Description
Comparing Mardi Gras with Lenten celebrations in the Christian church.
Couples who are attending each celebration meet and exchange opinions.
Cast: 4
- Leeha female
- Marian female
- JumJum male
- Tom male
Bible Reference: 6:16-18
Set: bare
Lighting: standard
Sound: wireless mics if available
Song: none
SFX:
- SFX Mardi Gras sounds from sources such as: http://soundbible.com/tags-mardi-gras.html
Costumes:
- Leeha & Jumjum will have wild costumes and masks
Props: bead necklaces
Special Instructions: none
Time: 7
Sample of script:
Leeha & Jumjum come onstage wearing masks and bead necklaces, moving to the music
Jumjum: Celebrate! . . . Celebrate!
Leeha: Throw me something mister!
Keep this up for a minute or two, don’t overdo it
about half way through the dance Tom & Marian come on stage, watch in wonderment
Leeha: Throw me something mister!
Jumjum: Come join in the fun people! . . . Where’s your masks?
Tom: Masks? . . . Uhhh . . . why would we want to be wearing masks? . . . And why are you guys wearing masks? . . . I got news for you . . . . Halloween is long gone.
Leeha: It’s for the . . .
Leeha & Jumjum, snap fingers and dance around, speak in unison:
Cell . . eeee . . . . bray . . . shun!
Leeha: Throw me something mister!
Jumjum: Come join us people, we are on our way to the . . . celebration!
Marian: Celebration? . . . What celebration is that?
Leeha: Ain’t no other celebration around . . .
SFX: Mardi Gras sounds
Leeha & Jumjum dance around to the music
Leeha: It’s Mardi Gras time!
Jumjum: Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh!
Leeha: Didn’t catch your names. . . I’m Leeha and this here is Jumjum!
Marian: Uhhhh . . . pleased to meet you . . . uhh Leeha . . . . and . . . Jum . . . . jum.
I am Marian and this is my husband Tom.
Jumjum: Kinda unusual names you got, but no matter. . . So you are off to the Mardi Gras?
Tom: Actually we are off to church.
Jumjum, holds up hand to try to high5 Tom:
Awesome, you are having a Mardi Gras event in your church! . . . Awesome!
Tom: No it’s Lent and . . .
Jumjum: Exactly, that’s what Mardi Gras is all about, gettin’ the wild partyin’ outta the way before Lent starts!
Leeha: Lent is that unfortunate time when we gotta do this . . not do that! . . . Giving a bunch of stuff up is a bit of a downer you ask me . . but it is what it is.
Marian: Well, I don’t see Lent as giving things up . . Lent to me is a time when believers prepare for the Easter season through prayer and studying God’s word.
Jumjum: Believers? . . . Oh yeh, that. . . . We are real religious too you know.
Leeha: We almost always go to church at Christmas. . . Sometimes even at Easter if my folks are visiting. . . . . That’s why we always go to Mardi Gras so, like Jumjum says, we can forget the wild stuff before we need to suffer through Lent.
