Christmas and New Year

Snapshots

Nancy Bucca · 19 November 2007
Style
Dramatic.  
Duration
40min (?)
Actors
3M, 4F, 3C To download this script, 
Summary
Based loosely on Luke 15:25-32, this play gives a glimpse into the life of Stan, the epitome of the prodigal son's older brother, seen several years following his brother Chip's conversion to Christ. Stan is the 'Scrooge of another kind,' boasting of his own generosity while accusing others of using their generosity to 'buy people off.' But he is the one knocking himself out in vain to please other people, and buying them off. Because of hidden hurts, he has become more concerned over keeping his precious family heirloom intact than with mending the broken relationships within his own family.
Script

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Three Wise Men???

Ronn Gordon · 08 November 2007
Style
Light-hearted.
Duration
5min
Actors
3F
Summary
Three ladies discuss the merit of three men coming to honor the baby Jesus. We learn that the magi had the right idea after all.
Script

(the set is simple, a table and three chairs. It looks like is a small get-together of friends for the holiday season. Ages can be what ever fits) Lady One- Did you hear…

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Christmas in My Home Town

Buddy Reaves · 26 October 2007
Duration
Approx. 45min Actors: 8 M, 4 F, 5 C Scripture reference: John 3:16, Matt. 25:34-45
Script

Summary: It’s Christmas eve. A group of church carolers set out to do the same thing they have done for so many years in the past… an act of “service” so they…

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The BOAD

Jennie Chappell · 04 October 2007
Style
Lighthearted.  Duration: 10min
Scripture
Proverbs 29:23
Actors
1N, 4F, 1M, 3M/F
Characters
Narrator Mary Joseph Boad - Marjorie Sunday School teacher - Linda Vicar's wife - Ruth Two dressers Choir leader - Joan Setting: Brief scenes in the church foyer and Marjorie’s house, with most of the action taking place in the dressing room, backstage at a Christmas play. Props Signs: dressing room, Backstage, Church foyer, Marjorie's house Mirror Costumes Donkey head (x1) Donkey costumes – (1) Front Body (2) Back Body-with tail Grey blanket Mary & Joseph costumes
Summary
Middle-aged Marjorie is asked to play a part in the Sunday School Christmas play. Puffed up with pride, she wrongly imagines that she has a starring role. She is therefore shocked to find that the BOAD is in fact the backend-of-a-donkey. The play was first performed by a church women’s group which is why the main characters are female in this script, but some could be male.
Script

SCENE ONE SIGN - 'Church foyer' Narrator : Our story begins in the church foyer, with the Sunday School teacher talking to her Aunt Marjorie. Linda: Aunt Marjorie, I…

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The Santa Claus Family Secret

Will Sloan · 28 September 2007
Style
Lighthearted. 
Duration
45min
Actors
7M, 3F, 1M/F + V To download the script,
Summary
This is a show to highlight the point that Jesus is the reason for the season. Imagine what happens when Santa gets too wrapped up in his work to tell his own son what Christmas is really about.
Script

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Toadpipe's Christmas

Barry Brannen · 28 September 2007
Style
lighthearted. 
Duration
12min
Actors
3M, 1F, 1M/F
Characters
Devil Toadpipe (Baldrick meets Gollum) Bob (think Trigger of ‘Only Fools & Horses’) Elaine James
Summary
A senior devil & junior devil devise a plan to ensure the real message of Christmas is kept hidden from the masses. Obvious nod to CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters.
Script

(Devilish lighting fades up. Devil enters & sits at ‘organ’. Plays Bach’s Toccata. Gets up – music continues. Gestures – music off) Devil: (shouting off stage…

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The Bethlehem Express

Ray Lombardi · 31 August 2007
Style
Lighthearted. 
Duration
  60min??
Actors
8M, 3F +C
Characters
Mary – mother of Jesus Joseph – engaged to be married to Mary Nagreb – shop owner, Nazareth Travel Marian – daughter of Nagreb Gideon – son of Nagreb Simon – son of Nagreb, twin brother to Nathan Nathan – son of Nagreb, twin brother to Simon Breenan, - youngest daughter of Nagreb Shepherd 1 Shepherd 2 Shepherd 3
Summary
Mary and Joseph are preparing to leave for Bethlehem. They stop into a rental shop to arrange transportation, and broker a unique deal with the proprietor:  a free, round-trip rental of a stubborn old mule in exchange for Mary and Joseph escorting the shop owner’s children to Bethlehem. Along the way the children discover that Mary is going to give birth to Jesus, and by the time the trip is finished they will have come to understand that the trip they took would be the greatest experience of their lives, and would change their future forever!
Script

A children’s Christmas Musical Scene 1: The Rental Shop (Mary and Joseph enter a small shop and are greeted by a man behind the counter.) Nagreb, like a typical used…

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A Modern Christmas Tale

Mark Peterson · 26 August 2007
Style
Lighthearted style.
Duration
35 to 45 minutes.
Actors
N, 5M, 2F.
Summary
This skit takes a look at how the birth of Jesus may have looked if it had occurred in the modern southern hemisphere summer. 
Script

Characters God (voice only) Singers (mic- used off stage] Gabrielle [lapel mic – to share with hotel owner] Mary [lapel mic] Joseph [lapel mic] Hotel owner [lapel mic…

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Alternative Christmas Reading

Susan Walton · 19 August 2007
Style
Lighthearted 
Duration
  3min
Actors
1N
Characters
Narrator
Summary
How the Christmas story might read if written from a modern consumerism perspective. (With apologies to Dr. Luke, who could not be contacted at time of publication. Copyright privileges are therefore waived. Similarities between this sketch and part of his work is entirely deliberate).
Script

Now it came to pass from about the eighth month of the year, that there went out a decree from the profit ­makers that the entire Western world should go out and spend…

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The Christmas Story Explained

Valerie Klaus · 30 July 2007
Style
Drama.
Duration
15-20min
Scripture
Luke 2, Matthew 2
Actors
1M/F, 9C
Characters
Director- large kid or adult Mary- she is new to the church, hasn’t heard the Christmas story and is confused Joseph- he tries to explain the confusion. Innkeeper- may wear a beard as if he is practicing in it. Shepherd 1 - carry stuffed sheep and crook Shepherd 2 - blanket over arm Shepherd 3 - carries crook Wise men
Summary
How do children view the Christmas story when it’s first heard. Mary, new to the church asks questions that give us a unique view. This is a skit within a skit and has very simple sets.
Script

(Kids in street clothes, Mary has a pregnant belly on, (pillow hanging from shoulders), props, no sets, kids are mingling on set, director comes on) Director- Ok guys,…

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