- November 16, 2024
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Kayleigh Lollar, Lexi Murnen, Anna Murnen and Kennedy Lollar, as church members, deliver baskets to the needy. Photo by Debby Hradek.
Ashley Murnen and Marc Dalmau portray Mary and Joseph during the play. Photo by Debby Hradek.
Sophia Clauson, Dan Osborne, Anna Landis and Seth Pisani play the lead family, the Bradleys. They discuss how Mrs. Bradley has been assigned to direct the church's Christmas pageant. Photo by Debby Hradek.
The Church Ladies gathered around Helen, the former pageant director, who had an accident and is in the hospital. Photo by Debby Hradek.
The Bradley family — Anna Landis and Dan Osborne— discuss their family's new role in directing the upcoming Christmas pageant. Photo by Debby Hradek.
The Herdman children —Michael Sandwall, Federico Hradek, Marc Dalmau, Olivia Mueller, Addison Kolbe and Ashley Murnen — share a tender moment after getting a basket for the needy. Photo by Debby Hradek.
GreyHawk Landing 13-year-old Ashley Murnen has grown up going to church, so she had to think hard when challenged to play Imogene Herdman, a bully who had never stepped inside a church building.
She and other members of Woodland Community Church and Woodland Fine Arts Academy performed “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” Dec. 6-8 at Woodland Community Church.
The dinner theater show told the story of the Herdman children — the “worst kids in the history of the world” — as they crashed church Sunday school and demanded parts in the upcoming Christmas pageant. The whole town panicked about having cigar-smoking, biting kids in important roles and wanted pageant director Grace Bradley to cancel the show. But she and the church Reverend persisted in this funny holiday classic and the Herdman kids helped tell the Christmas story in an unconventional way.
“It was interesting to play somebody who has never experienced God or his power,” Ashley said.
