This is insane. I remember thinking that.
When I opened the piano/vocal score to TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL, the first beat of the first measure in the music had the words Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo. I’ve been chanting that mantra for 34 years. It was like everything up to this moment that I had fought through and won in my life had brought me to this point. I’m a JewBu. I am genetically and culturally a Jew, but Nichiren Buddhism was what made sense to me at the age of 28 and I’ve stuck with it. Don’t do the math. My Grandma Daisy is the only person I know who converted from Judaism to Christian Science. She read Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and got out of bed and was completely healed from her crippling arthritis. When I first moved to New York, I would take the Long Island Railroad to her apartment in Great Neck and have dinner and stay over. She accepted everything about me. when I came out to her as a lesbian, she totally got it. And she always knew when to slip me a check I never had to ask for as I left. And if I had a headache, she would say “You can take an aspirin, or you can say the Scientific Statement of Being.” So spirituality is no stranger to me. Grandma Daisy tried to get me into Christian Science, but I wasn’t having it. She was so amazing.  Before she left the planet she told me: “It’s all the same. Just pick one and stick with it.”  So I did. Being part of this show is my where my music and my spiritual practice (not that music isn’t a spiritual practice in and of itself) has finally merged. Thank you Grandma Daisy.