PreTeena by Allison Barrows for March 22, 2022

back in my day (graduated grade 8 in 1984) we alternated Christmas plays done by the grade 7 and 8 students as a combined project. One year they did a Christmas Carol. The alternate year they did “Hansel and Gretel” or some other fairy tale play.

Neither my school nor my church performed any Christmas shows when I was a child. I’d always wanted to be in a Christmas pageant. Finally, years later, the church I currently attend asked if my daughter, who had just turned 2, could be an angel. They said that I could dress as an angel & be with her too. So, there I was, in my very first Christmas pageant, 40 years old and pregnant, dressed as an angel! (What was really funny was there was another mom with a 2-year-old boy, likewise pregnant, likewise angels!)

How is A Christmas Carol a religious story? It’s a story about redemption that happens to take place on December 25.

Erudite kids. Love Carmina Burana.

Gopher tuna!!Bring more tuna!!Statue of big dog with fleas!

Connie Wrote about this in her hilarious story ‘Ado’ which appeared in the January 1988 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. ‘Ado’ is also in Willis’ short story collection ‘Impossible Things.’

http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Willis/Ado.html

They would probably approve of a dramatic version of “Die Hard” then.

I’d buy tickets.

Karaoke, hmm? Then there are a lot of Christmas songs the kids could sing. For example: Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, Frosty the snowman, Santa Claus is coming to town, Grandma got run over by a reindeer, and those are just the secular ones. I’ll bet odds to evens there will be kids who sing Christmas carols, too, with or without permission.

I’d like to see them perform Lambada or, better yet, Fire from the Poniter Sisters.

Do Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”

PURPLE RAIN

We Five— You were on my mind. The 1965 cover of Ian and Sylvia song.