"He couldn't find any relevance to his life based on church dogma. He wanted to strip all that away. He said, 'Let's find out who this Jesus might have been.'" His plan was to re-approach the Biblical parables and texts with the innocence of a child, and to play with the material as if it was a school recess. The rehearsal process wouldn't focus on integrating the funniest pop cultural references the group could find, but would be about discovering the meaning of the stories through play, through improvisation. The best moments would become the musical.
