Church Skits & Plays
An Easter choir skitI Know the Words5 actors · 6 min

Easter · 5 actors · 6 minutes · Adults (Lois must really play the piano)

I Know the Words

At the last choir rehearsal before Easter, the tenor section is one man, the soloist has lost her voice, the hymnal is held together with rubber bands, and the newest member is the only one who knows anything. A funny Easter skit for five adults that ends with the whole church singing.

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Running time6 minutes
Cast5 roles · Adults (Lois must really play the piano)
PrepOne rehearsal. Everyone keeps lines in hand, in folders or inside Lois’s hymnal, and Denise’s messages are written ahead of time.
Best forEaster program; Easter Sunday, in place of a congregational hymn (it ends with the whole church singing “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”); the Saturday night before Easter
ScriptureJob 19:25 (KJV)
Theme“I know that my redeemer liveth.” Jesus was dead and is alive. That is something a person can know, not only sing well.
FormatPrintable PDF

About the skit

Tomorrow the room will be full, and the choir is singing “I Know That My Redeemer Lives.” Today the rubber band holding Lent just snapped off the hymnal, Gary can’t tell the hymn from “Jesus Shall Reign,” and Paula has written “piano” on his music. He’s a tenor; they don’t get a lot of soft. Denise has lost her voice and answers on a whiteboard, and Jess, three weeks into the choir, has just found out she’s an alto.

When Paula, at the end of her rope, says they’re singing “I Know” and nobody in the room knows anything, the newest member has something to say. It comes from the bottom of the page, Job 19:25, said simply and with no speech attached, and the rehearsal turns into the hymn itself.

It works in an Easter program, or on Easter Sunday in place of a congregational hymn. Five adults and one rehearsal, with every line kept in a folder or a hymnal; cast your real accompanist as Lois, and your real choir can stand in with no lines. The staging notes cover checking your hymnal’s tune, Denise’s pre-written messages and the silence before the hymn.

Read the first page

PAULA: All right, people. Last rehearsal. Tomorrow this room will be full, and every person in it is going to hear us sing "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." From the top. Lois?

(LOIS works a rubber band off her hymnal. It snaps off toward the wall.)

LOIS: Sorry. That one was holding Lent.

GARY: Which one's holding Easter?

LOIS: The blue one. Nobody breathe on the blue one.

PAULA: Lois. Just play.

(LOIS plays the introduction. Nobody comes in. She stops.)

PAULA: That was your entrance. Lois plays four bars, then we come in. Four. Count them.

GARY: That was "Jesus Shall Reign."

LOIS: It's the same tune.

GARY: Then how are we supposed to know which one we're singing?

PAULA: By the words, Gary! (She reaches for a pencil, can't find one, and pats the top of her head.)

GARY: Behind your ear.

PAULA: (finding it, and writing on GARY's music) Thank you. I'm writing "piano" on your music, Gary. It means soft.

GARY: I know what it means.

PAULA: Then do it.

GARY: I'm a tenor. We don't get a lot of soft.

The script continues in the full PDF.

Characters

  • Paula, the choir director, with a pencil behind each ear and never able to find either; can be Paul
  • Gary, the entire tenor section; big voice, big heart, sings for the tenors who aren’t here
  • Lois, the accompanist, who really plays; knows which rubber band holds what; can be Lou
  • Denise, the soloist, who lost her voice cheering at her grandson’s basketball tournament; says everything on a whiteboard
  • Jess, joined the choir three weeks ago and doesn’t read music; can be a man
  • The Choir, optional: the rest of your real choir, with no lines; they sing at the end
  • Your congregation, comes in on the second verse of the hymn

Props

  • A piano or keyboard, played live
  • A hymnal stuffed with loose pages and held shut with rubber bands, one of them blue
  • A music stand and a director’s folder
  • Choir folders with the lines and the hymn inside
  • Two long, brightly colored pencils
  • A small whiteboard, or a sketch pad with Denise’s messages written ahead

What you get

  • The full script with stage directions
  • Cast list, props list and simple staging notes
  • Four discussion questions for a small group, youth group or Sunday school class
  • Performance rights for your church: perform it as often as you like and print copies for your cast

Performance rights

One purchase covers one church or ministry. Perform it as many times as you like, make copies for everyone in the cast and crew, adapt the lines and include it in your livestream. Please don’t resell the script or share the file publicly. Read the full license.

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Questions

Can I change the names or lines?

Yes. Change names and genders, trim lines for time or adapt a joke for your church. The script is yours to fit to your people.

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