Nativity Creativity

TACOMA, WA-November 29, 2004 — There may not have been room at the inn, but they'd better make room at the altar.

Shortly after a Friday performance of the Nativity at the Metropolitan Ballet of Tacoma, Dan Larson, portraying Joseph, got down on one knee and asked Amanda Thaut, "Will you marry me?"

Thaut, who played Mary, quietly gasped, "Yes."

The audience at the Pantages Theater was stunned. One of the wise men pumped his fist in the air and the shepherds and angels could barely contain their enthusiasm.

"I started planning it more than a year ago," Larson, 25, said later. "I wanted to make it something very special. Every part of my life is better because of her."

Despite her surprise, Thaut had an inkling some weeks earlier he was close to popping the question.

"I had a dream about it," said Thaut, 26.
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