What role did you play in the school nativity play?

delricyo · 24-11-2009 01:39PM

I was never good enough to get a leading role

I was an angel for most of them (ie backing singer)
My mother was embarrassed because the only voice she could hear was me at the back of the stage - roaring the words to The Little Drummer Boy at the top of my voice

banshee_bones · 24-11-2009 01:41PM

homerun_homer wrote: »

I was Narrator#1 in Senior infants. It seemed lame at the time but at least I wasn't the guy who had to get on all fours and be the donkey carrying Mary and Joeseph.

I was ALWAYS the narrator for some godforsaken reason. Hated it. never got to dress up, píssed me off no end, never gt to dress up and do all the fun stuff my classmates were doing. Think thats why I hate halloween now and don't dress up.....! Was robbed of it as a child! :eek:

mink_man · 24-11-2009 01:41PM

BA

BDR · 24-11-2009 01:43PM

The Narrator.

Was just happy I wasn't a star, they had huuuge cardboard cutouts around their heads.

Vinta81 · 24-11-2009 01:45PM

Mary for like 4 years running. Did it at the Church too.

Long Onion · 24-11-2009 02:08PM

Vinta81 wrote: »

Mary Did it at the Church.

Teeheehee - she durty.

panda100 · 24-11-2009 02:13PM

Joesph.
Thats the worst thing about being the tallest girl in an all girls primary school. I always had to play the men in every school play. I was Prince Charming in Cinderella and Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist.

RxQueen · 24-11-2009 02:23PM

we just did random plays at christmas time, never ever really realting to christmas

one year i was a hedgehog, another year a nurse, a postman, a sunflower, and one year we did sort of a christmas theme and i was Mrs Clause..

BroomBurner · 24-11-2009 02:26PM

I was Mary one year (though nearly had the part stolen while I was out with chicken pox). Another year, I was Benny from Abba. I didn't even go to an all-girls school

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:28PM

panda100 wrote: »

Joesph.
Thats the worst thing about being the tallest girl in an all girls primary school. I always had to play the men in every school play. I was Prince Charming in Cinderella and Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist.

That's the worst? You got good roles.
At least you weren't an inconspicuous plant.

panda100 · 24-11-2009 02:33PM

WindSock wrote: »

That's the worst? You got good roles.
At least you weren't an inconspicuous plant.

When your a lanky,gawky,spotty girl whose class mates are all dressing up in pretty dresses and looking all feminine, and your dressing up as Bill Sikes and Joseph you start to get a few complexes

I hated the way Mary was always played by the 'pretty' girl in the school.

Im sure you made a wonderful plant windsock

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:35PM

Ehh thanks. At least I wasn't a crapweed. :pac:

donmeister · 24-11-2009 02:35PM

I was too shy to have a role. Acting 'aint my forte

Zombienosh · 24-11-2009 02:37PM

i can remember two plays i did in school...

In the jesus one, thats this one isnt it?
I was a soldier guy that killed jesus.

Then i remember we did some other one, think it was 3 little pigs..

and i was a tree in the background...

phasers · 24-11-2009 02:40PM

I played King Herod in a silent Nativity play age 16

As for my performance? I think the headline "Play enjoyed by all" speaks for itself

24-11-2009 02:46PM

A sheep.

wudangclan · 24-11-2009 02:46PM

I was a Joseph in our senior infants nativity play and ,yes ,Mary did remain a virgin throughout our time together.

jumpguy · 24-11-2009 02:49PM

I played Joseph. I told Mary she was so big she should be playing the stable. The performance didn't go down a storm, needless to say.

wudangclan · 24-11-2009 02:51PM

jumpguy wrote: »

I played Joseph. I told Mary she was so big she should be playing the stable. The performance didn't go down a storm, needless to say.

LeoGilly · 24-11-2009 02:56PM

I belive i was the second door who told Joseph to go fcuk himself! Was promoted the next year to the first door.

Corkfeen · 24-11-2009 02:56PM

I was a sheep, thats where all the talented actors started off.

No wonder I deserted religion. :rolleyes:

mud · 24-11-2009 03:35PM

I was the little drummer boy for four years running

*

Par rump a pump um

*I's a girl

I did play a mean snare drum though

metaoblivia · 24-11-2009 03:51PM

I played Mary. I always wanted to be an angel, but then I realized they spent the entire show having to hold their arms up, so it worked out. I got to ride a real donkey* and hang out in a manger with my arms comfortably at my side.

Our nativity featured real animals - a donkey, sheep, and goats. The church was right in front of our house and one Christmas, the animals got loose and ran amuck through our neighborhood. The donkey chased one boy all the way down the road. Good times!

Aldebaran · 24-11-2009 03:56PM

I played Joseph, complete with digital watch for that authentic New Testament feel.

Busi_Girl08 · 24-11-2009 04:02PM

In 3rd class, we did a modernised version of the Nativity, and I played the Sky News reporter :cool: I had 1 line"LET US IN!!"

It was the weirdest version of it...ever. Mary and Joseph get a phone call from Gabriel to tell them they are preggers, Little Donkey was replaced with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, along the way, they met Jackie Healy Ray and Dustin, and...at the end to escape the reporters and King Herod...the 3 of them hopped on a UFO

I'm still amazed that none of us were excommunicated :pac:

Wasn't school, but in Girl Guides I played Angel Gabriel

(We at one point started dancing to "You Drive me Crazy":D

24-11-2009 04:04PM

In the younger years (7-10) I was ALWAYS Mary. Apparently I was too tall to be an angel. Always wanted to be one. Plus I took drama classes so I was alright at acting.

In 5th and 6th class we had huge Christmas plays, that had nothing to do with religion usually. With about 100 in the cast. I played a ballet dancer in one of them (yeah I know, wtf) and a man in another one.

piby · 24-11-2009 04:20PM

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

In 3rd class, we did a modernised version of the Nativity, and I played the Sky News reporter :cool: I had 1 line"LET US IN!!"

It was the weirdest version of it...ever. Mary and Joseph get a phone call from Gabriel to tell them they are preggers, Little Donkey was replaced with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, along the way, they met Jackie Healy Ray and Dustin, and...at the end to escape the reporters and King Herod...the 3 of them hopped on a UFO

I'm still amazed that none of us were excommunicated :pac:

Wasn't school, but in Girl Guides I played Angel Gabriel (We at one point started dancing to "You Drive me Crazy":D

That may in fact be the best version of the Nativity I've ever heard! Whichever teacher came up with that better have got a promotion.

I got the part of narrator which was ok but I was pretty much off to the side. On the plus side the following year we didn't do the nativity, we did this story that was pretty similar to The Grinch. I was Frostbite the Dragon and I stole all Santa's presents only to ultimately reaslise the error of my ways! I even had a kick ass proper dragon costume as well

Ah those were the days . . .

Elba101 · 24-11-2009 04:25PM

The pied piper

tony 2 tone · 24-11-2009 05:01PM

I was inn keeper number 3, "We have no room", my delievery was outstanding.

Pjays · 24-11-2009 05:05PM

The supposed head angel. It was dreadful! It was only because everyone else had wings made of tin foil and my mother and neighbour had spent the evening before making these massive gold wings that were bigger than me and had gold ribbon all over them. I was mortified carrying them on the bus and then wearing them.

What role did you play in the school nativity play?

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