I went to a Jewish primary school, so no Nativity plays
However, we did put on productions for various Jewish festivals, at the end of the year, if the teacher felt like it, etc etc. To be honest, they were fuckin' fantastic - proper song and dance routines which were excellently choreographed, the school's best gymnasts doing routines in the middle of stuff, somersaulting away. This was mainly because one of the teachers had been a professional dancer and coached us all.

Then one day, Blue Peter got in touch with us. Wondered if we could fill in their "It's Christmas, but also Chanukah and Divali apparently - let's show our little viewers what the other religions do at this happy time of year" slot.

We showed them several of our routines, and finished off with a Hebrew rendition of the sound of music (which I hate, but never mind). We got a phone call from them about a month later.

It turned out they didn't want anything fancy, as this would be too confusing for all the poor little Christian children who would think that every year Jewish children had people leaping over each other and bursting in song and dance routines in the comfort of their own homes. No, what they did instead was use a morose group of children to sing a dirge of a Chanukah song.

As if we were going to be confused and think that all little Christian children had personal brass bands in their homes or that anyone who lived near a coast had a Blue Peter life boat! *mutters*
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 18:15, 2 replies)

we
had a Blue Peter lifeboat. Caron Keating launched it by smashing a pint of milk off it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 18:19, closed)

Imagines the spilt milk
*cries*
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 18:21, closed)