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

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

At least you had a blardy line!
A WALL PEOPLE!!!!

< grumbles off muttering >

At least I was the wall....
That's like the star innit???

No?

Ds (6) is a cat and has to dance the tango with a dog whilst singing. Obviously nativity plays today are very different to when I was at school.

Lots of competition for Mary as the assumption was it would be a big part. In fact it is a non-speaking part!

LOL florilegia !

( Apparently didn't even get to play second leprous beggar, as taken ill with flu, parts of leprous beggars consolidated ! )

Dd was Mary in the nursery play last year, with one line. This year, in Reception, she has a more, er, incidental part, but is delighted with her line (sourced directly from Luke's Gospel, I believe): 'Hello! I'm Suzie Sheep.'

Another one absolutely loving these stories btw

My DD is very non pleased about the whole school thing never mind the nativity.

So she was well pleased with her role as a donkey with her best (boy) friend, they were both sooooo bored they both lay down on the carpet and fell asleep.

Stardom on the west end awaits me thinks

Brilliant thread.
I remember being Mary when I was 4. Not sure why I was chosen although I did have long blonde hair!
It was a non-speaking part which suited me fine as I HATED being on stage! Spent the whole time staring at my lap trying to avoid the staring eyes of the nasty dinner lady who was in the front row....

Recovered a few years later and was always given one of the main roles (because I was reliable, learnt my lines and spoke clearly) but never THE main role which always always always went to Sophie. Bit mean I think as she did drama outside of school so really didn't need to be in every play.

Some children never got a speaking role

Ds is, in his own words ' one of those guys who stops people going in..'

I thought he was a bloody bouncer!

I have 2 girls, so you kind of expect Mary or an Angel every year, but strangely enough both have been the innkeeper in their pre-school nativities! DD1, now in year 4, is a snowflake this year, apparently - I'm just glad the school is providing costumes.

I was actually Mary the only time I did a nativity - it was the Christmas after I'd started school, so I must have been 5 I guess. I was told in no uncertain terms I'd been chosen because I'd got the loudest voice! I did have to sing a solo though, I'm still quite proud of that.

i never had a spoken part. never.

it was fixed. the teachers kid got the lead twice

I was the best christmas tree. They picked me from all the other 'tree's and I had to stand there and be merrily decorated.

I hated every minute and in the photos I look like Im about to stamp on the decorations and strangle the teacher with tinsel. Id be happy if my LO didnt have to be 'traumatised' like I so clearly was!

kudos to the sleepy donkeys - how laid back ?

katykoo what is DS, if not a bouncer?

BTW - occupational hazards of working in education they didn't tell you about:
1 Nits
2 Worms
3 Tying wet shoelaces when it hasn't been raining (think it through and see point 2)
4 Catching yourself singing Hosanna Rock walking around Tescos and the rest of the world thinking you're mental (apart from all other primary teachers).

Had to laugh a few years ago - had the kids making Christmas story booklets on one of the last days before we broke up to the sound of my (nicked off hubby) Disney's Greatest Hits album. Got this gem describing the life of Mary and Joseph... "Mary and Joseph was a nice couple. Joseph was a carpenter and Mary stayed at home. Sometimes she tidied up a bit"... obviously the rest of the time she sat there watching Jezza Kyle. Just made me crack up with laughter over how the girl in question had phrased it!

Darling son has the star role in this years christmas play.

He loves it. He is camp and proud. He loves to shimmy and dance with his big sis.

When I was 10 I had to be a Robin. A bloody Robin. All my friends got to be stars and angels, whereas I had to wear this stupid robin leotard with orange tights.

It was a come down from the wicked step-mother the year before, I can tell you. Now that was a role I could get my teeth into, it had costume changes and everything. And when they put me in prison at the end I got to sing a solo of "Please Release Me" by Englebert Humperdink.

I'm sure I was cast as a robin because the teacher that year thought I'd got too big for my boots didn't like me.

DS was Joseph when he was in reception, perhaps it was something to do with the fact that I made 24 costumes for the class that year. It was supposed to be me and two other mothers but one who confessed she couldn't actually sew after she's volunteered and another one who hurt her hand and couldn't operate her sewing machine. The only costume I didn't make was the donkey and he got expelled in year 3.

My dd was an angel last year in her pre-school nativity. The angels did lots of singing so we told her to sing nice and loudly........she sang very loudly! In fact she shouted her way through it, the dvd is hilarious .

This year her Year R class aren't doing a nativity, but something called the Selfish Ladybird and dd is to be a ladybird. Unfortunately got a letter home yesterday saying that they're postponing it until the spring term as they've had and continuing to have so many absences due to illness. I'm a bit about it.

When I was 10 I auditioned for the part of Mary and got it! Oh joy! I had to sing two solos in the church! For two days I was so happy it almost hurt...until the school told me that I wasn't allowed to be Mary any more because THEY COULDN'T FIND A JOSEPH TALL ENOUGH! I was relegated to the Angel bloody Gabriel part (seemingly there are no height restrictions for Angels, only for the Holy Virgin. Grrrrr).

The number of random and (presumably) unintentional nativity-related acts of cruelty leaving life-long scars is astounding.

Teachers, think twice about your casting decisions - and then cancel nativity play altogether

Love the idea that the donkey got expelled in Year 3! LOL !

My 5 year old child has been given the scraping the barrel role of a Roman Soldier (one of many). He has told me he has to march and say "1 2 1 2" and look cross. He is confused however, and tells me he wants to march next to the inn keeper rather than another soldier whom he does not like. I am going to absolutely encourage him to march next to the inn keeper and hope that he decides to come out with one or more of his 'eccentricities' loudly at hopefully several points of this play.

I am also going to teach him to sing "Away In A Manager" as that is how the school have spelled it on their song sheet.

Muhahahahahahahahahaha

I was always the chuffing Angel Gabriel due to my red hair, clashed horribly with the gold tinsel

I remember being an animal of some kind. No speaking part.

DD is a star again.

DS is a Greek waiter.

Yes, a Greek waiter.

FFS.