the fog room
Right on the tail end of saying that anyone who's been in a Christmas pageant is going to be embarrassed after watching The Nativity Story, I'm going to tell you about the Christmas pageant I'm in this month! Hahahaha!
On a pretty regular basis, I'm performing the role of an angel/capebearer for the magi in one of the Holy Land's Christmas programs -- it's sort of the grand finale show of the day, with lots of bells and whistles!
My favorite part by far, as a performer, is the fog entrance for the angel Gabriel.
A production tech, another angel, Gabriel, and I gather in a small room behind the great gold doors of Herod's Temple. At a certain point, spotlights go on, and then the tech hits the switch to fill the room with brilliant and totally blanketing white fog. Shoosh, shoosh, shoosh, goes the machine, and warm air bursts against our legs. It gets so thick that I literally cannot see my hands four inches from my eyes. Then Gabriel gently presses me and the other angel on our backs, our cue to grandly open the doors for him to go out. It is quite a sight from the audience!
We close the doors, then cough and choke our heads off while we listen to Gabriel sing "Nothing Impossible" on the other side of those doors. It's beautiful!
Then it's time to let him back in, so shoosh, shoosh, shoosh goes the machine again, the warm air bursting on our legs, and the complete white-out. We open the doors, Gabe comes in, we close the doors, and then all three of us stretch our arms out so that the tech can grab us and pull us to the side -- we literally can not find our way out through the fog!
Such a cool experience, and majestic too!
On a pretty regular basis, I'm performing the role of an angel/capebearer for the magi in one of the Holy Land's Christmas programs -- it's sort of the grand finale show of the day, with lots of bells and whistles!
My favorite part by far, as a performer, is the fog entrance for the angel Gabriel.
A production tech, another angel, Gabriel, and I gather in a small room behind the great gold doors of Herod's Temple. At a certain point, spotlights go on, and then the tech hits the switch to fill the room with brilliant and totally blanketing white fog. Shoosh, shoosh, shoosh, goes the machine, and warm air bursts against our legs. It gets so thick that I literally cannot see my hands four inches from my eyes. Then Gabriel gently presses me and the other angel on our backs, our cue to grandly open the doors for him to go out. It is quite a sight from the audience!
We close the doors, then cough and choke our heads off while we listen to Gabriel sing "Nothing Impossible" on the other side of those doors. It's beautiful!
Then it's time to let him back in, so shoosh, shoosh, shoosh goes the machine again, the warm air bursting on our legs, and the complete white-out. We open the doors, Gabe comes in, we close the doors, and then all three of us stretch our arms out so that the tech can grab us and pull us to the side -- we literally can not find our way out through the fog!
Such a cool experience, and majestic too!