A METHODIST church is to stage a musical review partly set in a gin palace.
The show, entitled “From Music Hall Variety to Chapel Pew Propriety” which will be presented by Stockton Heath Methodist Church on October 4.
It will mark the centenary of the death of charismatic American evangelist and musician Ira D Sankey.
The show explores the new brand of lively hymn that was introduced by Sankey and his friend Dwight Moody when they took Britain by storm and packed huge marquees with people who found traditional church services far too stiff and starchy.
The audience will be encouraged to enter into the spirit of the show, which is partly set in a gin palace, and come dressed in Victorian costume.
They can expect to join in some of the old Music Hall songs as well as many of the old popular hymns.
There will be dramatic interludes highlighting the social background to the music, a choir to lead the singing, and the actors introduced by hosts for the night, variety act Polly and Dolly.
The curtain will rise at 7.30pm in the Methodist Church Hall, Walton Road, Stockton Heath.
Lively hymns in a gin palace!
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