The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Registration Form
Directed by Lyndie Mansfield
Show runtime is approximately 1 hr.

Show dates & times
Thursday, Dec 5th @ 7pm
Saturday, Dec 7th @ 2pm
Sunday, Dec 8th @ 7pm
Thursday, Dec 12th, 7pm
Saturday, Dec 14th, 2pm
Sunday, Dec 15th, 2 pm

Roles available:
Mother (Grace Bradley) – Female, Lead,  30-40ish
Father (Bob Bradley)/Fireman – Male, Supporting, 30-40ish
Beth Bradley (the narrator)  – Female, Lead,  strong voice & presence ,10-13ish
Charlie Bradley -  Male, Supporting, traditional kid brother, 7-10ish
Ralph Herdman – Male, Supporting – ragged, scroungy, slouching manner, touch of adolescent cool, 12-14ish
Imogene Herdman – Female, Lead, loud, bossy, crafty, 11-13ish
Leroy Herdman - Male, Supporting, tough, sure of himself, 10-12ish
Claude Herdman -Male, Supporting, tough, combative, 9-11ish
Ollie Herdman – Male, Supporting, looking for trouble, Claude’s usual partner in crime, 8-10ish
Gladys Herdman – Female, Supporting, small, wiry, feisty, 7-9ish
Mrs. Armstrong – Female, Supporting, managerial in voice & manner, 50ish
Mrs. McCarthy/Mrs. Clark – Female, Supporting, less imperious version of Mrs. Armstrong, 40ish
Alice Wendleken – Female, Supporting, prim, proper, pain in the nect, 10-13ish
Mrs. Slocum/Mrs. Clausing – Female, Featured, pleasant, motherly woman, 35-60
Maxine – Female, Featured, 9-12
Hobie – Male, Featured, 9-11
David – Male, Featured, 7-9
Reverend Hopkins/Fireman – Male, Featured, 40s
Elmer Hopkins – Male, Featured, 12-14
Beverly – Female, Ensemble, Silent 7-8
Shirley – Female, Ensemble, 7-8
Juanita – Female, Ensemble, 7-8
Doris – Female, Ensemble, Spoken 9-10
Angel Choir, Baby Angels, Shepherds - Either Gender, Ensemble, Sing Christmas Carols

Please complete a registration form for each person interested in participating. We will try to find a place for everyone interested.  Auditions for specific roles will be Monday, Sept 23rd @ 6:30pm. If you are unable to make this audition time but are interested in a specific role, please email Lyndie @ ssmainsttheatre@gmail.com to make arrangements for alternative dates or video audition submissions.  If you just wish to be part of the ensemble, please be prepared to sing the first verse of Silent Night.

For Auditions, please choose one of the following monologues to memorize and perform. 

Kid roles
#1.  Because of the Herdmans, it was a whole new story - Imogene, burping the baby, and the Wise Men bringing such a sensible present After all, they couldn't eat frankincense! And even Gladys - "He's in the barn. Go see him."...so the shepherds didn't have to stumble around all over the countryside. But I guess it wasn't like that for Imogene. For her, the Christmas pageant turned out to be all wonder and mystery, as if she just caught on to what Christmas was all about. When it was over we had a party in the basement, but the Herdmans didn't stay. They didn't have any cocoa and they didn't walk off with all the cookies, and they wouldn't even take their candy canes.

#2. I didn't dare raise my hand. Imogene would have killed me! She said, "I'm going to be Mary in this play, and if you open your mouth or raise your hand you'll wish you didn't." And I said, "I'm always Mary in the Christmas pageant." And she said, "go ahead then, and next spring when the pussywillows come out I'll stick a pussywillow so far down your ear that nobody can reach it...and it'll sprout there and grow and grow, and you'll spend the rest of your life with a pussywillow bush growing out of your ear!"

#3. Revenge at Bethlehem! The Herdmans thought the Christmas story cam right out of the F.B.I. files! At least they picked out the right villian - it was Herod they wanted to gang up on and not the baby Jesus. But the baby Jesus quit the pageant anyway. It was supposed to be Eugene Slocum, but Mrs. Slocum said she wasn't going to let Imogene Herman get her hands on him. So we didn't have a baby Jesus, and that bothered my mother. She kept trying to scratch up a baby...even at the last rehearsal.

#4. Hey Leroy! You think it's so great to steal my dessert every day and you know what? I don't care if you steal my dessert. I'll even give you my dessert. I get all the dessert I want in Sunday school. All kind. Chocolate cake and candy bars and cookies...and Twinkies and Big Wheels. We get refreshments all the time, all we want...ice cream, and doughnuts and cupcakes and...

Adult roles:

Mother: Girls, girls!...Everyone is important...Mary, Jesus, and the short kids. Now, is everyone here? Beverly, will you just step out in the hall and see if anyone else is coming? Now you little children will be our angels, so please remind your mothers that you'll need bedsheets. People in the angel choir will need bedsheets too, and if any of you have old bathrobes at home......Now what's the matter?... Well, let's make some room there, for the Herdmans. Now what happened to Beverly?

Mrs. Armstrong: You'll have to get someone to push the baby angels on, otherwise they get in each other's way and bend their wings. Bob could do that, and he could keep an eye on the shepherds too. Oh, another thing about the angel choir. Don't let them wear lipstick. They think because it's a play...that they have to wear lipstick, and it looks terrible. So tell them...And, Grace, don't use just anybody's baby for Jesus...get a quiet one. Better yet, get two if you can...then if one turns out to be fussy, you can always switch them...

Father: All the kids in the world are down in the basement, putting on bedsheets....
Well...that's what they were...Mary and Joseph. They were refugees, in a way. They were a long way from home, didn't have any place to stay, didn't know anybody. They were probably cold and hungry and tired...and messy....
I think you worry too much. Now...I'm going to push baby angels onstage, and I'm going to hand out shepherd's crooks and then push them onstage...When do I do all that?

Reverend Hopkins: Well, the whole church is in an uproar. I don't know...Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me", but I'm not sure he meant the Herdmans...Grace, don't you think we should cancel the pageant? We could blame it on the fire...make a good excuse. Everyone seems to think it's going to be a...a....But, Grace.....I don't think anyone will come to see it!

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