City of Hope Premieres @ Historic Newark Symphony Hall 12/9/17
What a way to kick off this years Holiday Season! Yes, one of the greatest cities is about to kick off the season with its very own and timely Christmas Musical that speaks to every community & culture! Yes City of Hope reminds everyone that trouble don't last always and things will get better. Gotta have a little faith.
Joining forces to make this happen, Deacon Don Dydy, a young man who recently suffered the passing of both his son & nephew to violence, and rather than blame, he's become an activist and has founded in honor of his son & nephew a great movement"LOVE & NOT HATE"! Come see & witness history in the making of this grassroots production borne through many trials to let everyone know there is HOPE!
Get your tickets NOW @https://wwwiep365org.ticketleap.com/admin/events/city-of-hope-christmas-spectacular or call Symphony Hall Box Office: 973-643-8014 or 908-552-6618
COH - takes place in an inner city community that though is filled with violence and struggles; it’s a community of love, and deter- mination for change. The Crawford family has just moved into the neighborhood, having fallen on hard times, they find themselves back in the “hood” where they begin to soon remember and revalue those things they once had but had forgotten. Meanwhile, you have Walker family who refuses to give in to their surrounding and circumstances and when faced with the ultimate of life’s trial, it is through their FAITH that hope becomes ALIVE, and it is during the season of giving unselfishly the families are mended, hearts healed, faith restored, and peace within the gates. However nothing is never as it appears and there are struggles everywhere. COH reminds us how hearts are harden and jealously is cruel, yet when “love” REACHES the core of a man, it is then shown how the LOVE OF GOD makes a heart of stone flesh. The Watson family pillar of the community seems unable to be cut a break when their world spirals out of control as a loved one faces an addiction that suddenly forces their reality of they too need help and that no one is above reproach.