Word: christs
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...Ryan P. Shrime '00) is cracking off-color jokes, and one of the apostles (but not Simon, played by Stefan H. Atkinson '03) is still nursing a hangover. Grab some of His body and blood and pull up a tray: it's time for "The Last Supper" la Jesus Christ Superstar, the show (two millennia in the making) that opens tonight on the Loeb Mainstage...
With their penchant for re-christening (so to speak) all things Biblical, the cast and crew of Jesus Christ Superstar have renamed this meal "The Ultimate Supper." The original Last Supper starred only Jesus and the 12 apostles, but version 2.0 includes not only them but also most of the cast and crew joining together in one unholy racket. Everyone is trying to talk at once, each hoping to convey the unbridled, almost cultish enthusiasm that pervades all aspects of this show's production. Jesus tries to silence the masses a few times but eventually takes to silently breaking...
...this production are basically a bunch of potheads who spend their time hanging out and partying. (If you think this meal is bad, the Last Supper you'll see on the Mainstage is supposedly a mix between a backyard barbecue and a raging kegger.) Although they're sympathetic to Christ's dilemma, none of these quasi-"Deadheads" (did someone say cult?) really understands that Jesus has something serious to say--they just want to have a good time...
Robert Hughes' graphic account of his accident in Australia made for gripping reading [DISPATCH, Oct. 11]. He said of his near-death experience that Jesus "didn't show." But one cannot expect to find Christ in death if one has not known him in life. MARIUS J. DE WAAL Stellenbosch, South Africa...
Hughes says he didn't see Jesus beckoning at the end of a tunnel of white light (although he claims to have seen Death opening his mouth). I would like to ask if he also didn't see Christ among the Aborigine family that found him, the Bidyadanga people who chanted to keep him alive, the Filipina nurse who wept for him, his friend Danny who raced to save his life, the police and the medics who got to the scene, the medical personnel who decided to fly him to Royal Perth Hospital, the people who operated for 13 hours...