Scene 1 Flashcards
Renee: I don’t know how to tell you this, Amanda, but the The Congregation of Joy and Love has bought a real camel for their Christmas pagent this year.
They bought a camel for their Christmas Pageant?
Adam: Peace and Joy! Harmony and Love!
That’s it! I’m taking them down! I have it up to here with the Congregation of Love and Joy!
Louise: It’s Joy and Love. The Congregation of Joy and Love.
I don’t care if it’s the circus of Barnum and Bailey. They have gone one dromedary too far.
Adam: That is, until Renee Talbot, the entertainment editor of the Appleville Gazette said those fateful words just six weeks before Christmas.
A Camel! The congregation of Joy and Love has a Real Camel!
Louise: Are we sure it wasn’t the donkey from last year with a really good costume? What? it’s possible.
Oh, it’s a camel alright. And you know what this mean?
Louise: Camel poop?
War!
Ruth: Oh, Amanda, not war. We are a church. So what if another church has a slightly more impressive Christmas Pageant?
Slightly more impressive?!
Harriet: Generally more impressive?
Generally?!
Karen: Alright….cherry on top Christmas Pageant!
Ruth: But it isn’t about that. It’s about the kids and church and the season.
That’s just it! I want them to know we gave it our all. I want our kids to remember these Christmas Pageants all the days of their lives. I want them to know we cared about Christmas.
Louise: That’s a good goal.
Karen: Wait a minute, my kids and (to ruth) your grandkids will remember.
Remember what? Remember a cardboard star and wise men wearing pajama pants and their fathers’ bathrobes year after year? Not to mention the 30 watt light bulb wired from below, swaddled in cloth and laid in the manger playing the glowing light of Jesus.
Louise: Oh, I love that part!
Louise, we are a joke, while year after year The Congregation of Joy and Love brings Bethlehem to life on the other side of town. No, this year will be different, bigger, better. And all I have is six weeks to do just that.
Harriet: What do you have in mind, Amanda?
Ladies, we are going to surf!
Louise: Oh I don’t surf…you meant surf the internet, didn’t you?
Karen: In search of what?
Something new about a very old story. Are you four with me?
Ruth: I’m in! My grandkids mean the world to me!
Louise: I’m in too. Well, I mean I am in also, because I would make three technically.
Just try to keep up, Louise.
Ruth: Faith! What are you doing here? Everyone, you know my granddaughter, Faith. But when did you start wearing glasses?
Faith: I started wearing glasses the minute I decided to join the Christmas Pageant Committee
Don’t you think you’re a little young to be on the committee?
