The producers wanted the musical to appear like a "corny and low-rent production".[1] The ensemble includes 10 actors from ages eight to twelve.[2][13] Though professionals, the child actors perform with a "realistic lack of polish", as they are playing non-professional children of Scientologists, performing in a holiday pageant.[4] The chorus portrays Thetans, and the reactive and analytical portions of the mind are depicted by two children who share a conjoined right brain costume.[5][14] During the Xenu story, the narrator is outfitted in a cardboard robot suit, and the actor portraying Xenu wears a "tacky headdress".[7][8] Staging, costumes and set design are all made to appear to be the "earnest work of schoolteachers and supportive parents trying to provide a colorful and cheery atmosphere on a small budget."[8] The stage design includes a "colorful, crayon-colored backdrop of space age-like, semi-circular set pieces."[17] Costumes include white robes, rainbow-striped socks and tinsel halos.[10][11] Props used to denote locations include "a waving cardboard palm frond for Hawaii, a street sign and cell phones for New York."[2] The musical ends with a tableau vivant, where the audience sees the cast standing at the back of the theater holding candles and singing cheerfully as a door closes and they are blocked from view.[17]