Lawrence Opera Theatre

Relive the moving performance of "The Path to Heaven" from August 11, 2024, with the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation. ***Please note that the link to the video is automatically sent in the email receipt***

"The Path to Heaven" Performance Video Minimum Donation

<strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Please note that the link to the video is automatically sent in the email receipt.  A powerful tale of extremism, expedience, and deceit, The Path to Heaven exposes the disintegration of lives, loves, and hopes of a family struggling to survive during the Holocaust. Sara, Hanna, Dieter, Magda, and Hans return home from a party to find that, having “danced too long in the moonlight,” evil stalks them from the darkness. The discovery that their adoptive parents have disappeared triggers a descent into a nightmare from which none will escape unchanged. A meticulously-researched series of individual real stories has been woven into a thrilling new opera for the 21st Century. <p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">DIRECTED BY: Hugo Vera<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">ACCOMPANIED BY: Carmen Ching<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">CAST:<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Sara: Emily Lynn<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Hanna: Mariah Berryman<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Magda: Lisa Gerstenkorn<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Esther: Nicole Burkhart<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Dieter: TJ Simon<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Hans: Samuel Kennedy<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Cobbler: Samuel Kennedy<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Dr. Rudi: Kelvin Li<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Kapo: Ethan Miller<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Prisoner: Hugo Vera<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(120, 125, 133);font-family:Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit">Barbershop Man: Joshua Jensen

Please note that the link to the video is automatically sent in the email receipt.  A powerful tale of extremism, expedience, and deceit, The Path to Heaven exposes the disintegration of lives, loves, and hopes of a family struggling to survive during the Holocaust. Sara, Hanna, Dieter, Magda, and Hans return home from a party to find that, having “danced too long in the moonlight,” evil stalks them from the darkness. The discovery that their adoptive parents have disappeared triggers a descent into a nightmare from which none will escape unchanged. A meticulously-researched series of individual real stories has been woven into a thrilling new opera for the 21st Century. <p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">DIRECTED BY: Hugo Vera<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">ACCOMPANIED BY: Carmen Ching<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">CAST:<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Sara: Emily Lynn<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Hanna: Mariah Berryman<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Magda: Lisa Gerstenkorn<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Esther: Nicole Burkhart<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Dieter: TJ Simon<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Hans: Samuel Kennedy<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Cobbler: Samuel Kennedy<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Dr. Rudi: Kelvin Li<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Kapo: Ethan Miller<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Prisoner: Hugo Vera<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Barbershop Man: Joshua Jensen

Lawrence Opera Theatre

"The Path to Heaven" Performance Video

"The Path to Heaven" Performance Video Minimum Donation

US$10