![]() The pageant director is appalled with her actors, who apparently have no reverence for the beloved story and fight over every stage direction. No parishioner family is willing to volunteer their baby for the previously coveted role as the Christ Child, so Imogene brings an old, naked doll as a stand-in. "What good is some smelly oil? Let's bring pizza!" the prospective Wise Men agree. They have a few, um, artistic suggestions to make to the pageant director. One hapless kid is picked to read the Nativity story to the Herdmans. There was only one major part left, the best one, one with only one short line to learn but with a chance to make a climactic appearance in the limelight- The Angel of the Lord. ![]() ![]() Nobody ever won an argument with Imogene. Leroy, Claude, and Ollie'll be the Wise Men," bellowed Imogene. " I'll be Mary, and Ralph, he'll be Joseph. Not content with heisting the contents of the collection box, they shove their way to the front of the assembled Sunday School kids and take over the major roles in the play. ![]() The Herdmans, known universally as the horrible Herdmans-Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys-have certainly never darkened the door of the church before, but with their usual timing, they pick the day of the casting of the annual Christmas pageant to show up. Our Christmas pageant was always the same-kids in bath robes and bedsheets.and everybody knows the story. ![]()
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