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[Flamesparrow]

"K is a star, J is a king, I am nothing"

So.... I sobbed

Come make me feel better about your children being the same

DS1 10 is villagers number 10! Possibly has a line to say.
DS2 8 is a bit disapointed at being just an animal.He said 'I won't have anything to say, i'm an animal!'
DD1 4 No idea yet! Reception class don't seem to have been told.

My boy is a car. And because he was shoved to the back during the last assembly I have made the biggest, showoffy-est car costume I could. Pathetic I know, but he is soo proud of it. I bet he still gets shoved to the back though!

My little one is a wise man, so quite a good role. But he is insisting that he is a 'prime minister'. Any one got a Gordon Brown costume they don't want?

DD is an 'angel/shepherd', which I think means she is so unimportant it doesn't matter what she is. (I hope it doesn't mean she's an angel and a shepherd and I'm meant to be doing two costumes )

My charge has one line to say not sure her mum is that bothered but i am

pmsl @ the prime minister being a wise man!!!

We don't have to make costumes (thankfully) - but apparently they are doing it so that one reception class wears costumes and the other hats, and then they are swapping for the next day's performance I think that means DD is wearing a hat twice though

Camel
Only stage direction 'Pretend to spit'

rofl @ 'pretend to'!

yep my son is in the chorus. teacher asked who wanted a speaking part and who didn't and he's shy and didn't want one.

think they should at least let all of them have a line or something.

have to sit through lots of precocious performances and may get a glimpse of my son's head.

bitter? me?

My DS is a reindeer like the rest of his class! Yay - no complicated costume just reindeer ears from the pound shop! Bliss.

All of DD's class are sheep. Last year they were all angels. I think next year they will be the shepherds (if sticking with same theme).

DD has a cute sheeps outfit and when you press it's ear it makes a bleating sound

I have had a zebra and a wolf in the past...

Younger dd is a shepherd (all her class are shepherds), elder dd doesn't know what she is yet, just knows she's in a group of them dancing.

DD is a dove ('The Dove from Above')
I keep trying not to think of Vic and Bob's Shooting Stars.

Clearly not SEA

I think I reacted quite so drastically because it just brought back memories of Alison - blonde curls, was the star, the angel, the fairy queen, the princess (you get the picture) and I wore a bow tie and carried a candle (that is the memorable role btw )

The star has been the main in the preschool things.

ds is one of many shepherds (nursery) - he was a shepherd last year too and spent most of the performance with his headdress pulled over his face

dd1 & 2 will no doubt only be in the chorus - their school always does a whole school performance - crap idea in a school of 100, if you ask me (which, of course, nobody ever does!!)

at least dd1 does get to play the teacher in her 'stage school' performance of High School Musical.

DS has a single line to say of 5 words .. there are children learning paragraphs of text .. he is pissed off he wanted to be the brother

nursery age DD is the star ... meaning the actual star (I think that's pretty important and certainly beats DH's tree when he was nativity)

DD (8) is in the child choir for Joseph at the local secondary school, so although that may be a bit also-ran-ish, I am v.proud because she is only a Y4. She has been rehearsing like mad, for weeks now and in the last couple, 4 and a half hours a night after school plus weekends. It is a performing arts college so they go all out with these productions.

We are going to see it on Fri

i do think they should at least let each child have a line or at least get to dress up a bit. grr

Well DS's class (Yr 2) are not doing the nativity but coincidently their class assembly (every class does one over the course of the year) is on Friday.

His Yr have been doing space as a theme this term.

DS is Uranus.

I kid you not. And - yes - DH and I giggled. Immature - us? Oh yes!

And as Uranus he has to say "I am Uranus. I am blue. Because of methane gas I have 15 moons."

I will be chewing my arm off trying not to explode with laughter.

blimey buda

Buda!

DS is a camel. He has one line, "I'm so tired". I'm trying to get him to build his part and say it like he would do at home - shoulders down, sulky face, "IIIIIIIII'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Tiiiiiii- yeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrdddddd"

Ok............... I must be the unpushiest Mummy on MN, I breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that he is an Egyptian. He has no lines to learn, not even one. He is now in a position to enjoy the concert as opposed to his friend J who is fretting already about getting his words right.

Now all I need to do is find, a white tunic and head band and a white collar decorated with gold.

Oh words would make me rock in a corner sobbing even more.

Just a walk on, walk off in a pretty (any) costume would do me

Flamey, they often give the really good parts to the ugly kids to boost their confidence

That must have been the case with Alison.

I was a stunner, she was clearly back end of a bus (oddly enough a pretty blonde curly bus)