Agape Road Show Performs Twice for Mother's Day
Singers are needed for upcoming Mother's Day performances at the Opportunity Center and Maple Glen Center.
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The Agape Road Show, a 12-member non-profit group of musicians, singers, poets, actors, storytellers, acrobats and comedians that offers entertainment to residents in convalescent hospitals and nursing homes will perform two Mother's Day shows in Fair Lawn this week.
The group will perform on Tuesday at The Opportunity Center, located at 13-19 Fair Lawn Avenue, and on Saturday at Maple Glen Center.
Agape's highly interactive performance Tuesday for an audience of 25 developmentally disabled young adults at The Opportunity Center will begin at 1 p.m.
Their Saturday afternoon performance celebrating mothers and grandmothers for over 50 senior citizens at Maple Glen begins at 2 p.m.
Volunteers of all ages and talent levels are welcome to join the group, whose program includes sing-along songs, jokes, magic and an original comedy skit.
The Agape Road Show, which has been performing free shows at nursing homes and hospitals for five years in Northern New Jersey, is composed mostly of volunteers, both children and adults, from local church choirs.
To get involved, call or email Cornell Christianson at 310-985-1024 or cornellchristianson@gmail.com. Or, just show up for either show this week.
Cornell Christianson
1:44 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Yesterday we did our first ever show at The Opportunity Center in Fair Lawn for an audience of 25 developmentally disabled young adults. We gave them horns and they marched around the room as McNamara's Band with Irene leading the way. They also blew the horns after we counted down to New Year's Eve midnight and to the song I've Been Working on the Railroad.
We gave them all American flags and they marched around the room singing all the great patriotic songs. Ace Andrews was in costume as the Easter Bunny as we sang Peter Cottontail. The young people each did animal sounds, monster sounds and types of laughter. They joined in singing Old McDonald Had a Farm, the Hokey Pokey and clapped to Deep in the Heart of Texas. I did magic tricks that had them amazed. They loved Chris and Ace dancing a waltz. Our six Agape singers had a whole new experience in doing this show and we plan to do more there in the future.