Most Wonderful Time

It’s the most chaotic time of the year… at least it is when a youth group tries to rehearse their Christmas play! Between clumsy dancers, offbeat singers, and jokes flying faster than mistletoe at a middle school dance, their well-meaning but frazzled director has had enough and walks off the job.

Now it’s up to the kids to pull the show together—can they figure it out before opening night? With giggle-worthy one-liners, toe-stepping dance moves, and heartwarming moments, Most Wonderful Time delivers Christmas joy with a side of belly laughs.

Cast: 6 m or f

6 speaking parts plus any number of singers, dancers, crowd

Bible Reference: Luke 2

Set: standard

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song:

• The song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” can be found at many locations on the internet including:
• http://www.xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=83

Lighting: standard

SFX:

• jingle bells. (in case the "jingling" doesn't happen)

Props:

• small bells for “jingling”

Costumes: standard

Special Instructions: none

Time: 20

Sample of script:

Music starts. Actors enter stage, walking in waltz steps.]

[Director, frustrated, waves arms for all to stop. Music stops abruptly.]

Director:
No, no, people! … It’s as though you are all dancing your own little dance!
You aren’t getting the concept!
You are totally missing the whole flow of the Christmas play!
Now then, the scene is an elaborate Christmas ball — the most lavish soiree of the whole Christmas season!

Nancy:
Soiree?

Bill:
A fancy-schmantzy name for party.

Ellen:
I don’t think so!
Party is like… (slouches, mimes wiping nose on sleeve) sausage and pretzels.
Soiree is like… (mimes being snooty, looking down nose, eating with pinkie extended) lobster and petite fours.

Director:
People!!!!
We have less than two weeks until opening day and you people are fixated on tomfoolery!

Bryan:
Tom couldn’t come, but he sent his buddy Tim.

[Director throws up hands, flings script.]

Director:
OK, I give up!
In all my years in professional theatre I have never had such lack of professionalism!

Nancy:
But we are like… amateurs, not professionals.

Bill:
Hey, back up the truck there, Nancy — if our director wishes to pay us, I mean, who are we to…

Director:
They simply can’t pay me enough to work with you clowns!
I quit!

Linda:
Wait, please — come on, guys! Quit clowning around! Now, where were we…?

[Bryan dances with Linda, sings dramatically:]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Linda:
Ouch! That was my toe!

Bill:
You’ll have to excuse Bryan stepping on your feet when dancing —
He walks all day on his own feet…
When he goes out dancing, he walks on his partner’s feet.

Linda:
Not if I’m his partner, he doesn’t!

Director:
Clowns and incompetents!
I am out of here! You’re on your own!

[Director storms off stage.]

Linda:
OK, now you guys have done it!
What are we supposed to do without a director to direct us?

Bryan:
Way I see it, Linda… I think you’d be a great director.

Linda (shocked):
Me?
What makes you think I’d be a great director?
Never in my whole life have I directed a play!

Bryan:
Yah, see… that’s the point.

Linda:
The point? And the point would be…?

Bryan:
Well, see… after you direct this play, we can all say you have real-life experience.

Bill:
Makes perfect sense to me, Linda.
Lucky us guys are here to give you your big break.

Linda:
Well dream on!
I am not going to direct this play!

Ellen:
If not you, Linda… then who?

Linda:
I have no idea…
But it shall not be me.

Nancy:
So I guess we just forget the idea of a Christmas play for the neighborhood kids then.

Bryan:
That’s a shame, really.
Kids were counting on it.

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