Jerry Springer - The Opera
Bill Andrews, Jim Hopkins, and Andrew Moore
Photo by Rory Dale
Additional work on this project
Project
Video directed, shot, and edited for Jerry Springer - The Opera. Music by Richard Thomas, Book and Lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas, produced at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN, August 10 - September 9, 2007.
About this video
This video was shot handheld on MiniDV and edited in Final Cut to fit to the live music playing during this scene in the show. The music on this video is taken from the Original Cast Recording and was used as a guide track during the editing process.
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Synopsis of Jerry Springer - The Opera
Winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Best Musical, this operatic restaging of "The Jerry Springer Show" delivers an ironic universal message: Is television a mirror or a moral agent for our society? As people confess to an assortment of infidelities and guilty secrets, the television host eventually finds himself in a hell of his own making and is called upon to effect a reconciliation between the two ultimate adversaries - Jesus and Satan. Critics have hailed this provocative, ground-breaking new work as "scatological and theological, puerile and profound."
