April 10, 2008
Journal entry
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I've started keeping a journal now, so I may not be posting as much. We'll see. Anyway, this is just one of my journal entries, typed up. It probably won't make sense if you don't know the people and the songs - but I wrote it for me to remember, and I know all that background stuff, so I'm not going to add a lot of explanatory notes. It's about the same presentation Jessica just posted about. 4/8/08 9:10 pm Today was a lot of fun. Tess called around 10 to say that Jacob had called her at 11:30 last night to say he couldn't come to the presentation today because he coulnd't get off work. She said at first she thought he was kidding, and then when she realized he was serious, she was not very happy! :) He had the main part in all four songs we were going to do (Larger than Life, One Time Show, There is a God, End). We took out Larger than Life and put in Two Sets. Tess and Jorge both presented. Jarek did the skeptic and Jo did Jesus in End, both for the first time. (I was impressed with Jarek's skeptic, by the way, considering he learned it in the car on the way there!) Jorge hadn't practiced One Time Show, so his basketball technique could have been better, but oh well. I was impressed that everybody got the changes in There is a God (we had to take out both Josh and Jonathan). The Lillys obviously practiced - kudos to them. [And today they told me that they didn't practice at all!!! It really looked like they did!] End was OK except for "angry crowd chose Him" which some people NEVER get no matter how many times we drill it. That's frustrating. Jorge was the guard, and he got the lifts OK. Crowd did a great job covering him too. Two Sets was fine. Tess's parts: crowd in End, bad narrator in Two Sets, Master of Ceremonies (Jacob's part) in One Time Show, and narrator (!!!) in There is a God. She did a great job (as always). Her Master of Ceremonies was very cute and fun. The beginning of the presentation was a little rough... okay, more than a little. We got there at 2:45 (scheduled to present at 3), Tess parked the van with one tire on the curb (which we didn't notice until after the presentation), and we piled out. We walked backstage, and then I went to get the music set up (the sound booth is in the middle of the audience, which you have to go through two other big tents to get to). I was walking along the side of the tent, and then I heard the announcer say "and our next group will be the mimes..." and then I started running! I ran, and went in through a tent flap that wasn't really an entrance, and ran through the tents, saying "excuse me" a lot and weaving through these old people (the average age of a Branson Fest visitor is about 65) and trying not to hit anybody. I got there and gave the CD to the sound guy, and - whew! - we weren't going on for a couple minutes. So I ran outside to put on a t-shirt over my ACTION shirt [so I could be a believable "plant" for One Time Show], ran back in, found a seat in the 2nd row (that was hard - there were a lot of people there!), blew my cover when I had to get up and tell the sound guy to turn on the music... etc. Then Tess couldn't find me in the audience. Melissa found me and pointed me out - covered it really well. Points for Melissa. Then the mic wasn't on for my speaking part, so I had to yell. There were several hundred people in that big ten, the music was loud, but they could hear me in the sound booth, which was halfway back. Guess those yelling classes on the CAMT came in handy after all. I slipped back to the sound booth about 30 seconds into Two Sets. Watched the song, which was uneventful. There Is a God was strong. There were a few missed cues but they weren't obvious to an audience. Tess's narrator was strong. They clapped loud and long for "thunderous ovation of praise" - they were really with us. Same when Jesus rose in End - they clapped all the way until "He came, He lived, He died." That was pretty cool. Afterward (backstage) we got a booking for 6/14, I gave some promo to a guy who wants us to come to North Carolina, and we laughed and talked about everything. God was merciful, and it wasn't raining until 15 minutes after the presentation (even though a 100% chance of strong storms was forecast). We wandered around awhile trying to find Jory, then found out he'd already gone toward the van. It was raining by now. Never mind - we ran. First Tess, then a string of mimes trailing behind. Then we schemed for Jory's birthday, helped Tess get out of the parking space (that was funny!), and went home. I forgot to mention that I went to help Tess this morning also. I got some music copied to her mp3 player, worked on the project plan for Family Camp, made 08 financial file folders, and sorted mail. :) It was fun. She said she did her hair while waiting 8 minutes for the post office to open this morning. She did her makeup while watching Jacob's part in There is a God, and took a phone call while practicing Two Sets. Why do just one thing when you could be doing two? |
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