Michael Maliakel (Aladdin) and Destinee Rea (Goddess) in an excerpt from their performance at Call Me By Your Stage Name: A Queer Cabaret in NYC.
A new musical directed by Catie Davis
- BOOK Eli Kaplan Wildmann
- MUSIC Yonatan Cnaan
- LYRICS Andrew Zachary Cohen
Near to the heart
That will beat till we are free
Close to the start
Here where Adam found a tree
Among these stones
My destiny calls me
Here in Jerusalem
Sacrifices is a modern fable drawn from an ancient story, told in a contemporary style. Written millennia ago, this wisdom is once again needed, as history feels on the verge of repeating itself and societies are forced to ask what they are willing to give up, and for whom. In this story about people searching for meaning and connection as the world around them fractures, Sacrifices insists on hope: the knowledge that something human, rooted, and alive can still grow from what remains.
Show Development
- March 2017 – Closed reading in Tel Aviv
- November 2017 – Reading in NYC
- March 2018 – Staged Reading, Emerging Artists New Work Series, NYC
- November 2019 – Benefit Concert Reading, Temple Emanu El, NYC
- February & October 2022 – Closed readings, online
- March 2023 – Developmental workshop, Manhattan School of Music
- Throughout 2024 – Script revisions based on input
- December 2025 – Consultations regarding positioning and presentation, new website and materials
I'll mess with
This messed up world
I'm going to have my say
I'll see a just world
Get unfurled
Let me show you
The way