The "guiding light" that gave the longest-running soap opera its name was quietly extinguished Tuesday at Peapack Reformed Church.
Cast members and crew of the GUIDING LIGHT were also on location at Dominick's Pizza and other sites in the borough to wrap up the last day of shooting for daytime television's longest-running soap opera.
"It's sad," said Susan Wisher of Frenchtown, wgi huddled with about two dozen other fans near Dominick's, where filming was under way around noon.
A little earlier, cast members, crew and a few local parishioners attended a brief service at the church to remember the show. The Rev. Kathryn Henry led the service.
Guiding Light star Robert Newman noted that as the fictional Joshua Lewis, he had preached from the other side of the pulpit in past episodes.
"It's just been great," Newman said of filming in the borough. "People have been very gracious. I never had anyone give me anything other than smiles and friendly waves."
Yvonna Wright, who portrays Mel Boudreau Bauer on the show, said being in the church was an emotional experience, adding that Tuesday's service offered some closure.
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Thank you for this, Roger. Thank you so much for sharing this article with us because I might never have seen it and it touches my heart tonight! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt's great that a show about faith, hope, and love would end production with a service in a church. Bravo and God bless to the cast and crew.
ReplyDeleteI was fortunate to be in Peapack for the last taping if Guiding Light. It was an odd atmosphere of sadness but also lots of love and appreciation. The cast and crew were wonderful. We made sure to give them all ovations as they ended each scene and called off the actor or cew members as they worked their last scene. Very emotional.
ReplyDeleteGuiding Light has been in my life for 32 of my 37 years on this earth. An emotional day as my Tivo will have nothing to tape. In the 80th I made my father buy us a VSR so we would never miss a show. God, the show made my life feel normal. LOL. I will always have a place in my hart for "Guiding Light" and the great cast, actors & crew.
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--Dennis Schleicher
PS As a best selling author of “Forbidden Love with a Married Man” I talk about the GL show on pg 6 of my Memoir, you can see this in Amazon’s Look Inside; you can read this on Amazon if you look @ the first pages and Search Inside “Forbidden Love with a Married Man; E-mail Diaries.“ by Dennis Schleicher