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Today was the annual Christmas pageant at the local Unitarian Universalist church. Apparently every year the choir director gets together with the kids and they cook up something unique for each production, but this is the first time I've been in town when they put it on.
It was so adorable. Their baby Jesus was a real live baby, five weeks old, whose parents are church members. Baby Jesus behaved herself admirably; I think she slept through most of her two scenes. And those scenes were filled with earnest young angels and sheep and shepherds and kings and &c. I kind of kept tearing up from how adorable it was, because I'm ridiculous like that.
The basic plot was that everyone's assembled in the stable to sing a song about Jesus being born when the Archangel Michael realizes that there's an alarming lack of shepherds, so he goes off to find the nearest shepherds (who, for reasons unknown, live in "the outskirts of Ramah, 15 miles from Bethlehem," or so the program insert tells me). Meanwhile Lucifer and his minion Asmodeo learn of the birth of Jesus (on a computer, idk, perhaps they were checking facebook) and decide to stop the shepherds from reaching Bethlehem. Most of the play was taken up with their various failed schemes to stop the shepherds.
I can't actually textually convey how great it was? Lucifer kept on kind of forgetting his lines, Asmodeo was a total ham, nine-year-old Michael was very serious business and six-year-old Gabriel followed him around the whole time, also looking very serious, until near the end they all had a showdown with SWORDS. And then everyone gathered in the stable and sang a song!
...Also, the woman who led the opening prayer prior to the pageant mentioned offhandedly that she was from Lawrence, Kansas, but that is entirely irrelevant and has no bearing on the reasons that I was shaking with delighted laughter through the whole service.
It was so adorable. Their baby Jesus was a real live baby, five weeks old, whose parents are church members. Baby Jesus behaved herself admirably; I think she slept through most of her two scenes. And those scenes were filled with earnest young angels and sheep and shepherds and kings and &c. I kind of kept tearing up from how adorable it was, because I'm ridiculous like that.
The basic plot was that everyone's assembled in the stable to sing a song about Jesus being born when the Archangel Michael realizes that there's an alarming lack of shepherds, so he goes off to find the nearest shepherds (who, for reasons unknown, live in "the outskirts of Ramah, 15 miles from Bethlehem," or so the program insert tells me). Meanwhile Lucifer and his minion Asmodeo learn of the birth of Jesus (on a computer, idk, perhaps they were checking facebook) and decide to stop the shepherds from reaching Bethlehem. Most of the play was taken up with their various failed schemes to stop the shepherds.
I can't actually textually convey how great it was? Lucifer kept on kind of forgetting his lines, Asmodeo was a total ham, nine-year-old Michael was very serious business and six-year-old Gabriel followed him around the whole time, also looking very serious, until near the end they all had a showdown with SWORDS. And then everyone gathered in the stable and sang a song!
...Also, the woman who led the opening prayer prior to the pageant mentioned offhandedly that she was from Lawrence, Kansas, but that is entirely irrelevant and has no bearing on the reasons that I was shaking with delighted laughter through the whole service.
