Festive Note - Nativity Plays

[grannybat84112]

Junediamanti wrote:
> This is what we call the kids school play that depicts the 
> Nativity, in the UK. ... As a parent, I feel they often provided  
> some of the funnier experiences when my daughter was younger...

<snip anecdotes of dancing lobsters, regional accents and PC-ness>

> I watched every one of 
> them laughing and crying at the same time and wouldn't have missed 
> any of them for the world.  Dancing Christmas puddings included.

This is not the same as Christmas panto, yes? One of my Alan Rickman 
e-groups got into a discussion of that, but I'm still a bit unclear 
on the distinctions. Could you educate me a bit?

Grannybat
once again
a clueless Yank