Who was a rock, who was mary.....who was.......a flolowup thread

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Who was thre most bizarre thing in a Christmas play?

I was once a lollypop lady
My sister was once a jam tart and made my mum go into school to complain.
I have just outed my identity if she is a mumsnetter...
anyway

what is the most surreal thing that you have been in a school play

I was Mary in a church nativity play when I was 6. Joseph flatly refused to walk down the aisle with me so Mary entered Bethlehem and had her baby in the stable all by herself. Joseph would only walk down with the kings and then he picked his nose for the rest of the play.

I've also been a shepherd and a bystander in the market when the roman centurion announced the census. Both in the same play and both involved tea-towels and dressing gowns, but I had to swap with my friend in case the audience noticed that the shepherd had been to the market!

And I was the angel gabriel one year, but only because I'm tall. I think I had to narrate at that one, but I can't really remember - was too busy trying to hold on to the enormous cardboard wings that my mum had sellotaped to my pillowcase costume.

LOL wilbur; it is just one of those bizarre things from my childhood I can remember! No idea why as i can remember little more about the nativity. Oh, I know Joseph had to put his arm round me, which at that age I was really embarrased about!

I hope you are not taking the piss HM... All I have to do is look at a sheep and I burst in too tears...

All heart you lot!

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In to tears sorry... just a little fragile right now...

I was Mary.

Nativity plays are much more interesting these days, DD1 has been 'a dancing hailstone' last year and this year 'a sand-dancer'. (She loved the sand-dancer costume, it was like princess Jasmine from Aladdin).

In primary school I was the inkeeper, and had a solo (it was a musical nativity). I can still sing it nearly 20 years later.

In church I was always the donkey. Okay the donkey narrated and was the only one to have lines - but I wanted to be Mary. Always went to this girl who had the most amazing hair!

Good hair and Mary!

I was Joseph once...

The Narrator, so I never got to dress up. I was never allowed to be anything. I was about to get a solo in Annie but my friend got ill and I missed the audition taking care of her, some kid in a younger year got the part I wanted coz no-one came forward! But they wouldn't re do it. Oh no. I finally got a part in my last year, and my tutor came and said 'I never knew you had it in you'.

well you bloody well wouldn't would you? Old cow.

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I was Mary, but I desperately wanted to be an angel. I didn't want to be Mary because Joseph had to put his arm around me. When we got to the stable I picked the baby Jesus up, shook it to get the straw off (don't worry, of course it was a doll) and stuck him under my arm, and got told off for it by one miserable teacher...I was 5! Surely that's the type of thing that makes a nativity memorable?!

my twin sister and I had to be dolls in our reception play about a toyshop - I remember feeling horribly embarrassed. Was also an angel and felt incredibly pretty doing that one! Karen Dugan was Mary - cow!

Harrumph. I think I once got to the dizzy heights of innkeeper. And once played the glockenspeil (can still do The First Noel). Desperatley wanted to be Mary but it was always teachers-pet blonde bimbo Kate. Grrr.

She was so dense, I remember her shouting across the room 'Edam, where was Jesus born again?'. Um, have you not bloody noticed despite the fact a. we are at a church school and have heard this story repeatedly and b. you always get to be Mary?!

Not that it rankles, or anything.

I was the wife of King Dagobert, but what I said or did has been blotted from my memory. Probably for the best. The play was written by our Basil Fawltyesque Headmaster.
At Youth theatre I played a dung beetle, a slave and a mad old woman. Ah, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.
Ds is a clown this year and is very narked that they have to sing the puppets' song as well, because "they're all useless mum".

Oh, I got to wear a black leotard and be an acorn growing into a tree to the tune of Tubular Bells once. That was thrilling. Not.

My dd's school nativity play decided that all the angels would be Hell's Angels - and they all came on in black leather! Gabriel was an absolute gem - looked real 'ard and swaggered about like something out of Grease.