Lights, camel, action! Join the jam-packed cast of nativity celebrities as they celebrate Jesus' birth with a dazzling dance show. A marvellous variety of 7 songs and spectacular dancing, including 'how-to' videos, but always… strictly the nativity!
If you’re looking for a nativity for ages 5-9, this is perfect. Equally, with this core age group in place, you can easily involve your older children, who will thoroughly enjoy the humour and glitz this show has to offer.
Available with Words on Screen™.
It's glitzy, it's spectacularly sparkly and it's the nativity with glamour and sequins!
John Dabell Teach Primary Magazine
Lights, Camel, Action! is bubble-friendly! For script split suggestions for this nativity, click here.
To find more nativities suitable for your schools' circumstances, visit our Bubble Nativity Finder.
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity. For more information, please click here.
Your licence allows you to record, film and stream your performance online for family and friends if they are unable to attend. If you need to cancel your performance, our guarantee enables you to extend your licence for 12 more months free of charge.
About Lights, Camel, Action!
- From the author of best-selling nativities Baubles! and Hey Ewe!
- Adaptable script for large-group performances
- Available with Words on Screen™ allowing you to 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!
- Suggested choreography and helpful dance videos available online, which include examples of line dance, disco, tango and morris dance steps
Great fun – a marvellous variety of songs and spectacular dancing, but always… strictly the nativity!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity.
- This is perfect for filming in separate groups and editing together. If singing is not allowed, then each song (apart from Song 2) has a specific dance that could be taken by small, socially distanced groups or some would work with just one child.
- The whole play could be easily filmed by up to six different groups of children, each with their own set of judges and narrator taking a section up until after each set of scores.
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
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If you have purchased a Premium Pack online which includes Words on Screen™, you will immediately receive a Words on Screen™ eSongbook in your Out of the Ark Music online account. The eSongbook is where we bring together all of the digital resources available for your product. As well as being able to play the Words on Screen™ versions of your songs, you can also instantly access PDFs and MP3s for your product at no additional cost. If you have already downloaded and installed a Download Player from our website simply refresh your player and select your new eSongbook. You will need to download the eSongbook to your player before you can extract and save the PDFs and MP3s. You will also need to have installed Download Player version 2.0 or above.
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- Log in to your online account
- Within the My Words on Screen™ Online panel (on the My Account dashboard) choose either to Stream Online or Download Player
- Within the player click on All eSongbooks in the left hand menu and select your eSongbook
You will find the PDFs and MP3s under eSongbook Resources in the left hand menu of your eSongbook. From there, you can choose to extract and save All Audio MP3s, All Lyrics PDFs and All Score PDFs. If you just want the MP3s, lyrics or music score for one song, then select the song in the library and use the buttons in the Song Extras area at the bottom of the screen.
Licence Information
Extended Performance Licences and COVID-19 Licence Guarantee
With our extended Performance Licences and COVID-19 Licence Guarantee, you can buy your Christmas nativity or musical now with confidence. Our feature-boosted licences allow you to record, film and stream your performance online for family and friends if they are unable to attend. And if you need to cancel your performance, our COVID-19 Licence Guarantee means you can simply give us a call and we will extend your licence for 12 more months free of charge.
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To license the installation of the Words on Screen™ software onto network servers and/or two or more computers, please purchase an Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights.
Annual Performance Licence Information
A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff).
- You can purchase an Annual Performance Licence above (it is cheaper when purchased as part of a product pack).
- The requirement for a licence is irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering.
- A new Annual Performance Licence would be required for any future performance(s) outside the date period printed on your current licence.
In addition, with so many of our musicals and nativities purchased in digital format, you need a legal way to install or distribute copies for use around the school. Your Annual Performance Licence will grant you permission to:
- Perform the work to an audience (other than pupils and staff in schools). A licence is required even if it is a 'free' performance and this is a worldwide copyright requirement.
- Install Words on Screen™ song files from a CD ROM onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Download Words on Screen™ song files from a CD ROM onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Continue to stream Words on Screen™ songs from your Out of the Ark Music online account on any device (beyond your free period) for the duration of the licence.
- Copy song files from an Audio CD onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Copy MP3 audio files onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Create a recording of the song/s with children singing over the top, whether with our backing track, our vocal track or your own backing track.
- Upload and share digital content to your school's intranet, restricted internet or learning platform.
- Share on public websites including the school’s website, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Soundcloud, etc. However Out of the Ark Music must be credited and an inbound link to www.outoftheark.com must be provided. Please note that Out of the Ark Music's original recordings may not be posted to public websites except as an accompaniment to the children singing. However, as a special dispensation, if children are not allowed to sing for health & safety reasons, original recordings may be used instead, as long as they are part of an overall recording or stream of the whole work with the spoken parts, and not just the songs on their own.
- Permit usage of digital content at home for teachers for preparation purposes.
A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title that you use in any of these ways. Please note that if you have purchased an Annual Digital Site Licence – Multi-Product, this will cover the digital usage permissions in points 2-10 above for these products but does not cover the performance rights in point 1 – an Annual Performance Licence will still be required.
How To Renew
You can renew your Annual Performance Licences by simply logging into your account if you have one and going to your My Licences page. Pick the relevant licence and click RENEW.
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
A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff).
- You can purchase an Annual Performance Licence above (it is cheaper when purchased as part of a product pack).
- The requirement for a licence is irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering.
- A new Annual Performance Licence would be required for any future performance(s) outside the date period printed on your current licence.
In addition, with so many of our musicals and nativities purchased in digital format, you need a legal way to install or distribute copies for use around the school. Your Annual Performance Licence will grant you permission to:
- Perform the work to an audience (other than pupils and staff in schools). A licence is required even if it is a 'free' performance and this is a worldwide copyright requirement.
- Install Words on Screen™ song files from a CD ROM onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Download Words on Screen™ song files from a CD ROM onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Continue to stream Words on Screen™ songs from your Out of the Ark Music online account on any device (beyond your free period) for the duration of the licence.
- Copy song files from an Audio CD onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Copy MP3 audio files onto more than one computer or onto a network.
- Create a recording of the song/s with children singing over the top, whether with our backing track, our vocal track or your own backing track.
- Upload and share digital content to your school's intranet, restricted internet or learning platform.
- Share on public websites including the school’s website, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Soundcloud, etc. However Out of the Ark Music must be credited and an inbound link to www.outoftheark.com must be provided. Please note that Out of the Ark Music's original recordings may not be posted to public websites except as an accompaniment to the children singing. However, as a special dispensation, if children are not allowed to sing for health & safety reasons, original recordings may be used instead, as long as they are part of an overall recording or stream of the whole work with the spoken parts, and not just the songs on their own.
- Permit usage of digital content at home for teachers for preparation purposes.
A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title that you use in any of these ways. Please note that if you have purchased an Annual Digital Site Licence – Multi-Product, this will cover the digital usage permissions in points 2-10 above for these products but does not cover the performance rights in point 1 – an Annual Performance Licence will still be required.
How To Renew
You can renew your Annual Performance Licences by simply logging into your account if you have one and going to your My Licences page. Pick the relevant licence and click RENEW.
Visit our Licences page for further information.
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
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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