The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, JV, The Musical ​is presented by our Musical Theatre class.  The class is designed to teach the students about all aspects of producing a stage musical.  Students are responsible for creating all aspects of the show, from characters to sets to sound and costumes and lights and business aspects.  The course culminates in end-of-semester performances that feature all that the students have learned and created.  We hope you enjoy our creation.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is based on the play by Barbara Robinson and tells the story of a school and church community that is terrorized by the rough-and-tumble Herdman kids.  When the Herdmans show up to Sunday school and take over the Christmas Pageant, it seems doomed to fail.  Just as it seems the pageant can't be saved, the community learns a lot about the real life of the Herdmans, and the true meaning of Christmas.​

The St. Francis Borgia Regional High School Department of Theatre and Speech is a state and nationally recognized department noted for its excellence in theatre and speech education.  The department has won the Missouri State High School Activities Association District 6 one-act competition five of the past six years, took second place in the Christian Interscholastic Speech League in 2019, has been designated as a Missouri Thespian Honor Troupe every year since 1997, and was chosen as the Missouri delegate to the Chapter Select performance at the International Thespian Festival in 2015.  

Director Tim Buchheit has been at the helm of the department since 1995 and has been chosen as the SFBRHS Teacher of the Year, the Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year, and the Missouri Thespian Teacher of the Year.  Graduates of the department have performed and worked on technical crews around the world, including the current director of Late Night with Seth Meyers, former audio technician of Beautiful and The Book of Mormon on tour, and former performer in the national tour of Wicked.  Graduates also direct theatre departments at Union High School, Sullivan High School, and Ladue Horton-Watkins High School.  

The department annually sponsors Theatre for a Cause, through which it has donated well over $10000 to local and national charities, including Exceptional Equestrians, the American Cancer Society, and The Emmaus Home.