Invited Rehearsal: Bottoming for Jesus
INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: BOTTOMING FOR JESUS BEFORE IT HEADS TO EDINBURGH.
On August 7, Bottoming for Jesus opens a 24-performance run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Before it gets on the plane, we're opening the rehearsal room for one afternoon in New York.
Join Michael R. Speciàle and the creative team at LDK Productions in Midtown for a full run-through of the show in its Edinburgh form — alongside press and a small group of invited guests. This is the last look stateside.
Schedule:
1:45pm – Doors open
2pm – Run-through of Bottoming for Jesus
3pm – Q&A and mingling
3:30pm – Fin
Staying on? Critique Cabaret — Mandy Harris Williams' show, also Edinburgh-bound — runs in the same room at 4pm. You're welcome at both.
About Bottoming for Jesus
At fifteen, Michael R. Speciàle converted himself to Mormonism. No missionaries required. A closeted gay teenager in the Pacific Northwest, he built an entire belief system to contain what he couldn't face. Surprise! It didn't work. Tracing that journey through a kaleidoscope of spiritual absurdity and radical oversharing, Bottoming for Jesus is what Willamette Week calls "an audacious but essential work of art."
Through musical numbers, whiteboard theology, and sharp observational humor, the show traces what happens when the religious, sexual, and familial belief systems we build to survive start to crack, and what gets revealed in the wreckage.
Bottoming for Jesus
Created and Performed by Michael R. Speciàle
Music Direction by Jeremiah Ginn
Creative Direction by Spenser Theberge
Lighting Design by Zach Blane
Produced by Family Affairs Studio
Associate Producer: Hannah Said
European Premiere at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
ZOO Southside
7-30 August at 22:40
For tickets: https://tickets.zoofestival.co.uk/event/124:2011/
Learn more at bottomingforjesus.com