by Kyle Jarrow
Directed by Gary Minyard
Show Dates: 12/05/2008 - 12/20/2008
Location:
Tempe Performing Arts Center
This holiday season, join us as a jubilant cast of children celebrate the controversial Church of Scientology in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored backdrop of a traditional nativity play. An ensemble cast of grade school children (no, we’re not kidding) portraying Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and other less starry Scientologists, tells the story of L. Ron Hubbard’s meteoric rise from struggling science fiction writer to supreme leader of a (highly-profitable) New Age religious empire. Avant-garde performance art and children's theatre meet in one of the funniest and most bewildering holiday shows – we guarantee – you will ever see.
