Monday, August 07, 2006

Local Priest takes Tobit Off-Broadway

Local priest composes ‘The Musical of Tobit’
The biblical production will be performed this month.
By LYDIA GENSHEIMER, The Kansas City Star

Around 700 B.C., a young man set off on a journey through Israel accompanied by an angel and destined to battle a demon. The story seems more biblical than Broadway, but the Rev. Kent O’Connor has figured out a way to make it both.


The whole story is HERE for another few days. Tacky. One could say more (and some of my correspondents have said more, believe me), but I don't know the priest, so I won't. I'll just say it's tacky. Isn't that charitable of me?

4 comments:

  1. I think they call productions in Kansas Off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway. But what do I know? I did not major in dance at KU. (Isn't that like majoring in agronomy at NYU?)

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  2. The Angel Azariah? Was Raphael fired for creative differences?

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  3. “In one scene,” Daugherty said, “the music is like ‘rah, rah, rah,’ and we’re going to have girls as cheerleaders.”

    Give me two in the aisle!

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  4. Azariah was Raphael's disguised name, by the by.

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