I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
I led the final rehearsal this evening for the Stations of the Cross mime that I’m directing at my field parish. The performance is on Good Friday and I’ve been a bit worried about it. We’ve had a couple of rehearsals, but until tonight we had not had the entire cast in one place at one time. Coordinating our schedules has been crazy. We were able to all be there tonight, but then I learned that all the space where we could rehearse would be filled with classes and other activities tonight. We decided that we would rehearse outside in the places where we’ll be performing (we are walking through the neighborhood as we do this), but it rained all day with more rain forecasted for the evening. I arrived at church for our 8pm rehearsal anxious about how we were going to rehearse outside in the rain. Amazingly, everything worked out just fine. It wasn’t raining when we gathered, so we were able to walk the neighborhood. It was too cold and wet to rehearse outside, but we were at least able to figure out our starting positions in each space. When we returned to church we learned that there was no class in the sanctuary as we had originally thought and the choir was finishing its rehearsal, so we got to practice the performance inside the church, where we’ll be peforming some of the stations.
The rehearsal went really well and it is really coming together. I am beginning to have confidence that this is really going to be a powerful and moving experience for those that join us on Friday. God is good.
