Two weeks from tonight, we will all be in makeup and costume, and about to take to the stage with the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County’s production of Children of Eden.

We have come a very long way in a short time. But there’s still plenty more to do.

The past few nights have been spent on cleaning up the choreography for the bigger numbers. Last night it was work on “In The Beginning” and “The Naming”, and that one was especially fun to watch. The two that I’m working on most in my spare time have been the dances for “Generations” and “Ain’t It Good”. I’ve written about it before here and I have to admit again: “Ain’t It Good” might be the most difficult song of the show… but I absolutely think it’s going to rock the house when we get to perform it. It might get ...

“Now uss dee time undt Schprockets ven ve dantz!”

Okay who can tell me where that’s from? Still can’t believe that I thought of it Sunday afternoon.

So yesterday we started doing choreography for two of the biggest numbers from the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County’s production of Children of Eden: “Generations” and “Ain’t It Good”. Singing the songs? No problem, ‘cuz like I’ve mentioned before after frequent listening to the soundtrack for almost a decade now, that’s easy…

…but dancing is a whole ‘nother thing.

Stephen Hale, who’s playing Adam in our production, is also our choreographer. He’s mapped out some terrific routines for these songs. They’re also a bit complex, especially “Generations”, which requires everyone radically changing positions on stage no less than three times. I’m thinking of bringing a video camera for next time we do this so that I can study it later (and possibly ...

I’ve a few nights off from rehearsal for the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County’s production of Children of Eden (‘cuz those are being used to focus on the solo numbers and I don’t have one of those). In the past few sessions we’ve finished going over all the choral pieces. I’m still amazed at how much work we’ve done in so relatively short a span of time.

The last major song from the show that we took on was “Ain’t It Good” from Act II. I’ve thought for years that “Generations” might be the most complicated song from Children of Eden but having done “Ain’t It Good” now, I’m pretty confident that it might be the more difficult of the two. But by the end of the night last night we’d put together a very rousing rendition. “Ain’t It Good” is the kind of style associated with gospel music from ...