A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, which won an OBIE Award, comes to Los Angeles. Performances of the musical, co-produced by downtown company Les Freres Corbusier with the Powerhouse, will play through November. Book, music, and lyrics are by Kyle Jarrow, direction by Alex Timbers, based on a concept by Mr. Timbers.

A cast of 8-12-year-olds, portraying Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and other less starry Scientologists, will bring the controversial Church of Scientology to jubilant life in story and song in A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant. From the downtown theater company Les Freres Corbusier comes this bizarre new holiday classic–part avant-garde performance art, part children’s theater–based on the actual principles of Scientology and the seriously unbelievable life story of founder L. Ron Hubbard.