for them. Most of them were awful. It didn't help that the piano I was expected to play on, was badly out of tune, which offended my ears.

No nostaltia here - except for the one time, when I was in grade 2 or 3 when I got to be lead fairy Princess. Being tallest got me that role. And I had a lovely costume with tinsel wings. Now that I think about it, they were probably made out of chicken wire too (farming community) but I thought I looked stunning and got my picture in the town paper.

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[mak62184]

I did it at church and school too. The church ones were unmemorable though. I usually ended up being an angel. Okay, I was Mary one year, but only because I was the oldest girl there, and the rest were too young. But, even with that, we dressed up in costumes for church, did a couple of things during mass, and that was it.

Now, my most memorable Christmas concert at school was in 6th grade. We had the 4th through 6th grade choir members doing a medly of songs and adding in stupid little dances and little things here and there. One segment involved bringing the Christmas tree on stage and placing it in the center. There was really no direction to it, so kids were standing or sitting all over the stage, and they were in the way. The tree got as far as it could on the stage, before the kids bringing it on gave up. After that, one of the 5th graders decided to push it to center it more, and it fell over. Then kids were trying to get it up again, when it finally broke into 3 pieces. Of course, after all that chaos, I had a line to say, which was "Now that's more like it," in response to the tree being out, and other decorations on stage. Of course, that had to be the most ridiculous line after what happened and everyone was laughing on stage.