"The
Race"
was Shepherd of the Valley's fourth
all-church musical.
We produce one approximately every 18 months.
“The
Race” is written by Jay Beech, a Minnesota Lutheran
musician and composer.
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In his
notes on the musical, Jay Beech says:
Simple
living is at once both simple and complex. It may be
simple for you to choose from among alternative remedies
for the bothersome or irksome elements of your life.
“Right” or “wrong” can be easily described as the
choices Dave must make in this musical.
But
under this simplicity lies the complexity of causes and
effects, the web of relationships in which you live, the
conflicting desires you have for your life. Those
complexities make “simple living” into something
suddenly difficult, suddenly dangerous, or suddenly
illusive.
On the
far side of complexity, though, lies another kind of
simplicity, the one compelled by your living through the
difficult choices and paying the consequences and
reaping the rewards of those decisions.
