- Angels fly in on wires, demons appear in fiery explosions. This may require some extra safety procedures, but I’m sure that the walls can be patched to cover the holes from out of control angels, and slightly charred demons are just that much more authentic.
- Make Satan less of a monster and more of a psychoanalyst. Use the next-door neighbor approach: “he seemed like such a nice guy, we never suspected he was actually the prince of darkness …”.
- Don’t use teenagers for roles which require them to act like teenagers. Real teenagers think they are far too cool to act naturally in front of an audience. Instead, cast 20-25 year-olds to be teenagers. It works for movies and television.
- Four words: The Judgment On Ice! Get a six-inch layer of ice on the floor of the sanctuary and have all the cast do choreographed song and dance routines on ice-skates. The tagline: Hell Froze Over!
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November 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Two and Three look like good ideas. Chris agrees. Now, about Four… We could do it… Just give me money.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:02 am
I was thinking it would be cool if Satan was a beautiful ornate angel who was actually very convincing, not have them using the sarcasm and irony we usually use to convince… it makes it very obvious that it’s not a good argument. Instead they could be extremely charismatic and present the audience with ‘good’ solutions to the actors problems… because the thing is that people really do make these choices and they really do talk themselves into them… little by little in-between scenes this person could get a little bit ‘darker’ in appearance but not a lot… Anyway I really think it could be done awesomely.. have them say that they are the leader of a force of angels etc… you could even have the demons look similar though not as ornate… It’s the fact that these decisions and choices keep leading to bad outcomes and then the final Judgment that will make it obvious to the audience and then at the end their true nature could be revealed instead of at the beginning like this year.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Very much what I was thinking. I thought that if by the end of the production he was revealed … possibly by the blacklight makeup to be what he truly is, but at that point it’s far too late.
But what about the idea for Judgment on Ice? The tagline could be Hell Froze Over…
November 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Oh… not like angels this year… much cooler. And I like 3&4 as well.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:22 am
I agree, the angels could use some upgrades next year. The demons finally got away from black robes and black face … next the angels should really shine. Perhaps literally.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:30 am
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November 17th, 2007 at 10:31 am
That’s truly ironic.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I am going to start using it now. Oh, and (not that my suggestions matter, but) if you have the fight thing again, the angels could have armor. Perhaps too expensive. I will write it into mine.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:41 am
… a blog comment, consisting of a C language comment, saying “no comment”. Yep, you can have it. I don’t care if you stole it from a ThinkGeek shirt.
As for armor, it’d be cool and all, but do they really need it? I mean, in the immortal battle between good and evil, does either side ever really ‘die’? Or are they locked in an eternal battle?
Or is it more esoteric than that? More like two opposing agents working for different sides of a larger conflict, but both so far away from home.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:13 am
::smile::
It is symbolism, silly. You know I work in symbols. Reality is so… real.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I really liked how the demons turned out… but I was thinking about how the demons always get to be in the scenes themselves but not the angels… if satan or a lead fallen angel looked like an angel though… then maybe the demons would to… so then we wouldn’t actually have demons at all at least not in the sense that we have had them.
November 18th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I will talk to pastor about Judgment on Ice… I think it would be a bigger draw
So funny…
November 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Angels flying in would be pretty spectacular…but the price for installing a fly line and paying for the license to actually use it is unfortunately outlandish.
Having 20-25 year olds play teenagers does work rather well. The only problem is that people of that age don’t normally have as much free time as the average teenager.
And Judgment on ice sounds like such a great idea! I think you guys should go with it!
November 20th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
True enough, but there were still adults in this production, it just requires finding the right ones.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
So time off, a good day, etc… and still no post