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SZECHUAN
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sins but the one on account of whom I
must suffer. (Is there anyone who
could deny the intimate relationship of
Christian Europe and the Holocaust?)
"Most of my early learning came
from Jews who were unable to conceal
this hurt-become-anger and who
unconsciously portrayed him as enemy.
"Nevertheless, I still believe in the
coming of an anointed one. A redeemer
whose living example will initiate the
ultimate humanism and compel even
the angriest cynic into confessing that
here indeed is a person in whom the
eternal yearning for consciousness to
behold itself had at last succeeded. The
great Sinai teaching at last realized."
The Rabbi's Realization
That's what I wrote and that's what I
handed R. as we sat down to eat.
result was Mamma Mia!, directed by
But then something surprising and
Phyllida Lloyd and choreographed by
transforming
happened. R. finished
Anthony Van Laast.
the
page,
slowly
set it down on his
"The songs are listed in alphabetical
plate
and
looked
up at me.
order [in the program] so the audience
His
face
was
ashen.
I winced, fearing
has no idea what number will come
that
I
had
crossed
some
line, that with
out of the dialogue," says Kaye, a
my
smug
bluntness
I
had
injured my
graduate of New York's Juilliard
new
friend.
School. "The composers want the
But to my surprise R. only whispered,
familiar songs to be performed as sur-
"Please
forgive me, forgive us. It could
prises so that the audience will stay
not
have
been Jesus those Christians
involved with the story and charac-
served."
His
eyes were moist with tears.
ters."
What was more, this empathy he
No stranger to Michigan, Kaye has
could not conceal seemed to grow
appeared at the Birmingham Theatre
directly from the core of his faith.
in Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma and a rock
"Your religion," I said, "it wants you
version of The Mikado.
to
care about me that much?"
He performed in the Broadway pro-
"Oh,
yes," he said. "Don't you see, I
duction of Miss Saigon before being
must
continuously
seek to find God in
cast in Mamma Mia!, and enjoyed
every
person.
Jesus
is only the beginning.
working closely with the composers to
You,
Larry,
are
easy,
but the ultimate goal
prepare for this production. When the
is
to
find
my
Lord
within
everyone, even
troupe was in Chicago, he had to step
people
I
like
a
lot
less
than
you, even
into one of the main roles for a week.
people
I
dislike,
even
ones
I
despise."
"This is a fast-paced show with fast-
And
then
it
dawned
on
me:
So that's
paced, live music, and it's happy,"
what
it
means
to
say
that
God
can take
Kaye says. "I think theater is meant to
the
form
of
a
human
being.
That
event
transport, heal and make you forget
in the past, for him, imposes an obliga-
the things that are going on in the
tion for what might happen in the
world, and so this theater piece is real
future. And each human meeting is
therapy." E
another potential opportunity to attain
that ultimate goal.
Right here across the table from me,
Mamma Mia! runs 8 p.m.
was
a truly holy man, one in whom
it
Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m.
the
spirit
had become flesh.
and
7:30
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Sundays, Dec. 27-Feb. 9, at the
Masonic Temple Theatre.
Weekday matinees are at 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 6, and
Thursday, Feb. 7. A special New
York's Eve performance will begin
8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31.
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