{"id":3659,"date":"2025-11-13T18:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:12:55","slug":"blog-november-13th-his-story-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Blog November 13th His Story Part Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the show musicians\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rf1jjf5jfNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of our musical \u201cHis Story\u201d on Saturday, November 8<sup>th<\/sup> was absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>The format had actors acting, singers singing and dancers dancing \u2013 all parts rehearsing separately and not coming together until the evening before- so pretty scary! One of the joys was to see each set of performers seeing others perform for the first time, smiling \u00a0in admiration.<\/p>\n<p>The response to His Story has been brilliant and the idea formed that any church wishing to produce a community event now has a template. Local talent could be enlisted to include \u00a0a Primary school choir- a dance school or perhaps Secondary School GCSE dance students \u2013an amateur theatrical company and the church\u2019s own worship band. Mustard Seeds could provide the audio -visual presentation which helps tell the story through scripture text and voice overs.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Fareham and the Mayor of Gosport were at the Matinee performance, and they both loved it!<\/p>\n<p>So, a huge, huge thank you to the cast:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theatre:<\/strong> Mary, Mother of Jesus &#8211; Leah Halliwell Peter &#8211; Richard Mellion John &#8211; Jake Drake<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong>Vocals and Piano: Lucy Stimpson Maynard- The St Mary\u2019s Roman Catholic Primary School Choir &#8211; Mustard Seed Soul and Gospel Band- Vocals: Tim Glennie, Sarah Summer Lead Guitar: Adrian Grobler Bass: Heath Williams &#8211; Matinee | Gemma Terry &#8211; Evening Drums: Jenna Gunter Keys: Pete Marsh Auxiliary Keys and Backing Vocals: Lewis Gunter Trumpet: Jon Yates Tenor Sax and Whistle: Tim Downs Musical Director: Lewis Gunter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dance:<\/strong> The Alverstoke School of Dance<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Tech:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voice Overs: Edward Baker-Duly<\/p>\n<p>AV Presentation: Joffy James and Chris Binns<\/p>\n<p>Sound: Technical Services Ltd<\/p>\n<p>Lighting: Essential Marketing &#8211; PJ Radcliffe<\/p>\n<p>The musical was filmed but that will take some time to edit \u2013 in the meantime I hope you enjoy today\u2019s clip from one of the original productions 20 years ago!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3660\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/28082-Plato-Quote-Music-gives-a-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to-the-mind-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, the 20th anniversary of our musical \u201cHis Story\u201d on Saturday, November 8th was absolutely fantastic. The format had actors acting, singers singing and dancers dancing \u2013 all parts rehearsing separately and not coming together until the evening before- so pretty scary! One of the joys was to see each set of performers seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}