Overall, I though that it was a bit of a curate's egg. The second act worked much better for me than did the first (the "fu-fu-fu" Satan/Jesus duet being a high point, not least because "talk to the stigmata" was such a good line), with the overtones of Faustus.
I was a bit nonplussed and distracted by the audience in the first act, who seemed to applaud and cheer every time anyone sung a rude word (gosh!). This partly reinforced my suspicion that people were going to see it for the shock value, and I think that the actors played up to this as well.
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Date: 2005-01-09 02:35 pm (UTC)Overall, I though that it was a bit of a curate's egg. The second act worked much better for me than did the first (the "fu-fu-fu" Satan/Jesus duet being a high point, not least because "talk to the stigmata" was such a good line), with the overtones of Faustus.
I was a bit nonplussed and distracted by the audience in the first act, who seemed to applaud and cheer every time anyone sung a rude word (gosh!). This partly reinforced my suspicion that people were going to see it for the shock value, and I think that the actors played up to this as well.