Fandom High Holiday Pageant 2006, Friday afternoon, The Auditorium

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Once everyone was seated, The Tick walked out onto the stage wearing a keen tux. He was ready to celebrate the holidays in style.

"Welcome, chums, to the 2006 Fandom High Holiday Pageant! This year, we're looking to make the pageant as broad as possible, covering several different holidays with several different methods of educating us all with fun! It's Funducation, not to be confused with Funded Education!"

"On the Holiday Tree of Funducation, information is the presents, and you are the children gathered around, hoping for the Hanukkah Wii of Information, or the X-Mas-Box of Knowledge! Our volunteers are the ornaments, making sure the Tree is shiny and festive! The participating classes are the lights that illuminate with organization and color! And I," Tick said, grinning broadly, "am a jolly man in a blue suit! I am not just your Master of Ceremonies tonight, I am also your Santa of Ceremonies! So please allow me to welcome you to this year's Tree of Funducation, the Holiday Pageant!"

[OOC: Please wait for and then follow the OCD. There is a thread for each performance, and then a Performance and Audience sub-thread for each. Please use the subthreads. Pretty self explanatory. Everyone should know what they're doing and which thread they're doing it in, hopefully. If, for some reason, we have threads that are not pinged into as of really late Friday night, I may get creative and randomly recruit people at the last minute if it doesn't Joss them just to make sure the pageant stands as being complete.

I'd like to say thank you in advance to all of my volunteers and I can't wait to see what you put together!]

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Audience: Find a seat

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As the audience looked for their seats, a happy-looking troll was dancing on stage to various popular music Christmas songs, such as Jingle Bell Rock and All I Want For Christmas Is You. He was perfectly docile as long as he was dancing.

There was much jazz handsing.

When he was done, The Tick stepped up to the microphone. "Thank you, Fosse! Students, this is our new school janitor! Don't worry about the troll thing, he's actually very nice. This second chance is our gift to him! His dancing is his gift to us! Now find your seats and we'll get started soon."

[OOC: This is the dancing troll from the bell tower in the Troll Weekend finale. Yes, we have salvaged one of the least imposing trolls from last weekend to be the school janitor. There will be an OOC post with more information later on. For now, just enjoy the jazz hands. :D

Chronologically, this thread takes place before the original post. I'm silly like that.]

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac couldn't help but stare at the jazzhanding troll as she found a seat. Even without seeing them at the weekend when they were thumping around and kidnapping people, that was damn weird.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter stared at the troll while find a seat. Because troll. Dancing. It didn't particularly compute.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[fates_jaye]

Jaye's just kind of thrilled to not be in the pageant this year, but that doesn't mean she won't come and show her support for people by laughing at them. Though pageantry isn't really out of her blood as she sees the troll and automatically jazz handses back at him.

She takes a seat, armed with gummi bears.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[can_be_more]

Aeryn has absolutely no idea what to expect this year, which is why she's here. Also, she might be itching to go after the troll, whether it's jazz handsing or not. Maybe she can fight it later...

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

Zuko blinked at the troll on the stage and was seriously contemplating setting him on fire.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[notajar]

Door blinks, but in her case it's to see a familiar face. After a second to consider the wisdom of it all, she shrugs and waves at the dancing troll with a grin. It might look like she's jazz-handsing, though in fact she's fingerwiggling.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

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Wilson had a video camera possibly handwavey from Pippi, possibly not and a latte and he was finding a seat down close where he could get the best possible shots of the pagent.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[drjcovington.livejournal.com]

Janice had no sooner taken her seat than she recognized the troll up on stage and leapt back up, knocking her hat off her head in the flailing.

"YOU!!!"

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Considering trolls are the reason Shawn is on crutches right now, he's not especially thrilled to hear they're keeping one around.

He hobbles in and sits down anyway. The jazz hands do make it seem less threatening though, even he has to admit that.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron was at the pageant. He hoped he had time to watch through the entire show before he had to catch his plane.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Add Molly to the group of people who stared at the troll dancing on the stage. This one certainly wasn't as imposing as the one she ran into.

She found a seat and watched the troll carefully for any signs that it might attack or anything.

Hey, a girl could hope.

Re: Audience: Find a seat

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Whoo!" Blair clapped very loudly for the troll. "Make sure they let you join a union!"

Christmas Nativity Scene

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"As Christmas is generally the anchor of the holiday season, we will set dock by dropping the anchor off the bat as we formally start our festivities with a special Christmas tradition, the Nativity Scene! Performing this scene for us this afternoon is Jamie Madrox! Jamie, pull this ship into port!"

Christmas Nativity Scene: Performance

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For the Nativity performance.

Festivus

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"Let us move out from the dock and in towards the town as we look upon another holiday, a non-religious one of great significance in some cultures that reached the peak of its popularity during the 1990's! Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to learn about the holiday for the rest of us, Festivus!"

Festivus: Performance

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For the Festivus group to perform.

Good Omens... And Bad: Prophecy in Theory and Practice

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"For our first class performance of the night, we move away from our ship and towards a musical plane! Professor Aziraphale's Prophecy class will be performing some music for us! Please make them feel so welcome that we have to change the name of the class to 'Mat'!"

Prophecy: Performance

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For the Prophecy class to perform.

Rohatsu

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"Returning to land, we now find ourselves in a tree as we are introduced to the Zen Buddhist holiday of Rohatsu! I, personally, was completely unfamiliar with this holiday before I started looking up stuff for this pageant, and that's when the Seed of Knowledge was planted in my brain! Let's hope this group can help plant more of these seeds into all of us, creating a mighty Informed Forest!"

Rohatsu: Performance

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For the Rohatsu group to perform.

Dance

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"Our next class performance this afternoon is such a no-brainer that my brain is currently backstage rewriting this joke! Pause five seconds for laughter! We will now take to the sky once more as I present El Mariachi's Dance class performing a holiday classic: 'The Sugar Plum Fairy' dance from The Nutcracker! Crack some nuts, chums!"

Dance: Performance

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For the Dance class to perform their number.

Emperor's Birthday

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"Returning to land once more, we find ourselves across the ocean and in Japan! Although it's not strictly a winter holiday, the Emperor's Birthday is currently in December and considering the size of our Japanese population at this school, we would be remiss to miss this! And then we'd miss it again! And now, the Emperor's Birthday group!"

Emperor's Birthday: Performance

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For the Emperor's Birthday group to perform.

Good Omens... And Bad: Prophecy in Theory and Practice again!

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"I foresee a great act here! Returning for another number is Aziraphale's Prophecy class! Please welcome them back as we're lifted into the Sky of Class Performances once again for more angelic music!"

Prophecy again: Performance

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For the Prophecy class's second performance. And if it turns out you don't need this one, let me know and this thread will disappear.

Hanukkah

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"Now we take out our ViewMasters of Celebration and depress the lever to view probably the second best known winter holiday currently celebrated in this country: Hanukkah! Let's see how long they can make the oil of learning inside of each of us burn!"

Hanukkah: Performance

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For the Hanukkah group to perform.

Basic Acting

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"Lifting us up one final time with our last student presentation of the night, we have Daisy Adair's Basic Acting class performing 'The Christians and the Pagans'! That sounds suitably holiday-y. Let's see what they have in store for us! Break a multitude of legs, chums!"

Basic Acting: Performance

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For the Acting class's performance.

Finale

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"We now return to our dock and board the ship again, giving one last tug on the anchor as we abruptly switch metaphors! In the Song of the Pageant, we are at the coda! The bridge has been crossed, we've boogied to the guitar solo, and the lead singer has hit the high notes! Now I would like to present an adapted work I like to call 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from Dean Tick!'"

Finale: Performance

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For the finale performance which will definitely not be up until this evening.

Leave

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"Thank you! You've been a wonderful audience! Happy holidays and enjoy the rest of the semester!"

OOC

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Seriously, thank you to everyone who participated. This would have been impossible for me to micromanage and you have all done wonderful work here.

Unless this all sucked. But I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because our players are amazing and I have complete faith that by the time all is said and done and people read this thread after what everyone here does, you'll have proven that last paragraph true.

Thank you all!

Re: OOC

[drjcovington.livejournal.com]

FOSSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!