| The show, an hour-plus programme of drama and song, featuring a contribution from the Watoto children’s choir from Uganda, pioneered by the Church of the Nazarene and supported by five other congregations, proved an astounding success. A huge queue formed for well over an hour before the event’s 6 pm start.
All 1050 seats in the hall were taken with around 400 more in the concert hall foyer viewing the programme on closed circuit TV — and around 500 people were turned away.
Added to the crowd were the 200 or so performers.
As the programme got under way, the queue still trying to get in stretched all the way up past the museum, 400 yards north-east of the concert hall.
For the past few years the show, featuring live animals and members of the congregations dressing as biblical characters has been held in the Church of the Nazarene.
Such has been the interest it was decided to move the event to the Concert Hall but even that proved insufficient.
Those queueing were entertained by a choir of local Christians dressed in Victorian attire and foodstuffs were handed out to the assembled throng.
A policewoman was on hand to help concert hall staff deal with the crowd control and everyone who attended the concert was handed a special presentation DVD. |
