Charlie’s Childhood Christmas Play
Chances are, when I say to you “kids’ Christmas play,” you think of something like this. It’s a classic, the kids’ nativity performance. However, my (Charlie) on and only Christmas…
17th December 1937: A scene from a nativity play at Barrow Hill Road Infants School in St John’s Wood. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Chances are, when I say to you "kids' Christmas play," you think of something like this. It's a classic, the kids' nativity performance.
However, my (Charlie) on and only Christmas play claim-to-fame, was far from biblically based. When I was in kindergarten, our teacher thought it would be funny to do a living, singing, "12 Days of Christmas."
Well, you can't have the "12 Days..." without a "Partridge in a Pear Tree." And if you think my mom didn't go all out on a costume, you would be mistaken.
Yup, spindly legs, panty hose, and God only knows what my costume was made out of, but here I am...in all my glory as THE definitive, "Partridge in a Pear Tree."
I remember being so excited to do it, but then being so embarrassed as everyone laughed at me. I mean, I was five...I didn't know that being laughed at could be a good thing.
Funny how every day we strive to get people to laugh like that.
I wonder how this costume would look on the radio? ;)
