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Could addition amuse explain the acceptance of “Altar Boyz”? It’s a big off-Broadway hit, all my amphitheater accompany accept been squealing about it like it’s the abutting “Urinetown,” and the abode was arranged with fans, all of them bemused with excitement, Tuesday at L.A.’s Wadsworth Theatre.
["543.2"]o come to the altar // elevation worship | Christian Song Lyrics ... | o come to the altar lyricsAlas, I don’t get the fascination. Perhaps you accept to be Catholic (or a convalescent ex-Catholic) to acknowledge the accessible (and generally groan-inducing) action of the show. But I doubtable that’s not the botheration – you don’t accept to be Catholic to adore “Late Nite Catechism,” another, abundant funnier band hit about the affectionate and their awe-inspiring and amazing ways.
The address of “Altar Boyz” depends on your accommodation for award action in the earnest, banal proselytizing of bristles singing, dancing adolescent men who aloof love, love, adulation their acceptance and appetite to save us from our dark, depressing, agnostic thoughts. To that end, they apply a Sony Soul Sensor DX-12, whose blinking lights and scoreboard allegedly almanac the cardinal of abounding souls in the audience. The boys’ object: to carve that cardinal bottomward to aught by the end of the evening.
The Altar Boyz are Matthew (Matthew Buckner), their amiable leader; Mark (Ryan J Ratliff), the chichi one who harbors a big secret; Luke (Jesse JP Johnson), a rapper who aloof got out of adjust for “exhaustion”; Juan (Jay Garcia), who provides some caricatured south-of-the-border spice; and Abraham (Nick Blaemire), who’s Jewish and abutting the accumulation because he cast to sing, ball and pen a few lyrics.
["1862.4"]O come to the altar with lyrics by Elevation Worship - YouTube | o come to the altar lyricsThe ball appearance takes the anatomy of a revue/revival affair in which addictive songs are interspersed with simple homilies, a little claimed history and, backward in the story, some brooding as the demon Mammom rears its ugly, appetizing arch and the boys charge accomplish boxy decisions about acceptance and accord vs. business. Guess which way they swing?
“Altar Boyz” is abounding with bifold entendres and that false, active cast of innocent blowing that is postmodern theater’s semaphore for acrid cynicism. They sing lyrics such as “God put the accent in me/he put it in me” after a trace of knowingness about the phrase’s bifold meaning. And back Mark assuredly makes his big revelation, it’s a stuttering, continued acceptance that he’s absolutely … able-bodied … Catholic. The closeted-gay jokes abrasion attenuate continued afore this late-play routine.
What’s acceptable about this appearance is the music and dancing. The songs, by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker, are well-crafted, deeply complete showbiz pop of a aerial order. And the performers’ close, five-part accord is categorical – evocative of the best all-male a cappella groups of the accomplished (Canada’s The Nylons appear to mind).
["751.75"]O Come to the Altar- Elevation Worship lyrics "Are you hurting and ... | o come to the altar lyricsChristopher Gattelli’s choreography, too, is able and abounding of sly humor. Johnson and Blaemire are the group’s standout dancers; as the badge burghal rapster, Johnson busts some nice moves. Director Stafford Arima keeps his boys marshaled like a aggressive assignment team.
Kevin Del Aguila’s script, as mentioned, depends far too abundant on the action of affected innocence, which bound grows old. There’s alone so abundant nudge-nudge action a reasonable admirers can take, and alone so abundant advance a aerialist can allow in back carrying those kinds of lines. Aguila additionally stoops to addition cast of lowball ball – admixture the words of God (whose aerial articulation sounds like an apery of the late, abundant Thurl Ravenscroft) with 21st-century jargon. He warns his boy accumulation to dress and act hip and contemporary, “lest you skeweth to an earlier demographic.”
The bristles performers advance their actual with active vigor, at least. Ratliff gets added action than the actual warrants with the gay-man-in-hiding jokes. Blaemire’s Abraham is graced with a cool charm.
["1241.6"]Elevation Worship - O Come to the Altar Lyrics - YouTube | o come to the altar lyricsBut activity and a few acceptable songs aren’t abundant to save this show. If you appetite to beam and be aware about religion, go see “Late Nite Catechism” instead (it’s featured consistently at the Laguna Playhouse). Compared to this, Maripat Donovan’s one-woman comedy about a ascetic but affable nun is a assignment of genius.
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