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Advent Gathered Pageants" are dramas for worship that tell the nativity story through the eyes of two main characters. They follow the ancient tradition of enacting the biblical story with pageantry and shared music. These events invite everyone in the room to enter the unfolding story, through scripted and silent participation, creating a new experience of the story and its meanings in our lives.

 

There is a small core of "actors" each of whom has a small speaking or movement part. Congregation members who wish to do so may come dressed in nativity character costume, or take up a costume at the worship entrance. Worshippers are invited to join the crew by sitting at the front after their main character has had a brief interaction with the 2 leads.

 

Gathered pageants narrow the acting job down to a dedicated few (instead of a harried group of children and parents just before Christmas) and yet everyone in the congregation enters into the story in the worship.

 

The two lead characters hold the bulk of the acting and have one “broadway musical” style song to sing at the beginning (sometimes reprising at the end). However, this theme song can be sung by a choir or ensemble. The rest of the music amounts to carols (1 or 2 verses each) to punctuate the action, to allow congregation members to come up to sit with their "lead" and to give time to reflect on what just happened. Each of these places is also an opportunity for a group or individual to sing an anthem or solo.

 

The entire pageant takes no more than 30 minutes to present, and ideally serves as the "Word" portion of an advent service.

 

Cost

$10.00 for the whole package which includes script and sheet music.

$40.00 copying royalty, licensing you to make as many copies as you wish.

Members of Linnea Good's Music & worship Subscription Group receive a pageant free of charge, with royalty covered (free) under the subscription agreement. 

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