Apr 17 2007

UFOs - The Musical

It had to happen.

Oregonian Jahnna Beecham has led a life filled with paranormal events, so she naturally wrote a musical play about it.

“I had a friend spend the night and we were outside talking, and then suddenly we saw this thing,” she recalls. “It was just like you imagine. It was this disc — this orb — and it had lights that shined on the ground.

“We both looked at it and determined that we both had really seen it. By the time I got my parents to come look, it zipped off into the sky.”

That otherworldly incident is one of the key inspirations for a new musical comedy “They Came From Way Out There,” which opens Friday at Artists Repertory Theatre’s Second Stage for a five-week run. Beecham, who is directing the production, co-wrote it with Malcolm Hillgartner and Michael J. Hume, adapted from the Erik Brogger’s comic play “The Paranormal Review,” which she saw nearly three decades ago in Seattle.

Actually, it’s probably the perfect reaction to a meeting with some of the Disclosure Project people, on which the authors of the musical based some of their characters.

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