Nooo, I'm not multiplying loaves and fishes, healing the sick, or pwning the money changers. I'm playing Jesus in a play. I don't totally have all the details yet, but I'm helping out a friend who is Christless for his chuch's Easter play that performs on Palm Sunday. (Yeah... I don't totally get it either.)
The timing isn't great. Not because I'm too busy to play our Lord and Saviour, but because I currently have very short hair and I'm still a bit overweight. Not that we know what Jesus looked like, but I'm pretty sure he didn't look like me, the Michelin Man. I mean, I'll do my best, but seeing me will probably have the congregation thinking that Jesus had too much Last Dessert after the Last Supper.
"Mmm, bread and wine... and CAKE! Oh, look... and mutton!"
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Jesus saved the world by the age of 33 the question is...can you save Waco by the age of 33?? if you can i'll buy you the Last Dessert
Posted on 3/09/2008
I think that picture might be sinful.
Just a little.
Posted on 3/09/2008
I wondered if I was tiptoeing along the fine line of blasphemy. Clearly that wonder didn't prevent me.
Posted on 3/09/2008
Will you be hanging on a cross? (Serious question.) I'm just curious about that sort of thing, when people decide to put on a live Easter-related performance.
The Crucifixion generally seems to make for some awkward situations in a live performance. You know what I mean, you're a theatre guy.
There are more "creative" ways to go about it, like Jesus exiting the stage when He is led away from Gethsemane, and then maybe some "testimony" monologues by Peter, John, or other witnesses; perhaps dramatic Scripture reading; and maybe a shadowy image of the cross projected onto the background of the stage, rather than trying to act out some of the more violent aspects of the torture and death of Christ.
Posted on 3/10/2008
No, there's no onstage crucifixion. I don't think it would make for very good theatre to need an entire legion to get chubby Jesus off the ground.
Posted on 3/10/2008
HAHAHAHAHAHA Cach in a loin Clothe on a Cross...HAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted on 3/10/2008
Tell them that you are portraying Luke's Jesus. Jesus is always eating in Luke.
Posted on 3/10/2008
What's the funniest crucifixion scene on film you've ever seen? I think I might have to go with the one in "Saved."
Oh and why not just wear a wig?
Posted on 3/11/2008