It only happens once

ACCCF Musical Drama

Maybe you think this is kind of an annual thing of ACCCF like O-camp, LISG, Iron Chef (which became history already), and so forth. Maybe you think it’s just a skit that you have seen a lot in the camps.

NO. For so many years I have been in the fellowship, if you wanna call it a serious drama that people practiced and prepared for, it only happened ONCE and it did not need that much efforts like the equipments, clothing, singing, etc. For musical performance, since we have many people in music major in the fellowship, you may think that there was something similar before. NO. Anything relative to music performance has been a project that people thought and planed about. But it never really happens. Anything closed to it was Linda’s Viola solo 2 years ago with her Thanksgiving sharing.

A musical drama

As stated, it never happened before. And it probably may not happen in the near future. 'Cause lots of music major ACCCFers are graduating. The other reason is: it will be too hard to do it again, especially when people look back and see all the efforts needed: conducting, singing, scripts and plots design, acting, lighting, sound effects, etc. Especially people have been trying to find their free time to get together to make it happened. For many of the actors and coworkers, this is probably the once-in-the-life time thing since none of these people majors in relative areas.

OK. It’s Friday night at 6PM. And it also comes with dinner.

• Go to the professors’ or boss’ Thanksgiving dinner?
  Come on, most of the Thanksgiving dinner are held on Thursday afternoon or evening.
• Shopping?
  Come on, the biggest sale on Black Friday is 5 AM on Nov 23. You can
  have a sound and nice sleep before the 6PM dinner. And believe me, this
  year there is almost no deal can be called hot if you go to any forum discussing this Black Friday.
• Study/projects/homework?
  Come on, there are four days in Thanksgiving holidays. You will have enough time for your projects or so.

It finally happens this time. God puts so many talented people together to fulfill this one event. If you miss it, you miss it FOREVER. Personally I am so glad that I can be part of it. If you are not, come and witness it!

Unless you will be out of town. Come! You will not regret it. Come! Just come.

Check it out on the web. Go to http://www.acccf.us/ or directly go to the official web (https://webspace.utexas.edu/ip227/musical/) and tell me that this is nothing special.

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音樂劇

也許你覺得這是團契每年都有的活動，像是迎新營、春令會、美食大賽（這個已經成為歷史了）一樣。那你就錯了，我在團契這麼多年，這樣的活動還是第一次聽說。如果你以為這不過是營會裡的搞笑演出加強版，那你又錯了。因為這個劇從頭到尾都是以一個很嚴肅的態度在準備與進行。

就我所知的範團，團契的同工是有演出過短劇，但是不曾像這次一樣如此重視每一個環節，從譜曲寫歌、練唱、劇本、音效到舞台燈光，都是仔細討論的結果。這幾年來團契裡的音樂人材濟濟。但是真正的音樂表演就是兩年前Linda在感恩節分享時的中提琴獨奏。

就我在團契的時間裡，這事是空前的，也可能是絕後的。因為有很多音樂人材即將畢業，更大的原因是，當我們回頭看所要準備的事，光把所有人找齊，一起練習，就花了多少時間與力氣，尤其是每個人都有自己要忙的事、工作、學業、等等，而這個音樂劇需要更多的練唱、排練、修改劇本、器材、音效。這次參予的大部份成員，如果不是音樂專業，這可能就是他們「一生一次」的經驗，畢竟每個人都有每個人的領域，畢業之後，大概不會從事相關的工作。

星期五晚上6點。

• 到教授或老闆家吃感恩節大餐？少來，大部份的感恩節聚餐都是在星期四下午到晚上。
• 購物？今年的景氣不好，黑色星期五讓人想買的東西少之又少（Best Buy的early bird硬碟價錢是去年CompUSA的2.5倍，不騙你，一樣的容量；CompUSA的Jump Drive居然賣得比平日Office Depot賣得還貴）。而且Balck Friday最好的deal也是在星期五早上5點，你還有一個下午的時間可以睡。
• 作業/學習？你有四天的感恩節假期可以利用。

除非你不在奧斯汀，來吧！你不會後悔的。上帝在此時此地把這一群人放在一起成就這事也許就這麼一次。能夠在這件事上有份，我個人是十分的榮幸。如果你沒有在這準備上有份，那麼至少你可以來見證一下。

錯過了，很可能，就永遠錯過了……

上http://www.acccf.us/網站可以找到聯結，或是直接點這裡去看一下官方網站，然後再告訴我這也沒什麼特別的……