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The band set up in the middle, and we danced with the Lover of our souls for almost 3 straight hours! Our worship was only broken by scripure reading, testimonies, prayer, and an enacted prayer.

One young man has been watching it all but had never been stirred himself. Last night he asked God to reve...

09.02.05 10:59 AM - Comment(s)

Company 150, a troupe of young people from around the Territory, just performed a choreodrama (mix of dance, mime, and acting). Wow.

They base their name on Psalm 150 and have been doing drama, worship, and choreodrama, drawing everything that has breath to praise the Lord all summer, culminating her...

09.01.05 02:26 PM - Comment(s)


Christine MacMillan, the Commissioner of this Territory (all of Canada and Bermuda) for the Salvation Army, greeted the Territorial School of Music and Gospel Arts during our midweek festival. She brought Kirk Guthrie up to illustrate how it's not about the externals but about the heart. She said ...
09.01.05 12:41 AM - Comment(s)


...at least she played the role of God in enacted prayer.

I've been teaching enacted prayer to different electives all week. It's a prayer form in which a real prayer request is prayed for through a form of mime. Different actors take on the roles of those being prayed for.

On the first day I tau...
08.31.05 03:47 PM - Comment(s)

Thank you so much for your prayers! I could seriously feel them all day long.

Tonight I performed The Revelation and when I was done I added something spontaneously: I offered to put the mark of the cross on people's foreheads if they wanted to declare that they were a servant of the Lord.

One of the...

08.30.05 03:03 AM - Comment(s)
This afternoon I'm flying to Toronto to perform The Revelation, teach, and direct at the Salvation Army's Territorial School for Music and Gospel Arts. Last year it was AMAZING. Click here for my reflections on last year's event: Territorial '04.

This year the director of the program, Len Ballantin...
08.26.05 12:21 PM - Comment(s)

Preshow
We're munching our dinner in the castle that overlooks the theatre which hosts Shakespeare in the park and tonights Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Intermission
Very cleverly reconceived. I see why it won the Tony in 1972. The music (yup) is by Galt MacDermot (Hair) and John Guare, who also had a hand...

08.26.05 01:57 AM - Comment(s)
I'm waiting on line (for West Coast readers that's how they say "in line" out here) to see Two Gentlemen of Verona at Shakespeare in Central Park. Tickets are free but they don't give them out for five more hours. I'm 23rd in line.

Usually by this point I'd be behind all the folks in the p...
08.25.05 12:33 PM - Comment(s)

After Joyce's major surgery (RichDrama.com/Joyce) and my very full week at TAM (RichDrama.com/NewsBlog. Scroll down.) we snuck away for a couple of beach days on Long Island.

08.20.05 12:34 PM - Comment(s)
My cousin, Nick Brophy, played guitar and wrote two songs
icon for Hootie & the Blowfish's CD, which was just released today: Looking for Lucky. Both songs deal with painful relationships. Right now the album is #2 at iTunes.

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08.15.05 07:21 PM - Comment(s)


My friend David Wallace, who teaches viola at Julliard among a number of other things, just had his album Nahum / What a Friend debut as CD Baby's #1 selling instrumental metal CD.
08.15.05 03:59 PM - Comment(s)

Our final service culminated in multisensory worship, complete with a chocolate fountain. It looks solid even from a foot away, but the chocolate is flowing. Our chaplain, Janet Munn, said that honey was the sweetest substance when the Psalms were being written, but today, chocolate is at the top of...
08.14.05 04:53 PM - Comment(s)

These are the guys in my small group. Back: Kelly, Tony, Daniel, Elisha. Front: Terrylee, and Evan. We closed our session with the footwashing from my short piece, Journey to the Garden.

Pray for our whole conservatory as we perform our final piece tonight at 7:30 EST.

08.13.05 11:31 AM - Comment(s)
Most mornings I've been dragging myself out of bed, since our schedule for TAM is jam packed, but this morning I all but sprang from the springs after what happened last night.

Carol Jaudes (CATS) performed with her troupe: Ian Evans, Chris Stoker, and Amber Peacock (my assistant here), with Kare...
08.12.05 11:05 AM - Comment(s)

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08.12.05 12:37 AM - Comment(s)
This is the cast I'm working with this week: Amber (my assistant), Christine, Liz, Steven, Daniel (kneeling), David, and Tyler. What a great bunch! Pray for us as we bring the story of David and Bathsheba to life.
08.11.05 08:31 PM - Comment(s)

We had intended to take an after shot when we were all wiped out, pulling into the parking lot after midnight, but our conversations about the show kept popping! Our group got seats on the front row, so the only way to have been closer to the action would have been to be on stage ourselves.

Before h...
08.10.05 05:57 PM - Comment(s)

Our theme at TAM this year is Be a Hero, based on the book by the same title by Wesley Campell and Stephen Court (who was one of the leaders of the Territorial School of Music and Gospel Arts near Toronto last year. Stephen and his wife, Danielle Strickland led us into revival).

We're listening to a...

08.10.05 05:49 PM - Comment(s)
We experienced PUSH Theatre Co. last night, who brought a double standing ovation with their work that was part mime, part dance, part strength/balance a la Cirque du Soleil. It was absolutely amazing, and this morning they worked with us, teaching us some of their technique. Tre cool.
08.10.05 01:58 AM - Comment(s)

We're hearing Ann Van Cleave sing "The Broadway Boogiewoogie" before seeing her on Broadway tomorrow night playing Miralla in Fiddler on the Roof.

She said the choreographer told them the reason he has their hands in the air so much is because he wants them drinking God through the palms of...

08.09.05 05:58 PM - Comment(s)

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