Final performance of We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder raises the roof
The fifth and final presentation for this year of We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder is scheduled for tomorrow at the Evening Light Tabernacle Church, Pembroke.
And if there is any possibility that some save their best for last, there’s every likelihood this will be a super culmination for the current round of first anniversary presentations of Dale Butler’s inspirational, motivational mystery.
It has been amazing noting how producer Mr Butler and his cast have been able to supersede themselves with variations of a single theme, adapted for the different configurations of the respective churches.
The Giant Steps Band and the cast of We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder pulled out all stops on Sunday at St Paul Anglican, Paget, when they helped raise over $7,000 for the campaign of Sis Joan Simmons for children of Mozambique.
Patrons who have not missed a performance know what to expect in this mystery play, but they never know how or whence it would come. It has always had audiences singing and laughing at the jokes by Detective Smith, played by John Dale, and with a host of local traditions from Freddie Thomas and Clara in a real wheelbarrow to The Talbot Brothers, Marcus Garvey and Dr Cyril Butterfield and Charles Forster Fubler.
The standing ovation said it all after performances from Glen Iris, Phiemma Caisey, Toni Robinson, June Caisey, Veronica Darrell, Nishanthi Bailey (a real show-stopper who sings in Spanish and English) and Gerald Simons, the accused, who just so happened to have been caught by two real life Bermuda policeman after his nefarious deed right in the middle of the church service.
With so many highlights it seemed impossible for the cast to add one more but they did: A tribute to Maya Angelou who had passed that week.
The poem, read by Toni Robinson, was a tribute to a long list of Bermuda’s female poets like Flora E Musson, Ceceila Smith, Melodye Van Putten, Joy Wilson Tucker, Shirley Rogers and more, was also a tribute to the distinguished patron, former Premier Dame Jennifer Smith, who has seen the play three times already.
