Earlier this month I had the pleasure of helping out backstage with Harvest Worship Centre's Christmas Production The Day Before Christmas.
It was a great story that touched on a lot of the worldly issues and hang-ups of Christmas time. It's meant to be a wonderful time of celebration and family but it often turns into a stressful, sad, and frustrating time of the year. It encouraged everyone to find their hope and their joy in the Lord and don't sweat the small stuff. He's got it all under control.
A friend of mine joked “Wow! Allison you were backstage?? I find that hard to believe...so how was that? I bet you really just had to humble yourself and be behind the scenes...” With friends like that who needs enemies :P. He was joking, but I actually had a moment. Listen, once that finale music started bumping and the cast and audience were having a great time I was ITCHING to be on the stage. That's the performer in me, but the backstage crew had a little party at the back too.
I've worked backstage at productions before but having one dress rehearsal...It was a whole other world back there. It was great! I love fast paced environments that keep you on your toes we had a couple issues but I had lots of help to keep everything running smooth during the quick scene changes.
We were short a body so I ended up doing a little walk on and mashing up the set in the process BUT what is live theatre for? Right? RIGHT?!!?!?! Right.
The cast, crew, band, HWC family, and visitors were blessed by the production and I know without a doubt many hearts were opened to the love of Jesus. I'll leave you with Go Tell by Isreal Houghton, it was our finale song and it was REAL. HWC Praise Team no joke!!!! We were jammin' for real and it was stuck in my head while we tore-down and cleaned up at the end of the night.
ENJOY!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment