What if Christmas Never Came?

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What you will receive when you purchase this Children’s Christmas Musical:

  1.   The play script. (pdf file and microsoft word file in case you want to do any changes).
  2.   Songs with the main vocal  (mp3 files)
  3.   Songs without the main vocal (mp3 files)
  4.    Song lyric sheets which can be put into 3 ring binders (pdf and word files).
  5.    Song Chord sheets (pdf and word files)
  6.    Cheat sheets which you will print out onto 8.5 x 14 inch paper and put into a 3 ring binder (pdf and word files)

Our Children’s Christmas Musical plays require very few props and minimal stage set preparation.  (If you have the time and manpower, you can of course develop great sets to match each scene.)  Our Children’s Christmas Musicals can be performed even when you have not much time to rehearse using the cheat sheet binder.

This play has been performed in front of a live audience and was a great hit with the kids, the teachers and the audience.

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What if Christmas Never Came?

What would the world be like if Jesus had not been born?  Susie and her three friends will find out.  Susie for personal reasons makes a wish that Christmas would never have come.  The next morning she awakes to a world without Christ.   With the help of an angel, they travel back in time to visit a few of the most influential Christians who ever lived.  She finds out who they were before they received Jesus, the work the Lord gave to them and how their work has changed our world, even to today.

Below you can read the first couple of pages of the play and hear the music that forms part of the Children’s Christmas Musical “What if Christmas Never Came?”

What if Christmas Never Came?
(Written by Patricia Loranger © 2017 all rights reserved.
Distributed at www.rocksolidcurriculum.com)

 The main characters are 4 girls, (although you could use boys in the roles if you wish) and an angel in disguise.   There are 8 other smaller speaking roles some of which can be done by adults.  All the children should sing in a children’s choir.  (If you have strong singers they can sing along to the music tracks that have no main vocal.  If the children are not strong enough to carry the melody alone, have them sing along to the tracks with the main vocal.)  Use your smallest children to act out the biblical Christmas story part of the play.

 Characters:    Susie, Sarah, Wendy, Angie, Angel, Aunt Bessie, Beggar, William Booth, St. Patrick, 2 pirates, St. Nicholas, Mr. Melvin, Mary, Joseph, Angels, Shepherds, Wisemen, star.

Props:   Small Christmas tree, garland, star for top of tree, 4 chairs, 4 lunch boxes, table with a bunch of pawn shop objects for sale, sign that says “Pawn Shop”, a rake, 2 pirate costumes, 4 pairs of shoes, robes, biblical time period costumes, doll to represent baby Jesus, star costume,

Choose 2 children who act as hosts of the show.  Their job is to tell jokes and get the crowd warmed up and laughing.  Each joke time has about 2 jokes which the kids alternate telling to each other.  (Because I myself did not author the jokes, I cannot include as part of the script the jokes that I used, but you can find many clean and funny jokes about Christmas online.  Just google “Christmas Jokes” and see what comes up.)  The joke time allows the stage to be quickly reset for the next scene.

Joke Time

Scene 1

(Characters:  Susie, Aunt Bessie, Sarah, Wendy, Angie)

(Props:  Small Christmas tree, garland, star for top of tree, 4 chairs)

(Susie is living with aunt Bessie who as well as having her own children, takes in foster children.  Susie’s parents have recently died.)

 Aunt Bessie:          Children it is time to decorate the tree.

(The children try to get Aunt Bessie’s attention but she is occupied with planning.  They attempt to set up the tree but the tree has no stand and topples over. Sarah decides to put Wendy and Angie together back to back and wrap them in garland and put a star on Wendy’s head.)

 (Aunt Bessie is oblivious of what the girls are doing and paces back and forth across the stage in a state of stress.)

 Aunt Bessie:          (Recite with rhythm like you would a poem.)  I need a turkey and stuffin, some carrots and some peas.  Pass the potatoes if you please.  Cherry pie, apple pie and huckleberry stew, cake and cookies that should do.

Song:      Holidaze  (click play button twice)
(Aunt Bessie is lead singer and all kids sing along.)

 

(After the song, Aunt Bessie notices the kids tree and has a good laugh.)

 Susie:          Aunt Bessie do I have to sit at the little kids table this year?

Aunt Bessie:          Yes honey.  I am sorry but we have too many people to fit at the big table.

Susie:          That’s not fair!  If my parents would still be alive I would get to sit at the big table! Christmas isn’t the same since the accident.

Aunt Bessie:  Ok, now children, off to bed.

(The kids sit in chairs across the stage and put their heads in their hands pretending to sleep.  Sleeping upright allows the audience to better see the children.)

Susie:          I don’t like Christmas at Aunt Bessies.

Sarah:          Cousin, my mom is doing her best.

Wendy:        I like Miss Bessy.  She is my favourite foster mom.

Susie:          I don’t like Christmas anymore.

Angie:          I like Christmas and I like Miss Bessie.

(All kids close their eyes and pretend to sleep.)

 (Susie gets up and sings a song.)

Song:    I Wish Christmas Never Came  (click play button twice)

THIS IS THE END OF THE SAMPLE SCRIPT PAGES.  BELOW ARE  THE REST OF THE MUSIC TRACKS THAT FORM PART OF THE CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS MUSICAL.