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School Assemblies: The 2006 Holiday Pageant

Hey, folks! I have the promised future assembly post here for you. But first, a quick note: if you submitted an application for this Friday's assembly, you should have received an e-mail regarding it by now. If you haven't, let me know via e-mail and I'll correct that oversight.

Anyway, the future. On December 8th, 2005, Fandom witnessed a crack event that has gone down as one of the most awesome things ever. The 2005 Fandom High Holiday Pageant as directed by Principal Jack Bristow is one of those scenes that is fun to read and was even more fun to participate in.

December 8th, 2006, is a Friday. Guess what we're doing for an assembly that day! If you guessed "The 2006 Fandom High Holiday Pageant as directed by Dean The Tick," you get a shiny gold star. Because I'm insane, I'm going to try to go bigger than last year's Christmas celebration. It is my intention to get everyone who wants a role and every December holiday we can find into the pageant. I have some very specific ideas at the moment, some general ideas, and some ideas that have yet to be formed but we can work on that.

But to do this right, we have to start organizing it now. IG, the planning (which will be largely handwavey) will kick into gear on Monday, November 20, since I'll be on vacation from this Saturday until then.

What we're looking for right now is the following:

-Teachers who want to incorporate their classes into the pageant somehow (please have an idea up front). Please provide a link to your class roster in your comment.

-Students and/or teachers who would like to individually volunteer (or be volunteered either as punishment or through faculty "encouragement," however you would like to work that). No ideas for this are necessary up front, just volunteer and we'll work something out. This would be in addition to any classes participating. If you're involved via a class, I will contact you and make sure you're good to participate individually as well, so you can sign up even if you don't yet know if any teachers will have plans for you.

-Any additional holidays that can be used, either real or from an existing fandom in the game. I've compiled a decent list of real December holidays below plus Festivus, but if you can contribute any others, it would be appreciated. All holidays will be celebrated somehow during the pageant.

This is a big, ambitious event, and with some coordination it should run pretty smoothly. This post will be open for sign-ups through November 20. Only people who sign up by then will be allowed to participate in the pageant itself.

December Holidays:

Wednesday 6: St. Nicholas Day
Friday 8: Bodhi Day
Wednesday 13: Santa Lucia's Day
Saturday 16: Hanukkah
Wednesday 20: Winter Solstice
Thursday 21: St. Thomas' Day
Saturday 23: Festivus
Monday 25: Christmas
Tuesday 26: Boxing Day, Kwanzaa

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Teachers, if you have an idea for how you can incorporate your class into the pageant in some way, please sign up here. Please provide a your class name, your idea, and a link to your class roster.

This is open to students and teachers both. If you'd like for me to find some place for you in the pageant, please sign up here. Everyone who signs up will get something to do, somehow.

Sign Jack up, please and thank you!

Please sign Naomi up :)

Sign Draco up!

I have not yet embarrassed Hermione onstage. I think this problem should be remedied.

*volunteers*

I'd love to volunteer the Prophecy class, too, if I can come up with a good idea. Think you'd have need of an entire chorus of Wise Men with flashy turbans and fake Jamacian accents?

I'm sure I could find some place for them. :)

Oh hell. December 8th? But I'm moving on December 8th.

*cries*

Well, anything I can do to help out beforehand, I'm up for. :(

I think it's a requirement for me to sign Sam up for anything that involves public embarrassment. :D

Sign Tyler up. He should be back well before the rehearsals start.

Do this without me you big lug of a bug and I will be very very sad.

Either Weiss or Bristow are at your disposal (but not both, because omg).

*peers up a comment*

You know, we never did have that former principal kickline...

I have the perfect thing. I'll talk to you later about it.

Count the Doctor in, somehow, please!

*doesn't bother changing logins*

Okay, I've got the acting teacher here. I'd love to have her make the Basic Acting students do something for it, though I'm not sure what. But definitely count her into the craziness.

But I think Pete and Nadia will probably just prefer to watch. And mock. And laugh. Assuming they don't get dragged in through a class.

A holiday sketch of some sort would be reasonable, I think. I have no clue what off the top of my head, but we can figure out something.

Oh, but now I have an idea

Ooo, wait, back that up . . . .

Nadia has a song to make up for missing the recital last time. Hmmm. Perhaps she can be tossed in and made to sing?

I'm thinking "The Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams.

Perhaps even while the Basic Acting students are made to improvise a pantomime of the events behind her . . . complete with actual flaming pumpkin pies. . . .

lyrics to the Christians and the Pagans, for those who don't know the song so they can see what I'm talking about

. . .

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU.

If you can't get the acting students to do it, I totally volunteer Conner to play Amber's aunt. *snicker*

OH MY GOD I WAS DRINKING DR PEPPER WHEN I READ THAT NOTIFICATION

And the mental image of Conner fleeing to an imaginary kitchen to put out real flaming pies caused me to have to have Dr. Pepper going up my nose.

I am totally unrepentant. Excuse me while I cue up that song now.

The prospect of flaming pies is enough justification.

Looks like a brilliant idea to me. Please go forth and plan as you will. :)

Woot! Now we just need to see if we can get the acting kids in on it. . . .

the twins are so up for it :D

Greg, naturally, is at your disposal, because this is something he'd love.

And if you can figure out a way to get my anarchist in there, I will love you forever. Because seriously. V. In a pageant.

John must be signed up. He has a legacy in holiday pageants.

JD! And Laddie!

Or just JD.

Seely and Zack are both available, although I think Zack could probably ~~cause more chaos~~ be more help backstage than on.

Count Billy in. We'll convince him somehow.

My list is up there. Add to it!

Hogswatch, of course, from Discworld -- 32 of December!

Oh, and Midwinter Eve, from the Heralds of Valdemar books. At a wild guess, I'd say it's roughly analogous to Christmas Eve.

I'm generally attempting to keep it to holidays that somebody in Fandom would know about offhand. As we don't currently have any Discworld characters in the game - which, unless I'm blanking, we don't, unfortunately - Hogswatch is unlikely to be used.

Unless, of course, I decide we need a few more holidays and say "Screw you!" to my own rules of logic and limiting myself. That is very possible, so keep them coming. :)

Oh poot. I'd forgotten that Agnes was gone. *sads*

And I really wanted to see the wee little Hogswatch piggies!

Don't worry, there are a few Discworld fans on the admin/mod team. Hogswatch will not be forgotten next month even if it doesn't make it into the pageant. :)

St Stephen's Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen's_Day).

C'mon, can you pass up a holiday that encourages hunting birds and then begging funds for a funeral? ;)

Couple different Winter Solstice things, which fall on the same basic date but would have different traditions and sources - Dong Zhi which might apply to River and Zoe as well as any students with Chinese ancestry, and Yule, which is specifically Germanic/pagan. (So some of the witches might celebrate. Possibly Door as well, since it's 'forgotten' enough to be something that's still celebrated in London Below.)

There's Advent Calendar and the four Sundays before Christmas. The Advent calendar starts on the first and ends on the 24th, and as far as I'm concerned consists of getting one piece of candy a day. For the four Sundays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent) you light one candle for each Sunday and recite a verse until you have all four candles lit.

Mid-Winter, from both Circle of Magic and Song of the Lioness.

New years eve (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2064.html) is a really important holiday in japan...
so is the 23rd! because it's the emperors birthday. Thus. holiday. :D

This is really just an added something, but among little girls? The competition on who's going to be Lucia is brutal. *nods* Tears are cried. *shifty* Not that I ever did, or anything.

Fire away! But please excuse any typoes/nonsense at the moment. It's 3 AM. I'm amazed I made a post that is at all coherent.

You are still awake. This is not meant to be so.

No, no. I wasn't "still awake," I was awake again. Fell asleep randomly earlier than expected, woke up randomly after a few hours, did the stuff I planned to do before falling asleep. There's a difference.

Yeah, it's always fun when I'm heading to bed at 3 AM and randomly get a comment notification from you about three seconds before I faceplant.

*frowns in hypocritical manner at your sleeping habits*

I live to annoy. :)

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