Perhaps the last people in the world still interested in Jerry Springer: the Opera are trying to get together a protest against the January 29 Carnegie Hall concert performance of the “patently obscene and viciously anti-Christian musical.” Our own JJ, you know, saw the show in London way back when Jenny Larmore was still fat, and this is some of what he had to say:

… the level of wit rarely rose to that of a “Saturday Night Live” skit. The one-joke concept is tipped off in the title: we hear, for example, a countertenor “chick with a dick” shrieking “Talk to the hand!” in mock-Wagnerian hysteria …. Oh, how the audience roared every time anyone said the f-word, which added up to about 500 laughs in the course of the evening. Among the huge cast, the clear standout was David Bedella (Warm Up Man/Satan), a triple-threat star personality with a seemingly limitless vocal range.

Bedella reprises his role at Carnegie, which is the only reason La Cieca would recommend the show. Well, the only reason besides pissing off Bill Donohue, who apparently has free time on his hands when he’s not taking on Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Kathy Griffin, Mike Huckabee and

La Cieca gives major props to the editor of catholicleague.org, though, for hed writing skillz: “CHRISTIANS SAVAGED AT CARNEGIE HALL” is a grabber!

Call for submissions: parterre box‘s new Talk of the Town

Call for submissions: parterre box‘s new Talk of the Town

Sponsored

Call for submissions: parterre box‘s new Talk of the Town

parterre box is launching a new themed regular feature curated by our readers and opera fans across the world! We are asking for your favorite clips, recordings, and anecdotes to get people chatting, listening, and thinking.

From parterre box

parterre box is launching a new themed regular feature curated by our readers and opera fans across the world! We are asking for your favorite clips, recordings, and anecdotes to get people chatting, listening, and thinking.

From parterre box