At the end of the program all the classes sang “It’s Christmas (All over the World)” the New Edition version. I wasn’t very familiar with that song, but I liked it. I think that was the name of our production too. I’m not sure where they got the idea from. Possibly The Simpsons? The song we were singing?

My teacher wrote out class’ skits on the fly. I remember her writing the skit about the origin of the Christmas tree during a rehearsal. This should have been no surprise when she helped write the mandatory spring production on the fly too, but that is another story for another time.

On the night of the show, hardly anybody showed up! Less than half of our class was there. The boy who was starring in the Christmas tree skit didn’t come, so his skit was cut. During the performance I think I might have overacted during the Sweden skit. Because there weren’t enough people, everybody who did show up had to do the jobs of the people who were missing. Our performance was written for about thirty people. Pretty much everybody had a job to do. We had to hold the signs and flags for the people who were no-shows.