Cocoa and carols,
yummy! To some people cocoa and carols sounds like maybe a church activity
where they go from door step to door step singing off key, or maybe a
heartwarming Christmas tradition between a family. But to me and my show choir
family it’s another performance. My school invites kids in special choirs from
a bunch of elementary schools and various middle schools to perform holiday
songs on stage. It gives these kids time
to take a break from their show choir show, and think about something fun! Like
Christmas!
Cocoa and Carols is nothing like our big show choir competition
in February called “raise the roof” (a blog on that subject will come later.)
There is not so much to prepare on our part. Of course we supply the cookies,
so every student needed to bake three dozen, mine were m and m, and we have to
figure out the skits we use to introduce groups but other than that there isn't much to think about. We also need to prepare what our show choirs are going to perform,
but unlike that of the younger choirs we perform our competition show instead
of a few Christmas songs.
Instead of wearing costumes, the younger kids perform in
shirts that all look the same. Members of our choirs come on stage before they
go on to introduce them and their teacher and their songs with a small skit
they worked up. Then the kids stand on the stage or the risers in front of the
stage and perform their holiday songs. After all the performances are done the
kids sit in the audience and all the members of our choirs come on stage and
sing “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer” but instead of using the words “nose,” “reindeer,”
“glows,” “loved,” or “glee,” we use actions like putting your hands to your
head to make antlers for reindeer, or pointing to your nose for nose. The kids
get quite a kick out of this. We do it three times and the third time we go
super fast. So fast that even some of our choir members mess up and say the
words. Go on and try it, it’s harder than you would think.
These are my “Cocoa and carols” traditions.
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