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isomeme

Deus ad machina

Dec 22, 2008 09:52

The lovely and wonderful sesa777 took me to see the revival tour production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" yesterday evening. I was very happy to accept her invitation, but also a little worried; the only other live performance of JCS I've ever seen was rewritten to be more Fundie-friendly, featuring such innovations as a troupe of demonettes tempting ( Read more... )

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baal_kriah December 22 2008, 20:56:52 UTC

Besides, didn't Jesus head the other direction first? ;-)

isomeme December 22 2008, 22:46:43 UTC

Hee!! Now *that* is a version I'd pay to see twice.

deathdolly December 24 2008, 02:26:02 UTC

I would have loved to have seen this "revival," since I was actually in the 25 year anniversary production back in 1993!
Indeed, Teddy does still have it from what I was told. And he is 63 years old! WOW! "Geriatric Jesus" indeed! LOL!

sophiavivienne December 23 2008, 04:58:22 UTC

I went to a production of JCS - must be 13-14 years ago in SLC. I loved the production. I was thinking that Ted Neely was getting old for the part at that time. Hard to believe he is still performing the same role.

Glad you had a good time...I wish you could sneak backstage too ;)