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Theater presents ‘The Best Christmas Pageant . . . Ever’

COTTONWOOD SHORES — An alliance of home-schooled students, their parents and the Hill Country Community Theatre present “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” a tale about whether some children can learn the true meaning of Christmas.

The theater is at 4003 FM 2147.

The holiday classic will be performed Dec. 12 and 13 at 7 p.m., and Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults and $5 for student/child and can be reserved by calling the theater’s main office at (830) 693-2474. 

The cast includes Abigail, Acacia and Josh Hammond, Aaron and Rachel Ortiz, Katie and Hannah Maizano, Anthony and Jonathan Evans, Hannah Seymour, Caleb and Grace Todd, Jared and Kirk French, Alisa and Amber Grubert, Anna and Lyric Jones, Abigail Miller and Brianna Evans. 

The show is directed by Ginger Hammond, with assistance by Tracy Yates. 

According to the plot, Grace Bradley inherits the difficult job of running her church’s Christmas pageant. It gets worse when the Herdman kids — all six of them — get involved. 

The Herdmans are notorious: They smoke, steal, lie, bully and generally create havoc in their town. Their father disappeared years earlier and mother works two shifts at the shoe factory to support herself and the kids while the kids run wild. 

The play tries to answer whether the Herdman children can ever learn the “the true meaning of Christmas.”