Have you ever laughed, cried or sung-along with one of my songs? If so, I’m guessing you’ll like this full length feature video of my new play-concert “Ebenezer’s Make Over”!
It’s about a modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by three spirits in the night. They shake him awake with passionate and humorous songs written by Holly Near, Geof Morgan, Charlie Murphy, myself and other cultural workers from the feminist men’s and women’s movements.
Scrooge learns what will happen to him and the rest of us if we don’t change our sexist behaviors!
You can watch the whole show here on Substack.
Here’s what a couple of our audience members said right after they saw the play.
“Wow! Peter’s “Ebenezer’s Make Over” was truly brilliant, moving, creative and effective. It represented the best of what the Theatricum offers, powerful social impact, education, wisdom and fun!!”
“You have to take this show on the road immediately! Everyone in the country needs to see this NOW!!”
The entire show is on the video I’ve uploaded.
So find a friend or two, and something to sip and eat.
Turn off your phone.
Sit back and enjoy!
I know that Substack is loaded with folks who like to read, … so for this particular post, I was going to print the song lyrics for every one of these songs, … and then I realized that I’ve already captioned the entire video! So you can read to your heart’s content, while you are actually watching the show! Now all you need is some company and some pop corn! Bon Appétit!
(Remember you can enlarge the image to ‘Full Screen’ once you’ve started the show!)
Oh! One more thing, … on Thursday morning July 17th, the National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) will showcase this video at their National Conference in San Antonio Texas. Allen Corben, co-chair of NOMAS will open the session as a Zoom meeting, making it available to anyone in the world who would like to watch the video with us and hopefully participate in a :20 minute talk-back discussion at the end. The Zoom Session starts at 8:45a -10:15a = Western time (Mountain=9:45-11:15a) (Central=10:45-12:15p) (Eastern=11:45-1:15p). Here's the link to Allen Corben's Zoom Room:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7918832439
Click on ‘Launch Meeting’, and you’ll be admitted to the ‘waiting room’. Allen opens it five minutes before the session begins. I’ll be on the Zoom call to say “Hello!” and speak with people to answer questions. Anyone can log into this Zoom meeting. Watch “Ebenezer's Make Over” on your own computer during the session. Please text, call or write me (peter@peteralsop.com) with any questions or other ideas.
Thanks!! And I want you to know that you will never have to pay as one of my subscribers. I do greatly appreciate that some old friends have paid something into my Substack fund, and it helps defray the studio costs I incur putting these video projects together. That’s it for this post! Enjoy!
Bye for now,
Peter
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