Did you see we waved? #JesusChristSuperstar pic.twitter.com/696PEqZQfX— Jesus Christ Superstar (@JCSTheMusical) April 2, 2018
How did things get so out of hand? #JesusChristSuperstar pic.twitter.com/wiSVwBUJqx— Jesus Christ Superstar (@JCSTheMusical) April 2, 2018
NBC's broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar is available now online. Spoiler: it was awesome.
3 comments:
No Miss C., it was not awesome. On a scale of 1 to 5
with the original being a 5, I give it a very generous
3 stars. As a naïve child who grew up strictly catholic,
the original was a seminal event for me. I learned much
about society, religion and politics from it. I wore out
the vinyl, have the CD/DVD, been to 3-4 performances
including the 25th and 40th anniversaries. I watch it
every year and was going to again before the NBC show.
Glad I didn’t.
JCSS is not just a performance and was never intended to
be one. It’s so much more than that; a play set to music
is one way to describe it. But a performance is what we
got. The cast played more to the audience than to each
other – and the audience has no business participating in
this particular play.
There was no chemistry and no emotion. Ok some. Ben
Daniels as Pilate was great – start to finish. If Brandon
Dixon showed just half the emotion in the opening as he did
in the closing that would have set a tone; but it was a
terrible start. John Legend has no presence and was a poor
choice for Jesus. Alice Cooper may have been a good choice,
but Herod’s song as presented was wasted.
And they changed the lyrics. Sorry. Didn’t make it for me. .
I'm no theater critic. I watched it thinking about Jesus, and about when I was a teenager and listened to the album over and over.
Eh. LOVED Pilate, liked Herod and Judas was OK. Was not impressed by Jesus, Mary, or Peter at all.
I am just not sure why they keep making mediocre live versions of perfectly good movies if they cannot bring something new to the party.
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