Charis has her stage debut this evening. She’ll be baby Jesus in our church’s Christmas cantata. 🙂 Since she’s my baby, I was offered the part of Mary.
It’s not a big part, actually, because most of the cantata is music interspersed with readings rather than a dramatic telling of the Christmas story, but there’s one song called “Lullaby for a Savior” for which they wanted Mary and baby Jesus on stage. The lady directing the cantata didn’t realize that I was a theatre person and was hesitant to ask me to participate what with Charis still being so little. She eased up considerably when she found out I had been a theatre major in college. In some ways, this will be one of the easiest roles I’ll ever have to play. There aren’t any lines to interpret and there’s no formal blocking to remember. The hard part is that there aren’t any lines to interpret and there’s no formal blocking to remember. 😛 I find improv much easier if I can talk during it, and in general improv is easier if it can be humorous. Oh well. We’ll manage for one song, I’m sure. 🙂