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April 17, 2000 |
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 Oh Lord! a Play Musicians,
dancers, crooners ... everyone who is someone in Chennai's rock band
circuit came together last week in a retelling of the Andrew Lloyd
Webber-Tim Rice classic Jesus Christ Superstar. And to a full hall, never
mind that it was Jesus' third coming on the Chennai stage. The live music
this time round had the audience whistling right to the end. So did
choreographer Jeffery Vardon and his band of live-wire dancers from the
Hot Shoe Dance Company who kept flitting on and off stage in skimpy
outfits -- nothing biblical about this. What added to the charm was that
the cast of 57 consisted of mostly already familiar faces in the city's
entertainment circuit. Like singers Shudeep (as Judas Iscariot), Vinita
Nayar (Mary Magdalene), musicians Keith Peters and Sudeen Prabhakar.
Director Michael Muthu made quite an impression with his voice and his
purple cape -- he played Pontius Pilate -- though even that is not reason
enough to forgive him for the rather loud music or the cramped visual
effects. "The production could indeed have been better," he
admits. "Wish we had more time to rehearse." Try a fourth
coming.
-Methil
Renuka
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