Bethlehem The Musical is a brilliant new nativity that charts the exciting events leading up to one very special night in Bethlehem.
This all-singing, all-dancing, 60-minute production weaves the extraordinary story of the birth of Jesus into the ordinary lives of the people of Bethlehem and draws on the important themes of community and hospitality. Available with Words on Screen™.
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
About Bethlehem The Musical
- Written by the same writers as best-selling musicals Cinderella & Rockerfella and Aladdin Trouble
- Particularly suitable for age 7-11 but can be adapted for a whole school production
- Suggested Choregraphy videos available online
Bethlehem The Musical has twelve fabulous songs and a brilliantly crafted script that brings a more mature feel to the nativity story, with just the right amount of humour, challenging and inspiring speaking parts, and beautiful solo opportunities, perfectly suited to older year groups.
With a variety of musical styles and an engaging, simple-to-stage script, this nativity musical will be sure to get feet tapping, hope lifting and everyone applauding!
Available with Words on Screen™ allowing you to 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!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity.
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
A condensed cast list and script that reduces the number of speaking parts to 32 is also available upon purchase – perfect for churches and smaller class productions. Please contact Customer Services on 020 8481 7200 for more details.
Cast List
Costumes and Props
There are 80+ speaking parts in this production. This can be reduced to 58.
Click on the cast list above for more information on decreasing the cast.
A condensed cast list and script that reduces the number of speaking parts to 32 is also available upon purchase – perfect for churches and smaller class productions. Please contact Customer Services on 020 8481 7200 for more details.
Total performance: 60 minutes approx
Total length of music: 33 minutes approx (excluding transition music)
Condensed script and cast list performance running time: 45 minutes approx.
- Bethlehem, Bethlehem (You’re In The Story!)
- O Holy Night (Stars Have Come Out)
- To Hospitality!
- Get In Line!
- Knock At The Door (Mary & Joseph)
- Somebody Just Told Me
- Let’s Get Going
- O Little Town Of Joy
- To Hospitality!
- Get In Line!
- Knock At The Door (Mary & Joseph)
- Wise Men
- Good News! Good News!
- Let’s Get Going
With thanks to Arun Church for their fantastic rendition of Good News! Good News!
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.
Listen to Songs
| Bethlehem, Bethlehem (You're In The Story!) | |
| Knock At The Door | |
| To Hospitality! | |
| O Holy Night (Stars Have Come Out) | |
| Get In Line! | |
| Knock At The Door (Mary & Joseph) | |
| Wise Men | |
| The Love Of God Has Come | |
| Somebody Just Told Me | |
| Good News! Good News! | |
| Let's Get Going | |
| Bethlehem, Bethlehem (You're In The Story!) Reprise | |
| O Little Town Of Joy |
Watch Videos
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Music score and song lyric sheets for 13 songs (piano music score, melody and chords)
- Song synopsis
- Character list
- Costume and prop suggestions
- Characters by scene
- Script with staging suggestions throughout
- Licensing and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts, & 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
- 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
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.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
5 Stars
We did this nativity with our whole primary school. The songs are wonderfully well written - some jolly and fun, others poignant and meaningful and brought a lovely atmosphere. There was enough challenge that the children didn't get bored but not so difficult that they took too long to learn.
Good
My class preformed it its songs are amazing
Fabulous songs and lots of speaking parts
We performed this musical with 5-9yr olds. I had to cut sections but it turned out to be one of the best shows we have done. The songs are excellent. In the past, I have found other performances too simple for our age range. This worked very well for us - thank you!
Outstanding production
Saw a Year 4 group perform this wonderful show. Full of humour, great and catchy songs whilst still retaining the poignancy of the Nativity story. The children looked as though they enjoyed performing it despite some nerves.
Very Good
We loved this play but had to cut out so many sections due to time constraints and manageability of the cast (we still had over 50 children with speaking parts)! Luckily the script still flowed and the children loved performing it just as much as the parents enjoyed watching!
Outstanding music and script
This has to be the best nativity I've been involved in. We based our decision on the snippets of music available to listen to. The song writers have to be given a huge amount of credit because they really make this nativity very special indeed. Excellent nativity for the older children to be involved in. Parental feedback was so positive and the chikdren were hooked from the start.
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