Santa Monica, California - The Magic Book: A cool, mysterious musical revue about a book and its wonderful secrets! Using original songs from the Santa Monica Playhouse repertoire of plays, The Magic Book explores the challenges and triumphs of its young teenage characters. Through music, dancing, and dialogue, the characters find their own voices and learn the importance of being true to themselves. The story is fun, upbeat and will even surprise the audience with an alien or two!!
Asher Bank wrote and produced this show, with help from his fellow young actors, as part of his Bar Mitzvah Tikkun Olam (or "repairing and restoring the world") project. It is designed to help bring the wonderful experience of theater to kids who would otherwise never see a live theater performance.
One free show will be performed for pre-teen and teen kids from the Vista Del Mar Residential Treatment Program and other area organizations serving children in need.
A second show, open to the public, will be a benefit performance for the Santa Monica Playhouse Diversity-
