The marvelous church Christmas show, "A Christmas to Remember" came off without a hitch on Dec. 9. OK, that's not quite true. There were a few hitches. Like when the 2- and 3-year-old sheep didn't make it offstage before the entrance of the three wisemen and I (as narrator) made up some really stupid ad lib lines. And when Josh, playing Bert the Cop from the "It's a Wonderful Life" scene, missed his cue line and I had to conspicuously whisper into the mic to get him to come on stage. "Bert ... where are you? Bert, it's your cue. We need you onstage now." But that's why our playwright Andy Skroska wrote a narrator into the script--someone to cover for those sorts of things.
Real-life sisters Sus and Keziah were marvelous as the Haynes Sisters singing, "Sister, Sister" (what else?) from "A White Christmas" while Todd did a stunning job as Manuel the "He's from Barcelona" bellhop from Fawlty Towers (because, of course, the inn Mary and Joseph finally found shelter at was Fawlty Towers). Nice handlebar moustache, Todd! And I, of course, was all decked out as a 1940s schoolteacher who narrated the whole show as remembered by Albert, the present-day Grandpa telling the "real" story of Christmas to his grandchildren.
Judy, our marvelous music director, makes a cameo in this second photo, as does little Sophia, who played the Little Drummer Boy. Here we are in the costumes for our main show, but in the first photo we're dressed up as carolers for the pre-show. We were also joined by Becky, Jeremy and brothers Matt and Josh, who did a marvelous backstage version of the male version of "Sisters, Sisters" a la Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby. Too bad we couldn't get that in the show!
Ahh...it was a grand show!
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