School Play Season Gifts

'My - I don't remember my second-grade Christmas play dealing with post-holiday depression.'

"Just be yourself."

'Everyone will recognize me. I told them I had the meatiest part.'

'Thomas won't stay off the stage. He loves his part in the school play - he's the commercial.'

School Pantomime Rehearsals.

"We're doing a skit of Peter Rabbit at school. I'm the potting soil."

"Still, diving for it would look good on my college application.

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

"I AM at my usual position."

'I was an egg in the Easter play.'

Come on! They're posting the spring musical. I can't wait! I want a romantic part! With and elegant gown. Good luck with that! We're doing "Cats."

"I take it you got the lead in the school play."

This is Twig's scene. Get ready! That's her! Where? There! Too late. Nice shot of Jessie Caldwell. Wasn't she fabulous.

'I play an evolving character, In the second act, I'm a piece of pie,'

'Oh, Christ.'

'But Mum, I've got a match after school...'

Snacks for Learners

'I don't know how I could've forgotten my lines. I was all ears when they gave them to me.'

"Jeez, these things are hot."

I'm trying out for the spring play. You'll be great! Ha! You'll be grateful to be an usher, Meryl Creep. Yeah. The good parts go to real actors. Sigh. The arts are sooo uplifting.

"Dad, I'm playing the role of the husband in our school play!"

Thanks for the lift, Nana. Don't get any big ideas about acting. It's just a high school musical. I guess you aren't coming back to see the show. Correct. Tonight! Cats! Spring musical. That's ok. Slam! I'm parking now to get a front row seat!

"Don’t worry. You’re looking at the Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School long-jump champion."

"First let me say that your father and I really, really wanted to like your performance."

'I don't want to be a shepherd. I want to be the policeman who interrupts the play to tell all the mummys and daddys who have parked irresponsibly and dangerously outside to move their cars...'

Drama is the highest form of culture. It combines literature, art and music

'I'm playing St. Patrick in the school play. I need a miter and ten thousand snakes by Friday.'

'Billy Green you know very well that you stand this end!'

"I have goals in life. Just last week I scored three goals!"

"Mr. Reynolds can't go out to play until he wraps up the Walderson contract."

'Yes, Haffner appears to be tiring...'

Graham really wanted to play Joseph, but deep down he knew what part he'd get again.

Angry Joseph in school nativity play says to Innkeeper: 'No, we did not book online.'

Welcome to the lower grade concert. We will premiere an avant garde song cycle with unexpected solos, parts of melodies that may seem vaguely familiar and musicians who leave the stage for no apparent reason. Enjoy!

'It's not fair, Bill has stuck the bails on with chewing gum...'