A Very Special Canterlot High Holiday.

Outside the City Church bells tolled the hour, It was eight in the evening and the pageant was just about over with. In the warmth of the auditorium the actors for the final spectacle of the night were taking last minute steps to ensure everything would be perfect. Brandon Crowe looked at himself in the mirror, his hair had been styled by Aloe and Lotus. The pair of them had made his hair long snd stick out in various directions and a layer of black makeup on his eyes made them hollow and sunken in appearance.

Rarity had never worked with latex before she made the Edward Scissorhands costume, but she could work wonders with her tools and a little perseverance. The latex costume with the metallic belt was a near perfect recreation of the film's, and the piece de resitance, the two namesake Scissor hands he wore on his hands.

"Brandon? Are you alright sweetie darling?" Rarity said making Brandon turn to face her. Rarity wore Kim Bogg's white Christmas dress, though Kim only wore it in the final act of the film, Rarity thought it'd be easier for everyone to just have one costume to wear one costume for the play, with the exception of Brandon putting a shirt and pants over the latex costume.

"I'm fine Rarity, just nervous. I've been in a play before in my life, and I guess I'm just..." she took him by the metal hand carefull not to grip the blade to hard. (Remember real scissors) and softly kissed his cheek.

"You'll be just fine darling, I'll be with you every step of the way and it will be a night unlike any other!" She said cheerfully as she planted a warm kiss on his cheek, Brandon touched it smiling softly, not minding the slight poke he gave himself with his scissor hand as he did.

The lights yet again had gone low, this led to a soft blue and cyan light. As Octavia and the Canterlot High orchestra began to play the main theme to Edward Scissorhands.

Obviously because a stage play can't have the same production and opening credits that a movie can, the orchestra played as strobe lights flashed across the painted backdrop of the gothic castle that the titular Edward had been born and raised raised in. Though she was the lead cellist, Octavia was the most into the whole thing. Her hands strumming the instrument while her eyes closed to block out all other perceptions, leaving only the sounds and feeling of cold polished wood on her soft smooth hands.

"No way! I do not sound like that!" Twilight Sparkle said to Peter in the seats. He had just been saying that.

"Twilight you're a dead ringer for Juilet from Lollipop Chainsaw, just say it...and I'll play the clip." He said as Twilight blushed hard. "Woah zombies suck at driving." He left out the bit where the actual line was "suck dick at driving," out of courtesy for her.

"Well okay....Woah ZOMBIES SUCK DICK AT DRIVING!" she didn't say it loud enough for the other audience members to hear it, but she did put just enough flare into her tone and delivery that she was indeed a spot on impression of Juilet Star.

"I didn't say you had to say suck dick Twilight." He said blushing and curling up coyly.

"I've played that game Pete and I know that's what she said." Twilight said giggling and hugging him with a chuckle.

"I...I just think you got that good a voice Twi."

"Thanks Petey, that...means something."

"Pipe it you two, the shows bout ready ta start!" Applejack said interjecting them both as sje took a bite of a homemade candy apple.

Finally the play proper began, Snips and Snails pulled on the ropes in the high up catwalks to make the backdrop walls slide into place, the stage version of the panning shot into the adged Kim's bedroom. As Tony Award adjusted the spotlights on the actors. Rarity had thrown a heavy shawl over her head and used a slightly different tone in her voice, in a little bed that had rolled into place on stage was Rarity's little sister Sweetie Belle, it felt a bit awkward playing mother and daughter but hey, all in the name of acting right?

Is there really any need to retell the story of Edward Scissorhands? Even if it's from the pov of a high school play? When there's a good chance you've already seen it? Well a few things worth mentioning. The school auditorium, as I've said. Had a specially crafted stage that had a big circular platform built into it. This platform could rotate its postition and was divided into sections that the dramas had designed to resemble the key scenes from the movie.

As the play progressed, everyone got their characters down to the wire. Brandon captured the sad doey eyes of Johnny Depp. The soft and almost childlike innocene in his voice, and the best part? Mr. Discord as the inventor. There was just this...charm to him as he did it. The man was able to simultaneously recreate the last role of the great Vincent Price, while making it his own.

When he and Brandon where on stage together, the audience didn't see two people trying to be Depp and Price, they saw a very eccentric man and sad eyed young man. Mr. Discord held the prop book on manners and recited.

"Is it proper to take more sugar when having tea?....I now boring isnt it?" Let us move on...to poetry shall we?" He asked Edward/Brandon.

"It's not about...rocks is it?" He said giving his namesake hands a few snips. Prompting the audience to laugh, except Maude.

"Ha...ha ha." She said as she watched.

"All good fun Maude." Her new friend Miles Cake (no relation to the Sugar Cube Corner owners) said hugging her as the show continued.

The performance that probably stood out the most was Rarity as Kim and Brandon. There was nothing but awe when they got to the play's climax. When she looked into his sad longing eyes and he into her gleaming sapphire ones. She said to him with the Ice Dance playing in the background by the orchestra.

"Hold me darling." She said placing her hands on his face and inching herself to him.

"I can't." He said making his hands snip and snip as a single tear streamed down his face, as Rarity did something that was NOT in the script. She leaned in and planted her lips firmly on Brandon's. His eyes went wide in surprise at the unplanned kiss. Before closing in rapture as he kissed her back. Soft, warm and tenderly. In the audience Cookie amd Hondo only looked on in...slight convern before remembering that Rarity was a big girl now. As for Mrs. Finish?

"Ach! Vat are they doing?! That's not in the script!" She said pulling at her hair before a younger version of herself, her daughter Photo Finish mafe her look back at the audience.

"Mamma look at them, don't you think they vare if it's in the script or not?" They looked and saw tje weepy eyes pf the audience as the actors on stage gathered around Flash's "body." As Rarity stormed from the "castle" to tell the masses how "they killed each other." The final scene shifted back to the aged Kim and granddaughter.

"I'm an old woman now Sweetie, I'd want him to remember me as I was, but you see before he came down...it never snowed here before. Now it does snow every Christmas. Sometimes....you can see me dancing in it." As she shed the shawl and became her young self again. The Grande Finale kicked in. As Snips and Snails turned on the giant fans and dumped the bags of bean bag beans and Styrofoam shavings onto the stage. The fans making it "snow" onto the audience. As it started out, so shall it end.

With the strobes flashing on the painted backdrop and the school orchestra lead by Ms. Octavia Melody. There was no curtian call, only silence as they filed out into the cold, you could almost envision eight tiny reindeer in flight.

As Mr. Discord in the red and gold coat Rarity had made for him stood with Snips and Snails dumping the last of the snow out the doors he said to the guests cheerfully. "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."