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Amahl and the Night Visitors Opera in One Act words and music by:

Gian Carlo Menotti By arrangement with G. Schirmer, INC. publisher and copyright owner.

Cast for Saturday, November 20th: Co-Directors--------------------------------------------------D Scott Ferguson, Janet Inman Haigh, Ashley Sosis Amahl------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elizabeth Glendinning His Mother---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Janet Inman Haigh King Kaspar----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stephon Williams King Melchior-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeff Jones King Balthazar-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------D. Scott Ferguson The Page------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Caleb Smith Dancers-----------------------------------------------------Sadie Burch, Maggie Elliott, Joy Cook, Gabriella Smith Youth Shepherd Choristers: Sadie Burch, Joy Cook, Kirby Cromer, Isaac Dezwaan, Wesley Dezwaan, Maggie Elliott, Audrey Harris, Joash Hawver, Cameron Monckton, Georgia Monckton, James Phillips, Levi Phillips, Nolan Phillips, Gabriella Smith.

Adult Shepherd Choristers: Jean Ann Echternach; Fran Gilbert; Nora Gerstmyer; Stewart Haigh; Anna Grace Jordan; Kenneth Leach; Peggy O’Neil, George Sanderson; Joe E. “Joey” Timms, Jr.; Jean Norton VanDerKamp; Carolyn Vereen; Cheryl Young Piano 1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniel Francis Piano 2---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ashley Sosis Oboe I-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Deanne Renshaw Oboe II------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hollie Roy 2

Thank You For Supporting Hope House!

100% of the proceeds from ticket sales to “Amahl and The Night Visitors� will be donated to:

Hope House of Myrtle Beach, a totally volunteer non-profit 501(c)3 dedicated to furthering the well-being and education needs of homeless Myrtle Beach High School students.

Day-to-Day Focus - provides students with immediate needs, including medical care, food, tutoring, school supplies, some housing, and costs needed to make attending school a nurturing experience.

Homeless students are identified under the dictates of the federal McKinney-Vento Act: Students may have no home or are in an insecure or unsafe setting. Each case is unique; anywhere from 20-40 high school students are in this setting at any one time.

Donations can include food, new clothing, school supplies, personal toiletries; however MB high does not always have adequate space to store these items. The most efficient way to donate is with money; it can be used to purchase gift cards for individual needs, or with Walmart gift cards.

Volunteering: Contact by email at HopeHouseofMyrtleBeach@Yahoo.com Or at the website: www.hopehouseofmyrtlebeach.org.

Hope House operates out of the guidance office at the High School, but receives mail at: 708 Main St. Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 3

A Note From Our Music Director Good Evening! If you’ve been a part of Trinity Church for a while, you may know that we have a long tradition of producing operas. I am thrilled to be part of this production, which is also my first venture into opera. Because I’m a rookie, I must say that the very best parts of this show did not come from me but from the 25+ cast members and supporting volunteers that made this show not only a possibility, but a success! Of particular note is the support and advice I received from Janet Inman Haigh and D Scott Ferguson. Janet acted as vocal coach for many of our cast and understudies throughout our three months of production and held daily rehearsals the week before the show to make sure everyone was comfortable with their staging. D Scott Ferguson supplied most of tonight’s costume pieces and props. He also came up with our brilliant staging. Watching our community come together over this common goal has been both inspiring and humbling. This project has been a challenge, a thrill, and a learning experience for me. Thank you, Trinity Church family, for your support through the past three months of production!

If you look up the list of performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors across the country (we’re on a database maintained by the royalties/rental company that gave us the rights to perform the show), you’ll see we are the very first ones to put on Amahl this year.

After all, Amahl and the Night Visitors tells a Christmas, or even Epiphany story. When I was considering putting on Amahl during this program year, I read the libretto and realized that Amahl’s story also has a beautiful poetic transfer to the themes of Christ the King Sunday (Sunday, November 20th in our church calendar). Particularly, Melchior’s lines, “On love alone he will build His kingdom…and the keys to his city he will give to the poor,” laid out the whole project for me. That is, to put it on Christ the King Sunday as a Benefit Concert. We hope that you are inspired to worship Christ, our King, by Menotti’s beautiful words and music.

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