A stage manager's nightmare...

... actors who decide to do improv on the night of the show.

"Went to Abigail's school Christmas concert. Each class did a little something followed by a song or 2. Anyway, Ab's class did a Nativity scene, with Ab as Mary. A few minutes into their bit Ab promptly lifted her dress & shoved baby Jesus up it. The script then wandered away from what they'd learnt & goes as follows:

Joseph: What are you doing?
Mary: I'm feeding our baby
Shepherd: Have you got a bottle up there then?
Mary: Don't be silly he's having milk from my booby
Joseph: That's disgusting
Mary: No, that baby milk they have in Tescos is disgusting. My baby's having proper milk.
Shepherd: What's a booby?
Mary: Those sticky out bits ladies have
Shepherd: They're not boobies, they're nipples
Mary: No they're not, they're boobies
Joseph: So why can't Jesus have milk from a bottle then?
Mary: Because I haven't got a breast pump with me - you forgot to put it on the donkey
Shepherd: Can't you ask the teacher for a bottle to feed Jesus with?
Mary: No because this is the best way to feed Jesus. Anyway bottles haven't been invented yet & even if they were I've just had a baby so if you think I'm faffing about round Tescos to buy baby milk when I make proper milk in my boobies you can think again.

I felt a teeny bit sorry for their class teacher - she did try her best to steer them back towards their proper lines but she was laughing so much she didn't really stand a chance. The line about Joseph forgetting the breast pump finished her off - she slid to the floor & couldn't get up for laughing."

Mom sent me that in an email... one of those forwarded things that went around the world. Poor Abigail is probably 15 now and mortified that the whole world knows about her school play, but that's ok. She can join the ranks with the Numa Numa singer and the Star Wars kid.

By the way, mom's in a group called La Leche League International, Google it if you've never heard of it, and she helps women breastfeed. Hence, why she thought it was funny and sent it to all her friends. Why she sent it to me I'm not sure. Must have something to do with the theater major in me.

K that's all. Christmas was good, I'm back in New Brunswick. Helene got in a fight with a customer on Christmas Eve. That's what the last manager was fired for. The atmosphere at the store has been pretty good lately, but I'm getting restless. If I can find something soon enough, I might still have time to cut my hours and go back to school.

Maybe. Anyway, Brittany's 21st birthday is Sunday, so midnight Saturday we'll be doing something. Dunno what yet. And New Year's Eve I will either go to sleep early or pull an all nighter, depending. I have to open the store at 9 on the first. Which means I get up at 7:20, and it just occurred to me I don't know if the bus will run then. Technically its a holiday.

K that's all.