I guess I feel the need to kind of defend the show because I was a a 22 year old gay Evangelical Christian living in Lubbock, TX, at the time. As someone who grew up in Texas, the show meant a lot to me personally. Sure the script may not have been the best and maybe the message a little heavy handed, but for a gay boy from West Texas on his first trip to New York City to see something like Corpus Christi was an amazing moment.
Maybe NYC was too jaded for the message, but as someone who grew up in the heart of Jesus-Land, I completely understood the necessity of a heavy handed message. Down in Jesus-Land, they only understand heavy handed messages.
TD
Show's I've Seen: 2011: American Idiot, Lombardi, Screwtape Letters, Adams Family, Imaginocean, Phantom - 2010: Spiderman, A Little Night Music, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, La Cage aux Faux, Next to Normal (twice), Fanny (City Center), Next Fall, - 2009: Finian's Rainbow, Let Me Down Easy, Toxic Avenger, Hair, Mary Stuart, 9 to 5, Avenue Q (a few times), Young Frankenstein, Cry Baby, Applause (City Center), Xanadu, Legally Blond, Glorious Ones, Gutenberg: The Musical, Spring Awakening, Company, Dessa Rose, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Taboo, Altar Boys, Lestat, The Weddings Singer, Hairspray, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, Brooklyn, Urinetown, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, Drowsy Chaperon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserable, Aida, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Into The Woods, Naked Boys Singing, Cabaret, Last Five Years, Jekyll & Hyde, Corpus Christi, Side Show, Rent (a few times), Footloose, and Ragtime (First Broadway Show I saw).
