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'Revelations' - A Rock Opera

Saturday evening, July 21, 2007, a Rock Opera was being held at the American Baptist East Church (ABE), located at 6300 Washington Ave., in Evansville at 7:00pm. The ABE and the Divine Essence were presenting Revelations: The Rock Opera, for two weekends that began Thursday, July 12-22. They did have matinee performances on Sunday afternoon, but the only date the Jacob’s Village bunch of Wanda, Mike, Michael, Scott, and Home Coordinator Barry were able to attend was the Saturday night showing. They loaded up in the van and left Jacob’s Village about 6:00pm to give them enough time to travel across Evansville. The ABE is about as far East in Vanderburgh County as one can get without entering Warrick County and still be in Evansville. When the Jacob’s Village bunch arrived, The ABE Saturday evening 5:30pm service was just ending. The Jacob’s Village bunch had a group photo taken of them in front of the ABE’s carport entrance where a small self-contained waterfall fountain is located. A small foyer entrance room was filling up quickly while the tickets were being taken and the crowd had to wait around for the stage crew to make final preparations for the ‘Rock Opera’. Inside, the ABE is a new looking contemporary church with a stage up front and three or four different levels around the walls, a couple wide enough to walk around the room on. In fact, that’s where they had two lighting crews, spot lighting played a major role in the show and they had one on both sides in the corners along with many high wattage ceiling lights directed towards the stage. The room sat approximately 200 and a little more than half of the seats were filled. It was an inter-active show that Seth Davidson, Artistic Director for the program, had put together with a cast of about 15 members. There was a four piece band, ensembles of Angels floating along the parapet ledges on the wall, demon creatures dressed in solid black creeping through the aisles and pews grabbing and pulling at the audience, satanic horsemen dragging balls & chains and Louis Ifer, the co- conductor. Seth Davidson had selected a few scripture verses from the Book of Revelations that were an integral part to the telling of his production from a power-point presentation on a big screen. It was a Rock Opera with many familiar rock-n-roll songs being performed. At one point, Louis Ifer jumped up on the pew in front of Wanda singing, reaching out for and inviting her to join him. Wanda was enjoying the show but knew better than to follow Louis Ifer. An interesting one-hour interpretation of the Book of Revelations, and the Jacob’s Village bunch was glad they seen it. Thank you ABE.

posted by J V Resident Blog @ 11:20 AM