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Music at Peace United Methodist Church

Musical Drama An important tradition at Peace has been our musicals. Since doing our first musical in the spring of 1985, Peace Church has presented 18 musicals including crowd favorites like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2006 Peace UMC presented Let’s Go To the Rock! Our musical dramas give our members a chance to explore their faith through singing, dancing and the spoken word. It is also an opportunity for many other Peace members to get involved behind the scenes with technical assistance, set design and construction, publicity, costumes and much more. Our musicals are an outreach ministry to the community and a great community-building experience for everyone involved.
2006 Musical Let's Go to the Rock Was great! Hope you enjoyed it!
	2005 musical at Peace Church Many musicals have been produced at Peace Church but none are enjoyed more (by cast and audience) than "Joseph" the choice for the 2005 musical. Jacob was blessed with twelve sons, of these the second youngest and his favourite was Joseph, son of Rachel. Joseph was good and kind, serving his father and family well as a shepherd in the fields.
His brothers resented the way in which Jacob doted on Joseph and their anger against him grew after their father gave his favourite son a dazzling coat of many colours. Joseph was a dreamer; his dreams told him that he was to become a great man and be far more successful than any of his brothers. The brothers decided that something had to be done about young Joseph.
	Out in the fields the brothers attacked Joseph, stripped him of his coat and were about to throw him into a pit to face certain death when a band of Ishmaelites passed by. The brothers sold Joseph to them as a slave and returned to their father with the sad news of Joseph’s "death". In Egypt, Joseph was then sold to Potiphar, a wealthy merchant. He was rapidly promoted and just as fast flung into gaol for trying to seduce the merchant’s wife.
In his gaol cell, he explained the meanings of his fellow prisoners’ dreams. The Pharaoh was disturbed by savage dreams and heard that there was a man in gaol who may be able to explain them to him. Joseph was brought before Pharaoh and translated the dreams, in return he was made a very wealthy man. His brothers fared less well, famine and plague dominated the land of Canaan so they left to seek food in Egypt. They found Joseph, although none of them recognised him
	he took pity on them giving each a sack of food. However, to test his brothers he planted a gold cup in the sack given to the youngest. As they tried to leave Joseph stopped them to investigate the "theft" of the precious cup. It was discovered in Benjamin’s bag. The others took the blame and refused to let anyone think that Benjamin was in any way dishonest. Joseph now realised that his brothers were truly honest and revealed his true identity. Jacob was brought from Canaan and the family was reunited.
Participation opportunities ranged from helping with costumes and make-up to acting and singing. Still others helped with the special lighting and sound needs and assisting the local cable TV crew capture the full event to share with the community. Many musicians were involved as the musical also had an orchestra pit. As you can see in the pictures participation starts at an early age! If you are interested in being involved in future musicals be in contact with our music director Perry Nelson.