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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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"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."

Cally has a line now.

But she's still kissing Anders.

Callisto coughed loudly and, still clucthing her robes closed, brandished her spoon at Callynanaders.

Cally finally breaks away from Anders and smiles before turning to Callisto. She takes the blanket. Her super-fast-literal style has gone away with her nervous tension. Now she's just bouncy-happy.

"My child will bring joy and unity to the world! Man will never stand divided so long as they remember his words! Ever! Theological rivalries will be a thing of the past!"

She then goes to pick up the baby Jesus in the blanket. Her jaw drops instantly. Cally swallows again, and gingerly picks up the "baby Jesus"...

'Baby Jesus' grins up at Cally showing lots of teeth.

The gremlin struggles slightly in the swaddling blanket.

He blinks innocently at her and coos.

"I still think you could've asked me about it first. I'm sure I would have been okay with it." Bridge says, not even really noticing the fact that the Baby-J is a gremlin.

Anders stares at the gremlin.

He stares at Bridge's green outfit.

He stares at Cally.

And he promptly passes out cold.

Cally is holding Gremlin-Baby-Jesus as far away from herself as she can. She looks more than slightly worried.

"Joseph, we talked about this..."

Anders has a line here. But it's hard to deliver when unconscious.

John starts rolling his costume on stage and, since it it is such a huge costume, he misses Anders passed out on the floor and rolls right over his legs.

"I have no wealth or goods to present to the Baby uh...thing, so I hope to soothe him with my music."

And, just like Anakin taught him, John starts playing the drums.

Dum dum DA dum DUM DA dum DUM DA dum. If John's breathing a little deeply and loudly, it's all a coincidence.

This is where Anders is supposed to say that John's drum solo was truly beautiful.

But even if he were conscious, he wouldn't be terribly inclined to compliment the guy who just ran over his legs a week before his big Pyramid tryout.

It is very hard to simultanouesly clutch your robes closed, wipe a tear from your eye and hold a giant novelty spoon ready to bash the baby Jesus in the head if he looks like biting. But somehow, Callisto managed "Oi. It brings a tear to me eye."

"Thank you so much for your kindness, stranger. It put Jesus right to sleep."

Cally stares at Baby-Gremlin-Jesus. She really hopes it's asleep. Really, really, frakking hopes it stays asleep.

The gremlin, having been well ~~bribed~~ ~~coached~~ bribed, closes it's eyes and fakes snoring.

"There is a beautiful tree outside. I will bring it in, and we will decorate it with this box of ornamentation carelessly stashed in the hay." Bridge says, and then leaves to get the RoryTree.

The events of the night have left him more than a little flustered, and he ends up tripping and dropping Rory.

Rory looked disgruntled, but after snapping at him earlier, she was unwilling to say anything mean to Bridge again.

She attempted to stand, but due to her hoops, was having a hard time of it.

She was resigned to pulling herself to the middle of the stage and sitting there.

"Come one, come all, gather 'round. I am a tree, and you must decorate me to celebrate the birth of the miraculous child," Rory intoned.

Cally would decorate the Rory-tree. But she's too busy staring at Baby-Jesus-Gremlin. It's... almost cute, the way it is faking snoring.

Almost.

Anders would decorate the RoryTree.

But that pesky unconsciousness thing?

Yep, kind of an impediment.

Bridge rolls his eyes and decorates the RoryTree, still not looking Rory in the eye, 'cause now he's gone and dropped her, and dangit, that's embarassing.

Callisto would decorate the RoryTree, but her hands are kinda full at the moment.

John likes decorating so he wants in on this. He rolls his cart backwards and, this time, rolls over Ander's upper arm.

He wildly starts throwing tinsel on Rory.

Rory began to sing in a wavery, toneless, somewhat nasal alto:

O Christmas Me, O Christmas Me,
My branches green delight you.
They're green when summer days are bright:
They're green when winter snow is white.
O Christmas Me, O Christmas Me,
My branches green delight you.
O Christmas Me, O Christmas Me,
I give you so much pleasure!
How oft at Christmas tide the sight,
As green fir tree, I give delight!
O Christmas Me, O Christmas Me,
I give you so much pleasure!

From backstage, Jaye can be heard yelling "My ears!"

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