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   I went out today with Heidi and Emily...

We saw the Chatswood Musical Society's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar". It was fantastic. All the singers were fantastic, with great voices.

My only real problem was Jesus' sometimes lisp. He was a great Jesus, and I approve of them casting people with speech difficulties. However, it makes it hard to take a dying man's words seriously when they're "I'm Firthty". Also, he had issues with his "fwiendth".

Oh, and the second trumpet was so horribly out of tune. The player kept stopping because he could hear how bad it was. But you could ignore it, because we were having fun.

The people behind us talked the entire way through, and giggled whenever their friend came onstage. Heidi had to tell them to shut up at one point, which I think was fair.

Despite this barrage of complaints, I really did find it to be a great experience. I've never seen JCS before, and it was good good fun. Sure, some of the theology I find a little flawed, like getting Mary Magdeline mixed up with Mary sister of Lazarus, but it's all good. And got me thinking about religion, which is something I haven't done a whole lot of recently.

Who knows, I might even go to church tomorrow.

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