Mother’s Day Skits and Critics

Doreen: The Bingo Skit was about a woman who used go to Bingo very frequently, whatever nights there would be Bingo, could be down in the Bight or over in Bay L’Argent whatever. And she would get the dishes done in the evening, and take off to Bingo leaving her husband there to do  the homework, and  all the work with the small children. So anyway, this night they never had no milk, they didn’t have a lot of things like milk and bread and stuff and he blamed it because his wife was spending too much time in Bingo. So when she got back from Bingo that night and went to bed he decided to play a trick on her. it was called the Ghost of Bingo, so he went in the bedroom and he went in behind the closet or whatever, he start singing out “IIIIIIIIIIIIII sixteeeeen”and she would jump up in the bed “what’s that? someone saying I 16” “BEEEEE Fiiive” and in a really scary voice and she’d jump up. So anyway, finally she got really [agitated and he came out] “a ghost “she said. “what kind of ghost?” [he says]. And anyway as he was trying to get back in bed with her, to make her feel better, it was Amb playing the part of the ghost, he beat the legs of the bed. And him and the bed and her went to the floor …

Interviewer: And that wasn’t supposed to be part of it?

Doreen: That wasn’t supposed to be part of it because Amb had Roxanne in the bed and he’s trying to repair the bed and she’s in  there.

Interviewer: So you’ve been in the concert since back in the the 70’s.

Doreen: Late 70’s. Been a lot of concerts. Think I missed one year and that was when I had the open heart surgery, but I was in it for 3 pregnancies.

Interviewer: You had a few babies delivered in the Mother’s Day concert, too?

Doreen: Oh yes there’s always babies and there’s always women comparing which baby is the prettiest, too. And they don’t care about what they say about it either. But like I said before, we’ve had skits about just about everything, to politics, to women getting pregnant to people finding other people on the Internet. Every kind of possible situation that you could ever imagine, we’re after poking fun at it.

Interviewer: Tell me about how the women, Alice and them used to be the critics and come to the Friday night show.

Doreen: They were like, they did critiques, every Friday night they would come up and tell us what we’d done wrong, you know whether someone had worn their dress too high, or shown too much skin, or said  words, especially if it affected the priest, anything that would be a slur towards the priest, they would come up and tell us w had to try to straighten that out and then Saturday when the concert was over they’d come up, we’d usually go by their suggestions too, because we didn’t want to insult anyone. On Saturday, they’d come up  and say        “It was perfect, that was the best concert ever”. And that was the same thing they told us every year.

Interviewer: So they went to Friday and Saturday? They went to the children’s show and they went to the adult’s show.

Doreen: So they went to Friday and Saturday. They went to both concerts every year. But like, a lot of them now have passed  and we miss that, we miss their presence there.