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Sep 29^th, 2012 at 11:37pm

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Russian theatre shelves 'offensive' Jesus musical

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MOSCOW — A theatre in southern Russia has stopped selling tickets to the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" after prosecutors launched a probe into whether it is offensive to devout Christians, officials said Saturday.

Saint Petersburg's Rock Opera company was to perform the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical -- a 1970s classic that has been regularly performed in Russia -- at the Philharmonic in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on October 18.

However prosecutors launched a probe after a group of local residents complained that the musical presented a distorted image of Jesus Christ ...

The complaint, sent by 18 local residents to the prosecutors and theatre, said that the "image of Christ presented in the opera is false from the point of view of Christianity", local media reported ...

Every time I think Russia is emerging into the 20th century they take 2 steps backwards.

So I asked myself, what is the most blasphemous opera I can think of and is it banned? No, The Magic Flute is not banned in Russia.

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Reply #1 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 4:33am

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Webb wrote on Sep 29^th, 2012 at 11:37pm:

Russian theatre shelves 'offensive' Jesus musical

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MOSCOW — A theatre in southern Russia has stopped selling tickets to the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" after prosecutors launched a probe into whether it is offensive to devout Christians, officials said Saturday.

Saint Petersburg's Rock Opera company was to perform the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical -- a 1970s classic that has been regularly performed in Russia -- at the Philharmonic in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on October 18.

However prosecutors launched a probe after a group of local residents complained that the musical presented a distorted image of Jesus Christ ...

The complaint, sent by 18 local residents to the prosecutors and theatre, said that the "image of Christ presented in the opera is false from the point of view of Christianity", local media reported ...

Every time I think Russia is emerging into the 20th century they take 2 steps backwards.

So I asked myself, what is the most blasphemous opera I can think of and is it banned? No, The Magic Flute is not banned in Russia.

No difference to some of the things that some towns in Southern States of the US have tried to ban because they deemed them offensive to some portion of the religious community. This will go to court, some lawyer will have his day, it be fount not offensive and carry on.......Just like most of the afore mentioned Southern State stuff.

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Reply #2 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 10:44am

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Webb wrote on Sep 29^th, 2012 at 11:37pm:

Every time I think Russia is emerging into the 20th century they take 2 steps backwards.

You obviously have not been to Russia and don't know anyone who actually lives there. Culturally, Russia is pretty much stuck in the 1980s. Look at their static, never-changing TV entertainers and you'll see what I mean. Add to that the awful corruption and predatory oligarch-controlled capitalism, the plutocracy, and it's clear to see Russia should never be compared to a western country. The post-Soviet republics are even worse. In Yerevan, Armenia, you can drive by block after block, each one with a pharmacy, a music shop, a convenience store, again and again on every street. Some must only have 2 or 3 customers a week. "How do they stay open?" I asked my Armenian-born wife. "They're used to launder money, owned by the ministers of parliament or members of their families." But visitors from the west see them and think, "Hey, free enterprise." Wrong. The Potomkin village is alive and well in the former USSR.

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Reply #3 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 4:48pm

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Imagine if you showed those residents The Life of Brian.

They would go off their rocker. Grin

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Reply #4 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 6:04pm

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andy190 wrote on Sep 30^th, 2012 at 4:48pm:

Imagine if you showed those residents The Life of Brian.

They would go off their rocker. Grin

..or...... "South Park".... Shocked

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Reply #5 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

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andy190 wrote on Sep 30^th, 2012 at 4:48pm:

Imagine if you showed those residents The Life of Brian.

They would go off their rocker. Grin

"The Life of Brian" was banned in Glasgow, Scotland until 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8126490.stm

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Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2012 at 3:52am

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Hagar wrote on Sep 30^th, 2012 at 6:32pm:

andy190 wrote on Sep 30^th, 2012 at 4:48pm:

Imagine if you showed those residents The Life of Brian.

They would go off their rocker. Grin

"The Life of Brian" was banned in Glasgow, Scotland until 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8126490.stm

It is still banned on a town to town basis in the US too.

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