passion play and i think our first question is how did you choose the different characters for this production you want to talk about that i think sharon can address that you mean that ca what we had an audition we high and people came out on a wednesday evening that wanted to audition for the play and we held just like a regular musical regular production and we sat afterwards and we discussed it between father and some of the other directors saying we cast the show well it is it is a musical it is it's it's a biblical story based on the gospels but we added music to it so it's a sort of what you might call musical opera or much like the musicals that you see in regular production the songs are familiar because the songs are taken many of the songs almost all of them are taken from the hymnal that we use in church oh ok that makes it more interesting than if you know what you're seeing in know what you're listening to right and then the and the people that come for the performances are encouraged to sing tradition at st benedict's long before i got there in two thousand and seven and they had used a production from a gentleman named bob summers who wrote something called make us for leavers which was maced loosely on those stories  all four gospels coming together and then he also wrote the music for that and we decided that we'd rather not pay the royalties here because it kept going up like everything else and the story is pretty much in the common domain we all know the story of the passion and so i had talked to michael block who is our musical director and said you know i thought we could do this ourselves and he said yeah we could and we decided to sit down and i sat down with the script and then we sat down challenge yes every time we do it we do it every every other year realtor year yeah every other year so we're hoping that every other year we always add something to it yeah i know i would tend to overproduction because when we moved into the new church of course we have the old church right now we didn't have to keep take tearing it out and that you know every time there was mass so it was really nice to be able to build just that and leave it there so we were able to be a and he is i play the role of our lord jesus christ you know it's really great this is my this is my first time actually being in the passion play production and i'm  really honored to play this part you know it's definitely a different role it's definitely a much more challenging role in your that there's teachings in the power yet it's just so year why is it different well i think what makes it different is because we have a new script we have songs that haven't been used in the past we were locked into with the script for mr summers we were locked into his music so sometimes it might have seemed appropriate to use other songs and he was very adamant about with the copyright to use only the music that went with them and it seemed so proprium i think for this year scripts to just say how does that movement speak to us and there were several of us doing the musical selection and so it was really quite providential i would say to say that oh you know we sing this but now look at the meaning it takes on as we're doing that i mean one of the things there's there's a music in our hymnal from an interfaith community ecumenical community in france called pi say where the monks are catholic and protestant and live together in this community that draws young people from all over the world to come and see their life and we've been using the music from thais say now for a number of years in churches and catholic and protestant churches and to hear brad at the last supper saying those words that we sing in church eat this bread drink this cup come to me and never be hungry you know we sing that it turns sometimes you're in communion and whatever but actually to have jesus at the last supper saying those words almost answers how the question is to personally for for all of you really i mean you know we all feel it in the same way and we're all just so blessed to have the opportunity to do this saw sacrifice exactly i mean i think it does make when you do this during lent it puts everything in perspective and makes you really go to church and listen to the gospels and listen to it so much more you know simple fight for them they see a production and they go oh that's what you know more we'll see you here all the time and everything but yet when you see it in the production understanding what i want to do and why well that's what it is about artists in no matter what because i interviewed somebody that was i'm an artist she painted pictures and everything and the things that she saw i never even noticed them i mean an artist can see things so much differently than an average person and then i was really amazed at that i never saw there so it's just the same thing i mean you see it every day but when you see it in a production it comes to you better and you said you've seen this production previous oh yes and you know what keeps you coming back you know that's the thing you probably come every time they've done it oh yes and i enjoyed every time and it just makes it just makes me feel so good after i've seen it and i always see something different there's always something that i have missed before this come forward like or something and i think that's the clue that's what we're aiming i think that's our goal is because we begin with the narrator saying to people this is a story you all know right but there are things there that might surprise you because you'll say you know gee yeah i do know that story but i didn't know this was in it or maybe it's not in it literally but it's the interpretation of how it strikes one particular human which then may touch another human in the same way and i think that everybody should come and see if we hope so so there's some dialogue in the got a lot but some had to be fleshed out a little more you know for example father michael russell our parochial vicar at st benedict plays the role of herod and harry doesn't have any speaking lines in the gospel when it comes a lot of work to be able to do that to him it will take a little break now and we'll be back in a few minutes have you ever heard of lupus chances are you know someone whose life has been affected a new diagnosis every half hour one and a half million patients that's enough to fill thirty baseball stadiums too many people for you not to know anything to get educated foundation of america  i had a stroke i had a stroke i had a stroke five years ago three quarters of a million americans experience a stroke each year and if you had a stroke already the chances are good that you could have not but it doesn't have to have you could be in strokes much though i'm eating healthy and i'm exercising i always take my medicine and follow doctor's orders even if i feel fine even when i feel fine after thirty five years  take steps to improve you greatly reduce your risk of stroke watch what you eat if you smoke now keep your blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control you're going to void having another stroke recurrence strokes are more deadly we have senior citizens we have adults and children and a lot of them have developed into coming to the play because of their parents so we have families we have whole families that play well i think when that played played school trying to keep in high school trying to keep up with your faith and it'll probably get harder as you go to college or be so many temptations and everything just remember we were taught  get tickets or do you have to have tickets you do because where are they performances how did the pope benedict activity center has limited seating about four hundred so tickets are free but they're available at the parish office and they've had them living in years and there are things that have been donated that they sort of take apart put together but one of the interesting things this year what we added at the last production in two thousand and eight was the distinction between the temple guards and roman guards and so the temple guards costume has been appalling because there are the guards that go with the high priest at the fair seas and this is just this year we have new costumes for them to come and we'll be able to tell the difference  yeah the romans you know because they have the hat with the bloom and the whole thing you know the weather and you'll be able to tell when this is a reading more man that used to be able to have them just move on you know on something you know so now we're all you did mention about where the music was from and the propriety of composers that we use you know in our songbook you know most of it like i said it's pretty familiar our contemporary choir that sings every other saturday at the five pm mass makes up the chorus so we do have support from a chorus in addition to the cast you know and some ensemble work within the cast we also have a choir  in black and they're up on stage but they haven't there's black and they're behind there and the pants back there that will support us with all the music and that's run by our music director which is michael law that's very interesting that mary what about you and how do you feel about doing the part i just i it's just so much bigger than all of us here it's we're trying to reenact the passion of our whole faith is based based on and so i mean i'm exceptionally proud to be playing the part and just really feel that it's going to bring me even closer my faves i knew she'd been close to me and i kept her pretty busy yeah it actually helps me for good friday because in the liturgy and good friday we take it from john's gospel which is where most of the pilots meet is as far as the dialogue between jesus and brett and i have this big dialogue which finally ends up in saying that he's calm because of the truth and you know pilot is what is truth you know who can know what that is you know each time i say that i think ok i think i know what is true but you know here is this man questioning that and it really speaks to us today i think when everything is so relative you know the holy father has said relativism is one of the parts of our our society today that we really have to get beyond because with everything becomes