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Cotton Patch Gospel
Phone: 800-838-3006
Price: $22-$28
provisiontheater.org
Based on a book by Clarence Jordan, this bluegrass retelling of the Gospels moves the action to Georgia, but the story stays more or less the same: gentle son of God comes to earth, rouses rabble, gets murdered, gets resurrected, leads hoedown. The book, by Tom Key and Russell Trevz, is heavy on cornpone ("Man does not live by grits alone"), but the show works anyway because of its potent use of lynching as an American equivalent to crucifixion, and because Harry Chapin's songs are stirring and infectious. Lou Contey's production for Provision Theater Company--a retooled version of a successful 2004 staging--features a dynamic, hardworking narrator (Timothy Gregory) backed by four singers and a crackerjack four-piece band. Altogether, it has the soul-stirring power of an old-time tent revival meeting. --Zac Thompson
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Provision Theater Company
- Near South Side 1001 W. Roosevelt Rd.
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773-506-4429
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