“It’s beautiful. This is our first time seeing it, and I brought my mother for Mother’s Day,” Michelle, an attorney, said

“The stories are astonishing. There are parallels in every culture to a mythology that goes back to a recognition of ourselves as essentially divine,” she said.

“I love that there is the recognition in the story about our divine origins and the ability to reclaim the divine in ourselves,” Michelle said.

“I think that this reminder of ourselves as divine beings is really important. That strikes my heart,” she said.

Meredith, who has a deep appreciation for music, especially enjoyed the live orchestra, which features both Eastern and Western instruments. “I amplify what [my daughter] said. I, of course, love the orchestra playing and the traditional Chinese instruments included. That was very important to me.”

Meredith said, “I was a flute player in a number of regional orchestras in New York and Connecticut.” She said the orchestra is “absolutely essential” in the entire performance.

“As soon as the oboe played, it knew it was live music,” she said.

Michelle spoke of her father, a world-class master craftsman of instruments. “My father [Paul Laubin], her husband, was a maker of oboes and English horns,” she said. “We were attached to someone who was a world-class musical instrument maker.”