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Prologue
Selection: Calvary (4) Soliloquy: He Chose Us (Renee Jefferson) (4) ACT I Act I Scene I (5) Jesus Teaches the Multitude (5) Soliloquy: The Cure for Hatred (Todd Trabue)(6) Soliloquy: Calvary: His Death, My Freedom (Lynetta Bowman) (8)
Act I Scene II (11) A Trilogy of Miracles Selection: The Heavens Are Telling (9) (Felecia, Terilyn, Krista)
Act I – Scene III: The Great Revelation (11) Selection: Upon This Rock (Brian Kelly) (13)
Soliloquy: The GOD Ride (Adriane Young) (14)
Act I – Scene IV (17) Peter Walks on Water Selection: Love Lifted Me (18) (A. Thomas Hill)
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Raising of Lazarus Selection: Oh Mary Don’t You Weep (22) Reprise Choreography
Soliloquy: In Christ: Loved Fearless Brave (23)
Primary: (Alex) Front of curtain Support: (Lionel, Tisha, Niah, Demitric) Choreography
Selection: Over and Over (25) Soloist: Tasha Page-Lockhart (27)
Act I – Scene VI (27) Choreography (Dancers to Triumphal Entry start in front of curtain) Selections: Victory Chant (A. Thomas Hill) (27) Celebrate the King (Tony Bowman) (28)
INTERMISSION (20 Minutes) (28) ACT II Act II – Scene I (29) The Passover Selection: There is a Fountain (29) Selection: Drink the Wine (Steven Randolph) (30)
Soliloquy: A Certain Woman (Pamela Yancy) (31)
Act II – Scene II (33) Gethsemane (33) Selection: Don’t Cry for Me (Gina Nelson)(33) Soliloquy: Judas (35) (Vincent Brown) Selection: For God So Loved the World (36) (Sharon Rimmer)
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Peter Denies Christ Selection: 70 X 7 Kind of Love (A. Thomas Hill) (39)
Act II – Scene IV (40)
Jesus Before Pilate
Selection: Torn (40) Lead: (Eric Yancy & Gina Nelson)
Act II – Scene V (42) They Didn’t Know
Selection: They Didn’t Know (43) Choreography Lead: Terilyn Hoke
Soliloquy: Seven Voices (43)
Act II – Scene VI (47) Calvary (47) Selection: It Should Have Been Me (48) Soloist: A. Thomas Hill
Act II– Scene VII (49) Jesus Conquers Death, Hell, & Grave Selection: Because He Got Up (49)
Call to Discipleship (50) Finale The Ascension (51) Selection: Alive (51) Lead: Devante Stubbs
CURTAIN CALL (51)
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Prologue Selection: Calvary (Choreography)
SOLILOQUY: HE CHOSE US
Presented by: Renee Jefferson Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us
and chose us in Christ to be Holy and without fault in His
eyes.
His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his
own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure.
So we praise God for the wonderful kindness He has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that He purchased our freedom through the blood of His Son, and our sins are forgiven…
God’s secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. And this is His plan; At the right time He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ – everything in Heaven and on Earth. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for He chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as He decided long ago.
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(Three Years Earlier) Dancers perform choreographed Narr: Early in the morning, Jesus went up into the opening selection
mountain, and all the people came unto Him, and sat
down, and He began to teach them. (curtain out - 1st Mic # fast open) 2nd Rabbi: Demetric ACT I - SCENE I Mic #
Jesus Teaches the Multitude Dr. Yancy: Mic # (All cast pre-positioned on stage) He will retain his mic thruout 1st Rabbi (stage left): You! You are guilty of breaking Jesus: Chad / Carlin the Sabbath! (will they share same mic?) Jesus (upstage center): I work at all times for the good of men, the same as God my Father did, notwithstanding Mic # Jesus retains mic the Sabbath law from the beginning. thruout
2nd Rabbi (stage right): But you healed a lame man on Thaddeus: Todd Trabue Mic # the Sabbath day. That, is a transgression of the law!
Jesus (proceeds downstage): You marvel at my
healing the lame man, but the Father will show me greater works than these, that I may repeat them here on
earth, and that you may wonder, not in curiosity as now,
but in shame at your unbelief. (FREEZE)
(Lights down – spot on Thaddeus)
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Hatred begets hatred, and becomes a train of bitterness downstage from traveling on infinitely. The Pharisees demonstrated this center. Lights type of hatred toward the Christ. down. Spot on Thaddeus & These men so full of their laws and traditions, cleansing Jesus the outside, while on the inside, Jesus declares, they are full of dead men’s bones. The Pharisees were not interested in the truth, they only show up to point an accusing finger, to murmur and complain, to infect and contaminate.
The Pharisee spirit can never be satisfied until it has spewed its venom upon any and everyone that refuses to feed its hatred. However, there is an antidote; love, pure, undefiled, the love of Christ. (BREAK FREEZE. Lights Up – spot out) Jesus: Oh generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. What can we say God’s Kingdom is like? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed planted in the ground, but, when you plant the seed, it grows. It becomes the largest of all garden plants. The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast that a woman used. She mixed it into a large amount of flour. The yeast worked its way all through the dough.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure that was hidden in a field. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a trader looking for fine pearls. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net let down in the sea which catches good fish and bad. The bad are thrown out when the fishermen begin to separate them.
Our Father (Lights down, spot on Jesus) who is in Heaven, Holy is your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Little flock, do not be afraid. (Lights up. Spot out) Your Father is pleased to give you, the Kingdom!
Selection: We Declare The Kingdom (two rounds) (Cast freeze – lights down, spot on rabbis)
Selection: We Are the Priests/We Declare/This Man Must Be Stopped
(Cast Freeze – Lights Down – Spot on Rabbis Center stage during brief “We are the priests...” Medley: We are the Priests/We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here/This Man Must Be Stopped. Conclusion of medley, disciples and cast move upstage to Jesus with hands raised. Curtain IN).
FAST CURTAIN
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Soliloquy: His Death…My Freedom (Lynetta Bowman) (Enter right – exit left –
Arms out stretched...as blood shed from his veins...His skin
ripped and torn as they stripped him down to shame..
I can only imagine the agony, as they laughed at his name...But
if only they knew how much weight and power it
carried..he wouldn't have had to pay the cost..but you see...he
loved me so much he put my name on his back
and carried it on the cross. And...he never said a mumbling
word..for they did not know what they had done..and
like a drum, they beat you..threw rocks to defeat you..whipped
and mistreated you..and yet..you forgave..when they
didn't believe in you. But..his grace is just that sufficient and his
love is unreachable..unbelievable that he would
sacrifice himself for someone like me so that I can have
everlasting life..and they pierced him in his hands..and they
pierced him in his sides..they nailed his feet together,,,hurt and
pain welled in his eyes..bowing his head saying
"It is finished", but the stories never over when you have God in
it...Through suffering turmoil, falling on his hands
and feet..it didn't take many days, in fact it took only 3. And you
see...that's just how amazing God is..he died for
us so that we can live...He carried our burdens and heartaches
and shackles that holds us to this world..his death
became the key, so unlock yourself from the chains because
you and I are free...his blood became my freedom.
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ACT I - SCENE II A Trilogy of Miracles
Selection: The Heavens Are Telling
(Trio: Felecia, Krista, Terilyn)
Felecia: I am a woman of Samaria. Krista: I, am a woman of Samaria.
Terilyn: I too am a woman of Samaria.
Felecia: We aren’t given a name because the woman of Samaria represents many women. The outcast, isolated,
despised, misunderstood, spiritually bankrupt.
Krista: I met Jesus when I went to the well to draw water. “Give me a drink” he asked.
Felecia: I questioned him about making such a
request…for He was clearly a Jew and I a Samaritan, and a woman. Everyone knows that Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Terilyn: Jesus talked about how He could give me living water, but I didn’t understand…. He says to me, “Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst again, for the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life”. Krista: Never thirst again? What kind of water is this? Is it possible to never thirst again? He told me all the things that I had done! I can’t explain it…He spoke with such authority and with words that reached inside of me and touched my very heart.
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Felecia: I felt ashamed of my life and all the wrong things I had done, and yet…He spoke to me as though there was hope and life waiting for me. He spoke of living water. Terilyn: This man had answers! You see…I had been searching for love and meaning for so many years, and all I had ever found in my life was pain and failure. But when He spoke to me, it was as if He could see inside my soul! Krista: Little did I know that this man, the Messiah…would die a horrible death on a cross just a few years later. Had I truly known the prophecies about Him…I would have been prepared for it. But I guess none of us really knew. Felecia: There are many things in the water that Christ gives, but on this day the one thing I needed most was freedom. Felecia: Yes! Freedom is in the water that He gives. Terilyn: Freedom from demons of the past. Freedom from shame, from guilt, from depression, and anxiety. Freedom from fear. Krista: Since that day at the well, I see with more clarity. I hear much clearer. Listen, can’t you hear it? The sound of freedom…the heavens are telling of God and His glory what a wonderful God we serve… Terilyn: What a wonderful God we serve…. Felecia: What a wonderful God we serve…. (Krista begins selection “The Heavens Are Telling)
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues ACT I SCENE III The Great Revelation
Narrator: One day while walking through a place called
Caesarea Phillipi, Jesus and His disciples find themselves
standing in front of a mountain. Was it coincidental that this place Jesus chooses to pause represents the temple of
seven pagan gods whose names are etched, carved into
the rock of the mountain. It will be here in this place that
the eyes of their understanding are opened to revelation truth of who Jesus really is. (Curtain out) Jesus: Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man am?
Simon the Caananite: Well, some say with Antipas, the spirit of John the Baptist has entered you and that you work through it. James Son of Zebedee: Some say that you are John himself, risen from the dead and appearing under another name. Judas: Some say that you are Elias, who like Enoch has never died. Thomas: Some say that you are Jeremiah; come to reveal the ark and the sacred vessels, which he hid in Mount Nebo. Andrew: Or one of the prophets, sent from the other world by God. Jesus But, who do you say that I am? (half light and spot on Jesus)
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Narr: Here it is! The moment of truth. Standing in front Disciples pre- positioned standing of gods who can neither see, speak, or hear. Who can around in groups talking. Jesus enters neither deliver or save Jesus asks a pivotal question stage right and surprises them with his sudden appearance upon which every man’s salvation and eternity hinges. and question
Who do you say, that I am? Outdoors scene (Mt backdrop). Caesarea (spot on Peter) Phillipi Names of pagan gods carved into mountain. Peter You, my Master and Lord? Why, you are the This sets the scene for Jesus’ question to disciples. Matt 16 Christ. (Move Peter spot to soloist arch) Son of the
Living God!
Jesus: You are blessed Simon Barjona, for flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, which (Jesus moves center stage):
is in heaven. And this I say also to you; you are Peter, Peter: (moves and kneels in front of Jesus – center and Upon this Rock I will build my church, and the gates stage): (Peter kneels. Jesus of hell shall not prevail against it. touches Peter’s head blessing him)
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Selection: Upon this Rock (Peter moves Soloist: Brian Kelly (soloist arch) downstage left. Spot on Peter as he Jesus: I must go to Jerusalem, (lights up – both spots contemplates) out) and suffer many things of the Elders and Chief Priests and be killed, and after three days, I will rise Selection: Upon This again. Rock: short version Peter (moves toward Jesus): God keep this evil from (cast freeze; you my Lord and Master! You must not let such things Lights down; happen! They will utterly destroy the prospects of your spot on Jesus & Peter. Lights up Kingdom. at end of If there be danger as you fear, why not use your selection, Peter supernatural powers and save yourself, (short pause) rises, Jesus and us. It is not to be endured that you should suffer continues such indignities! dialogue)
Jesus: Get behind me Satan! Out of my sight, you tempter! You are laying a snare for me. It is necessary Lights low as that I suffer before I enter into my glory, but so must all of Jesus and you who would be my followers. If any man will be my disciples walk disciple, let him deny himself; take up his cross, and upstage and follow me. (semi-fast close with spot on soloist arch) freeze. Curtain In (Reprise: Upon this Rock)
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Soliloquy: The GOD Ride Adriane Young
Soliloquy: The God Ride (Adriane Young) Sometimes I have to blink to see if this is real; My life. The one I didn’t choose, but the one that chose me. I whisper to myself, “I get to do this.” I get to do this life I never saw coming, not in a million years of planning. I’m learning to love my extraordinary life so much that it’s difficult sometimes to suppress the joy I feel sharing this. And to think, I could’ve missed it. I would have missed it if I had gotten precisely what I thought I wanted when life handed me the unexpected. It was terrible. And wonderful. This is what I call the God- ride. It’s waiting endlessly, feeling petrified, fighting vomit, miles of anticipation, and whirling, racing, plunging through the air. It’s exhilarating, and you want to go on that ride again and again. I didn’t choose this unexpected God-ride, but I love it with all my ripped-apart, sewn-back-together heart. I’m so glad for every moment of the journey, even the moments when I thought I wouldn’t make it, because now I get it. Now I understand. All the pain. All the waiting. It was all for HIM.
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I’m not the same person I was when I started. I’m still in progress. I’m still a mess. But I’m the mess that He’s straightening. And it took the whole journey to bring me here.
I want me, and you, and all of us to walk into a life of thankfulness and security in God’s grace. Our circumstances may not change, but as we walk together, we can experience joy. And for all the times we cry; “It’s not fair. It’s absolutely not fair”. It’s hair-raising and occasionally stomach-churning. But oh so exhilarating. I’ve been changed by a God who loved me through disappointment and continues to carry me through the unfairness of life. I’ve discovered the intense joy that comes through the pain, through unfairness. I’ve moved from desperation and desolation into gratitude and grace. Rather than listing all the ways life isn’t fair, I begin to offer praise, and in the praising, I worship deeper, love harder, and experience God’s pleasure. After years of telling God it’s not fair, I can now say that I’m grateful for my struggle. I would never, ever tell someone else to be grateful for theirs. We can’t tell people in their pain to be grateful. That would be the highest cruelty. But over time, after having raw conversations with God and acknowledging the life unfolding around me, I see the beauty of His creation.
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There will be times when you stare at a wall, and times when you wave your fist in the air, and times when you’ll feel like you’re tearing apart. And there will be scars. And there will always be those things people say or pictures you see that will take you right back to that feeling of helplessness or desperation. There will be triggers. We are marked. But what I’ve learned and what I’ve seen in my own life and in the lives of so many other brave warriors is that we do learn to love our lives, as is, with the scars, naked, and transparent. Calvary: The place where our lives were set free by His death. And the imprisonment of fear, shame, unforgiveness was detonated by His presence – detonated by grace – detonated by LOVE HIMSELF!
(Adriane exits stage left)
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Act I – Scene IV
Peter Walks on Water Narrator: The life of faith is inherently a life of risk. Start fog at Narration Jesus is on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
It is late in the day and Jesus has just performed the great miracle of feeding 5000 men along with women
and children with five loaves and two fish.
Understandably amazed and enthralled by this miracle,
the people want to make him a king. But Jesus, knowing that their enthusiasm is shallow, refuses them, and
instead goes off to pray by himself.
After dismissing the crowd, he sends the disciples on
ahead to the other side of the lake, telling them that he
would meet them later. So far, so good. But as the Curtain out. Scrim in disciples begin to sail across the lake (Curtain out), Disciples Action Lightning & an enormous storm develops. (extreme thunder thunder effect
crack sound effect).
Jesus (enters stage left; special on Jesus): Don’t be afraid! Take courage, I am here! Peter: Lord, if it is really you, tell me to come to you, Let me walk on water. Jesus: Yes, it is I, come!
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Selection: Love Lifted Me (At the insistence of Lead: Pastor Hill the others for Peter Jesus: You of little faith, why did you doubt? to stay in the boat, John the Beloved: Truly you are the son of God! he begins to step
Selection Reprise: Love Lifted Me out moving toward
(Backdrop changes to peaceful scene. Storm ceases. Jesus on the water.
Peter enters stage right/Curtain In. Spot on Peter. On cue a clap of
thunder. Peter Peter continues song. Exit stage left.) begins sinking)
ACT I – SCENE V
Raising of Lazarus (intro to “Love
(music underline narrative) Lifted Me”. Peter
begins singing in
Narrator: The story of Lazarus is the final public miracle water. Jesus Brandon to do all reaches down and sound effects from that Jesus will do. It is the capstone of all His miracles keyboard helps Peter up because of the nature of the situation. escorting him back
to the boat. Peter This is a remarkable miracle, performed at a very continues singing. strategic time. Enters boat and It will be performed in a place called Bethany, two miles exits out back east of Jerusalem on the road from Jericho. reappearing on Many would have heard the story about Lazarus. It cue downstage circulates throughout the whole city. front). (Jesus & Disciples enter stage left and move center
stage as dialog begins).
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John: Lord, the one you love is sick. Jesus: This sickness will not end in death, it is to bring glory to God so that God’s son may be glorified through it. Come, let us go back to Judea. Peter: But Rabbi, a short while ago they tried to kill you, and now you are going back?
Jesus: Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light. Listen, listen, our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up. Peter: Lord that is good. If he sleeps, he’ll get better. Jesus: Peter, Lazarus is dead, and for your sake, I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. Come now, let us go to him. Thomas: Oh well, I suppose we will go also, so that we may die with him. (All move off stage - stage right thru alcove.)
Narrator: The resurrection of Lazarus gives us a preview of the resurrection of Christ. Of a truth, Jesus is the Creator of life, and because He is life, death is not the end. Death is merely a split-second transition.
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Here in the resurrection of Lazarus, our Lord Jesus puts Curtain out. Cast on a display of the power of life that He possesses. Freeze. Spot on In the case of Lazarus, this is someone who has been Yancy dead four days, four days. Now, that really does matter. Yancy is pre- It matters a lot. Listen, listen carefully. positioned on stage near Dr. Yancy: Let me share what happens to a body in four tomb. No days. All of the bad stuff happens within 72 hours (3 days); music here but what happens in four days?
The Jews did not embalm. The Jews did nothing to stop the
decay. They wrapped the body, sprinkled spices on it to
mitigate the smell; that's it.
Here is what happens in four days. (sound effect of a beating heart) The heart has stopped
beating. The body cells are deprived of oxygen, they begin
to die. Blood drains from throughout the circulatory system and pools in the low places.
Muscles begin to stiffen in what is known commonly by the
Latin, rigor mortis, which sets in after three hours. By 24 hours, the body has lost all its heat.
The muscles lose their rigor mortis in 36 hours, and by 72
hours (3 days) rigor mortis vanishes.
All stiffness is gone, the body is soft, the cells begin to die, bacteria goes to work breaking the cells down. Yancy exits stage right. Lights up. Cast action
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The decomposing tissue takes on a horrific look and smell by the 72nd hour (3 days). The tissue releases
hydrogen sulfide and methane as well as other gases. A horrible smell is emitted.
Meet Lazarus. For this is the condition he is in when Jesus arrives. And that is important; because everyone knows by now Lazarus is really dead. Jesus waits on purpose for Lazarus to become really dead. And you. At what stage of death did God find you?
(Yancy exits stage right. Lights up. Cast action. Music Intro.)
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Music Intro. Selection: Oh Mary Lead moves downstage. At Lead: TBD end of Jesus: Mary, Martha! selection, Martha: (Martha approaches Jesus) Lord! If you had Jesus enters been here, my brother would not have died! stage right and Jesus: Your brother shall rise again. moves to Martha: I know he shall rise again in the resurrection. center with Mary & Martha. Jesus: I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE! Disciples enter (Brief Lighting Effect at above statement). Roll away and remain the stone! stage right.) (Peter & John move upstage toward tomb) Jesus walks toward Mary: But Lord, it is too late. By this time his body stinks platform, for he has been dead four days. kneels at base Jesus: Said I not unto you, if you would believe, in prayer. you should see the salvation of God? Lights down Jesus: The stone! spot on Jesus. nd Rises with 2 Jesus: LAZARUS! COME FORTH! (Significant pause here. Ad-libbing from crowd.) spot on Jesus and tomb Jesus: Loose him! Let him go! SOUND EFFECTS Selection Reprise: Oh Mary NEEDED). Loud (Spot remains on Lazarus. Spot on Jesus moves to thumps are heard. Soloist who continues song; moving downstage to Each time crowd will cry out in clear curtain. Curtain In. Soloist exit stage left) amazement. “On cue” Lazarus will appear. Spot on Lazarus
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Disciple: They say you gotta live free. Fear of snakes when I was a child, yeah, that was the beginning. Later I found out you could live mostly with eyes just bugging out of your head, the lying fears strangling you right there at your neck. A beady-eyed snake with its mouth sprung wide open like some fanged cavern ready to pierce, devour, erase me….You can spend your one wild life trying to outrun glossy lies. And when I was told I really wasn’t smart enough — Intimidation: “You only made it in here by the skin of your teeth and don’t you ever forget it”
Disciple: I never did. Not one day ever. There can be lies about ready to poison you everywhere you turn. Lies that began in the beginning, that start in your Garden, that hiss with masked innocence,
Intimidation: “Did God really say…?”
Disciple: And doubt can bite...You can look at your face there in the mirror every morning and look right into your eyes, and you can feel the hiss slithering right up the nape of your neck: Offense: Just look at you — you’re damaged goods. The Lie: You’re never going to be good enough,
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Intimidation: They’re so much better than you. Just look at them. Offense: You actually thought that was a good idea? The Lie: Open your mouth and they’ll laugh long enough you’ll shut your mouth Fear: You aren’t productive enough Intimidation: You aren’t good enough Offense: You aren’t enough. The Lie: Just who do you think you are? Disciple: And there can be a lying snake curled between your neural membranes and his lies can run poison in your veins. And there can be these lies that slither out of the most unexpected places, and you and me? We can have fears that make us freeze: Fear of failing, fear of flailing, fear of arrows, fear of the way marked narrow, fear of that sheer rock in front of us that begs us to believe, and be brave, and climb.
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earth and into the life you were born for, in the now of
your life, while there is still time and hunger in your
veins. Turn around and shake off that snake. Because its head has been long crushed. NO! It’s
head has been pulverized by Christ.
So, for the sake of God, and you still breathing with
time—- let go of the lie. Roll over and look at those beady-eyed lies and see that they’re nothing more than pixels on a page that have no real teeth. And then, take that glint sharp edge of His Word and
hack that snake creeping up the back of your neck.
Intimidation: But you’re not strong enough to do that! Disciple: “Jesus is my strength and my ever- present help.”
Offense: You’re not brave enough to do that!
Disciple: “Jesus is with me wherever I go — so I
don’t need to spend one more second being afraid or discouraged.” The Lie: No way! You’ve messed up too much to
have any hope now.
Disciple: “I’m in Jesus, so I’m being made new. The
old has passed away; behold, all things become new.” Choreography Fear: You really should give up, because you are way in over your head
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Intimidation: You can’t get it together. You will never be anything but less than Disciple: “I am free forever from any condemnation (SPIRIT OF INTIMIDATION BIND YOU!)
And I know that all things work together for good and absolutely nothing can separate me from the love of God (SPIRIT OF FEAR I BIND YOU!)
I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God, hidden with Christ, and I am unshakably confident that the good work God has begun in me will be perfected (SPIRIT OF THE LIE I BIND YOU). I have not been given a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind and I know I can find grace and mercy in time of need —- I am born of God, and the evil one cannot touch me! AND YOU! SPIRIT OF OFFENSE YOU ARE BOUND! GET OUT OF HERE! Disciple: The bottom line, the Lie-Crushing Truth is simply this: We are loved … because we are chosen by Jesus We are known … because we are named by Jesus We are fearless … because we are safe in Jesus We are brave … because Jesus is always with us. We are at His right hand and we shall not be moved! Because Jesus? Jesus breaks snakes. Jesus breaks lies. Jesus breaks the lying chains of “not enough”, with the defying truth of HE IS Enough and in HIM there is always enough. You are free! So shake off that snake! Let go of the Lie – CALVARY: HIS DEATH BECAME MY FREEDOM!
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Selection: Over & Over (Curtain Tasha Page-Lockhart (Soloist arch) remains in ACT I SCENE VI during Shofar Triumphal Entry (First blast): Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the dialog & name of the Lord! blowing)
(Second blast): Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in Shofar Blower the name of the Lord! (positioned at (Third blast): Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! solo arch stage right;
Selection spot): The Victory Chant
Lead: Pastor Hill
1st Rabbi (both Rabbis move down platform to Jesus): Tell us. By what authority do you perform these things?
Jesus: I will ask of you one thing, and if you can answer me, then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? Dancers move in front of curtain during Shofar (Both Rabbi’s move downstage right. Cast Freeze. blowing. Dancers Lights down. Spot on Rabbis during dialogue.) begin in front of curtain for 1st round of selection, then 2nd Rabbi: If we shall say from heaven, he will say, why into scene. then did we not believe John the Baptist.
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1st Rabbi: And if we shall say of men, all of the people will stone us, for they perceive that John the Baptist was a prophet.
(Lights up as both Rabbis return center stage to Jesus and continues dialog.)
1st Rabbi: We do not know where it came from. (crowd response) Jesus: Then neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. (Crowd celebrates. Intro to selection “High Praise”.) Selection: Celebrate The King Lead: Tony Bowman (from solo arch) (Dancers enter stage left & right. Perform choreography in front of cast as Jesus moves up to top of platform. Near end of selection, Dancers move upstage along center platform to form cross. Last note of song, special cross lighting effect. Curtain In.)
INTERMISSION 20 MINUTES Prior to releasing for intermission. Share pre-recorded announcements
Friday Only: Communion served to audience – possible slight delay. Listen for cue from Ruth.
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Curtain out. Music Selection: There is a Fountain ends. Lights low. nd (opens 2 half. Curtain in during selection. Jesus and disciples Curtain out at end of short selection.) pre-positioned along front of platform;
ACT II - SCENE I dialog begins. Peter seated on platform – The Passover stage left with wash basin. Spot on Jesus: In my kingdom, to be humble is to be great. The Jesus & Peter as lowliest in it, is the highest. Jesus approaches to Peter: Lord, you’re going to wash my feet? wash Peter’s feet. Jesus: If I do not wash your feet, you have no part with
me.
Peter: Lord, if that be, wash not only my feet, but my
hands and my head! Jesus: That won't be necessary Peter. Do you
understand the meaning of what I have done? You call
me Lord and Teacher, and you are right, for I am both.
Learn then, that if I your Lord and Master wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet, for I have
done this as an example to you. Come, let us partake. Jesus & Disciples move top of platform Jesus: Verily, verily, one of you who eat with me shall to sit at table betray me. His hand is with me on the table. All: Is it I Lord? Is it I? Jesus: It is one, who dips with me into the dish. (Disciples begin accusing one another) Jesus: Whatever you are going to do, do it quickly.
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Judas positioned (ALL FREEZE) at table – stage Narrator: Satan works his way around the Passover right - arises from table. He needs a special kind of man to betray our table; moves Lord. He needs a man who has seen Jesus, but who down platform does not know him. He needs a man who knows the toward stage left actions of Jesus, but has missed out on the mission of – Judas freezes Jesus. Judas is the man. (Judas breaks freeze) He during narration knows the empire, but he doesn’t know the man.
Although he wears the cloak of religion, he does not know the heart of Christ. (END FREEZE) Jesus: Take eat, this is my body which is given for you. This do in remembrance of me. Take, drink ye all of it; it is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins. This do as often as ye drink, in remembrance of me. Selection: Drink the Wine Soloist: Steven Randolph
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Jesus: Remember what I said to you tonight, a servant is One verse & not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, chorus. John –
they will persecute you. If they have not received my seated next to Jesus right – arises teachings, they will not receive yours. They will hate you, moves downs t a g e and persecute you because you come in my name. Is it right to begin solo – so that you now feel sure you believe in me? An hour is spot on John. Stops coming and now is when your faith will have a hard test. at platform level 2 Will you stand firm? Alas, how soon you will waiver. For returns to seat as song ends. Freeze in that hour you will be scattered and leave me alone. breaks as dialog Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. begins (music underlines) Choir sing line 3x-cue for curtain IN I have given you these consolations and promises that
you might have rest and peace in me. In the world you
will have trouble, but be of good cheer, I have overcome
the world. (Close spot on Jesus and slow Curtain In – in
sync with the ending song reprise “And sinners plunge
beneath the flood”.
Soliloquy: A Certain Woman
I stood and I didn’t know how--
Because I’d mourned about lost things, and I’d cried, and I
complained about abandonment. Tripping and falling,
falling into this crevasse of despair not knowing when or if,
I could emerge unscathed. But something kept me
standing, moving forward.
I hadn’t known then: Grace is the backbone of every
woman still standing.
I’m over half way there now –over half way through the life
promised.
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues If He allows me the full years, I am more than halfway there. Half the sunrises behind me, half the harvest moons, half the fading summers –- and all the beginnings and the firsts -- all that behind. And it makes me hurt and it makes me smile: It’s all the things already past. A crop is made by all the seasons and the only way to have it all – is not at the same time…. but letting one season bring its yield into the next. This is how to have no fear, letting each season make a full year. This is how to have no fear – each season making one a full year. A mother fills, only to empty, and empty, and empty, which fills her full again, and isn’t this giving away, the way to have it all? There are a thousand ways to be stretched thin and it’s the stretch marks that a woman wears that can be her thin places, giving her more of God. And the only way to have it all . . . is to have Jesus – and like Him – to give it all away. Spring is coming. Winter fading. I can feel it in the air, on my face facing right into wind. Looking into that endless horizon and everything unknown. And in the goings and the comings, I stand here today brave – all the seasons are going to do nothing less than make a full year. As long as the earth remains, the seasons will turn. The seasons bring it all as He meant it to be. Even from Calvary: the place where his death opened the door to my freedom!
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues And I stand watching after the waves and before the waves
and I can feel it I am no longer afraid of swimming in the deep end, way out
of my comfort zone,
Because when you can’t touch bottom, you touch the depths of God.
If you give up when it is winter, you will miss the promise of
your spring, the beauty of your summer, the fulfillment of
your fall. Do not let the pain of one season destroy the joy
of all the rest. Pam exits stage right
ACT II - SCENE II Opening selection: Gethsemane Don’t Cry For Me Selection: Don’t Cry For Me (Gina Nelson) begins as curtains open. Soloist Jesus: Peter, James, John. Come with me. begins selection off stage right. Jesus: Oh My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass Jesus and from me. Oh my Father, if this cup may not pass unless I disciples ascend drink it, thy will be done! steps from back of platform to top of (Jesus rises from rock and stands during narration) platform. Narrator: The battle is won! The final conquest is Jesus
at peace among the olive trees. It is here that he made this decision; That He would rather go to hell for you, than go to heaven, without you. (Jesus moves stage left to 3 disciples to awaken them.) Jesus: You may rest now. Mine hour is come. Jesus: Friend, do you betray the Master with a kiss? (Judas slinks away behind tree)
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Soliloquy: Judas (within scene) Soliloquy Judas Iscariot
All the time I walked with him, he knew I never really believed. All the time I walked with him, he knew I would betray him, yet he chose me to be one of the twelve. He chose me to carry the money bag, when all the time he knew. Even at the Last Supper, He did not openly expose me. He never treated me any different from the others. Mankind must never forget me, for I am at the heart of every greedy and selfish spirit. I live inside every deceitful and faithless heart. One does not betray with lips only, but true betrayal is an act that begins in the heart. For thirty pieces of silver I betrayed the Master.
For thirty pieces of silver I gave to men, who hated me, the Christ. My cry will be heard throughout eternity, and will echo this reply lifelessly through the ages; "TOO LATE! TOO LATE!” This must never be repeated! You know, who I am…. (Lights up. Judas exits stage left. Scuffle action resumes. Disciples move to designated positions in groups of three stage right, center and left along platform. Selection: “For God So Loved the World” begins once disciples are in position.)
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Narr: May I suggest that the next time you pass a mirror – stop – take a long look – for perhaps if you look closely, look deeply, you may see something recognizable, for Judas does not represent a person as much as he represents a spirit – a spirit of religiosity, greed, and self-indulgence.
It is not too late for you – but for Judas on this day, in this garden, it is TOO LATE - JUDAS WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE CALVARY: HE WILL NEVER LIVE TO EXPERIENCE THE FREEDOM THAT WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY JESUS’ DEATH ON GOLGATHA’S HILL.
Selection: For God So Loved the World Lead:
Sharon Rimmer (from pit))
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ACT II SCENE III PETER DENIES CHRIST Setting: Three different scene sets are preset in this scene with lighting to differentiate as each scene becomes active. Scene 1: Courtyard of the home of Annas the High Priest – balcony stage right upper platform. Scene 2: Fire pit (center stage floor). Scene 3: Large rock (stage left upper platform). Special ON scene 1 as Jesus and entourage enter stage left and approach balcony (stage right). The High Priest appears from balcony. Jesus is escorted by two soldiers and a Pharisee (Rabbi). Downstage center is a fire in courtyard with a few of the servants and two more soldiers carrying their helmets all warming by the fire. Peter enters stage left and joins the group by the fire in hopes that the night and dim light from the fire would make him unrecognizable. Peter sits in the circle around the fire closest to Jesus so as to try and hear the faint dialogue between Jesus and the High Priest. A brief dialogue occurs between Jesus and Annas the High Priest.) Annas: Well, well. What do we have here? Jesus of Nazareth! What do you have to say for yourself concerning these secret meetings and blasphemous teaching that's infecting our people? Jesus: I’ve spoken openly in public. I’ve taught regularly in meeting places and the Temple, where the Jews all come together. Everything has been out in the open. I’ve
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues said nothing in secret. So why are you treating me like a conspirator? Question those who have been listening to me. They know well what I have said. My teachings have all been aboveboard.” (A soldier slaps Jesus and all freeze. Special OUT on scene 1. Special IN scene 2 - as the focus turns to Peter and the others around the fire. One of the serving maids sitting at the fire notices Peter. Takes a second look and speaks) Servant girl: “This man was with him!” Peter: Woman, I don’t even know him.” Servant girl: You’re one of them.” Peter: “Woman, I am not.” (Return to Scene 1 – Special ON. Jesus and High Priest unfreeze. Soldier speaks) Soldier: How dare you speak to the Chief Priest in such a manner!” Jesus: “If I have said something wrong, prove it. But if I have spoken the plain truth, why this kind of treatment?”. (Scene freezes – Special OUT. Return to Scene 2- Special ON. Peter scene unfreezes and dialog begins) Servant girl: “You are one of them! You’ve got ‘Galilean’ written all over you, and your speech betrays you!” Peter: “Woman, I don’t know what you’re talking about.” (At that moment, the last word hardly off his lips, a rooster crows. Jesus turns, looks at Peter. Peter remembers what the Master had said to him) Voice Over: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me
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(Special OUT Scene 2 – Special ON Scene 3. Peter
moves upstage left to Scene 3 next to a large rock
and begins to weep as narrator speaks.) Underline with Narrator: A rooster crows. A prophetic reminder that music during narration pierces the heart of Simon Peter and digs deep into his
soul.
The same Peter who gave his word at the Passover
table, vowing never to leave even if it meant death. A rooster crows and every word spoken, every promise
made falls lifelessly to the ground.
A rooster crows, and yesterday's promise becomes today's denial, and tomorrow's sure death.
Words are cheap, and promises fail when a heart is not truly committed. How does a person recover after the rooster crows and the damage is done? Even after the rooster crows and dead promises lie cold
In the grave, Resurrection Power is ever present when in
the company of a forgiving Savior.
Peter's bitter tears would soon be sweetened by the forgiving promise from the one whose words never fail Peter begins selection "70 x 7" and whose promises never falter. and moves For this Jesus, the author of forgiveness, He promises a downstage to 70 x 7 kind of love. clear curtain while continuing song. Selection: A 70X7 Kind of Love Exits stage left Soloist: Pastor Hill
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ACT II - SCENE IV
Jesus Before Pilate
Selection: Torn
Leads: Dr. Yancy & Gina Nelson
Eliminate
Pilate Chair (Intro to song: Torn. Most of the dialogue is sung by prop. Pilate (Yancy); later joined by Pilate’s wife – (Gina Approriate LED Nelson). All characters are pre-positioned when curtain drop to compensate for opens except Pilate’s wife who will enter later - stage the missing left. Pilate positioned on platform by throne - proceeds throne. downstage. Jesus & soldiers positioned stage right floor).
Narrator: And now, the most famous trial in history is about to begin.
Pilate: (singing) Are you the one they say that has come to change the world? They say you healed the sick and you raised a little girl. They say you calmed the sea and you healed a blind man’s eyes. So tell me what you’ve done to make them despise you. Pilate: (spoken) Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus: Those are your words. lst Rabbi: See, he has no respect. He says that he will destroy the temple and rebuild it after three days. 2nd Rabbi: He stirs the people. He claims to be the Son of God!
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lst Rabbi: He also claims to be King. Choir: (chanting) Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Pilate: (singing) Is this the one they say that made the lame to walk? Is this the one they say that made the dumb to talk? Someone even said, the winds obey his will. So why come to me now wanting to kill him? Chorus: (Pilate singing) And now I’m torn, torn, torn. They say that He must die, but I can’t imagine why, I’m torn, torn, torn. I cannot send this man to Calvary. Voice: If you let this man go, you are not a friend to Caesar. Anyone who makes themselves a King, speaks against Caesar. Choir voices: Caesar! Caesar! Pilate: (singing) Tell me here and now is this poor man your King? Crazy he may be but he hasn’t done a thing. Would putting him to death really give you such a thrill, then be his blood on you and on all your children.
Chorus: (Pilate singing) Because I’m torn, torn, torn. They say that He must die, but I can’t imagine why, I’m torn, torn, torn. How can I send this man to Calvary? (Pilate’s wife enters stage left – joins Pilate). Pilate’s Wife: (singing) My love it pains me so to see in you such turmoil. My love for you it runs so deep, but please my lord have naught to do have naught to do with this man because of him I’m troubled in my sleep. And now you’re torn, torn, torn. You can not let him die, to stop them you must try you’re torn, torn, torn. Please
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Pilate: (singing) I know just what I will do I’ll let them kill another. I’ll offer another in his place. Pilate: Whom shall I release unto you; Barabbas, a murdering thief, or Jesus who is called the Christ? Choir: (chanting) Give us Barabbas. Give us Jesus. Give us Barabbas. Give us Jesus. Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Pilate: There’s nothing left to do they’ve surely forced my hand. I never asked to rule in this wretched piece of land. I cannot bear to think of what I have to lose. So can’t you see that I just cannot choose you? But still I’m torn, torn, torn. They say that you must die, but I can’t imagine why, I’m torn, torn, torn. If I betray the king, I’ll lose most everything. I’m TORN, TORN, TORN. Pilate: So just take him Pilate’s Wife: Do not send Him Pilate: Take him Choir: (chanting) Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Pilate: Take him Pilate’s Wife: Please don’t send Him Choir: (chanting) Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Pilate: Take him to Calvary! Pilate: So just take him Pilate’s Wife: Do not send Him Pilate: Take him
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Choir: (chanting) Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Pilate exits down Pilate: Take him back of platform Pilate’s Wife: Please don’t send Him after last line with 2 slave girls Choir: (chanting) Crucify Him! Crucify Him! following. Pilate: Take him to Calvary! Calvary! Calvary! ‘ Soldiers, Jesus and Rabbis exit stage Pilate:(spoken) Water! Bring me water! right when Pilate is singing the 3 final I WASH MY HANDS OF THIS INNOCENT MAN'S Calvary! Pilate's wife faints BLOOD! and her assistants ACT II - SCENE V call for the THEY DIDN’T KNOW (Dance Choreography) remaining slave girls to help pick Selection: They Didn’t Know her up and they Soloist: Terilyn Hoke (at solo arch) exit stage left. Stage is clear for "They Didn't (Dancers enter from back of platform onto stop of Know" Choreography. platform with choreographed dance into the Pilate
scene. Their choreography will transition Pilate (The 7 voices enter scene into “They Didn’t Know”. Dancers exit right and one by one with left at end of selection. Curtain IN.) dialog to perform in front of curtain. First voice enters Soliloquy: 7 Voices James son of Alphaeus (LeVelle): stage left and each voice Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die alternates right and Andrew (Kevin): left until all are on Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die stage. Each James son of Zebedee (Lewis): voice’s mic must It's the mystery of iniquity... be hot and cued to speak as they
enter.)
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues Bartholomew (Alex): It’s the misery of Iniquity... Philip (Mark): It's the history of Iniquity... John the Beloved (Steve): When it all falls down Thomas the Doubter (Lionel): I’m telling you all, it all falls down James son of Alphaeus (LeVelle): It was a glorious day that would herald in the dark day. What you call “Good Friday”. But, from the outset it would seem to say; “What is so good about this Friday?
Andrew (Kevin): The picture is one of horror. Through the crowds you can hear the murmur (choir murmurs). There comes a man beaten and ridiculed, carrying a cross. James son of Zebedee (Lewis): Hardly recognizable from the torture administered. So weak that he needs assistance to carry the cross the full distance. Yet, the picture gets worse. Bartholomew (Alex): They will arrive on the hill called Golgotha. Nothing ever happens on Golgotha, but death. Golgatha, it literally means, the “place of the skull”. Philip (Mark): As they arrive, the soldiers will shove the carpenter to the ground and stretch his arms against the beams. One will press a knee against a forearm and a spike against a hand.
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John the Beloved (Steve): Such a good answer, but we are not done yet. For you see, that is only partially true. There is more to His reason for staying on that cross. As the soldiers press His arm, Jesus will roll his head to the side, and with His cheek resting on the wood He will take it in…
Thomas the Doubter (Lionel): I see what he sees! John the Beloved (Steve): A hammer? Thomas the Doubter (Lionel): YES! John the Beloved (Steve) A nail? Thomas the Doubter (Lionel): YES! John the Beloved (Steve): The soldier’s hand? Thomas the Doubter (Lionel): YES!
James son of Alphaeus (LeVelle): No, No, No! He saw something else. He saw the hand of GOD. It appeared to be the hand of a man. Long fingers of a woodworker. The callous palms of a carpenter. Andrew (Kevin): It looked common enough, but it was anything but. Those fingers are the very fingers that formed Adam out of clay and carved the Word in clay tablets. James son of Zebedee (Lewis): With a wave, the hand of JESUS toppled Babel’s tower and split the Red Sea! Egyptians remember that hand when they think of the locusts that plagued their homeland.
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Bartholomew (Alex): Or Elijah as he was fed by the raven.
John the Beloved (Steve): It was the hand of GOD ALMIGHTY!
Andrew (Kevin):
Yes, It's the mystery of iniquity...
James son of Alphaeus (LeVelle): The misery of Iniquity...
Thomas the Doubter (Lionel):
It's the history of Iniquity...When it all falls down. I’m
telling you all, it all falls down
James son of Zebedee (Lewis):
Come, see for yourself. Welcome to Golgatha;
CALVARY – Where HIS death became our freedom!
ACT II – SCENE VI CALVARY lst Rabbi (stage right): You who destroys the temple and rebuilds it in three days; save yourself! If you be the Curtain OUT. Voices Son of God, come down from the cross! walk into scene. All 2nd Rabbi (stage left): He saved others; himself he exit stage right and cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him come down left from within scene from the cross, and then we will believe him! immediately with Jesus: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they exception of John do. who stands center stage with Mary (mother of Jesus) facing the cross.
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lst Thief (on cross stage right): If you be the Christ, save yourself and us! 2nd Thief (on cross stage left): You fool! Do you not fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation? We are being justly rewarded for our wrong, but this man has done nothing. Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom. Jesus (from cross center): Verily I say unto you; today, you shall be with me in paradise. Woman, behold your son. John, behold your Mother. I thirst! Jesus: My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me? Jesus: Father, into your hands I commend my spirit. Jesus: IT IS FINISHED!!!!! (Intro to selection. Peter enters stage right and moves up platform - sits under cross. Begins singing.) Selection: It Should Have Been Me Lead: Pastor A. Thomas Hill (Peter stands - moves downstage, clears curtain. Curtain IN. Spot on Peter. Peter moves stage right, down steps and into audience during selection, then back up - exits stage right alcove. Selection ends.)
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ACT II - SCENE VII Jesus Conquers Death, Hell, and the Grave
(Curtain OUT. All characters pre-positioned. Jesus
lying on bier stage right. Satan positioned atop platform - Death, Hell & Grave positioned stage right,
center, and left on platform.)
Death (stage left): He is dead! We have won!
Satan (center atop platform): Are you certain? There must be no mistakes.
Hell (stage left): It is true! I heard him myself say, "IT IS
FINISHED!" And then he hung his head and died.
Grave (stage right): The soldiers never broke a bone. He made their job easy. It is final. He has been in the grave three days and three nights.
Satan: Mission accomplished! Satan: What is happening? What is that disturbance I Heartbeat sound hear? effect grows soft Death: But I am Death! It can't be, I saw you die! to loud. Special or (moves stage right and prepares to jump before pyro follow spot on blast) Jesus lying on bier Jesus: I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I as he rises, stands and moves am alive for evermore! The Keys! (Death jumps from center stage. platform – pyro blast follows.) Follow spot on Hell: I am Hell! All souls come to me! (moves stage left Jesus as he and prepares to jump prior to pyro blast) moves center stage
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Jesus: I Am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live!
The Keys! (Hell jumps from platform – pyro blast
follows). Grave (moves to Jesus): I am the grave! No one is
released from my power! (moves stage right and
prepares to jump prior to pyro blast).
Jesus: All power is given unto me in Heaven and in
Earth! The Keys! (Grave jumps from platform right – pyro rd blast follows). (After 3 blast satan moves down platform Peter and disciples downstage left for stand-off with Jesus, - runs atop platform enter stage left in aprepares to jump from platform before pyro blast.) front of curtain. Jesus: The Keys! Lights up half mass Satan: Noooooo! (Satan jumps – pyro blast follows. Jesus upon entering.
moves to top of platform and speaks.) Peter center with Intro selection: Because Jesus: OH DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING? OH GRAVE, handheld mic He Got Up WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? speaks. At end of Call, Peter’s line Selection: BECAUSE HE GOT UP cue to open curtain
(No soloist – choir only) for final scene: “And now, the final CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP scene of the Passion Play”.
Curtain OUT; disciples walk into scene and position across base of platform to witness the ascension
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Music Cues Script: Upon This Rock Passion Play Tech Cues
FINALE THE ASCENSION (Jesus harnessed to fly from top of platform. Heavy fog.)
Jesus: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Fly Jesus up; Curtain IN; Intro to selection: “Alive”)
Selection: “ALIVE” Lead: Devante Stubbs (Solo Arch)
(Entire cast gathers backstage for Curtain Call, with main characters and director lining the front. Peter gives handheld mic to director (Sharon) to speak during curtain call. Prior to final bow, Cast and choir sing final chorus line of selection: “Upon This Rock”, and bow. Curtain IN.)
CURTAIN CALL
Special Note for Saturday 11am Matinee: There will be a short “Meet the Cast” on stage following the matinee performance for out-of-town groups. Sharon & Pastor Hill will facilitate the short meet. Out of town groups will be asked to come down to the main floor front section.
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