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Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant Click here to read the New York Times feature |
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"The
gutsiest gimmick in New York theater for 2003... A spooky, sharp-toothed
smile of a show... Pageant has already acquired a halo of hipness
and daring... A cult-hit blueprint for a young generation that prefers
its irony delivered with not a wink but a blank stare." |
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"Lethally gleeful... The mix of pastorale, Dianetics demo and Bill Melendez Peanuts special leaves irony to its audience, ending on a coup de théâtre that is thrilling and chilling... An instant cult classic!" | |
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"A hilarious spectacle!" |
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"The artless innocence of a children's holiday pageant provides the deceptively benign backdrop for this deeply probing and ultimately disturbing query into the history of guru L. Ron Hubbard... provocatively juxtaposes innocent revelry and weighty content... (You will) laugh till it hurts!" | |
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"Pushes the theatrical envelope... one of the most original musicals to appear in Los Angeles... it would be a shame to miss it!" |
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"Wonderfully weird... Refreshing... Subversive... The show artfully succeeds at both telling and mocking the tale of Scientology." |
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"Genius... The evening plays out like a comedy about mind control as written by Nathanael West... Kyle Kaplan is charming and kooky as L. Ron Hubbard." |
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"A provocative mix of Christmas-pageant sincerity, Christopher Durang-like irony, and unexpected rage." |
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"A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant does to L. Ron Hubbard what (Brecht's) The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui did to Adolf Hitler..." |
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