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Question 1

Adam: …there was just one more big dress rehearsal.

Answer 1

Leaping lords, please stay over there and don’t tease the doves…okay, I need a status report. Mr. Haney…so, besides the geese biting incident, Mr. Haney, how does it stand with all of our birds, cows and other creatures?

Question 2

Mr. Haney: Mrs. Macafee, I have some good news and some bad news.
Trudy: That doesn’t sound good.
Mr. Haney: The good news is that a wild creatures is back in nature, where it belongs and is happily flying from tree to tree.

Answer 2

And what’s the bad news?

Question 3

Mr. Haney: I was trying to get the cow in the back door and while the door was open, the partridge saw an opportunity and flew out.

Answer 3

MR. HANEY!

Question 4

Rev. James: Is my daughter here? I have looked everywhere, but I know she must be here somewhere since her car’s in the parking lot. That girl keeps disappearing on mysterious errands these days.

Answer 4

we don’t have your daughter, reverend.

Question 5

Jeff: I know, but don’t tell your mother, they were going to walk through twice.

Answer 5

wait! I have no partridge on the first day and no drummers on the twelfth day?! But not to worry! No! No time to panic. Everyone, if we work through the night and–

Question 6

Adam: Mom! Stop!

Answer 6

I know! I can call in the Catholics. I could make drums out of large plastic buckets, and they can –

Question 7

Adam: I mean it mom! Stop! Enough!

Answer 7

Adam, have you lost your mind?

Question 8

Ruth: I think Adam is trying to tell you that you’ve lost perspective.
Rev. James: Amanda, perhaps you are overcompensating a bit for what you feel are your shotcomings…
Louise: You have bats in your belfry.

Answer 8

Et tu, Louise? Step back, everyone. I have a hot glue gun, and I know how to use it! Now, if I don’t get this together, we will not have a Christmas pageant this year. That is not going to happen as long as I am the pageant director. I just have to find that missing piece…

Question 9

Adam: I can tell you what’s missing, mom. It’s you.

Answer 9

What are you talking about. I’m right here?

Question 10

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Julia: Ask adam.

Answer 10

Adam? What is she talking about?

Question 11

Natalie: You think woolly thoughts and you…look angelic. Here we go…if it’s alright with you, mom.

Answer 11

By all means…

Question 12

Adam: That’s about it..except we were going to sing Joy to the World at the end.

Answer 12

I am so ashamed.

Question 13

Natalie: Was it really that bad?
Holly: We had all the facts, didn’t we?

Answer 13

I’m not ashamed of you. I’m ashamed of me. How did I get it so wrong?

Question 14

Adam: What do you say, mom?

Answer 14

I say, Merry Christmas everyone, and thank you.

Question 15

Faith: What does this mean for my future as Christmas pageant Director?
Adam: It means you always have hope!

Answer 15

Sing, Faith. Sing for Joy!