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Lawson Taitte: Lawson Taitte is the theater critic for The Dallas Morning News. June 2009
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After seeing A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant at Circle Theatre tonight in Fort Worth, my husband says he's never seeing anything with adult actors again. I could almost agree with him, so splendid were the eight young actor-singer-dancers who star in this perfectly wonderful spoof. Complete with fabulously awful costumes (the sheep in the manger scene, for instance, is a kid in a sheepskin-lined jacket that's been turned inside-out) and choreography that's terribly inspired (and I do mean terribly), this Obie-winning musical takes the traditional Nativity pageant motif and uses it to tell the story of L. Ron Hubbard and his Church of Scientology, where one of the eternal questions turns out to be, "What does the 'L' stand for?" The kids, ranging in age from preteen to young teen, have timing and stage presence that could knock the socks off of some local professionals. Oh, and speaking of socks, it's worth the price of admission to see Tom Cruise and his sock-puppet versions of Katie and Suri during the IRS-trial portion of the show. Not to mention John Travolta and Kirstie Alley! And Xenu, the evil alien! It's just the thing to get the sticky-sweet taste of too much eggnog out of your mouth, and replace it with something merrily tart. Look for a full review Sunday evening on guidelive.com. E-mail entry: |
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