Remember Ted Haggard, the politically powerful megachurch pastor from Colorado who’s career came crashing down in a male-prostitution scandal in late 2006? Haggard has since moved on — he’s no longer a preacher, but is instead working as an insurance salesman — and seems to be adjusting to an undesired place in pop culture.
Time Out New York reports that Haggard attended the performance of a play called The Beautiful City, all about evangelical culture in Colorado. And an important plot point in the play is…the downfall of Ted Haggard.
Haggard kept a low profile, with the cast not knowing he was there, although the crew knew about it. Artistic director Steven Cosson said: “And they would come back and say, ‘Oh, he laughed at this line. He smiled at that. He’s sticking around for the second act.'”
Haggard and his wife were also accompanied to the show by a friend of theirs: Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, who made the HBO documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard, plus Alexandra’s husband.
Haggard didn’t bask in any limelight, though. He, his wife and the Pelosis were the first to leave the theater after the play was over, and Pelosi was overheard saying, “I didn’t understand the point.”
