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The Saints Alive Company

Apostle in a day

'Apostle' - a day long workshop followed by an evening live performance took place on Saturday 19th September 2009 in the Holy Trinity Church. It involved members of the Christian Music Ministries group which is led by Roger Jones giving us an afternoon workshop of his new work 'Apostle'. The group then performed the work in front of a live audience in the evening.

A cast of 41 people took part singing, dancing and playing musical instruments. Most would want to do another such concert. If you missed it then watch out for any future 'in a day' events.

A big thank you to Hazel for the organising work and to the good folk of Christian Church ministries.

For further details please get in touch with Hazel Bradshaw on 01785 851259

The history of The Saints Alive Company

A group of men, women and children joined together in 2004 to perform a musical written by Roger Jones on a religious theme and called Saints Alive. The members of the company come from all of the local churches and beyond and rehearsed in the Parish Room and the church and finally gave two performances in the Holy Trinity Church for the Eccleshall Festival in 2004.

Saints Alive

Produced for the Eccleshall Festival of 2004 the musical drew crowds to its two performances including the Bishop of Lichfield.

The members of the group ranging in age from upper sixties down to lower tens and found that they enjoyed working together and performing together and decided to produce another musical the following year.

Led by musical director Rodney Bellamy and coerced by drama coach Anita Guest and producer Hazel Bradshaw using the 'whip and chair technique' put together Jerusalem Joy in 2005.

Jerusalem Joy
  Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June 2005

Some of the female members of the cast of Jerusalem Joy
 

  
The main male members of the cast                     Drama rehearsal

Rodney Bellamy at the podium                              Wendy Jackson - our pianist



Ron Burgess (Jesus in the performances) carrying out some running repairs on his cross.
 

The third production of the Saints Alive Company Jail break was performed during the 2006 Festival week. One on Friday 23rd starting at 6.30pm and the other on Sunday 25th June 2006 at 6.30pm replacing the usual Sunday evening service.

 

The entire cast of jail Break

The soloists: left to right  back row Peter Jones, Colin Perry, Hazel Bradshaw,
front row Jill Latos, David Llewellyn and Anita Guest complete with radio microphones.

A Musical Evening

On Saturday 18th November 2006 the company  produced a musical evening  at Holy Trinity Church.

The Saints Alive Company performed a selection of songs from the three Roger Jones musicals which they have already produced; Saints Alive, Jerusalem Joy and Jail break.

In addition members of the company performed hits from West End Musicals.

The Company itself

Around fifty people are involved in The Saints Alive Company not always appearing in each production. A sort of gypsy group with a hard core of regulars and others who perform in one then miss one then hopefully return for the next production.

The company includes musicians, electricians, lighting people, prompters, tea makers and general hangers-on all of whom go together to form The Saints Alive Company.

If you would like to join our happy band please get in touch with Anita 01785 851430, Hazel on 01785 851259 or Rodney on 01630 656457and let them know you are interested and they will keep you up to date on rehearsals etc.