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This ground-breaking rock opera, which reinvented musical theatre for the modern age, will kick-start the Mercury Summer Stock 2012 Season as a benefit for its My First Musical program.  Telling the story of the last week of Christ’s life, this timely musical will perform a one-night only concert version at the kick-off of Holy Week 2012. The zeal with which Christ’s followers are hailing him as the Son of God becomes a source of dismay to his disciple Judas Iscariot. Fearing that this tide of religious fervor will provoke brutal repression by the occupying Romans, Judas must make his fateful choice between faith and betrayal.