Getting involved at last

A bit late with this posting...don't know where the time has gone since Thursday!

It turned out to be a great rehearsal on Thursday...we ran through the opening "prologue", setting the scene of Jesus preaching to the people. We use a cunning trick to make Jesus appear in different places, but if I revealed what it was it would spoil the effect. Let's just say that we now see a bit more of the back of Kev's head than we did before!

Then they set the Temple scene - lepers etc. - which looked really effective by the end. Poor Pete had to launch straight into "My temple should be a house of prayer..." as his first line of the night - a sign of things to come for him. The movement that the lepers have got going on in this number is really good - really looks like waves of people pawing at Jesus.

This was followed by the other chorus numbers ("What's The Buzz", "Simon Zealottes") and Hosanna - which will look really good with a big procession through the auditorium with palm leaves.

While all this was going on, the Soul Girls were learning their dance for "Superstar". I went through to watch just before the break and it looks fantastic. It's seems a shame to stick me in front of them with my uncoordinated feet! I'm sure I'll manage somehow!

After the break, we sang through "Superstar" and the girls did their dance. It felt great - I'm sure this is going to have everyone dancing in the aisles. I didn't have much voice unfortunately - a combination of lack of practice and a long lingering cold has left me a bit croaky. Hopefully it will clear up soon.

Then we ran through "The Last Supper" - great stuff. Full of tension and emotion. Again, it would have gone better had my voice been in better shape, but still it was so good to see this come together. Then Pete has to go into "Gethsemane". He was so drained from doing the Temple scene so many times,then the argument in the Last supper, I think he could have done without this as well, bit he did it and I think it will prove to be the show-stopper it is meant to be. It's just as well Jesus doesn't have much more to sing do that as I'm not sure Pete will be able to walk after "Gethsemane"!

That was about it I think...there's a band call tonight that Keith would like us to go to, so there should be lots more for me to do this coming week.