"When I was a kid, I played _____________ in the Christmas pageant"

[rurallib]

Me? I was the angel Gabriel in the Catholic school play.

Just thinking about that the other night I realized that I was the guy who was telling a young unmarried woman that she was pregnant and she didn't have a clue who the father was. As played by a classmate.

[frogmarch]

1. the Virgin Mary

in the 1st grade. I was jealous of my friends who got to be angels and wear glittery wings.

[Hepburn]

2. the Narrator

Yep, I always got to do all the reading. I wanted to wear a costume and instead, my mom would get me a new poodle skirt and matching blouse and a new pair of Spaulding Saddle shoes!

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. SATAN!

Just kidding. I was part of the stage crew. My then 6 month old niece, who actually grew up to be SATAN, played Baby Jesus. How ironic!

[PassingFair]

4. I was cast as the angel Gabriel...but I got sick and missed a rehearsal...

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When I came back for the next rehearsal, they had given the part to someone else.

I had to return my big, glittering wings halo and put
on one of my dad's crappy white t-shirts and a tinsel-covered hanger,
as I was bumped down to the "heavenly host" crew.

I'm not saying this CAUSED my atheism, but ....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I was an angel, though not the important one.

I had a doily bobby-pinned to my hair as a halo.

[Chan790]

6. I was a jackass.

I was many years older when I realized what my teenage pageant director was actually saying about me when she said I was "naturally suited to the role."

[fleur-de-lisa]

12. Hilarious! - eom

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. Cthulhu

http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/How-Cthulhu-Ate-Christmas-275308489

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Mary.

Rehearsals went fine in the unadorned parish hall. It was at the real event, with a fully staged set, that we learned I have a significant allergy to hay. More than sixty years later Mom still trots out the photo of the little snot-faced Mary who sneezed and splattered her way through the play.

[Danmel]

9. A Maccabee!

I went to the Rabbi Harry Halpern Day School!

[rurallib]

11. no idea, but I guess that was a big role?

[MosheFeingold]

19. Have you never heard of the Hebrew Hammer?! n/t

Long story short, Greeks got tired of Jews being Jewish, demanded we convert.

A lot of Jews went along with this. A statue of Zues was put in the Temple, among other practices more worthy of Caligula. Lots of Jews were being killed/persecuted.

The Maccabeans got pissed, killed a lot of people, pulled down the statutes, started a peasant revolt, and reestablished Israel, despite being outnumbered 10:1.

The temple oil had been desecrated, but there was a bit left. If you believe the accounts of the day, the oil continued to burn for 8 days, thereby permitting proper Temple services.

In short:

They tried to kills us.
They failed despite everything.
Let's eat.

[Danmel]

13. Yes! The Maccabees led the revolt against the Greeks/Assyrians

http://judaism.about.com/od/holidays/a/hanukkah.htm

[MosheFeingold]

18. Lucky you

I was always a Temple guard or something.

At least I wasn't a Greek.

[Arkytior]

10. A list of what I played

Sheep and ox
Background
Caroler
Narrative Angel

I almost didn't get the part of Narrative Angel but the director decided to split the part up.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Hooky. n/t

[Xyzse]

15. Melchior!!!!

[mrmpa]

16. No one......

only the cool kids got parts. This was at a Catholic school. Even in the May Pageant for Mary I couldn't be an attendant only could watch from afar as Mary was crowned with flowers

Meanwhile I was a straight A student, no problems for the teachers. The only thing I see was that I transferred into this school in 4th grade, and by 4th grade sides had all ready been taken.

[Beaverhausen]

17. An angel

[we can do it]

20. Mrs. Santa Clause at school, A wise man at church (we had mostly girls )

[BlueJazz]

21. Oh boy. I played one of the wise men. The gym teacher had hooked up this deal where the "star"

...of Bethlehem would rise behind the manger and everybody would be awed. It was a 200 watt bulb.
Unfortunately one of the helpers tied it to the rope with nylon string. While the Star was rising the small nylon string touched the 200 watt (hot) bulb.(it melted). The bulb and the socket crashed to the floor, sparked a lot and scared the shit out of "Mary" and she ran off-stage. The crowd was laughing their asses off including yours truly. Didn't go very well after that.

[rurallib]

22. a 200 watt incandescent bulb would have been ungodly hot

think you were lucky the place didn't catch on fire

[BlueJazz]

25. Yep, the gym teacher caught (excuse the pun), Holy hell.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Guitar. nt

[sharp_stick]

24. I got Joseph when I was 12

and I've been each of the Wise Men at least once.

[IrishEyes]

26. An angel

Just a regular one of the angels.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. I never played in a Christmas pageant

I did, however, sing Christmas carols at a church function when I was a little kid. That was the same day that How the Grinch Stole Christmas was to premiere on TV (December 18, 1966). I was really, really looking forward to seeing The Grinch because I had the book and wanted to see it in animated form. However, I got really sick during the performance, and had a pretty high fever by the time I got home, so I had to go straight to bed. No Grinch for me that year (*sigh*).

[PufPuf23]

28. I was a spaceman (this was Christmas 1959, 1st grade)

Everyone was in the pageant and each grade had its own portion of the pageant.

I had a helmet made of an ice cream container with pipe cleaner antennae.

We were arranged in rows on small bleachers along the walls of the general purpose room while we watched and waited our turn on stage with parents and others in the central audience area (this was the same room where we were taken to watch TV when Kennedy was shot while we waited for parents to take us home early several years later).

I was in a rank of little boy extras that were matched with little girls in island girl costumes ala South Pacific for the ending production number.

While in the bleachers my antennae got entangled with an island girls costume (I even remember her name Cynthia *****).

[DawgHouse]

29. A snowflake.

[Luciferous]

30. The virgin Mary

[Contrary1]

31. I met all the requirements to star as Mary in our 1st grade play:

1) My hair was darker than anyone else's.
2) I was shorter than my husband, Joseph.
3) I was a virgin at the time.

[mucifer]

32. most of the kids in my public school were Jewish like me

We didn't have to suffer through that.

[Baitball Blogger]

33. I think I was cast as an angel.

I think my teacher was hoping it would turn into a hypnotic suggestion.