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To: BenLurkin

SOURCE:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/18/play


"The protesters, angry at the satire depicting the last of two days of the life of Jesus, forced the show to stop several times. At the behest of campus security guards concerned about a potential riot, Chris Lee, a theater major who wrote, directed, and portrayed the cross-dressing Lucifer in the play, self-censored one of the show’s songs. Instead of singing “I would do anything for God, but I won’t act black,” a parody of Meat Loaf’s “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that,” the “black” was changed to “blank.”

"Along with jokes about gay people, AIDS, Hitler, and the use of “nigger,” another chorus that roiled audience members was the “And I will always hate Jews” refrain in the parody of Whitney Houston’s hit “I Will Always Love You.” And of course there was the scene where newborn babies were shot onto the stage, apparently from a Mormon mother’s offstage womb, and Jesus, like a good outfielder, caught all 16 of them."


5 posted on 12/17/2005 9:40:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: BenLurkin

I don't know, but this all sounds pretty amusing to me. In the South Park mode, which sometimes I love it and other times I turn it off and won't let it be shown. The christmas singing turd for example, that went way too far for me.


14 posted on 12/17/2005 11:05:05 AM PST by jocon307
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like a real classy play, though.


31 posted on 12/17/2005 3:10:42 PM PST by r9etb
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