Lost

Well finally, my church's Christmas musical production is done. It was titled "Lost". I was blessed with the opportunity to help in the musical. The other people who also helped out in were Joel, Elaine, Hsien U, Dexter, Sophia, Priscilla, Jeremy and Shang Sheng.

Our role was to carry the candle when Juwita and Patrick Leong sang "Silent Night". Actually I was quite nervous the first time because we didn't really practice much at there some last minute changes. Well in all, I manage to do well for 3 nights.

The play went through well, there were no errors or mistakes I could spot. Actually to my surprise, I found out that I had some friends also performing in the musical. First is Hocks, my ex-cg leader who was playing the saxophone!!! Then Eunice, 1 of the 4 violinist. Michael, my sifu drummer was playing the drums. Kar Men and Lydia, both dancers for the play.

My mom was involved in the play, since she was a former hairstylist she was doing the hair for most of the actors and dancers. From there, I gain backstage access to talk to some of the actors and dancers. She even did Patrick Leong and Juwita Suwito's hair. That is like a bonus since I get to talk to an artist which I haven't yet to do so (Planetshakers don't count.)

Anyway, the play opens with 4 carols sang by the choir. After the 4 carols, Juwita and Patrick will both sing a duet of "Silent Night". Then we are introduce into main character who is a shepherd who has the staff of King David when he had it as a shepherd. As he is about to leave to care for his flock, his sos begs him to tell him a story about King David. He sits down and began telling story about how King David use his staff to ward off lions and bears. He continues on with the story about King David beats Goliath with a sling a stone. The story is told by a song by the kid's choir. It's rather cute with their actions with it.

The play then moves on to the shepherd meeting up with his two other friends who are both shepherds. As they talk, he tells them about a census regarding that everyone must return to their hometown so that the Romans can count how many Jews are there. One of the shepherds is amazed how the Romans plan to do that and he can't even count how many sheep he has. The shepherd with the King David's staff then brags how he know his sheep by their names and the sheep know who is their master. As he began to count, he notice one of his sheep missing. So, he goes out to look for the missing sheep.

The next scene shows, the lost sheep being dance by one of the dancers. The dance was really good I must say. The way she portrays a lost sheep was rather impressive. As she dances around the prop lake, she falls into it. Then the shepherd comes running to help her. As he struggles with only one hand, he realize he must throw away his staff in order to save her.

He then returns back to his friend, exhausted and weary. As he sits down to rest, he tells what happen to his friends and they all scold him for throwing away the staff for just a lamb. Patrick comes in to perform his song which I forgot. After this, Ps. Daniel comes in to share the Word.

After the word, the play continues with the shepherd seeing the angel of the Lord. Telling them the Messiah is born in the town of Bethlehem. The choir then sings a song which I forgot. The shepherds then move on to Bethlehem. There they find the baby Jesus (although not shown). After that, the dancers did hip-hop dance and Juwita sings another song. Then the play ends with an altar call by Ps. Daniel

Well that's a long update. I'm rather lazy to go to in details the last part since it's really long and I plan to move on the another update soon.