Elation of the Big Shoe
On Saturday night, August 16th, The Company of Job hosted a dinner theater at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia. We presented an hour-long preview of our all original opera “Job: a Postmodern Opera of Biblical Proportions”. By all reports I have received, it went incredibly well.
Simply incredible.
I try to pride myself on having the right words to say when I need to say something. The only word that comes to mind after Saturday night’s performance is “incredible”.
In*cred”i*ble\, a. [L. incredibilis: cf. OF. incredible. See In- not, and Credible.] Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
And that is exactly what it was… marvelous… fabulous… incredible. There are so many things that have to come together to make a performance work well. Add to that the difficulty of feeding 300 people and you have a task that is way beyond the scope of normalcy, at leaset in my world. In the midst of introductions and applause, I neglected to thank our wonderful kitchen volunteers who labored for well over a week… and especially so on Saturday night… to prepare and serve everyone who came. So, Mary and Bill Barnard and all who helped, here is my feeble thanks, for what it’s worth.
I also neglected to thank our sound crew, Bob Williams and company. Bob Williams and Mark Jones manned the board and managed to juggle the sound coming from the 16-piece orchestra with the vocals from 14 singers to produce a room full of… can I say it again?… incredible music. The vocals were clear and distinct and the orchestra was heard without being too loud. Bravo and Kudos.
I’ll post more later. I just wanted to be sure I thanked these all important people.
- Posted in : Job: a Postmodern Opera
- Author : Don Harris
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