Word: christe
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...WEEKENDS IN MARCH, the Adams House Drama Society's production of "Godspell" swims in the Pool Theater, seeming like a cross between "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Shiny Happy People. Accompanied by a six-piece rock band, the cast dishes out enough cheese to feed the entire audience. Some consume the cheese and are satisfied; others just feel queasy...
...Within the family, Bay was more the rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married a Mormon lawyer in 1982, her devoutly Roman Catholic father refused to attend the wedding--as did his dutiful third son Patrick. Her divorce was equally sacrilegious...
Rent may not be quite the groundbreaker, or have the melodic richness, of Hair or Jesus Christ Superstar. But it is the most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade. Larson has updated La Boheme and set it among the artists, addicts, prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer...
Amos, as always, has her hang-ups with religion and it is no less clear on this newest offering. "How's your Jesus Christ been hanging?" she asks on "Father Lucifer," while on "Muhammad my Friend," she says...
Christianity faces a peculiar problem in relation to the Incarnation. Was this event unique in the universe, as official doctrine insists, or did God take on alien flesh too? Is Christ the Saviour of humans alone, or of all intelligent beings in our galaxy and beyond...