Introducing the World Premiere of Son Called Moon with Ari Jacob
MEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday 4 June 2024
ARI JACOB
Presents
SON CALLED MOON
WORLD PREMIERE
A Brand New Musical
Chapel off Chapel
Melbourne
June 22 – 24, 2024
MELBOURNE – AUSTRALIA: This June Ari Jacob will introduce Son Called Moon, a brand-new musical. The music for the show was released as an album of the same name on June 2nd and features the recently released singles Permission and Feel It Coming. This highly anticipated musical is the culmination of a seven-year overseas sabbatical and brings together a mythical fable and a contemporary intimate story of love and redemption. The music takes the audience on a journey into days, nights, years and lifetimes of ancient spiritual teachings and raw human experience. Premiering at Chapel Off Chapeland starring Ari, the musical also features Irish performer Claire Burns and promises to be an innovative, unique experience for all who attend.
“Son Called Moon is a musical allegory for the spiritual quest of our generation, told through story about how the moon became the moon.” Said Ari. “It was born from my own spiritual research, from the questions that kept me awake at night and the struggles I had with my own identity. Wherever you come from, whoever you are, whatever you believe in, you are welcome to witness this incredibly unique moment in history and time, and to be a part of this deeply intimate theatrical experience.”
This captivating and masterful work by proud Jewish-Australian artist Ari Jacob is a deeply personal and transcendent theatrical experience. An adventurous and curious boy, Moon lies awake for hours discussing the universe’s secrets with Sun, the mysterious and ever-present feminine. When one day a mysterious and potentially dangerous fruit appears that even Sun doesn’t recognise, their relationship begins to bruise, giving way to paranoia and manipulation, sending the two on a journey through fear, isolation and longing.
The six-person cast and an exquisite nine-person onstage band will fill The Chapel with an innovative, ethereal original folk score, transforming the space into both a cozy living room and a vast galaxy. Directed by James Cutler this groundbreaking new show explores themes of shame and vulnerability, sexuality and religion and truth and wisdom. The musical is a modern prophecy for the end of days and a time when ‘the Moon will give light like the Sun.’
Ari’s grandmother and sister also appear on the album. The musical will employ staff from the All Things Equal café based on Carlisle Street, Balaclava where over half of its staff have a disability. Ari’s sister, who has ASD, also works at this café. Son Called Moon, the musical is the result of a years-long process of building the songbook and story, including 5 versions of the script and 16 songs which didn’t make the show. The creative process has traversed the globe and will premiere at Chapel of Chapel on June 22nd running to the 25th.
The album is released on Mammoth Records NSG and features international artists including Sydney-based singer Sarit Michael.
Tickets for the musical Son Called Moon are available from Chapel off Chapel for the flat fee of $60.00.
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Artist Bio
Ari Jacob
Singer-Songwriter / Pianist / Producer
Ari was born in Melbourne in November 1994. He played piano from age 4, and at age 12 was performing original, Jewish, and contemporary music as a singer, pianist and actor in community concerts and musicals.
After completing his VCE with an ATAR of 99.75, Ari went to Israel to travel and study Judaism for a year. In 2014 he began a Bachelor of Music at Monash University.
During these years Ari recorded his debut EP “Sink Without Drowning” produced by his high school music teacher Jonathan Skovron. He also created a wedding band “Isaiah” which is, still today, one of the most successful in the Melbourne Jewish Wedding scene.
Ari moved to Israel in 2017 to expand his spiritual and artistic horizons. In those first years, Ari began confronting his questions and struggles with sexuality and identity, religion and faith, meaning and art. He studied yoga, meditation and kabbalah, immersing himself in the Hebrew language and Israeli culture, deepening his connection to nature and to ancient wisdom.
This transformation opened a door to a new era of art. Since 2019, Ari’s artistic endeavours include recording and releasing 3 albums of original music, both solo and with his band “Shayari”; Shayari’s Australian tour in early 2020; producing albums for Daniel Boggio and Eilon Freeman; playing piano and arranging backing vocals for several others; translating scripts from Hebrew to English; composing music for video and dance; touring America with podcast “Israel Story”, and being commissioned to write music and text for art exhibitions. Ari’s greatest undertaking to date is his latest crowdfunded album “Son Called Moon”, recorded in Israel in 2023 with a mixed group of Australians and Israelis. He will bring it to the stage in Melbourne as a musical at Chapel Off Chapel, June 22-25, 2024.
SON CALLED MOON
The Musical
Melbourne, Australia
WHEN: 22nd June to 25th June, 2024
WHERE: Chapel off Chapel
ADDRESS: 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran
TIME: Saturday June 22 7.30pm, Sunday June 23 5.00pm, Monday June 24, 7.30pm and Tuesday 25 June 7.30 pm
DURATION: 75 minutes (no interval)
WARNING: contains coarse language and partial nudity
