Join us for the LIVE TAPING of

A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN’S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT (OBIE Award) - LIVE! 

TV Special Off Broadway

Saturday November 5

A one-act dark musical comedy that links the relationship between pageantry, children’s theater, and cults. This will be filmed as a TV special in the style of NBC LIVE! (picture of ANNIE, the latest NBC Live). Imagine for a second if ANNIE LIVE! was set entirely in the orphanage. Add in a self-aware Scientology pageant, and that’s kind of our show.

Unattended Baggage and the TV Writers Studio at LIU Brooklyn are teaming up to present an NBC Live! Style musical broadcast of the OBIE Award-winning cult classic A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, an unforgettable celebration of Kyle Jarrow’s (based on a concept by Alex Timbers) brilliant reenvisioning of a traditional Christmas pageant featuring E-Meters, Xenu, and L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics. 

The musical will be taped Off-Broadway at the 14th St Y for a live in-studio audience on November 5th. In a recent development, the special will be available to stream with a new streaming service, IFT Network TV along with a separate live cast album release on SoundCloud – both release dates TBA. A Very Merry…LIVE! is a graduate student-produced production where current students and recent college graduates from LIU Brooklyn and other colleges across the city will be at the helm. The special will be partially funded by LIU Brooklyn under the guidance of Ken LaZebnik, the chair of the TV Writers Studiosm/MFA in Writing and Producing for Television program.

Rounding out the cast is Jadaya Bivins (ANNIE LIVE!), Jordan Greenberg, Molly K. Lyons (CHASING RAINBOWS), Serena Parrish (NOT EVEN THE GOOD THINGS Off-Broadway, NEW AMSTERDAM), Byron Ramirez, Liliana Ruiz, Sadler Selby, Neo Vela (ALBA’S WAY on PBS), Nick Vivar (DISABLED DOWN CENTER & SANTIAGO OF THE SEAS on Nickelodeon), Eric. A Walker Jr. (TINA and KINKY BOOTS on Broadway), with Maxim Swinton (HALSTON, upcoming FLEISHMANN IS IN TROUBLE) as the Angel and Gloria Manning (TINA on Broadway, THE LION KING Tour, 13: THE MUSICAL on Netflix, EVIL on Paramount+) starring as L. Ron Hubbard.