A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant is a
satirical musical about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, written by
Kyle Jarrow from a concept by Alex Timbers, the show's original
director. The one-act musical lasts about an hour. Jarrow based the
story of the musical on L. Ron Hubbard's writings and Church of
Scientology literature. The musical follows the life of L. Ron Hubbard
as he develops Dianetics and then Scientology. Though the musical
pokes fun at Hubbard's science fiction writing and personal beliefs,
it has been called a "deadpan presentation" of his life story. Topics
explored in the piece include Dianetics, the E-meter, Thetans, and the
story of Xenu. The show was originally presented by Les Freres
Corbusier, an experimental theatrical troupe and debuted in November
2003 in New York City, where it had sold-out Off-Off-Broadway and
Off-Broadway productions. Later performances have included Los
Angeles, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Productions of A
Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant in 2003, 2004
and 2006 were well received. The musical received an Obie Award for
the 2003 New York production, and director Alex Timbers received a
Garland Award for the 2004 Los Angeles production. The play also
received positive reviews in the press.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world after the
London Underground and the Budapest Metro, began operations in
Glasgow, Scotland.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway)
1911:
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first
people to reach the South Pole.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen)
1918:
The German Empire's defeat in World War I, and the stated fact that
none of the Allies would ever accept a German-born prince as the King
of Finland, led Frederick Charles to renounce the throne.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Frederick_Charles_of_Hesse)
1962:
NASA's Mariner 2 became the world's first spacecraft to successfully
fly by Venus.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_2)
1995:
The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris, France to end the Yugoslav
wars in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Agreement)
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Wiktionary's Word of the day:
dodecahedron: (geometry) A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular
dodecahedron has twelve regular pentagons as faces
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dodecahedron)
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Wikiquote of the day:
I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling
utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly
cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may
be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written
in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind. --
Nostradamus
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nostradamus)