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IT’s the time of year when people’s thought turn to the first Christmas. But the East Clare Musical Society will be taking audiences on a jour- ney to the other end of that story when they stage their new produc- tion, starting tomorrow, December 9 and running until December 13. Described as the greatest story ever told, the musical has played all over the world and tells the tale of the fi-
nal week in the life of Jesus of Naza- olsen
The East Clare Musical Society have enlisted the talents of young- sters from Scariff Community Col- lege and East Clare national Schools to stage the all singing, all dancing production.
This spectacular rock musical fol- lows the last week of Jesus’ life, as told through the eyes of Judas. Au- diences will be enthralled with this incredibly moving show which is en-
tirely sung.
“It is an amazing story of love, friendship and ultimately betrayal.” the Musical Society’s Martina Canny SnCOE
The songs from the show have be- come so familiar that they are now classics, although when the parent production first opened – almost five decades ago now – it caused huge controversy because of the modern nature of it’s portrayal of Chris and particularly of Mary Magdalene as
she sang “I don’t know how to love avbee eae
The cast are gathered from all over East Clare and this year the show will run for five nights.
The Society have gained loyal sup- port in the years since they started staging productions, with the tongue- in-cheek production of ‘God Bless Archie Dean, followed by ‘Oakla- homa’ ‘Some Like it Hot.
The group recently held open evenings to get the numbers they
would need for crowd scenes in this year’s productions, but they came up against a problem with finding the twelve wise and holy men need to pay Christ’s apostles. ““We did have a bit of a search to find twelve men to play the apostles – we had to resur- rect a few of the lads.” said Martina.
There 1s a special reduced ticket price of €10 for Wednesday night and €15 for every other night.
Tickets will be available at Roger’s Centra or on the door.