Since JCS is so dark and I've been so anxious and depressed about it, I think it's time for comic 
relief. We went to see JCS at Wolf Trap last summer. It starred Ted Neely, the original Jesus from a hundred years ago. The gasp when he came out for the first time was priceless, the whole crowd turned to one another and said, "He's OLD!" He's sort of short too and obviously has done chi gong or tai chi or something because all his movements were slow and slower. From a distance he looked quite Asian....
At any rate, the highlight of the show is of course the end. At Wolf Trap, they put Jesus up high on a cross, dressed in a glowing white diaper and he has a very prolonged, agonizing scene where he struggles for breath as he is dying... Except, unintentionally, since Ted is so thin and obviously has major breath control it was just a bit too real. We were turning to one another, worried, "do you think he's okay? it looks like he may be REALLY dying" We were relieved when he ascended, flying through the air in his glowing white diaper... which was very appropriate for a very old man...
relief. We went to see JCS at Wolf Trap last summer. It starred Ted Neely, the original Jesus from a hundred years ago. The gasp when he came out for the first time was priceless, the whole crowd turned to one another and said, "He's OLD!" He's sort of short too and obviously has done chi gong or tai chi or something because all his movements were slow and slower. From a distance he looked quite Asian....There's a line in "Last Supper" where Judas is screaming (as usual) at Jesus and he starts calling him a faded, jaded mandarin.... I never got that til I saw the show at Wolf Trap... He really did look like a faded mandarin. Not the orange so much.
At any rate, the highlight of the show is of course the end. At Wolf Trap, they put Jesus up high on a cross, dressed in a glowing white diaper and he has a very prolonged, agonizing scene where he struggles for breath as he is dying... Except, unintentionally, since Ted is so thin and obviously has major breath control it was just a bit too real. We were turning to one another, worried, "do you think he's okay? it looks like he may be REALLY dying" We were relieved when he ascended, flying through the air in his glowing white diaper... which was very appropriate for a very old man...
I tell you what though... that man can SING! Oh my gosh, his voice just soars-- it's unreal. I finally saw the movie for the first time recently... he was kinda hot, you know? If it's not blasphemous to call Jesus hot....
And speaking of blasphemy, those nutty kids have been completely inappropriate at PGSTT. Look at this:
It's fun to stay at the.....
As Anthony, PGSTT's Jesus says, "and that, my friends, is how you buy yourself a one-way ticket to hell" And the Christ MCA....
Remember, it's just comic relief.
2 comments:
you need some comic relief when the two leads die every night.
You crack me up...
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