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Producer Ron Simons\u00a0Celebrates the Easter Miracle<\/strong>by Brad Balfour<\/p>\n

March 23, 2016<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/a><\/p>\n

Though producer Ron Simons<\/strong> has had his indie hits and Broadway shows, his roots has been acting \u2014 and he continues performing to this day. But he been awards a lot of attention for his uncanny instincts as an executive producer on films and theater.<\/p>\n

His company, SimonSays Entertainment, was founded in 2009 with a focus on narratives that dig deeply into underrepresented communities’ struggle for dignity and acceptance. Award winning film projects include Night Catches Us (FIPRESCI Prize, Best American Feature), Gun Hill Road (Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury nominee), Mother of George (African-American Film Critics Association, Best World Cinema), Blue Caprice (Black Reel Awards, Outstanding Independent Feature) all Sundance Film Festival premiers) and 25 to Life (American Black Film Festival, Best Documentary).<\/p>\n

\"Easter<\/a><\/p>\n

His Broadway productions include Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (Tony, Award for Best Revival of a Musical), A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game and Forest Whitaker’s upcoming Broadway debut in Hughie. Mr. Simons has also produced such Broadway hits as “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony, Best Play), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Best Musical).<\/p>\n

Most recently though he\u2019s been involved with a most unusual project being supported through Fathomevents \u2014 the theatrical screening of Easter Mysteries, a musical created around the passion play called Easter Mysteries. It will screening throughout their network in one theater in Manhattan and in select U.S. cinemas for one night on Tuesday, March 22 at 7 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEaster Mysteries,\u201d directed by Danny Goldstein, was staged and captured before a live audience. This first-rate production offered the audience the chance to see, feel and hear real peoples\u2019 experience of this touchstone story of Western civilization in a fresh and moving way.\u00a0The music, libretto and lyrics are by Tony Award-winning Broadway producer John O\u2019Boyle with musical arrangements and music direction by Milton Granger.<\/p>\n

The recorded performance features veteran Broadway actors and singers from the stages of \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables,\u201d \u201cMary Poppins,\u201d \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera\u201d (including Wallace Smith who plays Jesus and Phillip Boykin who plays Caiaphas) and more. In addition to the feature content, a timely interfaith discussion between Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders on the essence and power of Passion plays will complete the event.<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/a><\/p>\n

I bet your last names sometimes creates confusion\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Simons<\/strong>: It\u2019s Simons, not Richard Simmons, J.K. Simmons or any other Simmons \u2014 it\u2019s Simons [laughs].<\/p>\n

Q: You\u2019ve been known publicly first for the several indie features that you produced and then for the Broadway shows; now you are involved in this unusual musical.<\/p>\n

RS: The next thing that’s coming up is Easter Mysteries\u2026 I never heard of Easter Mysteries until John O’Boyle, who is the composer and writer, connected with me. We met because we were both producers on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. We met up and started talking last year at the conference of the Broadway League in Florida. And he said, hey I want to talk to you about this project, Easter Mysteries. …The more I learned the more interested I got. I was going to be an Executive Producer, but now I’m a Producer on the show<\/p>\n

Q: The poster seems to emphasis Peter almost more than Jesus..<\/p>\n

RS: The largest face on the poster is a black man… the one above that is Jesus. We wanted to give it an ethereal feeling.<\/p>\n

Q: How is this different from other Passion plays?<\/p>\n

RS: What makes it different from other Passion Plays is the story is told from Peter’s perspective. That’s why it’s very important to prominently show him. Most Passion Plays are just about Jesus. You follow Jesus, and everybody else is secondary, and it’s all about what Jesus thinks, feels, does. In this case it was the first time I had seen a project that said “let’s look at it from someone else’s point of view, and I liked that. I didn’t care if it was from Mary’s, or Peter’s, or Judas’, whoever. That is part of telling the story in a fresh way and in a way that helps you understand the foibles of the humaness of these people.<\/p>\n

Q: This show has a unique take on the disciples.<\/p>\n

RS: Before they were the disciples, before they were like The Four Tops, they were like kids, they were four human babies. They have all the same foibles all humans have. They’re prone to mistakes, betrayal, love, and lying, and confusion, and forgiveness and all that stuff. That’s important because it gives us an accessibility into the work that I don’t feel when I see many other passion plays because everyone is lifted onto a cloud that has nothing to do with me, so I’m observing it from afar. Whereas if I can be relating to Peter or one of the other characters, I can feel their journey.<\/p>\n

Q: How was the reaction to the original show and what do you expect from this screening?<\/p>\n

RS: I want people to go “huh, what has this brought to me that I either didn’t understand, or didn’t know, or hadn’t looked at that way before?”<\/p>\n

Q: The music isn\u2019t the typical liturgical music or the stuff that comes from gospel\u2026<\/p>\n

RS: It\u2019s oratorical music… and I think it appeals to people who love Broadway shows because it is beautiful harmonies. It’s not kick up your heels, hey let’s dance, jazz hands, but it is beautifully composed, beautifully rendered, and has beautiful harmonies, so it’s very uplifting, as it should be. It’s not heavy and sad as if we’re just talking about Jesus and the resurrection.<\/p>\n

Q: How did you first get introduced to this project; IMDB lists it as having been recorded in 2013.<\/p>\n

RS: I heard a recording of it from a year or two before. This project began, what we would call \u201cAct 1″ of The Easter Mystery, was done at a church in New England. John wrote this for a specific church to be performed, and it was. And he continued to develop it and from that genesis he actually recorded it and created a CD.<\/p>\n

Q: So that caught your ear?<\/p>\n

RS: What I heard was enough to inspire me to go “I need to hear more about this.” It’s really beautiful music that I never associate with the Passion Play.<\/p>\n

Q: Well no one can say you\u2019re risk averse\u2026<\/p>\n

RS: In many Broadway shows you have to take a risk. In some Broadway shows you may not see it until you go for the first preview, in which case you’ve already invested in it. So there is a sense of I’m trusting this creative team will deliver a quality product, AND not only will that happen but the audience will respond to it, AND the critics will like it, AND all these things.<\/p>\n

Q: Doing this one time screening through Fathomevents is an unusual way to reach an audience\u2026<\/p>\n

RS: I would be pleased as punch if it got picked up to be shown on the O Network every year, or on ABC. This year is one of the few years you see a couple titles coming out around the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n

Q: And then it\u2019s back to films \u2014 you certainly generate some interesting rpoductions\u2026<\/p>\n

RS: I got three films coming up in the Tribeca Film Festival. One is called Live Cargo and is about human trafficking which is in competition. Another one I’m in but didn’t produce.<\/p>\n

When we did Gun Hill Road, there wasn\u2019t all this attention on trangendered characters. And look what\u2019s happening now. I am always trying to stay ahead of the curve. We had Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington in Night Catches Us and looks what happened to them since then.<\/p>\n

I hope to do the same with other films and Broadway shows going forward. I don\u2019t think that getting three Tony nominations was an accident so we\u2019ll see what will happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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