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“Confessions of a Mormon Boy” has been added to Bay Street Theater’s 2018 Mainstage season as a bonus production.
The one-man show is written and performed by Outer Critics Circle Award nominee Steven Fales and directed by Bay Street Theater’s artistic director, Scott Schwartz. It is part one of Mr. Fales’s Mormon Boy Trilogy. There will be just five showings at the Sag Harbor venue, scheduled between July 17 and 22.
Salt Lake Tribune said the show is ahead of its time for its “unflinching honesty” and Boston Globe noted its “astonishing generosity of spirit.”
“Confessions of a Mormon Boy” is the story—told through humor and song—of an exiled sixth-generation Latter “Gay” Saint who was a perfect model Mormon in Utah before becoming a perfect rent boy in Manhattan, according to the show synopsis. He experiences conversion therapy, excommunication, divorce, prostitution and drugs, before reclaiming his kids “and Donny Osmond smile.”
The show has been updated since its original 2006 off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse. The Bay Street production will be a never-before-seen rendition of the script and the run will be followed by free readings of the other two plays in Mormon Boy Trilogy, “Mission Statement” and “Prodigal Dad,” before the trilogy opens in repertory off-Broadway in the winter of 2019.
Mr. Fales was born in Provo, Utah, while his parents were attending Brigham Young University. He is a sixth-generation Mormon formally excommunicated from the LDS Church for “the practice of homosexuality.” He has two grown children from a previous marriage to actor/writer/producer Emily Pearson, the daughter of Mormon poet and playwright Carol Lynn Pearson.
His first book, “Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit,” was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. He is currently expanding his Mormon Boy Trilogy into a book called “Oxy-Mormon Memoirs.”
Mr. Schwartz’s recent credits include his production of Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” running in both Japan and Germany, and his world premiere stage production of DreamWorks’ “The Prince of Egypt,” just opened in Denmark.
Performances of “Confessions of a Mormon Boy” will be held on Tuesday, July 17, at 7 p.m.; Thursday, July 19, at 5 p.m.; Friday, July 20, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, July 21, at 5 p.m.; and Sunday, July 22, at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $40 to $90. Call 631-725-9500 or visit baystreet.org.
on May 8, 2018