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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jesus is munching on popcorn chicken in Loker Commons. This isn't your Father's Jesus: he's clean-shaven, cherubic, a genial-looking guy in a comfortable sweater--J. Crew, the official sponsor of the Second Coming. Meet Jeffery E. Fowler '01, who will play Jesus in this fall...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Jesus Christ Superstar | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Fowler considers himself a Christian, and he doesn't feel his faith is affronted by the questioning, human Jesus of the show (two other students chose not to be involved in the production for religious reasons). "As a believer I can believe what I want onstage, but as an actor...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Jesus Christ Superstar | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

This is not to imply that the show is some millennial tent revival. Indeed, the cast constantly jokes about Fowler's connection to his character: "If there's a scene in rehearsal when I'm not doing much, we'll play a mock game of 'paper, rock, scissors' where I...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Jesus Christ Superstar | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

The emotional territory of Simpatico, the most recent work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, is something familiar to Kellerman. His production last year of David Mamet's American Buffalo in the Loeb Ex explored the same realm of underworld deceit and betrayal, the same search for loyalty and...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: Post-Script to Blackmail: Deceit and Regret in | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

None of this would be possible, of course, without the remarkable cast of Simpatico. Shepard's play presents the aftermath of a 15-year-old case of blackmail, showing how both the blackmailers and the blackmailed must struggle to shape for themselves normal, fulfilling lives. At the center of the...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: Post-Script to Blackmail: Deceit and Regret in | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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