Musicals

2024 The Book of Life – NEW Production

We are a group of Christians drawn from many churches in Tonbridge and the surrounding towns and villages in Kent.  Our aim is to present Biblical truth in an entertaining, encouraging and challenging way and our work has the commendation of the Christian leadership.  Our company productions involve choral and solo singing, dance, drama, narration and audio-visual elements.

We have been writing and presenting high quality musicals for nearly 40 years and two of our musicals have been awarded an international media award. We have performed locally, nationally and also in the United States and Israel. Our productions have been featured on radio and television. Our website www.absolutegospel.org includes further information, audio and visual clips from various musicals.

Our latest musical is called The Book of Life, featuring a choir, soloists, drama, dance and audio-visual effects. We aim to present this musical in late 2024.

Rehearsals are on
Tuesday Evenings 7:30-9:15pm at Christ church URC, High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1SG
Beginning on Tuesday 26th September 2023
There is plenty of free parking behind the church in Sainsbury’s car park.

We will provide sheet music and practice CDs for each of the musical parts (1st Soprano, 2nd Soprano, Alto, and Bass). An ability to read music is not a requirement, just a tuneful voice.

Click on the image to download a flyer ‘The-Book-of-Life-A4‘
If you are interested in being part of the choir, contact Roy and Jenny Etherton Contact: 07549 830906 / 01732 364517

The Symphony of Light compliation album contains incidental orchestral music from several of our musicals.

The Day it Rained in Colours is a musical based on the best selling book of the same name. It concerns a land called Greyland where everything is …grey! Grey scenery, grey people, every day looks like rain. But the people don’t mind because they don’t know anything different.

Then, one day, a little Grey Boy sees a balloon in the sky. In the basket are three children and the balloon and the children aren’t grey! Impressed by the colours of the children’s clothes the little Grey Boy wants to turn Greyland into a land of colour. There follows the adventure of trying to do just that. It involves encounters with the Mayor, the Wizard and the Witch, before the people of Greyland realise they need the help of the Maker. Then comes the Great Storm!

The musical is full of fun, colour and action, but also has a very important underlying theme. It involves animation, visuals, dance, drama and song and is suitable for ages 5 and upwards. It runs for approximately 2 hours, including an interval.

Guard the Gospel is a multi-media musical that incorporates two readers and a narrator to inspire Christians to “guard the Gospel” (a paraphrase of Paul’s words to the young Timothy). It features dance, visuals, choir music and solo singing to encourage Christians to resist the strong cultural pressures that are coming on the Gospel with the introduction of a new, universalist ‘gospel’ that has little to do with New Testament Christianity. The musical urges its listeners to beware the contemporary question: “Did God say?” – the same question the serpent asked Eve in the Garden of Eden.

There is a clear presentation of the Gospel message, the power and centrality of the Cross and the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, with a strong call to repentance, which always results in blessing. The question of the reality of Hell is addressed, as well as the glory that awaits all those who name the Name of Jesus.

The musical lasts approximately 80 minutes and can easily be used as a morning or evening service for teaching and evangelism.

A musical for our times. A musical to make you think! A musical that asks the question: “What exactly do you believe?”

A surgeon draws a parallel between physical and spiritual health. He presents the challenge for the urgent need of salvation for everyone and then moves on to consider the unfolding of future Biblical events.

This is a powerful wake-up call and will not leave the viewer unchanged. The musical offers the wonderful hope of the Gospel. It equips Christians to help them deal with the days ahead and encourages them to look towards that day when Christ will come for them. The call to all is: “BE READY”.

A musical about the relationship between Jew and Gentile.

It traces the history of this relationship from the fall of Jerusalem in AD70, right up to the present day and beyond. It uses the words of the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians (Chapter 2), in which he talks about one new man and God’s plan to bring Jew and Gentile together.

This dramatic presentation also explores the truths in Paul’s letter to the Romans (Chapters 9 – 11) and the metaphor of the olive tree.

A musical about final destinations.

Set in an airport Departure Lounge, it raises the question of the eternal destination of each of us. The airline offers just two destinations: Heaven and Hell, with no return flights!

Through visuals, dance, drama, narration and singing it challenges the audience to consider their own final destination.