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• One-line Speaking Parts for 6-8 Children
• Optional Solo Animal parts for 4 Children, in costume ("The Friendly Beasts"):
Donkey, Cow, Sheep, Dove
• Non-speaking or singing optional parts: Mary, Joseph, shepherds at nativity
• Optional Tuba Player for opening VeggieTales Theme Song (If used, decorate
Tuba with Christmas decorations – especially tinsel!)
• All adult and youth leadership can be involved onstage to offer hands-on
guidance for the children. Leaders should dress as the children do, and
participate along with them.
Costumes:
• Donkey, Cow, Sheep, Dove, Biblical costumes for Mary, Joseph and Shepherds.
• VeggieTales T-Shirts for all children (official trademarked VeggieTales artwork
reflecting Christmas musical cover art, available from wordmusic.com)
Staging/Set/Props:
• Create a "stage look" to your set: curtain in back, if possible; risers for children
in choir formation; a bare Christmas tree; a large box to the side, filled with
tree decorations and lots and lots of tinsel; mics on stands.
• Position a large screen behind/above or to the side of stage for playing DVD
– best if it can be seen by the audience AND the children on stage. Nativity
manger; stable of some kind.
• Create all of the larger-than-life props needed for the "items" the children
suggest and bring on to the stage (when they are deciding what they will need
to have in a Christmas show): huge Christmas stocking; oversized candy cane;
enormous bell (you could use one of the largest handbells for this so that it
would be heavy and big); x-tra large wrapped present; then any of the other
"not Christmas" items that you decide to use in your production: i.e., beach ball,
pirate flag, inflatable palm tree – anything crazy!
For additional Production and Teaching Notes,
go to page 54.
