A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant is a play starring children, telling the story of the life of L Ron Hubbard. It's just opened in LA after a successful run in NYC.
The play is pretty much what the title implies: an unauthorised pageant performed by – but not necessarily for – children that tells the story of the life of Church of Scientology founder and main man L Ron Hubbard. And before you ask, the L, we learn, stands for Lafayette…
As soon as the Church got wind of an LA Times piece on the production, several editors on the paper received calls from the guardians of L Ron's flame urging them to pull the article. Nothing unusual about that, as any entertainment PR will tell you. But things took a more sinister turn when the phone calls started.
"The parents of one of the kids in the cast were called by members of the entertainment industry that were Scientologists," says Timbers. "They were told that if they were to continue with the show that it might be bad for their future career."
(via JWZ)
