To feel just a little bit sad that DD isn't Mary in her Nativity Play

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... I know, I know! But if you can't admit it on Mumsnet, where can you?!

I was Angel Gabriel because I was tall. You had to be short to be Mary my costume was better

Funnily enough at pre-school last year the girl who got the part of Mary, well let's just say her DM was on the pre-school committee.....and it is the same this year in Reception year, the daughter of someone involved with the school.

These are brilliant

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When I was 12 we did a musical. We all had to audition and top 10 singers all got parts. I was fifth so had excellent chance. For some reason the drama teacher refused to have me. I still have nonidea why she hated me so much. I would never have forgotten my lines, could sing and wasn't ugly enough that make up wouldn't have cured it sobs

In playgroup DS was the donkey. He had to walk in front of Mary and Joseph and go round and round the stage while the rest of the group sang Little Donkey. At the end of the carol he was supposed to walk over to the stable, sit on the floor while Mary and Joseph sat on stools behind the manger.

However, Joseph was stage struck and stopped dead at the end of the singing, leaving the donkey and Mary making their own way to the stable. While Joseph stood and waved to his mum, DS took full advantage and sat down on the stool next to Mary and put his arm around her. I was filming it and the camera shakes because I was laughing so hard.

No Nativity play this year at school

Hey Mcphee how's your DD (apologies to fuming nativity mothers!)

I wasn't Mary owing to being blonde. By the time I'd have liked to be blonde I'd turned brunette. No justice. I did get to be the angel though :) (And, as mentioned on another thread somewhere, one year I was a full stop.)

My DD is in Y1 and is thrilled to be a robot with her best male friend. But not as thrilled as the mums of Mary and Joseph are with their offsprings' parts.

I really don't care what she is, I'm personally happier with a bit of fun crafting for a robot costume than for a blue habit. And we'll see what happens in subsequent years. I do have a suspicion that these children were given their parts now so that the parents won't have anything to complain about when in future years the best they get is coyboy #2 or main tree.

I was mainly a narrator - very dull -generally no costume....

One year I was Mary.

so far ds has been a king and a narrator

dd has been a christmas pudding and this year she is a clock......

I always wanted to be Mary. Always. And never was.

The most scarring incident of me not being Mary was when I was around 4 (and I remember it like it was yesterday, so it was obviously very traumatic). I so desperately wanted to be Mary, but they made another girl, Nointjie or something (see? she even had a weird name, totally not Mary Material) Mary. I do not know why. I was the Angel Gabriel instead, which let me flex my artistic and acting muscles but it still wasn't Mary. My disappointment and anger reached it's peak when, in the middle of the play "Mary" was sat there with her legs apart so everyone could see her knickers. I was aghast. If I had been Mary, that never would have happened.

In other years, I was a cat and an "african lady" (really scraping the barrel in terms of characters obviously - it was a big nursery school), so actually Angel Gabriel was the highlight of my Nativity Acting Career. Tragically.

Dd wanted to be an Angel and she is!!
I'm very pleased for her as she isn't one of 'those' children who always get picked, oh and YANBU

madwoman I'm thinking of giving him a paper bag labelled "Sheep Food" filled with random food like milk arrowroot bikkies and tiny sarnies. Otherwise there will be rampaging.

Last year she was a very good Lamb. She was carried around, and the Shepherdess was supplied with a bottle and a white dummy. But, y'know, she was 8 months old...not 20...

Oooh. Thanks for the belated (about 40 years) morale boost madwoman and picallili. I was ALWAYS the sodding narrator. But I suppose I could read and had a nice clear voice.

I SO wanted to dress up though.

DS is one of many shepherds. He will learn lines brilliantly and bursts to please teachers.

The quiet antisocial rather than shy girl in his class gets a starring role.

I am utterly devastated for him but he doesn't seem to mind.

I like to thing that he is too intelligent and imaginative to be show horned into such a restrictive role!

I was Mary, then Angel Gabriel, then.... nothing. My slow decline into obscurity

If you REALLY wanted to ensure your DD was Mary you should've actually called her Mary - the real life Joseph's were ALWAYS cast as Josephs at my school (there were no Marys).

DD has also been an elephant, and a 'poor waif' in rags She has been an angel several times but never Mary

DS is a narrator this time, but informed me his teacher had asked him to be one of the 'bigger acting parts' because he has a good voice, but he said no, he wanted to be a narrator

My DD was the Donkey in her YR nativity last year. It was a brilliant part, had more lines than mary and Joseph combined and she had her own sung (little Donkey).

This year in Y1 she is a star and mightily miffed about it.

My grandson has just been informed that he's a donkey. I hear it's actually quite a prestigious role, indeed a leading part. (He gets to lead Mary and Joseph round the stage!)

I'm applying for an equity card for him tomorrow.

I hope it's not something my daughter wanted to do for him

DD was a cockerel in last years nativity..

Actually a couple of mothers did compliment me on her 'cockle doo dee doo ing' ...

Ds is Tree Number Seven. He spent most of this evening lying on the floor howling about it because he doesn't get to move.

Last year he was a Guest at the Inn. I'm not sure he is destined for theatrical greatness.

I never forgave the girl who usurped me as Mary after I broke my arm.

When ds2 was recast as a camel instead of a king in nursery I felt his pain. It brought it all back.

But once you've been Mary, what is left? Any other role is a demotion. Better to hope.

I am blonde and was never Mary, but was an angel a couple of times. DS1 (a king in reception this year), was meant to be Father Christmas in his preschool play last year and point-blank refused to wear the costume or even go on stage. I'm hoping he's matured sufficiently this year.