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Children! Pop Tunes! Dianetics!: Sh-K-Boom Records releases Original Cast Album of "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant" September 30, 2004 - by BWW News Desk

SH-K-BOOM Records has announced the release of the Original Cast Album of the OBIE Award-winning musical A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant on November 2, according to label founder and co-president Kurt Deutsch. Pageant, the sleeper hit of last year's Off Broadway season, has book, music and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow from a concept by Alex Timbers. Originally produced by irreverent New York theater company Les Freres Corbusier, the West Coast premiere opens at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica on October 15.

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant depicts a cast of children putting on a holiday show - but this is not your typical school play. Instead of celebrating Christmas, Channukah or Kwaanza, these kids recite, in story and song, the history of the Church of Scientology and its Supreme Leader L. Ron Hubbard. The result is strange and hilarious: a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary evening.

Cuts on the album, sung by the cast of 8-to-12 year-olds, include Disclaimer; Hey! It's a Happy Day!; L. Ron Hubbard; The Way That I Began; Searching; Science of the Mind; Mister Auditor; Rain; Something Special; and the show's FinaleAlso on the CD is . a bonus track, an alternative version of Rain performed by New York City punk-popsters "The Fabulous Entourage", a uniquely theatrical band fronted by Pageant playwright Kyle Jarrow.

In addition to the CD, SH-K-BOOM is currently editing a documentary about the New York production of Pageant. Founded by Deutsch and Sherie Rene Scott in 2000, SH-K-BOOM is devoted to bridging the gap between pop music and theater.

Until its release in stores on November 2, the Original Soundtrack Album of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant is available exclusively on the SH-K-BOOM website

http://www.sh-k-boom.com/scientology/

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