Once Upon A Nativity
Open the book to the greatest story ever told in this adventure of a nativity. Come and join the narrators' tea party – there are ALL sorts of narrators who are VERY excited about this GREAT big story full of action, heart and a whole lot of excitement! Get to know this delightful retelling of the traditional nativity story, brought to life by our avid storytellers – the very special narrators! Perfectly written for your Early Years and KS1 with 7 fun & infectious songs that all come with Makaton signing!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
It’s charming, it’s catchy, it’s a REAL page-turner!
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Once Upon A Nativity
From the hit writing team that brought you Baarmy Bethlehem, A Bundle Of Joy and other best-sellers comes this fabulous new nativity.
THE SONGS
These songs have been written by one of our best-selling writing teams – pros at all things delightfully catchy and simple! From a bouncy opening number introducing the nativity characters and a keeping-the-order-in-Bethlehem soldier song all the way to a fabulous finale of Good news, great news all the way. Full of energy and excitement, these songs are made of only the good stuff
THE STORY
You can expect the traditional nativity story with a wonderful storytelling twist! We’ve got the narrator of mystery stories, love stories, non-fiction, and a whole bunch of nativity narrators. Join them and the rest of the traditional nativity characters – angels, wise men and all – on this charming, great big adventure!
THE EXTRAS
This nativity comes with a whole bunch of resources to make putting it on super straightforward for you and your classes. We’ve got Makaton signing for all 7 songs, a double page of Classroom Inspiration with storytelling activities and games, and all the usual, super-handy stage directions, cast list, costume suggestions and more!
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
View cast list, staging and costume ideas
There are speaking parts for 34, but these can be increased by splitting the Nativity Narrator’s lines between several older children. Non-speaking parts can be increased by having more centurions, citizens, angels and shepherds.
If you have a small cast, speaking parts can easily be decreased to 22 by having only two centurions, two citizens, two shepherds and two angels, splitting the lines accordingly. The two citizens and Caesar could double up as the three wise men and one of the centurions coulddouble up as the innkeeper.
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
- Costumes & Props
- Full script
- Song lyrics and music score for 7 songs, plus overture (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online version of your product to stream or download on-the-go
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts (including editable script*), & 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
- Stream or download your songs on the go
- 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
*For your convenience, we have provided an editable script in Word format for this nativity or musical. The purpose of the editable script is to allow you to adjust the allocation of speaking parts for smaller or larger cast sizes and/or to make minor changes to the text for staging purposes.
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.