Nyla White, 16, (right) used to perform in the pageant when she was younger, but for the past four years, she’s done the makeup for the actors. “You look so cool,” she tells Sarah Skeat (centre), 12, who plays the second of three kings. Sarah has performed in the pageant for seven years, playing various roles from David to an angel choir member to a Bethlehem girl to a gift-bearer. By now, she’s given up on looking for her parents in the audience. “The lights are too bright. I can’t really see anything.”