Full Cast Announced for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR on Broadway; Tom Hewitt is Pontius Pilate- Page 2

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:55pm

While I love the idea of Hewitt as Pilate, I'm sad I won't see him in Peter Pan this summer. He was one of the two reasons I was gonna go.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 2:28pm

Husk, I wish you could have seen him in the BH Barry directed production of Treasure Island as Long John Silver earlier this year in Brooklyn. Austere set, live parrot. So much fun.

It will be great to see him to play a role where he can really show emotion again. It was criminal that he had to play Dracula so straight-faced, when his face is naturally so expressive.

To show some of his personality:



Tom Hewitt backstage at Chicago Updated On: 12/23/11 at 02:28 PM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 4:26pm

I bet!

I love Tom Hewitt, his Frank N. Furter continues to grow on me, and I was really looking forward to him in Peter Pan (I missed him in DRS...b/c I really hate DRS), and would have loved to have seen him in Chicago. Oh well, eventually.

Also, I love that Charlotte added the Cassie back bend from "Music and the Mirror."

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 4:32pm

Not if the soldiers...miss...every few strokes?

Why would they miss?

When two guys are frantically lashing a prisoner, one after the other, they're bound not to be all that accurate, my dear. Two guys whipping a prisoner at the same time can land lashes on said prisoner simultaneously, for example, or one could fling too far and miss completely. It's not impossible.

Also, fwiw, Pilate doesn't cut off the flogging at 39, that was the Roman law for the most amount of lashes that could be given unless the prisoner was sentenced to death by lashing. Christ was sentenced to die on the cross.

To quote Scotland Yard's forensic pathologist James Cameron (interviewed in the 1979 docudrama In Search of Historic Jesus):

"...if it was a non-Roman, probably 40 strokes, but with a Jew, it would have been anything up to 120 or more..."

Pilate cuts off the flogging at 39. 40 is the technical limit for a non-Roman; however, when dealing with Jewish rebels, they exercised far less control and could easily have killed the man before he even made it to the cross, which incidentally provides ammunition to my theory that they might have missed strokes here and there. 39 here is therefore, historically speaking (though I know JCS is not intended to be documentary in nature), probably the absolute most Pilate could allow in the unique circumstances dictated by the script.

Gvendo, enough. Before you go and criticize the content of somebody else's post, please note your first contribution to this thread was to repeat what The Distinctive Baritone said, but with some air of authority, which anybody who has been reading you knows you have no right to claim.

Pardon me while I ask where the f*ck you found an air of authority in anything I said. The Distinctive Baritone said that Kushnier was a Jesus understudy and had gone on in the role, which is a matter of common knowledge. I added he was also a Judas understudy and had gone on in the role, again a matter of common knowledge, and in fact (as you'll recall) the source of brief speculation as to whether or not Kushnier would replace Josh Young in New York.

About the only original statement that would require some inside knowledge or an air of authority is the speculation that they'd add Pilate to Kushnier's understudy stack, as a sort of consolation for being bumped back to chorus. I never said it was fact; I said it's what they should do, or rather, it's what I would do were I producing the show.

You're right on one point, though -- in such an instance I would have no right to claim any authority as I'm not connected to the show. However, anything I have said in this thread is an expression of my opinion or easily located common knowledge. If you can find anything that indicates otherwise, I'll eat my hat. Til then, shut your pie-hole (or cake-hole, I don't know which dessert you prefer).

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 4:38pm

I think you're insane.

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 4:40pm

You're not the first person to say so, and you won't be the last. Now if you have anything to say on topic, say it. Otherwise, putter along.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 5:17pm

"When two guys are frantically lashing a prisoner, one after the other, they're bound not to be all that accurate, my dear. Two guys whipping a prisoner at the same time can land lashes on said prisoner simultaneously, for example, or one could fling too far and miss completely. It's not impossible. "

Ok, now you're just being silly - not to mention condescending
("my dear"? Seriously?). It's damned difficult to miss a target that's right in front of you and cannot move, and those kinds of whippings were anything but frantic. They were (and are) punishments carefully meted out. Hence the slow, measured counting. Hence the 39 lashes, lest they accidently miscount and go past 40.

This was a somber job taken very seriously. If the flogger's goal was to kill a person within a prescribed amount of blows, and they failed, their punishment was death. I don't think it would go over too well if they missed "here and there" during a mere 39 lashes.

Please pm me if you want to continue this discussion further. It seems to be strictly between the two of us, and it's getting repetitive already.

Updated On: 12/23/11 at 05:17 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 7:43pm

Gvendo and Namo, you're both pretty. No need to fight. Where's that Christmas spirit?

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 12/23/11 at 8:14pm

I'm pretty? *wobbly anime eyes* You like me, you really like me! As for you, ghostlight2 -- oh Christ I'm rhyming, this is the Grinch's fault, anyway -- don't worry about it. It's clear we've got different opinions on the matter. No amount of convincing is going to make either of us change our minds, so let's just leave it at that, eh? And happy holidays!