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Christmas pageant classic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Loretta Swit | ... | Grace Bradley |
| Jackson Davies | ... | Bob Bradley |
| Anthony Holland | ... | Rev. Hopkins |
| David Alexander | ... | Charlie Bradley |
| Warren Givens | ... | Charlie Bradley |
 | Fairuza Balk | ... | Beth Bradley |
| Natalie Troutt | ... | Beth Bradley |
| Ocean Hellman | ... | Alice Wendlekin |
| Sally Durr | ... | Helen Armstrong |
| Janet Wright | ... | Helen Armstrong |
| Teri Dean | ... | Gladys Herdman |
| Lydia Jarjoura | ... | Gladys Herdman |
| Trent Dixon | ... | Claude Herdman |
| Beau Heaton | ... | Claude Herdman |
| Anne Hertl | ... | Imogene Herdman |
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Many people have been involved in a church Christmas pageant at one time or another, so there was bound to be a story like this. Take a typical middle-class family (the Bradleys) involved in a typical middle-class church Christmas pageant, a little uptight and steeped in tradition, and throw in some lower-class ruffian kids (the Herdmans) who take starring roles. This movie is a little different from the novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, but that should be okay, because Barbara Robinson wrote them both. It seems like the book did say that the narrator figured that the Herdmans were going to hell, while the movie has her say she figured they were going to the devil. I suppose "devil" was supposed to be less offensive than "hell," but I'd rather have the narrator say "hell" like in the novel. Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H plays the mother directing the pageant. You might think this would be an unlikely role for her, but she does a good job.