This Beautiful City
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 22, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
Opened Feb 22, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
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Written by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, This Beautiful City explores the growth of the evangelical Christian movement. It is docu-drama in nature, drawn principally from interviews The Civilians have conducted with people involved with or affected by the mega-church movement in Colorado Springs.
A play with music, This Beautiful City was created from interviews by Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brad Herberlee, Stephen Plunkett, Alison Weller and the authors with actual persons over the course of 10 weeks in Colorado Springs. Every leading church in the area participated in the project, as did numerous civic organizations, progressive activists, and individuals from all walks of life.
The Vineyard Theatre will welcome one of the real-life subjects depicted in its production of This Beautiful City, Michael "Mikey" Weinstein -- well-known and recently profiled in the New York Times as founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation -- at a post-performance Q&A about the play and its subject matter, the mega-church movement in Colorado Springs, following the Sunday, March 15 matinee performance (3:00 p.m.)
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In line with the activism implied by their company name, The Civilians are at-the-ready with a new stage documentary, This Beautiful City, now making its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre. This piece, co-produced by Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, arrives here after several years' worth of preparation -- carried out mostly in Colorado Springs, Colorado -- in an effort to discover what make far-right-wing fundamentalists tick in a fundamentalist hotbed. While the company's findings, presented here by way of both monologues (crafted by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis from actual interviews by the company) and Michael Friedman's ditties, are definitely attention-grabbing, the news they'r[...]