Celebrating Lent

Comparing Mardi Gras with Lenten celebrations in the Christian church.

Couples who are attending each celebration meet and exchange opinions.

Cast:    4

• Leeha female
• Marian female
• JumJum male
• Tom male

Bible Reference:   6:16-18

Set:      bare

Lighting:        standard

Sound:     wireless mics if available

Song:     none

SFX: 

•    SFX Mardi Gras sounds from sources such as: http://soundbible.com/tags-mardi-gras.html

Costumes:

• Leeha & Jumjum will have wild costumes and masks

Props:     bead necklaces

Special Instructions:   none

Time:   7

Sample of script:

Leeha & Jumjum come onstage wearing masks and bead necklaces, moving to the music

Jumjum:      Celebrate! . . . Celebrate!

Leeha:        Throw me something mister!

Keep this up for a minute or two, don’t overdo it

about half way through the dance Tom & Marian come on stage, watch in wonderment

Leeha:        Throw me something mister!

Jumjum:      Come join in the fun people! . . . Where’s your masks?

Tom:         Masks? . . .  Uhhh . . . why would we want to be wearing masks? . . . And why are you guys wearing masks? . . . I got news for you . . . . Halloween is long gone.

Leeha:        It’s for the . . .

Leeha & Jumjum, snap fingers and dance around, speak in unison:
Cell . . eeee . . . . bray . . . shun!

Leeha:        Throw me something mister!

Jumjum:      Come join us people, we are on our way to the  . . . celebration!

Marian:       Celebration? . . . What celebration is that?

Leeha:        Ain’t no other celebration around . . .

SFX:        Mardi Gras sounds

Leeha & Jumjum dance around to the music

Leeha:        It’s Mardi Gras time!

Jumjum:      Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh!

Leeha:        Didn’t catch your names. . .  I’m Leeha and this here is Jumjum!

Marian:       Uhhhh . . . pleased to meet you . .  . uhh Leeha . . . . and . . . Jum . . . . jum.
I am Marian and this is my husband Tom.

Jumjum:      Kinda unusual names you got, but no matter. . . So you are off to the Mardi Gras?

Tom:         Actually we are off to church.

Jumjum, holds up hand to try to high5 Tom:
Awesome, you are having a Mardi Gras event in your church! . . . Awesome!

Tom:         No it’s Lent and . . .

Jumjum:      Exactly, that’s what Mardi Gras is all about, gettin’ the wild partyin’ outta the way before Lent starts!

Leeha:        Lent is that unfortunate time when we gotta do this . . not do that! . . .  Giving a bunch of stuff up is a bit of a downer you ask me . .  but it is what it is.

Marian:       Well, I don’t see Lent as giving things up . .  Lent to me is a time when believers prepare for the Easter season through prayer and studying God’s word.

Jumjum:      Believers? . . . Oh yeh, that. . . . We are real religious too you know.

Leeha:        We almost always go to church at Christmas. . . Sometimes even at Easter if my folks are visiting. . . . . That’s why we always go to Mardi Gras so, like Jumjum says, we can forget the wild stuff before we need to suffer through Lent.