Jesus Christ Superstar

Wow... It is interesting that MLT needs to pose as an audience members to get reviews... strange... I saw the show in bunbury and mandurah and was very disapointed with all the hype of this show... I agree alot with Walter Plunkett and their review. as stated by Walter there were some really good elements to the show. I think many of the cast members must have been sick though, because quite a few people were struggling with singing, which was disappointing. I really liked the projections - especially the more artistic/abstract imagery. And the gunshot effect was very specky! I cant agree more with Walter - Please, please, please, please, please, please stop having the cast on-stage as the audience enters to take their seats. It becomes very tacky! and i feel like im watching the cast thru their windows seeing them play in their lounge room with friends.... I also saw this in Grease, We Will Rock You and now JCS. I also HATED the King Herrod scene. I thought Herrod looked like a muppet in his costume and that the actor presented the character as gay. I agree that King Herrod should be presented as camp, but not gay - and for me there is a difference. Also were the drag queens needed??? i feel its a kind of trend with MLT shows to make it overly camp and queeny with the drags but please think twice before adding in transgender roles for the sake of it... Kudos go to Sean Read for me he was a real stand out and really showed great character... Other stand outs were ali hill and jason arrow... Unfortantly i did not like the performance of jesus cant remember the name of the actor as we forgot to get a program, I understand the cast were sick but if thats the case maybe think about understudys or swings... This brings me to the fact of illness and the fact that i heard from a number of people involved in the show that the cast were in fact infected with some kind of flu be it swine or not, and that people were told to keep quite around staff at mpac because the if staff found out they would pull the show... i think MLT needs to be honest and asking cast to keep hush hush is not very good practice... the fact is it is very dangrous considering how many people attended the next day for auditions... Once again this is just my opinons and food for thought. - George Plunkett