Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesus may be pretty fly for a white guy, but some argue that the best reason to see Jesus Christ Superstar is the flygirls, the troupe of seven hot-to-trot female dancers who really spice things up throughout the show with their sexy moves and even sexier costumes. They are like the fabled "cherry on top" of an already tasty treat of a show: they sing, they dance (do they ever!), at times they even kickbox, and they do it all in crop-tops and hip-huggers. The flygirls are a "character" or "presence" in the show as much...
...entirely new creation: the original script by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice calls for a small group of singer-dancers called "Soul Girls" to appear ever so often in the show. However, it was James A. Carmichael '01, the choreographer for this production of Jesus Christ Superstar, who really gave the "Soul Girls" some soul: he added a dash of 'tude, a handful of sexy moves, and really transformed them into the hot-n-spicy, no-holds-barred flygirls they are today. (That's fly with a "ph," as in "Phlygurlz," their self-proclaimed moniker...
...Like any other man, he gets angry, he gets frustrated, he gets medieval on the moneychangers. He's a human and humane Christ struggling with spirituality and faith just like any other person--Jeff Fowler not excluded. "Understanding is a big part of this show. He [Jesus] believes that He's dying and that He's dying for a reason, but the understanding of that reason is missing. Jesus is trying to build up to the reason, and it's the same with my faith: I believe, and I'm going to lead my life working towards understanding...
...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 I have a goal and obligation--and desire--to portray him as a character [just as I would any other character]...as a man who has this amazing secret that he wants to tell everybody. It's good news, but it's like Cassandra the prophet [whose predictions of defeat...
...could be the Son of Man echoes the sentiments of the rest of the cast and crew in saying: "I don't hope to influence how people think about Jesus; I'm just trying to entertain. The idea of this show is that we want people to feel that theater can be fun, that they're holding on to a ticket that's half rock opera and half rock concert, something that'll really get them excited about theater, a real adrenaline rush...