These are pictures in our practice facility. Each summer a group of Young Performing Missionaries (YPM) arrive in Nauvoo. They are chosen from a large number of applicants and are college-age men and women. They bring an incredible energy and a certain level of ability. They are the heart of the Nauvoo performances. They do Sunset By The Mississippi six days a week, various street performances and numerous other venues. The other photo is of the senior missionary couples practicing. I call us the Old Performing Missionaries (OPM). They bring quite a bit less energy and a different level of ability. All of them spend most of the day in other assignments and then are assigned to sing and dance in the evenings. There are three different OPM groups - red, blue and yellow - and each group performs twice a week. We are the yellow group. We are the last couple to arrive this year so the other OPMs have been practicing for a while.
I have suggested to the director that my considerable talents lie in other areas. Being a wonderful woman she seems to have agreed with me and it appears I will get to narrate a little. I have also submitted a recording of a cowboy poem. Maybe I'll get to do that, too. In one song our director wants two OPMs to sit at the front of the stage and play chess kinda as a prop. I have applied for that role as well. No audition tape necessary.
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