Seventeen songs made it through the selection process from the hundreds that our executive producer/director John Plastow began with. Now the Sacramento Praise Choir, LightForce Youth Choir, Voices of Praise Childrens Choir, and eight soloists and three ensembles have just nine weeks to memorize 232 pages of music to perform live without a conductor’s direction.
In just three read-throughs, the 14 actors have begun to see how cleverly they’ve been cast to fit each other’s characters. Audiences are going to love the ensemble, including Ellie from Horntooth, Martin the one-man-band-guy, Ollie the gruff stage manager, Sam whose physical presence speaks volumes more than his lines, just to name the first four that come to mind.
Last month’s dance auditions established the lineups for the dance company, and already the dance floor is leaving its mark on the resined slippers of our very gifted dancers.
What am I talking about? I’m just one of hundreds in the cast of the 13th Annual “An Evening in December,” Sacramento’s Newest Christmas Tradition.
