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Production Notes! SEASON OF JOY Additional Production Notes General Notes Season of Joy is an exciting, vibrant Christmas program of new and traditional Celtic music. Whether you are using selected songs from the project or have elected to present the musical cover to cover, you might consider adding additional material to the musical or to enhance its presentation visually. These additional production notes will offer you a variety of options. Program Additions There is a variety of material that you can add to your production of Season of Joy to create a traditional Irish evening. The following material can be interspersed throughout your production as you deem appropriate. Irish Stories The Irish are famous story-tellers and there are many books that offer collections of their traditional Christmas tales and newer creations. The following collections can be found in many bookstores or easily ordered online. • An Irish Christmas by John B. Keane. This collection features 17 original tales that portray the holiday dreams of ordinary Irish country people during the yuletide season. • Christmas in Ireland. This collection of 25 traditional stories and reminiscences features the work of such well-known Irish writers as Seamus Heaney and Eamon Kelley. • A Celtic Christmas edited by Mairtin O’Griofa. A collection of tales of Christmas from Ireland’s past. • Irish Christmas Stories by David Marcus. The collection includes the works of William Trevor, Frank O’Connor, Sean O’Faolain and Claire Boyland. If you elect to add a traditional (or new) Irish Christmas story, it is suggested that you have a special story-teller “read” the story to the audience from a large book. The figure should probably be an older gentleman from your congregation. He can sit in a large armchair center stage and open a large, weathered book. (Place the text for the story inside the book.) You can also have a group of children gather at his feet. Irish Poems The Irish are also gifted poets, and Christmas is one of their favorite topics. The following five poems are considered classic expressions of Christmas in Ireland. (Copyright restrictions prevent our reproducing them here, but they are easily retrieved online.) • “A Christmas Childhood” by Patrick Kavanagh • “Advent” by Patrick Kavanagh • “Snow” by Louis MacNeice • “Christmas Day” by Paul Durcan • “The Kerry Christmas Carol” by Sigerson Clifford If you decide to include a Christmas Irish poem, consider asking your reciter to memorize the poem. He/she can slowly move along the front of the stage and recite the poem as if “remembering” the piece from the past. Traditional Irish Songs Although Season of Joy is brimming with traditional Irish seasonal music, you can easily add some additional material for even greater variety. • For a special children’s choir number: “Curoo Curoo (Carol of the Birds)” • For audience sing-along: “Once in David’s Royal City” or “The Twelve Days of Christmas” • For a piano solo: A Celtic Christmas by Phillip Keveren; 16 traditional carols arranged Celtic-style. Adding Traditional Irish Instruments If you are using a live orchestra, you will be able to feature a number of traditional Irish instrumental sounds. But even if you are using the accompaniment tracks, you might consider finding a local musician(s) to come and play the bagpipes, fiddle, penny whistle or harp – either with the track, as a featured solo, or as a solo before or after the performance as entrance or exit music. Traditional Irish Dancers The Irish have always been known as exuberant dancers, and thanks to the amazing popularity over the years of Riverdance, traditional Irish dancing has enjoyed a robust rebirth. Many communities have Irish dance studios and groups featuring dancers of all ages. Carefully research the groups that may be near your church and invite one of them to join your production. Irish dancers would be a wonderful addition to “A Celtic Christmas Overture,” “Christmas Pipes” or “That Carolin’ Reel.” Church Outreach Programs The traditional Irish customs recounted in the narration in Season of Joy can easily translate into outreach programs that your whole church can participate in. The Laden Table Your church can hold a traditional Irish dinner for your congregation and/or your community. Irish Christmas dinners usually consist of a turkey, a ham, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. More traditional meals include spiced beef (spiced over several days, cooked, then pressed) which can be served either hot or cold. Traditional desserts include mince pies and pudding with rum sauce. You can also bring this traditional Irish holiday meal to those in assisted living centers and homeless shelters. Your church can set up a “Laden Table” in the lobby of your sanctuary. This should consist of a long rectangular table with a table cloth and piled high with canned and non-perishable foods. Announce to your church that they should bring donations for the “Laden Table” and afterward this food can be delivered to local shelters. Christmas Whitewashing A charming Irish Christmas tradition among rural families is to whitewash every building on their farm during December. They are covered in white paint or lime wash, to symbolically purify them for the coming of the Savior. You can translate this tradition to your community by asking for volunteers from your church (especially the youth!) to help repair and spruce up homes in your community – especially those homes that belong to the elderly and disadvantaged. Set aside one or two weekends in early December for the activity – they share video of the work during your program. (And be sure to invite the families to the program.) Candles In The Window The beautiful tradition of placing lit candles in the windows of Irish homes can be replicated during your program, helping to turn your musical into a candlelit service. This would be especially appropriate if you plan to present your musical on Christmas Eve. After the program has concluded, ask everyone to take their candles to their own homes and place them in their windows. .
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