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The Big Show! Pageant Time!

Janine sets up the ticket booth outside the doors of the theater while Marshall runs the final tech check on the lights and sound equipment. This is going to be the best Holiday Pageant ever!

[OOC: Wait until the shiny threads are up!]

ETA: [OOC: Everything up to the pre-show should be good]

ETA: [OOC: Let the show begin!]

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The scene: a stable in Bethlehem. A few fake plastic sheep stand about. Joseph (Bridge) and Mary (Veruca) are huddled over the manger which contains the baby Jesus, who is swaddled in cloth and, as of yet, not visible.

Cally smiles in her blue jumpsuit and white cloak, and begins. She's memorized the script thoroughly.

Too thoroughly. She speaks with a haste that is almost unintelligible.

"Oh-comma-Joseph-period-The-child-has-finally-come-period."

She definitely had the punctuation memorized. In the totally worst way.

From off-stage, Principal Bristow glares. She's ruining his vision!

"Yes, and a fine son he will be to God." Bridge says, with appropriate solemnness.

"Joseph-comma-you're-taking-this-so-well-period-I-love-you-period." Cally doesn't even seem to pause for breath.

"I love you, too" Bridge says, fidgeting a little as he leans in, a panicked look in his eyes.

Cally winks at Bridge, and quickly pulls something out of her jumpsuit and puts it in her mouth.

She's now wearing a large pair of wax lips. Large, large, very red wax lips.

Bridge sighs inwardly in relief as he sees the wax lips. Still, he's not taking any chances, so the kiss he plants on aforementioned wax lips is very, very brief.

There is a strangled and distinctly unwise -- in many senses of the word -- noise from the Wise Person.

Perhaps more unwise is the gesture he makes toward Joseph, which can't be mistaken for anything but obscene on any planet or dimension.

Cally puts the wax lips back in her pockets and smacks her lips disgustedly.

"Ew, they should put a... Oh, right." She coughs. "He'll-be-very-important-period-The-Angel-Gabriel-told-me-so-period-Oh-comma-here-comes-a-visitor-period."

Anders stalks onto the stage, still glowering in Bridge's direction. He's tossing the little bejeweled box in his hand and eyeing Bridge's head like he's about to take a shot at the Pyramid goal.

There is a subtle rustling, and a person not completely paralyzed by stage fright might feel a slight disturbance in their pocket... and then nothing.

Cally looks a little concerned and bites her lip, totally oblivious to the subtle rustling. She gulps and continues her lines.

"It's-a-cold-night-to-visit-our-little-town-period-You-might-receive-frostbite-period."

Anders looks at Cally now and his scowl fades a little but he's still tossing the frankincense box in his hand.

"I will bear the, uh, chill, in order to look upon the --" He fails to suppress a choked whimper as his face suddenly succeeds in blending in with his red cape. "Ch-child. And deliver this frakkincense. ~~To Joseph's head.~~"

"I'm-so-glad-you-have-come-to-bring-gifts-to-this-miraculous-child-period." Cally doesn't even notice the subtle variation in the lines Anders has spoken. She might be shaking a little.

"Is this he?"

Anders notices Cally shaking, and misses catching the frankincense box on the next toss. It hits him in the knuckles.

"Ow, FRAK -- incense. Frakkincense! Yeah. Uh."

"It is. I'm sure he has his father's nose, but I wouldn't know."

Bridge's cheerful mood is quickly evaporating.

Cally almost interrupt Bridge mid-line.

"Joseph-Exclamation-Point!"

"Sorry," he says with a mournful little sigh.

Cally just closes her eyes and runs through the lines as fast as possible, hoping it will make the pain go away.

"You-may-not-be-little-Jesus's-father-comma-but-you-can-still-be-his-daddy-period."

"I know. I-" Bridge experiences a sudden coughing fit- "you so much."

Cally opens her eyes, and turns away from Bridge to face Anders. She swallows and delivers her line.

"I love you, too." And then she kisses Anders. With tongue. On stage.

The Virgin Mary is french-kissing the Wiseman in front of Joseph and Baby Jesus, ladies and gentlemen.

Clutching her robes tightly around her, Callisto entered and growled her line "Oi. I hear that there baby Messiah kid has been birthed. I come to pay my respects, an' bring him a warm blanket made of the finest wool."

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