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| 04-01-2005 | Previous edition: 03-31-2005 |
        
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Printer-friendly version Locally-composed musical tests faith, strength with deep, spiritual messageBy Philip MeekerStaff Writer God will smite dead a pastor’s family Sunday and everyone will sing gospel music while it happens. "Job’s Story," a musical written and composed by Tawna A. Harris, Black Cultural Center artist-in-residence, will run at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Loeb Playhouse. Harris modernized the Old-Testament book in which Satan, a woman in this play, bets God that if Job loses everything, he wouldn’t remain faithful. Harris sets the story in "just any big city," she said. Job is the pastor of a church that’s nearing its sixth year when "one day, all hell breaks loose." Members of the congregation will try to vex each other and the pastor with deceitful traps and seductions, said Harris. Other members like Job will have their faith and strength tested. "I believe the audience will be able to identify with at least one, if not more, of the characters because many of us have gone through the same thing," said Malcom Foley, the graduate student who plays Job. There will be choral, duet and solo jazz, R&B and gospel music to a live band of drums, keyboard and bass throughout the play. "Not only does the play have a very deep spiritual message, but it is very funny, as well as having the emotion of a good drama," said Foley. Tickets for the play are selling for $5 to students and $7 to the general public at Loeb Box Office, 494-3933. Printer-friendly version |
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