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Drama! Thursday, Period Four

Today's class was being held in the auditorium that the drama room was attached to. Why? Because today was the day for auditions! Surprise!

Could you tell that penchant for dramatic speeches aside, Thor really had no idea how to properly run a drama class?

ANYWAY.

"I hope you have all perused the script quite thoroughly!" Thor greeted the students from his spot in the audience. "As auditions shall be held today. I will need you all to pair up and choose a short section of dialogue that you would like to perform! You may refer to your script on stage, and please do inform me of which role you are auditioning for."

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Performing.

Alec Lightwood

Arietty Clock

Karolina Dean

George Drayton

Billy Kaplan

Rilla Blythe

Juliet Darling

Stacey McGill

Sparkle

Olive Penderghast

Hanna Marin

Karla

Well. It's not much of a lecture. React to being told it's time to get on stage, perhaps?

With a partner, or you can just ping in to handwave that you went and what role your character auditioned for.

Alec scanned the script, noticed there was a character named Elmer who didn't seem to have any lines, and decided that that was the role for him.

So that was who he auditioned for. Oh, Alec.

Arietty wasn't sure about the stage. Mostly because she wasn't sure she'd be that visible. And she'd have to do kind of a lot of shouting.

At least she was auditioning for Gladys, who mostly shouted anyway. What? She was the littlest Herdman, so Arietty figured it was appropriate.

Part of the fun of working at the Boards had been working behind the scenes and being on stage as little as possible. But, this was a class about acting, and Billy didn't want to disappoint Thor, of all people, so he sucked it up and auditioned for Ralph. Maybe it would be fun to be kind of a brat?

It was a lot of lines, but Rilla was quite certain that if Ken and Walter and Jem could face the Germans, she could face a little stage fright.

She lisped a few times due to nerves as she tried out for Alice.

Not being entirely familiar with the nativity story, George opted for a nice low impact role, and auditioned for the part of one of the herdsmen.

What could go wrong with that?

"I would have told them! Boy would I have told them? What was the matter with Joseph that he didn't tell them? Her pregnant and everything."

Sparkle looked truly scandalized as he read off the lines for the role he wanted to audition for. Scanadlized, and like he'd been performing for one crowd or other his entire life. He put his hands on his hips, he affected the most bossy tone as he could, and he became the know-it-all Herdman, complete with a cigarette (not yet lit) clamped between his teeth.

"We put Gladys in a dresser drawer."

Yes, Sparkle was putting his all into this audition.

"My God? He just got born and they're already out to kill him!"

Yes, he was auditioning for Imogene. Because he could be the bossy older sister who got to play the part of the Virgin Mary if he wanted to. Hah.

And nobody was going to burp the baby Jesus more roughly than he was.

It was under duress, but Olive auditioned for Imogene half-based on liking the name, and half on the fact that she seemed to be sort of bitchy and rude and...well. Typecasting?

Karla glanced around, realized that no one else had auditioned for the part of the Narrator and shrugged. Why not? She'd been in a lot of plays over the years and besides--the Narrator ended up getting annoyed at Alice halfway through and if Rilla got that part, then it would be the perfect method acting.

She started off sounding almost surprised. After all, how could the Herdmans not know about Christmas? "The thing was, the Herdmans didn't know anything about the Christmas story. They knew that Christmas was Jesus' birthday, but everything else was news to them—the shepherds, the Wise Men, the star, the stable, the crowded inn. So Mother said she had better begin by reading the story from the Bible. This was a pain in the neck for most of us because we knew the whole thing backward and forward..."

Then she skipped down to the recitation of the play, getting more and more aggravated-sounding every time Alice had to butt in. "I didn't know why not. Anyway, next came Gladys from behind the angel choir pushing people out to the way and stepping on everyone's feet. Since Gladys was the only one in the pageant who had anything to say she made the most of it."

"Then the Wise Men came in..." and she dropped to a stage-whisper, "I don't know, but whatever it was it was heavy. Leroy almost dropped it."

"...Well, they did burn things, but they hadn't burnt this yet. It was a ham—and right away I knew where it came from. My father was on the church charitable works committee—they gave away food baskets at Christmas, and this was the Herdmans food-basket ham."

It was a balancing act, sounding annoyed at Alice's stupid interruptions in the beginning, but then starting to sound almost wondrous at the idea of the Herdmans getting the nativity story in a way that the normal church people hadn't.

And I just realized I forgot to mark all the threads with the date. Whatever. Today's been a gong show already. I'm not editing.

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