First Show Experience of the Summer

Wow... all I can say is that tonight was amazing and a major blessing...

The show was at Stafford Baptist Church in their schools gym.... we had 25 or so kids in the cast and then 10 staff members...

When I first arrived around 5:45... I went to the cafeteria, where all the kids were getting in their costumes and warming up with Phillip (one of the co-owners of the company I am working with)... my first assignment from Neesa (the other owner.. who's house I am graciously staying at) was to help the "Penguins" into their leotard.... mind you these kids are around kindergarten age... so it wasn't the easiest job.... but I successfully helped 4 little penguins into their costumes.... next I was assigned to just help Neesa during the show... I ran and helped with mics and helped the penguins with their costumes and such... but I got to watch most of the show....

The show was called "The Ballad of Bull-Headed Billy" (both music, lyrics and script written by both Neesa and Phillip) and it was based upon the bible parable of the prodigal son (for those who don't know.. the younger of two sons wants his inheritance from his father, to get away from the "farming" business and be on his own... his father grants his request and lets him go... but once the son goes away, he wastes his money and ends up working on a pig farm...he then realizes that the servants that work for his father get treated better than how he is right now.... he ends up going back and asking forgiveness from his father and he is accepted with open arms... just to summarize)

Watching these kids sing and dance their little hearts out was just amazing. They each had their own way of dancing of course.... haha.. :-) But that wasn't what mattered, what mattered was the fact that each and everyone of them meant what they sang and loved every minute of it.

After the show was over, we, the crew, immediately started taking down the set, sound, lights, etc. and loading it on a HUGE trailer. I had the task of putting away the mic chords, snakes and such.. and boy was that a task.... lets see about 150 to 200 individual chords, not counting the two snakes (multiple mic chords altogether)..... wrapping each one and then putting it in the proper box.... I have received a new found appreciation for sound crew... :-).... lets just say that my hands were a different color when I finished.... (yuck...)

I ended up with only a few scratches and sweaty clothes... but it was worth the experience.. :-D...

And now as I sit here with my belly full of IHOP..... I can only imagine what the actual traveling experience is going to be like.... but i am looking forward to it with open arms.... just as the father of the prodigal son.... with my arms open to receive the blessings of the summer from both the kids and the staff....

thanks again for reading! and now I am going to bed :-)