Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOSTON Church of Christ makes Harvard nervous. This semester the United Ministries issued an anti-cult handbook to protect students from the church, which aggressively recruits those eating by themselves in the dining halls. Despite the church's tactics, though, there is a disturbing subtext underlying Harvard's response...
...Boston Church of Christ is about hand-clapping, hosannah-saying, old time religion. And religion that hasn't been defanged and coralled in stately Memorial Church is something Harvard is never comfortable with...
...PROBLEM with the Bible, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is that it's too far removed from the twentieth century. So the musical-writing duo decided to update the story of the Gospels, and Jesus Christ Superstar was the result...
Director Joe Giani presents Jesus and his followers as the punks and leafleters who hang out by Out of Town News, and the premise works extremely well. Jesus Christ wears penny loafers, the Jerusalem Temple sounds like the stock market and Mary Magdalene sports an "I Love Jesus" button...
...Jesus Christ Superstar...