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Joshua

2001

Joshua
Act I
Act II

Date-2001

Cast

Crew

Songs

Act I

Mose is Dead- The Mourners

Joshua Whatcha Gonna Do Now?- Brooks, Blythe, Conyers, Caleb & the Georgians

Ten Commandments of Love- Brooks, Savannah, Conyers, Blythe, Ty Ty, and the Georgia Girls

Midnight in Jericho- The Jericho Singers and Dancers

The World’s Best Mama- Big Mama

A Country Boy Can Do It!- Josh, Caleb & the Georgia Boys

Handwritin's on the Wall- The Ringworm Five

Act II

Dreamin' 'bout Georgia- Lula & the Georgians

Through your Eyes- Brooks

In Every Little Bit of Me, I See a Lot of You- Young Josh & Young Caleb

Midnight in Jericho- The Jericho Singers and Dancers

Joshua- The Old Man and His Band

Mama Knows Best- Big Mama, Lloyd & Chlorine

Every Little Bit of Me (Reprise)- Young Josh & Young Caleb

The Battle Swing- The Orchestra & the Georgians

Memories

A word of thanks from Ken…

"Wall Climbers…

It does indeed “take a village” to get some jobs done. Theatre is a communal project and often the Big Chiefs are the ones credited for a show’s success. But nowhere is the community concept more evident than in the Triopia area. And one of the problems in working with people who prefer to work silently behind the scenes is that we often don’t even realize who they are. If you’re that that category, please fill in your name at the top of the list of those we’d like to thank for getting our production of Joshua on the boards.

Our special thanks to Mike Mason, Tom Proffer Sr., Rich Dunseth, Dave’s Music, Steve Tankersley, Ed Anderson, Joyce Thompson & the guys and girls in brown at the Jacksonville UPS depot, The Jacksonville Journal Courier, the Beardstown Newspapers, Inc., The Jacksonville Theatre Guild, WLDS, and WJVO.

We especially appreciate the Mom’s, Dad’s, and siblings who’ve had to rearrange their lives to make the lives of some 90 Triopia students richer these past seven weeks.

And finally, all those who’ve truly made the walls come tumbling down with their spiritual support over the past several months: Moms In Touch (carbs, cards &care), the Potato Lady and Jack (showers of spuds and blessings), Marge the Warrior(veteran pleader), Jansen Inc. (tiny hands, big prayers) , The Power Team (just enough room for long legs), and the many, many beautiful souls in this community who know the source and go to it for us….

Special Mention goes to a group who don’t fit into any particular category since they fill so many: Karel Schone and her Parents’ Brigade who’ve faithfully monitored our hallways and often provided energy-boosting treats, Alex Brockhouse who’s been the mastermind of both sound and lights whenever the occasion arose, Josh Rezba who thought he was only coming to Triopia as a cooperative teacher under West & Anderson, but who got corralled into lights, sound, and a bit of a fiddle, and finally to Tom Proffer Sr. who allows KB to sleep peacefully at night now that Big Tom has enhanced the safety of our spotlight crew."

From the “Joshua Journal”…

"I think I shall miss this cast...perhaps more than others...so much love. Any group of people...especially teenagers, will naturally and immediately separate themselves into groups...some of this has happened but not nearly as drastically as in most casts. We are together. If jealousies are there, they are controlled. Innocence. I think of innocence in this cast...a simple, honest wanting to do things right. No puffed up talk of “Being the Best Ever,” simply wanting to do it right. It helps, of course, to have the best of the best on board.

Freshmen are always a treat…they have no idea of the growing their going to do this week...after Wednesday night they’ll no longer be “the kids.” Athletics, Poms, Cheerleaders, speech, play...all tools in the process of finding out who we are. The only sadness comes when the activities become an end in themselves. They are not. They are not....just another tool, a method, a device, of discovering who we are, what we can do, how we “rate” in this artificial status ladder of ability, and what we think of ourselves. Just a tool. No matter what Shakespeare said, “The play is not the thing.” It’s the process, Bill, it’s the process. I sit at times like this and think back to past plays. One or two icons always filter down through the years...moments or performances that become a symbol in our memory for the entire play....Witte holding Lydia at the end of Rainbow, the Four Chord Wonder and Stomp of The Time of My Life, Little Girl Lost and a lunatic King in Viva Esther. This show, I think, will be hard to peg...too many great performances...but still, some will emerge...I wonder...I wonder...I know my personal favorites but sometimes those change as memory has its way. Right now it’s the amazing heart being shown by some cast members...those who've completely given themselves to their performance." -KB

Tidbits from the weekly production newsletter, “Just Joshin'”, designed for the cast…

“Drop those scripts like they were on fire!” …. KB

“I drive home at night thinking that if every play and every play cast made me this happy, I could do this for a while longer. I couldn't be happier…even with Trenton Carls in the cast.”… KB

“Each of the Georgia crew is named after a town in that state…with the exception of Josh and his family”…

The casket used in the beginning scene… “Our casket has made the rounds… It was first made for the Dogwood Boy, then the Jacksonville Theatre Guild borrowed it for Scrooge's body in A Christmas Carol, then JHS borrowed it for Oklahoma!, and now it's finally returned home. Do you know what actor was the first to appear in it? And by the way, JHS didn't have time to return it to Triopia so they placed it under a tree behind the JTG office for us to come pick up. For an entire day, people drove by the former funeral home and saw an empty casket lying out back.”

Drew Hendricker's Down-Left Theory: “ You see, there's this Bermuda Triangle at Down-Left. Every time anybody walks into it, they go blank. It happens to Matt Snodgrass and Beardy and it happens to me a lot. I'm not kiddin', there's something weird about that spot.”

A first taste of the Jerichite costumes. Mrs. Armstrong said that suede is a challenge. She said, “Well, you can't put pins in it and you can't iron it. You just close your eyes and jump in.”

Some favorite rehearsal moments (from the newsletters):

Video

Act I

Act II

Photos

Cast in western costumes on stage Performers in costume Performer with cast members Group of costumed performers Two performers in costume