Jesus Ride
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Son of Semele
3301 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Category: Community Venues
Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
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Writer-performer Mike Schlitt is a master of the purposeful — and very funny — digression. His one-man show is nominally about his participation in the making of an awful movie about Jesus Christ for the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which is hilarious in itself. But along the way he also includes a capsule history of Hollywood and a survey of 33 films about Jesus, from a 1902 silent to Cecil B. De Mille's King of Kings, and from the remake with Jeffrey Hunter (dubbed by one critic, "I Was a Teenage Jesus") to Mel Gibson's gorefest The Passion of the Christ. There's some savage satire of Hollywood con men, and of Paul and Jan Crouch, the real-life proprietors of TBN. Schlitt fits in his TV writer–father's career (including writing for Matlock) and his death from cancer, not to mention a minibio of Schlitt himself. He also examines the issue of anti-Semitism in Hollywood, and in the Jesus movies in particular. He includes a delicious selection of classic film clips, wrapping it up with the final scene from the movie 42nd Street. Schlitt is a witty writer who, with able direction by Tracy Young, blends diverse elements into a richly satisfying show.
Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 1 p.m. Starts: March 9. Continues through April 8, 2012
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