Sacrifices: A Song Of Jeruz is a new musical fable that we drew from an ancient story, just when history feels dangerously close to repeating itself. Set in Jerusalem at a time of political fracture and moral collapse, the show explores how ordinary people respond when institutions fail, leadership falters, and the future feels uncertain. Sacrifices centers storytellers, artists, rebels, and lovers – people searching for meaning, connection, and responsibility inside a broken system.

The show focuses on four characters from different classes and walks of life: Noa, a storyteller from a wealthy family searching for her voice; Bar Kamtza, an artisan whose idealism places him at odds with the world around him; Yehudit, a servant navigating loyalty, rebellion, and survival from the shadows; and Ribaz, a scholar who observes, records, and wrestles with the cost of understanding rather than acting. Together, they inhabit a city in crisis, divided by power, belief, and fear. Their intersecting lives form a human-scale portrait of a society on the brink, revealing how love, art, resistance, and memory persist even as structures collapse.

Though rooted in ancient lore, Sacrifices speaks in a contemporary theatrical language, blending intimacy and epic scale, humor and devastation, myth and lived experience. It treats the past not as distant or fixed, but as a guidebook – offering warnings, wisdom, and possibilities for how to live now. Our musical is about choosing connection over despair, creation over silence, and care over collapse.

Development History

Shoba Narayan, Eddie Korbich and Michael Bernardi in 2019

  • 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
  • September 2023 – Feedback sessions with producers and script revisions
  • December 2025 – Consultations about positioning and branding concept

From the Press:

Playbill.com on the November 2017 reading

Broadway World on the March 2018 presentation

The Jerusalem Post on the development of the show, 2023

The Jerusalem Journal on Tisha B’av 2026