church humour and Christmas/holiday plays

[Mary Ann]

Belinda added to my list of pre-school Nativity play must-haves:

> 8) Mary must forget that the doll she's holding is supposed to be a 
> real baby. Better yet, she should forget she's holding anything, and 
> let it dangle by its swaddlings.
> 
> 9) All the stable animals shall compete to make their noises the 
> loudest.
> 
> 10) Angel's halos should be attached so that they slowly slip 
> sideways throughout the play.  Wings too.

Hee!  I'd forgotten about the dropped babies and the crooked halos.  
Who else wants to add to the list?

Do any of you Brits remember a Christmas special 4 or 5 years ago 
called The Flint Street Nativity?  The writer had collected Nativity 
play stories for 10 years written a collaboration of all the things 
that had gone wrong.  The parts of the children were played beautifully 
by adults and all the sets were made to make the adults to child 
scale.  It's the funniest Christmas special I've ever seen but, sadly, 
it doesn't seem to have been repeated since it was first shown.

Mary Ann, who wants to watch The Hogfather once more before packing her 
Christmas stuff away