What's your favourite nativity memory?

Tori_Scope
Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,471 Championing
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Did you do a nativity as a child? If so, what's your favourite memory?

Whether you bagged the coveted role of Mary or Joseph, or were proud to be first lobster (YouTube), we want to hear about it!

One of my nativity memories is being the narrator one year, and having to learn a little song on handheld bells with the other narrator. It took us ages, but we smashed it on the night.

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community Member Posts: 15,435 Championing
    I was a narrator every year for some reason so I managed to get out of singing :)
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    I was an angel lol 

    But the best memory was watching toby in his first nativity as one of the 3 Kings proud mum moment I cried buckets 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I couldn’t speak when I was a child so I couldn’t ask to be in the nativity play as others did. But, if I’d been able to I would’ve made a good angel I’ll bet.
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,921 Championing
    edited December 2021
    Mine has always been the singing! 

    Even if I can't sing properly  :#

    I particularly remember singing away in a manger!
  • CountryMimi
    CountryMimi Scope Member Posts: 198 Empowering
    Not a nativity, but was a school Christmas play. I must have been 6 or 7 and I used to get so wound up at the thought of being on stage in front of parents that often I would end up being poorly...kinda funny considering that when I finished school I went on to study performing arts and dance for 6 years 😂😂 but I remember I had an awful headache and all of a sudden, before setting off to school for the evening, I projectile vomited all the way from the living room to the bathroom! And my dad still made me go and do the play 🙈
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,471 Championing
    Oh goodness @countrymimi! That doesn't sound like the ideal pre-show experience :D 

    How did you learn to manage your stage fright? 
  • CountryMimi
    CountryMimi Scope Member Posts: 198 Empowering
    @Tori_Scope 😂😂😂

    I did always struggle with it, but in certain situations it somehow seemed slightly easier. I think the idea of focusing on the choreography and technique when dancing was a bit of a distraction for me. I also sort of had my own particular strategies, especially in the latter years. I always had my entrances and exits planned and tended to wait in the wings probably at least two - three dance pieces before I was due on stage
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,216 Championing
    I remember being in the nativity shows, can't remember what roles but I remember the silver stars on a silver stick for some reason.
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,921 Championing
    I relate to you @Sandy_123. I can't remember which role but I remember being involved in the Away in a Manger nativity when I was younger. 

    Do you remember if you enjoyed being in the nativity shows? I know the songs from the nativity I was involved with have stuck with me  B)
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,921 Championing
    edited December 2022

    I can hear that, although you always struggled with it, in certain situations it somehow seemed slightly easier @CountryMimi.

    Distraction sounds like a really helpful thing! Especially when it involves so much focus. I feel this could be extended to other situations too.

    It is really positive to hear that you developed your own particular strategies, especially in the latter years  :)

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