"Showdown..." a sellout!
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Well, not exactly a sellout, for no admission is charged to enjoy the Delta Christian Drama Association presentations---this the sixth now---but the 3 evening run was entertaining, well attended and highly acclaimed as usual!
Unlike the earlier productions, this drama is contemporary – Paradise Gulch is a fictional town in Montana—and is an original script co-written and co-directed by George and Gaylene Hosier.
Executed by a cast—oh, my there aren’t words, at least in this reporter’s vocabulary, to express the admiration we have for this cast of 10, most of whom have no acting experience, but DO have enthusiasm, dedication, and faith.
The hundreds of man-hours of preparation by cast and other volunteers were evident—there were no glaring errors, no glitches, no gaffes, and no disasters.
Volunteers included set design and construction—a magnificent painting, depicting a “wild Montana skies” and landscape view from the window of the Spangler home, done by Vladimir Kurilchenko—the ranch house furniture built by Josiah Holbrook---music by several sets of musicians, including Ms Beth Abbott and Ms Autumn Abbott, and Ms Anna Kurilchenko---without the young dedicated Christian volunteers, these productions could not be actualized—thanks to them, and many other indispensable volunteers whom we have failed to acknowledge by name. They are all magnificent!
The drama concluded with a play within a play, using a total cast of 20, some of whom were called “extras”. Truly, there are no “extras” in this enterprise, for it was obviously a team effort and a labor of love.
The playwright combined a sort of slide show, voice over, pageant, object lesson, morality play, and grand finale spectacle – the magnificent costumes and showmanship we have come to anticipate from this group and this wardrobe mistress.
If you missed this show, you missed a treat, a winner, and an affirmation of faith by the participants. If you have attended none of the six presentations by DCDA, make a resolution to see the next one---try it, you might like it.
Well, not exactly a sellout, for no admission is charged to enjoy the Delta Christian Drama Association presentations---this the sixth now---but the 3 evening run was entertaining, well attended and highly acclaimed as usual!Unlike the earlier productions, this drama is contemporary – Paradise Gulch is a fictional town in Montana—and is an original script co-written and co-directed by George and Gaylene Hosier.
Executed by a cast—oh, my there aren’t words, at least in this reporter’s vocabulary, to express the admiration we have for this cast of 10, most of whom have no acting experience, but DO have enthusiasm, dedication, and faith.
The hundreds of man-hours of preparation by cast and other volunteers were evident—there were no glaring errors, no glitches, no gaffes, and no disasters.
Volunteers included set design and construction—a magnificent painting, depicting a “wild Montana skies” and landscape view from the window of the Spangler home, done by Vladimir Kurilchenko—the ranch house furniture built by Josiah Holbrook---music by several sets of musicians, including Ms Beth Abbott and Ms Autumn Abbott, and Ms Anna Kurilchenko---without the young dedicated Christian volunteers, these productions could not be actualized—thanks to them, and many other indispensable volunteers whom we have failed to acknowledge by name. They are all magnificent!The drama concluded with a play within a play, using a total cast of 20, some of whom were called “extras”. Truly, there are no “extras” in this enterprise, for it was obviously a team effort and a labor of love.The playwright combined a sort of slide show, voice over, pageant, object lesson, morality play, and grand finale spectacle – the magnificent costumes and showmanship we have come to anticipate from this group and this wardrobe mistress.
If you missed this show, you missed a treat, a winner, and an affirmation of faith by the participants. If you have attended none of the six presentations by DCDA, make a resolution to see the next one---try it, you might like it.
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Thank you to Ken Farrow for a wonderful review and for our local photographer Carol Watkins for a beautiful display of photos.
posted by Delta News Web at 4/18/2007 08:49:00 AM
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