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My dc hasn't got starring role - it's so unfair'

222 replies

stoatsrevenge · 29/11/2010 21:49

AIBU to be mighty pissed off by the number of threads on this? How many Marys were there in Bethlehem FGS?!

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Rudolphsnose · 30/11/2010 09:37

We have a trauma ever year as DD2 and DSD are in the same year. I must be the only parent pleading with the teacher NOT to give either of my children a starring role, the rivalry at home would be unbearable.

So DSD has 5 lines as a child from the USA????? And DD2 is the 'hopeful angel' with 6 lines. DD2 is most annoyed as she wanted to be the donkey :o

strawberrycake · 30/11/2010 09:39

My ds is 6 months and has been invited to be in the play at nursery, 'can he wear white please'. I nearly pissed myself, what will his role be? Newborn lamb? Silk worm?Blob of snow? Or...god no....baby Jesus? He can only say 'dada' 'lala' 'a-la-bla' and 'oi,oi,oi,oi' but does like to join in (loudly) when others sing.

KaraStarbuckThrace · 30/11/2010 09:42

My son is bound to be picked for a lead role when he goes to school, he has the face of an angel.

However he will be immediately kicked out of the play on the first rehearsal as he really is a little devil and very unco-operative Grin

annbenoli · 30/11/2010 09:43

My DS2 is Joseph and is singing a solo. DS1 wasnt given a part then one of the girls who was a dinner lady in the play dropped out and ds2 said to me nows my chance, none of the other boys wanted to be a dinner lady! He has also blagged his way to singing a verse of a song with 3 others! Can't wait to watch them. Nothing ever comes easy to DS1.

nickytwotimes · 30/11/2010 09:46

my son is a fucking donkey.

Hmm Grin

WishIWasRimaHorton · 30/11/2010 09:52

my son (aged 4) is a shepherd. he tells me '[name] has to say 'there is no room at the inn'. So i ask him what he has to say.

In a tone of oh-don't-be-so-bloody-stupid-mother, he replies 'I don't say ANTYHING. i ACT'.

piscesmoon · 30/11/2010 09:55

I bet, from a DCs point of view that a donkey is a lot more exciting than Joseph!

icandoit · 30/11/2010 09:56

DD2 (reception class) is 'angel no 4'. She's got one line to say. When rehearsals started she refused to speak and would not even stay on the stage. THEN she saw the 'lovely sparkly twinkly costume', learnt her line in one afternoon and now does stay on the stage! It's amazing how a new frock and a bit of bling can influence a gal!Smile

nickytwotimes · 30/11/2010 09:56

lol at 'i act'!

yeah, ds is happy, but i just see his school career shaping up like mine...

StripeyMoon · 30/11/2010 09:56

Reception DS was a snowman in a group of snowmen.

Yr1 DS was a present in a group of presents

Yr2 DS is shepherd no3 - with a line! Get in!!

stealthsquiggle · 30/11/2010 10:00

nickytwotimes - literally? Hmm - that should be interesting...

LOL at "I act"

icandoit - it is only when faced with the threat that I will only make her costume on Friday if she knows her lines that DD has finally admitted to having lines Grin (no bling involved, though).

nickytwotimes · 30/11/2010 10:01

hee haw

GrimmaTheNome · 30/11/2010 10:04

my son is a fucking donkey.

goodness. I didn't think primary nativities were supposed to be like Attenborough documentaries.ShockGrin

nickytwotimes · 30/11/2010 10:04

it's a very progressive school.

chickbean · 30/11/2010 10:05

Last year DS1 came home from nursery and said he was going to be a leopard. Luckily I had not made the costume before the letter came home saying "shepherd".

nickytwotimes · 30/11/2010 10:06
DanZZZenAroundTheTreeAgain · 30/11/2010 10:10

I am organising a nativity play
I know all about this.
I am not doing this again

Gogopops · 30/11/2010 10:12

My DS1 had a 'carol singalong' at nursery when they were too young at 2 to act the nativity.
DS did no singing at all. He jumped around all silly and the proceeded to pick his nose and unbeknown to the little girl next to him, wiped bogeys all over her lovely dress.

We have all this on video and are thinking of sending it off to 'Youve been Framed'.
Come to think of it, £250 would be quite handy now. Grin

susie100 · 30/11/2010 10:13

Much better to be the angel than Mary.
Mary just sits there craddling a doll.
The angle has more lines from memory.

5GoldenFimbos · 30/11/2010 10:14

Ds's school theme this year is nursery rhyme themes.

Ds is daddy bear (he is the biggest in his class) whilst his friend (who is the smallest) is baby bear.

My biggest bug bear is the entourage (sorry sp) that turn up for some children. They might only be singing in the very back line but that doesn't stop mum, dad, both grandparents, auntie, uncle, the neighbour 2 doors down, turning up. School has now stopped it by letting families only have 2 tickets but you still find people wangling for the spares! Then there are the video camera harpies who push you out the way to get to film their kid. (allowed to film at ds's school).

Ds will have me and only me as dh is too busy at work.

jugglingjo · 30/11/2010 10:19

Sandstorm,

For historical accuracy I'm sure Mary shouldn't really have been blonde !

Yo to the Mum who's proud of her little chicken !!

I love it all, bring it on !

Wondering if i can persuade son ( aged 9 ) to be Joseph at church nativity on Christmas Eve. There are rarely many takers for the main boys roles !

Also we've decided to go down the path of anyone can be anything they like at church, which works surprisingly well.
Usually lots of angels, shepherds, wise-men, and quite a few Mary's !

My children are desperate to be the front and back end of the donkey, but I'm not sure my sewing skills are up to it !

lottiejenkins · 30/11/2010 10:20

Joyce Grenfell Nativity play monologue
Her play had four wise men and four kings as they had "four lovely crowns and it seemed a shame not to use them!!" Grin Wink

DanZZZenAroundTheTreeAgain · 30/11/2010 10:30

what is really bugging me and I know I risk revealing my true identity here is the mum who comes to every rehearsal and keeps coming up on stage and prodding and pushing her dd to stand in front of the "choir" when they sing songs. "Come and stand here" right in the centre of the front row because there she is most visible and being right where the microphone is most audible. She has the most awful voice, delightful child that she is.

I am going to have to move the microphone to the back or something. It is so bad it is actually unbearable to listen to. It doesn't have to sound polished and great but like that it sounds abysmal. I don't understand why anyone would be that interfering about it tbh. Either organise it yourself or please step back out of it! AIBU?

florilegia · 30/11/2010 10:32

My lowest point was definitely being cast as Second Leprous Beggar in the final year of junior school. I had one line, which may have been something to do with my fingers having dropped off... My acting career bit the dust around then!

ShrinkingViolet · 30/11/2010 10:37

DD1 was a "child from around the world who celebrates the birth of Jesus" at pre-school - she walked onto stage, saw the sea of faces and burst into tears.

DD3 is "The Cat" in her play - since the auditions she's been method acting The Cat, but having read the script, I have to say it's pretty good casting (she's a know-it-all sarky cat).

DD2's highlight was in Reception when she was an angel, except her halo slipped five minutes in, and no teacher could get to her to sort it out. Since then she's gone for backstage roles bless her.