The property also has a long history, with incarnations as a livestock farm, a pony farm and a Christmas tree farm.
The weekly non-religious church, which launched in Islington earlier this year, has now set up a monthly event in New York, with incarnations soon to follow in LA, Chicago and Seattle.
A culture hero can easily be assimilated to a god by identifying him with an incarnation of a god.
The Apollo will be the first US theatre to provide continuing hologram programming with this incarnation of Holiday's likeness.
Moreover, because in Christian doctrine the event coincides with the Incarnation of Christ, it also represents a prelude to the redemption of the world.
Fans of "Masterpiece Theater" needn't fear, however; they will feel perfectly comfortable with this incarnation, directed by Stephen Whittaker and adapted by Martyn Edward Hesford.
Andreas Scholl is nearly fifty, and embarking on a new career as a conductor; Iestyn Davies is currently packing them in with his incarnation of the castrato Farinelli at a West End theatre.
The lyrical, folded sculpture outside the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, for example, started out as a three-inch piece of cardboard that developed into a sketch, then a sculpture in wood, then aluminum, then steel, becoming refined with each incarnation.
