Rainbow Experience
The Rainbow Experience is a co-operative and inclusive partnership for youth and adults. With professional and volunteer leadership, Rainbow puts on a musical each year that gives youth from our church and the local area opportunities to work as a team develop acting, dancing and singing skills. Parts are available to youth of all skill levels and abilities. The Rainbow Experience is in its 13th year, with a member of our congregation as its Producer. Other congregation members and youth provide valuable support as cast members, leaders, volunteers and the appreciative audiences!
In 2010. the Rainbow Experience performed "Bye. Bye Birdie".
Check out the Rainbow web site for more information:
http://rainbowexp.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/auditions-announced/
Choreography by BJ Solomon
Musical Direction by Melissa Abbate
Directed by Scott M. Goldman
If you came to "Bye, Bye. Birdie" at any of the four performances in November of 2010, you saw an inspired group of youth and adults have a blast. You also had a blast yourself, supported Plainfield area youth with a passion for theater and and got an exceptional entertainment value. Stay tuned to see what happens next at the United Church of Christ, Plainfield.
Our 2009 production was "Leader fo the Pack", a musical based on songs of the Fifties. Past productions have included: "Godspell", "Seussical, the Musical", "Honk!", "Oliver", "One on this Island", and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".
A note regarding our 2008 production of Godspell: A musical based on the Gospel according to Matthew, Godspell was conceived and directed by John-Michael Tebelak.
"Today, in these early days of a new millennium, we once again find bitter divisions in our society – what some have termed a 'cultural civil war.' Although we have no major crisis such as Vietnam over which to content, our national discourse has become mean-spirited and fractious, and Americans once again find reasons to hate one another because of differences in race, religion, ethnic background, sexual orientation or political leaning. In our contemporary civilization, there is a noticeable lack, as writer Scott Peck would put it, of 'civility'. At its heart, and best of all in my opinion, this is a new generation once again telling a timeless story – how a community is formed around a man with a simple but profound message: 'always treat others as you would have them treat you' and 'anything you did not do for one of your brothers here, you did not do for me.' It’s a story we all clearly still need to hear."
United Church of Christ, Congregational
220 West Seventh Street, Plainfield, NJ
908-755-8658