THE TIMELINE
- Act One takes place in New Eden City over three days: July 4th-6th, 2020.
- Act Two also takes place in New Eden City over three days: November 3rd-5th, 2020—election week..
- The Epilogue jumps to September 2021.
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Here are the character’s birthdays and ages at the beginning of Act One:
Mrs. Chu 14th June 1960 60 Angel O 19th January 1964 56 Ken 7th July 1964 56 Faye 3rd March 1970 50 Amir 28th February 1971 49 Yantra 29th January 1973 47 Zoe/Lucinda/Lobida 7th November 1975 44 Bernard 11th January 1977 43 William 4th April 1997 23 Eve & Alex 20th August 1997 22 Adam 7th June 1998 22 |
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Listed below is a timeline of events that occurred in the lives of the twelve principal characters leading up to the moment the musical commences, as described in the pre-musical book, The Story of Angel O:
Lola Poon (Mrs. Chu) born, Chinatown, Manhattan June 1960 Angelo Washington Williams born, The Bronx January 1964 Hank (33), Gabriella (32), Aaron & Frank (4) and Angelo (0) Williams move to SPA January 1964 (SPA=Swami Primananda Ashram, Woodstock, NE) Ken Abercrombie born, Long Island City, Queens July 1964 FBI raid on SPA, Hank Williams (38) shot dead November 1968 Angelo’s (5) ego crystallization moment at his 5th birthday party January 1969 Gabriella Williams (40) diagnosed with acute leukaemia August 1969 Faye Polkinghorne born, Hartford, Connecticut March 1970 Gabriella (41) dies of leukemia April 1970 Angelo (6) moves to Mercy Home for Children (MHC), Queens June 1970 Yantra Srinivasan born, Newark January 1971 Amir Nazzim born, Paris, France February 1971 Ken (10) starts at Brookhaven Boys School August 1974 The Sutters adopt Angelo (11), moves to East Hampton March 1975 Zoe Parker (Lobida) born, Boston November 1975 Bernard McCall born, Edinburgh, Scotland May 1977 Angelo (13) starts at Brookhaven Boys, meets Ken (13) August 1977 Angelo’s (13) first musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat October 1977 Ken (13) and Angelo (14) incident at Brookhaven, Angelo expelled March 1978 Angelo (14) moves back to MHC August 1978 Ken (18) commences college at Harvard August 1982 Angelo (19) receives first message in Nepal April 1983 Angelo (19) starts medical school August 1983 Angelo’s (21) MDMA experience at Kansas City dance party January 1985 Graham Abercrombie (52) dies, Ken (21) takes over Abercrombie Industries May 1985 Ken (22) finishes college July 1986 Angelo’s (23) seroconversion illness December 1987 Angelo (25) finishes medical school June 1989 Lola Poon (Mrs. Chu) (31) buys apartments on Eldridge St, Lower East Side August 1991 Faye's father, Rupert Polkinghorne, dies May 1992 Faye (22) finishes college June 1992 Faye (22) moves to NEC September 1992 Ken (28) and Faye (23) meet April 1993 Ken (29) and Faye (23) engagement July 1993 Angelo (30) takes staff neurosurgeon position at Jersey City Medical Center January 1994 Yantra (21) car accident, operated on by Angelo, moves to Manhattan, joins AA January 1994 Ken (29) and Faye (24) wedding March 1994 Lola (34) and Lawrence Chu (36) wedding September 1994 Angel O (30) moves to Eldridge St, meets Mrs. Chu (33) November 1994 Bernard (18) moves to MIT, Boston July 1995 William Chu born, Manhattan April 1997 Eve and Alex Abercrombie born, Manhattan August 1997 Yantra (24) employed as nanny for the Abercrombie twins August 1997 Zoe (21) and Bernard (20) meet at MIT and have affair October 1997 Adam McCall born, Boston June 1998 Zoe gives Adam to Bernard to raise October 1998 Zoe (22) moves to NEC for the first time, starts acting career November 1998 Bernard (21) and Adam (<1) move to Poughkeepsie December 1998 Bernard starts work for Ken at AI January 1999 Zoe (23) changes name to Lucinda and moves to LA March 1999 Faye (29) discovers Ken’s (36) secret sex life September 1999 Lawrence Chu (43) disappears February 2001 AI+ launched March 2001 (World Trade Towers attack September 2001) First AI+ suicide December 2001 Poughkeepsie house fire, Bernard (25) and Adam (4) move to Eldridge St September 2002 Bernard and Adam meet Angel O (38), Mrs. Chu (42), and William (5) September 2002 AI+ memory-wiping program activated by Ken (38) May 2003 Angel O (39) visits Australia, climbs Mt Warning, receives second message May 2003 Bernard’s Bookstore opens, Eldridge St, Lower East Side July 2004 Lucinda (30) receives Academy Award April 2006 Lucinda (30) moves back to New Eden, changes name to Lobida May 2006 Mrs. Chu and Angel O see “Keys to Life Eternal” with Evelyn Bourne June 2006 Ken (42) meets Lobida (30) July 2006 Amir (35) moves to NEC, starts studying at NEU July 2006 Fire and near-death experience at Eldridge St for Angel O (42) August 2006 Angel O (42) attends first Vipassana retreat August 2006 Angel O (42) moves to East Village October 2006 Mrs. Chu (46), Bernard (29), Angel O (42) attend Satsang, meet Evelyn Bourne October 2006 Angel O (42) meets Amir (35) at Evelyn Bourne retreat October 2006 Amir (35) starts living/working in Bernard’s Bookstore November 2006 Mrs. Chu (46) runs for Congress, press scandal November 2006 The Dark Side opens, Upper East Side July 2009 Angel O (49) first cancer diagnosis and chemo-radiation treatment May 2013 Angel O (50) cancer recurrence and cancer surgery May 2014 Eve (17) and Angel O (50) incident in Paris November 2014 Ken (50) and Mrs. Chu both elected to Congress November 2014 Adam (18) starts dance classes August 2016 Alex Abercrombie (19) meets Adam (18) at dance class, they become friends September 2016 Adam (19) meets Odette (21) October 2017 William (20) finds his dream slope in the Himalayas February 2018 William (20) returns to New Eden March 2018 Adam (20) wins NBA Bodybuilding competition June 2018 Eve suicide attempt (20) June 2018 Lobida (41) beats Angel O (53) in Voice of the World competition September 2018 Odette (22) dies from a brain tumor February 2019 “A Night with Angel O” at Radio City Music Hall April 2019 The Garden Cabaret planned opening – postponed due to COVID-19 March 2020 Ken (56) officially awarded Partisan Party nomination for president July 4th, 2020 Act One of musical July 4th-6th, 2020 Act Two of musical November 3rd-5th, 2020 Epilogue of musical September 11th, 2027 |
If you're drawn to read the backstory of the characters, The Story of Angel O can be accessed here:
You can read the plot summary of Beyond the Mirror here:
Or you can read the full story of Beyond the Mirror here: