Looking to put some sparkle in the season? You’re in the right place!
Join the jam-packed cast of nativity celebrities as they celebrate Jesus’ birth with a dazzling dance show. A marvellous variety of seven songs and spectacular dancing, including ‘how-to’ videos, but always… strictly the nativity!
‘It’s glitzy, it’s spectacularly sparkly and it’s the nativity with glamour and sequins!' Teach Primary Magazine
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
Get your dancing shoes on for this showstopping production!
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About Lights, Camel, Action!
Say hello to a choreographed Christmas with this best-selling nativity!
THE SONGS
These songs were written to get you tapping, head-bopping and of course, on your feet dancing. We’ve got disco, we’ve got line dancing, we've got tango! Suggested choreography and helpful dance videos available online, which include examples of line dancing, disco, tango and morris-dance steps to make it super easy to put together.
THE STORY
The Bethlehem Broadcasting Company is recording a dazzling dance show to celebrate the special occasion of Jesus’ birth. The cast is jam-packed with nativity celebrities from funky camels to a disco star, who've come together again to recall their roles in the miraculous story. The judges have gathered their scorecards, dancers are waiting in the wings and the audience is assembled for Lights, Camel, Action! Rest assured, this nativity story still has all the essential elements as well as some extra pizzazz to make this year one to remember!
THE VERDICT
‘Best nativity we have ever done! You need a few confident leads to make it a high success. We did it with KS1 and had fabulous feedback from parents. Can’t wait to do it again!’
‘Fantastic energy, great songs and music... plenty of roles for all the children. Loved it!’
‘Children engaged since moment one, parents and staff completely amazed by the high level of the songs, script and performances. One of the best Christmas plays ever written for this age group.’
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
View character list
View staging directions
INCREASING THE CAST SIZE
There are 21 speaking parts in this nativity musical, but these can easily be increased by:
- splitting the three hosts’ lines between lots of children
- splitting the 3 shepherds’ lines between up to 15 children
- splitting the three innkeepers’ lines between six children, although Innkeeper 1 needs to take all of the lines on page 16.
DECREASING THE CAST SIZE
The minimum number of children that you could perform this nativity musical with is 26, but that would require:
- having just two hosts
- having just one floor manager who would also take on the voiceover role
- having just six townspeople who would double up as the kings and camels
- having just two angels, four shepherds and four sheep. These parts would need to double up as the Star, 6 backing singers and 3 innkeepers.
Total length of music: 16 minutes approx)
- Life Has Changed
- Spread The Word (Bethlehem Hand Jive)
- We Must Travel Home (Nazareth Line Dance)
- Life Has Changed
- Disco Star
- The Innkeepers’ Tango
John Dabell - Teach Primary Magazine
Licence Information
Annual Performance Licence Information - What You Need To Know
- A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform a musical or nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff), including an online audience, and irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- It is more cost effective to purchase an Annual Performance Licence as part of a complete product pack.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
- To renew your Annual Peformance Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
All of our eSongbooks come with a Single User Licence
- This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install this software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, this will be covered by your Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights. For more information, click here.
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character List
- Script with suggested staging directions
- Suggestions for rehearsing, costumes, staging and props
- Music score and song lyric sheets for 7 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Opening Instrumental, Incidental Music and Angels' Ballet Music
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts, & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Opening Instrumental, Incidental Music and Angels' Ballet Music
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
One of the BEST SHOWS we've ever worked on
The children and families are desperate to have sight of the sequel (as are we)! ENGAGEMENT and MOTIVATION high and the script and music perfectly pitched! RICH learning and a clear context to evidence LEARNING! #proud
Fun
Such a fun way to tell the story of Christmas.
Brilliant!
An absolutely amazing play!
Highly recommend
Best nativity we have ever done! You need a few confident leads to make it a high success. We did it with KS1 and had fabulous feedback from parents. Can't wait to do it again!
Fantastic!
This was an absolutely brilliant play for our year 4 classes to perform. They loved their parts and the songs were so catchy and upbeat. When I first used this play I was shocked at how easily the children got into it! I also got great feedback from the parents telling me they loved the songs and the characters were very funny. It's now a favourite at our school so we will be performing it again!
Energetic and Entertaining
Absolutely loved watching my son’s school perform this play in Year 4. Fantastic energy, great songs and music...plenty of roles for all the children. Loved it!
Fabulous
A fantastic production, easy to put on and so enjoyable. The music is superb and parents thought that it was great. Do not hesitate, I would thoroughly recommend this performance for lower KS2
Happy parent
Excellent production! Great that it pointed to Jesus.
Simply Brilliant!
Children engaged since moment one, parents and staff completely amazed by the high level of the songs, script and performances. One of the best Christmas plays ever written for this age group.
Fabulous Darling!
Such an exciting Christmas musical! The children absolutely loved rehearsing the catchy songs, the lively dances and the strong story line! A great success!
Best production we've done for many years!
I'm a teacher at Tebay Primary School, I'm just writing tell you that teachers, children and parents loved your production - Lights, Camel Action. The combination of singing and dancing was enjoyed by all! It was the best production that we have done for many years. I don't think you do requests, but I would love another production with both singing and dancing for next year! I have my fingers crossed.
EPIC!!
We performed Lights, Camel, Action last night and it could only be described as epic. Think it is your best script and music yet, and having the YouTube clips was brilliant. We did have to increase the parts to 63! But every child loved taking part. Our parents whooped, cheered and booed throughout and we decorated the hall with glitter balls and disco lights. And the reviews from the has been amazing. Can only thank you guys for the scripts. Keep up the good work. Roll in Christmas 2017
love the show
love it
Dance-tastic!
New, fresh and fun! The children loved learning both the songs and the dance routines. The parents and carers were blown away with the performance, with many rating it the best Christmas production ever. Perhaps just one word of caution: we put this on as a Key Stage 1 production and if you are thinking likewise, be aware that some of the speaking parts are very large. Make sure that you have children who are able to rise to the challenge. Luckily, I do - in spades!
Strictly Come Nativity
Really entertaining... strictly come dancing meets nativity play... very funny, great for audience participation, good message and kids really enjoyed performing it - even year 5&6... Very much recommend this to others!
Fab-u-lous!!
Our children and parents absolutely loved this play! We received standing ovations and to be honest, we're wondering how on earth we top it next year!
Teach Primary
"It's glitzy, it's spectacularly sparkly and it's the nativity with glamour and sequins!"
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