Join Congregation Kol Ami for KC Repertory’s Performance of
INDECENT
Sunday, January 27th at 2 PM
Private Kol Ami Reception to Follow
Directed By Eric Rosen
This fundraising event supports the Congregation’s financial stability and high quality programming such as our high holiday services.
Paula Vogel’s deeply intimate, yet joyful and funny play is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of God of Vengeance, a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture — and as an obscenity by others. Ultimately a love-letter, INDECENT charts one of the most fascinating scandals in theatre history.
Tickets are $45 per person. Ticket cost includes a Kol Ami nosh and mingle reception. PLEASE CONTACT JENNA BROFSKY AT jennabrofsky@gmail.com TO RESERVE YOUR TICKETS. Our ticket block at the KC Repertory Theater is limited and will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis. Please reserve your tickets early!
Payments can be made online via PayPal or by check made out to “Congregation Kol Ami” and mailed to:
Saul Epstein
5907 West 78th Terrace, Prairie Village, KS 66208
Feel free to email Jenna with any questions.
About the Director
Eric Rosen co-founded and served as Artistic Director of Chicago’s About Face Theatre from 1995-2008. At About Face, Rosen produced the original production of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play I Am My Own Wife and Tennessee Williams’ One Arm directed by Moisés Kaufman. He went on to serve as Artistic Director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, bringing national attention to the institution.
He directed the original production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, with music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, which opened on Broadway in 2012 and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical. He co-wrote and directed Venice at the Public Theatre in New York which Time magazine named the best musical of 2010. He also directed and co-conceived Clay at Lincoln Center.
He is also known for his reimagining of classic musicals including Sunday in the Park with George which played at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, a punk rock production of Pippin, and Hair: Retrospection in collaboration with and starring members of the original Broadway companies of Hair.
As a playwright, his work includes the play Dream Boy which won a Chicago Jeff Award for Best New Play and Best Direction, and the critically acclaimed hip hop musical Venice.
In 2000, he co-founded About Face Youth Theatre, one of the nation’s foremost arts and advocacy programs for at-risk LGBTQ youth, and the 18 year old program continues to serve thousands of young people in Chicago.