Sunday Evening Video: The 2008 RFC Christmas Treat
December 21, 2008 by rudy panucciTonight’s video is a mini-show in lieu of a full-blown Radio Free Charleston Christmas episode. If you’ve been scoring at home, you remember that I put RFC on hiatus for a month after I wrecked my car. This meant that there would be no Holiday episode of the show this year.
However, we already had one killer song in the can. So we couldn’t leave you high-and-dry during the cheery season. Hence this “Christmas Treat.”
We had our cameras on hand at a pick-up rehearsal midway through the 2008 run of the original Dan Kehde/Mark Scarpelli rock opera, “Mary,” and we recorded Molly Means, as Mary, performing the climactic song from the show, “Child, My Child.” This is the song Mary sings to her newly-born baby, Jesus. Molly performed this nearly acapella during a pick-up rehearsal midway through the run of the show. I say “nearly acapella” because her fellow cast member Eli Chambers was ably filling in on piano, but our microphones didn’t pick up the keys. It’s a phenomenal performance, and we’re proud to share it with you as part of our Christmas Treat. If you haven’t seen it, this might give you a taste of what has deservedly become a December tradition here in Charleston.
