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So, on the subject of narrators, how many former nativity narrators....

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colditz · 29/11/2005 23:16

..Stil feel like narrators to this day?

I thought about it, and actually, I am still the boring looking one who is quite clever, never gets to wear a sparkly outfit, and gets given the tedious jobs because it is widely known that I can and will do them.

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hunkermunker · 29/11/2005 23:20

Aww - I was an elf in the nativity play (honestly!) and I still feel like I'm the plonker in green tights.

KateF · 29/11/2005 23:23

Yes Colditz, we are the playgroup secretaries etc!

zippy539 · 29/11/2005 23:39

I never even got a part in the flippin' nativity play - and felt compelled to go on to a life on the stage in order to prove myself! Think yourself lucky to have got some lines!

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colditz · 29/11/2005 23:45

They are NOT lines!

It is reading!

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zippy539 · 30/11/2005 00:03

Lines/reading ! At least you got something to SAY!!!!

harpsiheraldangelssing · 30/11/2005 05:24

yesyesyes
always standing up and saying stuff
i ended up as a barrister

bobbybob · 30/11/2005 05:28

I'm going to Emcee my Christmas concert and have to introduce 30 kids and not offend any parents - oh my, if I was in the UK there would almost certainly be a thread on Sunday about how the evil piano and flute teacher only got their ds/dd's introduction wrong and they knew that I never liked them, and should they withdraw their child?...

Having cold sweats about it - once a narrator, always the narrator. At my school you had to memorise your narration, and so it was lines.

frannyandzooey · 30/11/2005 07:46

I am usually the one standing up telling everyone else what to do, yes

WigWamBam · 30/11/2005 08:30

Oh dear, is dd going to be labelled for life as the "boring looking one who is quite clever, never gets to wear a sparkly outfit, and gets given the tedious jobs"? Poor little sod.

She's Narrator this year for the Reception play and is gutted that she has to wear her uniform and doesn't have a pretty costume to wear.

And she has lines, I'll have you know; she can't read half the words she has to say yet

Enid · 30/11/2005 08:33

I was chosen to be narrator as tall and also as I had a lovely reading voice

went on to be flamboyant star of all school productions and wear many sparkly outfits

narrator is great if you are control freak

fennel · 30/11/2005 08:34

absolutely.

mumsnet must be home to all the boring, mousey but clever girls in the class

fuzzywuzzy · 30/11/2005 08:45

I was narrator (co-narrator actually) for our school nativity, however I did then go on to be Ciderella in our Christmas play when I was oooh about 10yrs old.
I retired from acting at the grand old age of 11 and became sound effects manager for subsequent plays...read she's the only one who could play the piano...

wilbur · 30/11/2005 08:46

I didn't even get as far as narrating - in three school plays I was (wait for it) the prompter. So I wasn't even on stage. Narrating? Pah, luxury!

wilbur · 30/11/2005 08:48

Although I was Angel Gabriel at nursery which was a career highlight .

acnebride · 30/11/2005 08:57

yes, following a tour of dooty as narrator at age 11 i still wear dull clothes and stand to one side of the real action, pronouncing on it

however it's better than being Mary which i did once as i had one line to say, a hijab to wear and then had to sing a song about breasts

Lizzylou · 30/11/2005 09:10

I was always Mary (I had lovely long dark hair, nothing to do with acting ability!) and to be honest, the rest of my life has been a complete anticlimax thereafter, I am never centre of attention and secretly want that! Except for when I was "Batty Bat" that is...........that was fab!

acnebride · 30/11/2005 09:16

colditz i think you have an entire self-help book germinating here

Issymum · 30/11/2005 09:26

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fennel · 30/11/2005 09:29

a Fajita would be so easy as a costume though, just a yellow blanket wrapped around.

MrsBadger · 30/11/2005 09:46

My best friend and I were a narrator double act for years and years - early readers, articulate, bossy etc.
Both went into science and are now deep in academia (though she has published twice as much as me).

Think they must have relented in our final year as she got to be Mary, and I was Gabriel with four-foot silver wings.
Result!

acnebride · 30/11/2005 10:35

imagining that MrsBadger -
Gabriel: Hail Mary full of grace thou art highly favoured and will have a baby, dubious though it sounds.
Mary: Ok it's my turn now. What evidence can you produce of that?
Gabriel: No, let me finish. The Holy Spirit will come upon you and...
Mary: Are you expecting to have that as a poster at the next conference? I warn you that you may find supporters thin on the ground.
Gabriel: It's a small case study but that's perfectly valid. I accept it will be a challenge to repeat it...

MrsBadger · 30/11/2005 12:19

pmsl acnebride!
GOD: I've worked damn hard to get the funding for this, now stop arguing and get on with it! they'll be wanting water turned into wine next, bloody postdocs...

frannyandzooey · 30/11/2005 12:19

I want to hear your song about breasts, acnebride!

kate100 · 30/11/2005 12:46

I still feel like the narrator to this day, always have to feedback for the group at courses etc, and still have an exceptionally loud voice, handy as a teacher though. In fact a life of over working my voice has tken it's toll, yesterday my GP commented on my abnormally large tonsils

dillydally · 30/11/2005 13:17

I was the narrator too, but I don't like to talk about. The angel gabriel stole my tinsel and my mother went slightly beserk as I was left with ratty old tinsel, which did not compliment my plummy vowels.

I now hate public speaking.