Christine Hauer, creator of the musical “Oh My Goddess”, reflects on one of the themes of the show: “Everyone has another mirror that is the true self that they want to be, but in reality they already are”
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“Oh My Goddess” (OMG) is a musical that is a work in progress — much like its creator, Christine Hauer.
“I’m enjoying finding out who I am,” Hauer muses. One thing that the actress/model/comedian/poet/
The piece of musical theatre — “a rock-and-disco rendition of the famed Cupid and Psyche myth” — that she presented and starred in at the Lower East Side’s Slipper Room for the first time on Oct. 18 is a “mini version” of a show that she envisions as a much larger production.
“My most wildest dream is to perform OMG on Broadway!” she admits.
Hauer grew up in “the cocoon of small town life in South Carolina” but saw the future at age 11, when she attended “Cats” at the Winter Garden Theatre.
“I knew then that New York was where I wanted to be,” she recounts.
Hauer had performed with her band Cake Tower, but her first stab at theatrical life onstage was a one-woman show titled “A Christine Carol,” which she describes as “like ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol,’ only I play Michael Caine, and Kermit and both Marleys and Bunny and all the ghosts are also me.”
COVID-19 cancelled that initial run (although it did get filmed and then produced at the New York Theatre Festival last summer), and Hauer ended up back home with her parents, taking piano lessons and writing songs.
“I wrote OMG in two weeks,” she recalls. “I had ended a year-long relationship that I had lost myself in. It was a love that was all-consuming and I had never had that before — I lost who I was as a person. I went through a…
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