To remain open to surprise requires an enormous amount of humility and faith. It's tempting and much easier to cling to certainty rather than embrace life's mysteries. But to see possibility in even the most vexing of times is quite miraculous.
It's something the saints do well. Their wide-eyed ability to see the miraculous in the mundane, to merge childlike wonder with eternal wisdom, is what sets them apart. It's what makes them such reliable guides. Damian, the young protagonist of Millions, shares that humble point of view. Like the saints, his actions and response to the world might even appear foolish.
When an unexpected windfall comes, is it a miracle? Do we cling to it? Or like the foolish saints, find joy in giving it away? These are just a few of the moral questions that Millions poses. To answer them requires a willingness to be surprised.
So too does producing a new musical! It also takes an enormous amount of faith, childlike wonder, and well, yes, millions. From the outside, it must appear as foolish as St. Francis' renunciation of all his earthly possessions. But when you've got a creative team as talented as composer/lyricist Adam Guettel, writer Bob Martin, and director Bart Sher, it's a bit like having the saints in your corner. And when you have an audience as appreciative of new work, as receptive to enchantment, as open to surprise as ours, it's impossible not to embrace the possibility. Thank you for supporting and believing in this new miracle of a show.
– Tinashe Kajese-Bolden & Christopher Moses, Jennings Hertz Artistic Directors
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