fort MYERS, Fla. — A musical version of the Easter story visits film theaters nationwide on Tuesday. And its creator, composer John O'Boyle, hopes it becomes an annual lifestyle.
"I think there's a large audience for this," O'Boyle says. "i hope here's whatever thing that catches on, culturally. There's really nothing out there like this for Easter."
O'Boyle is optimal-usual because the Tony Award-profitable Broadway producer in the back of hits reminiscent of "La Cage aux Folles" in 2010 and "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" in 2013. but he started his profession as a musician and composer.
Nothing he's written before has gotten this variety of country wide exposure, though.
"I'm terribly excited," O'Boyle says.
"Easter Mysteries" will play at about 300 theaters nationwide at 7 p.m. Tuesday. It all started existence as a one-act musical in 2000, when it premiered at St. Martin's in-the-box Episcopal Church in Severna Park, Md., in 2000, O'Boyle says. "after which it took on a lifetime of its own."
That preliminary musical advised the story of the ardour of Christ — the routine that delivery with Christ coming into Jerusalem and end with his crucifixion. O'Boyle, although, felt like there turned into greater story to inform.
"It's now not, for me, the place the story ends," he says. "It's where the story starts. So I began engaged on the second act."
That 2d act actually all started as a completely separate one-act play following the Easter story via Christ's burial and ascension. at last, O'Boyle stitched them collectively into the full-sized musical called "Easter Mysteries."
The complete film points a 22-grownup solid of Broadway actors and was directed by way of Danny Goldstein. O'Boyle says he loves the result.
"We got together an absolutely staggering cast with a director whose work I admired," he says. "I think we simply created a jewel of a film."
O'Boyle wrote lots of the musical on piano and the desktop program Finale.
The songs, he says, draw from a large palette of music: Some choral work with 4-part concord, some ordinary musical-theater songs, and a few songs written in the ordinary 5/4 time (the same time signature as Dave Brubeck's universal jazz track "Take five").
The "secret" within the musical's title doesn't contain detective work, by the way. It's in response to medieval secret performs, theatrical works that instructed Bible experiences in church buildings.
"Easter Mysteries." | Fathom routine
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