Journey of Broken

There’s a song in a famous musical that goes like this:

Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!

Well, it's not one day more, so this post is one day late. Today is good Friday, and as we all have prepared for the Easter Drama, it’s time we took stock of the journey of Broken, and what it really meant.

While I will be the first to admit, that our little production stands very small in the Universe of Musical Wonders, ruled by mega projects like Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and all the Andrew Lloyd Webber stuff that has been conjured up over the years; that our very own GTPJ production stands comparatively small even by the side of our local musicals/plays found in KLPac and the rest–I still think Broken is as relevant, if not bigger, when measured on a different scale.

And what scale is that?

There are no sales, no money, no endorsements to measure with. The effectiveness of any production born out of a church is only dependent on one thing: that through the process, through the journey, through the making, it had been the direction of not the ones producing it; but of the Holy Spirit. More than any other thing, the Journey of making ‘Broken’ would give a glimpse of the final result of ‘Broken’. If we want the result to be souls and recommitment , then the journey has to be filled with prayer and constant seeking of His will.

No amount of practices will replace that.

I believe that tonight, God is already preparing hearts and souls to respond, and there’s nothing left for us to do but to pray and do the best we can. It’s His show, not ours, so let’s reflect everything back to Him!

It’s been a great Journey, and I’ve really really enjoyed working with the team in the last 2 months, from that rainy day in Karen’s place where we brainstormed for a plot till today, a finalised (although raw) product in our hands. Here are a pictures and kudos to the team!

Here we have the very very first draft of the cast we scrawled out on the board in our first official meeting!

The Chans, gracious enough to offer their home for our brainstorming session and of course, Karen, our producer and the one who came up with the initial plot.

Kim Ann, on the left, our ‘Drama Coah’ (I never knew that portfolio existed!). She has been invaluable in teaching everyone how to get their act together, mostly using the ancient art of arm twisting of the unfortunate soul on the receiving end. Nah, she did a superb job!

The other girl is Hwee Yen, our director, who spent hours working on getting everything together and being patient with everyone, including me. I’m sure she wanted to use the Roman guard’s hammer to pummel me at times, so thanks, Yen, for restraining =)

So, from accidents like the jail bars falling on the actors; the cross nearly crushing our drama coach and director, to our main actor breaking his finger doing stunts, we’re finally here, Good Friday and Easter Weekend.

From everyone at Broken, we hope you enjoy experiencing the production as much as we enjoyed creating it!

[tags : easter broken easter drama gtpj glad tidings church event]