The Best Narrator

Narrator Tom

Thursday was a big day for Class 3, it was their annual show.  Instead of a nativity this year, their teachers decided to do a Fairytale with a difference.  The show consisted of children from years 1 and 2, each child in year 2 had a speaking part (the first time for all of them as in previous nativities - all they have done is sing and dance).

Tom had the privilege of being a narrator.  I was very pleased as it meant that I didn't have to come up with a costume as he just had to be smart.  A friend had given us a smart shirt, tie and waistcoat outfit which was perfect, Tom was very excited to be wearing a tie.  They had two performances: 9.30 and 6.00.  Matt and I went to both, Bob to the morning one and Pat to the evening one.  

The play had been written by Tom's teacher and was Cinderella with a difference - from the viewpoint of Prince Charming and with a host of fairytale characters in it. 

The cast

As we thought it was just lovely.  Each child was wonderful, they all shone.  Obviously we are biased, but we thought Tom was wonderful, he had quite a few lines, but had learnt them all off by heart, however, he had been given a book to read from - just in case he got lost.  He also had lots of jobs to do: he had to clean up after the ugly sisters, put an extra bit of stage on for Michael Jackson and was the programme seller at the start of the show etc etc.  He had a very loud voice and spoke slowly so every word could be understood.  We were very proud.  In the morning performance he even delivered a line with his back to the audience whilst climbing up some staging as the other narrator had started whilst he was doing a job on the stage.  The line was delivered clearly - so it didn't really matter that he had his back to us all.  (This didn't happen in the 6pm performance as the first narrator waited for him to return to his seat before delivering her lines).

I can't say he was belting out the songs, but he still did us proud.  In the evening performance he had to run off and get some flowers and give them to the teachers, which he did without a hitch.  

Tom was absolutely buzzing on the way home saying he wants to do it every day. I just wish we could have recorded it so we could be reminded of it and show those who weren't there.  A pure gold day - we all went to bed happy.