The angels hang six stories up - suspended from harnesses attached to 150-foot-long tracks on the sanctuary's ceiling. In Prestonwood Baptist Church's retelling, brightly lit angels with fluttering, 12-foot-long organza gowns, shiny headbands, and red wigs fly over a sanctuary filled with about 6,500 spectators.
There’s as much show and coordination onstage as backstage,” Andy explains.PLANO, Texas - In the biblical account of the Christmas story, a heavenly host of angels appeared to shepherds tending their flock near the stable where baby Jesus lay in a manger. There are so many volunteers, people don’t even realize. We have over 100 adult volunteers that manage the little kids, walking them from their rooms down to the stage and back up. There’s a whole host of people who deal with the animals. If one person tried to handle that-there’s no way. “We’ve got a team of 25 who do costumes, a team that does nothing but props, a team that communicates with cast members and that’s all that they do. Where my eyes glaze over, they love it!” Michael says. “In order to keep our cast organized we have lots of very detailed people who love spreadsheets. To put on such a production, hundreds of volunteers spend countless hours making Andy and Michael’s vision come to life. But all year round you get inspired by things, sometimes by stuff that has nothing to do with Christmas.” “The first few years, it was really hard to wrap my mind around Frosty the Snowman and “Oh Holy Night” when it was 100 degrees outside.
While some people would rejoice if they got to think about Christmas all year, it took Andy some time to adapt. Then, we start doing orchestration and musical arrangements, graphics and creative content, choreography, costuming-the whole nine yards,” Andy explains. By the end of August, the cast has been chosen and we’re ready to go. “Musically and creatively, the heat gets turned up in July and August. Creative meetings are held throughout the spring to vision cast and talk big ideas, and final decisions are made by May in order to get sets produced. If we’re doing a complete set redesign, we start that in January. Even as the show was going on last year, I was thinking about how to redo certain things. Putting on a show like this requires year-round attention. The cast is made up of 1,500 people of all ages plus behind-the-scenes volunteers. The first act features traditional Christmas motifs like Frosty the Snowman, ice skating and Rockette-style kick lines.Īct 2 is centered around music with narration that provides context for Act 3, which is the story of Christ’s birth. The production is 90 minutes long with three acts where people run, dance and fly throughout the entire auditorium to original music and choreography.
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