I have never seen either the movie or a live performance. However, my sister bought the album more or less when it first came out, and so I listened to it a lot (along with Hair, Are You Experienced, Woodstock etc.) during HS. Enough, in fact, that although R. had a vinyl album, which she kept as she departed, I have never acquired another copy. Maybe it's been long enough. I bought Hair a couple of years ago. I could probably stand to own JC Superstar now, and the Rocky Horror soundtrack, and Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star (the latter two are another story). Hmmm...
Anyway, symbolic significance abounds: There are as many Ways as there are people to take them. And "there is absolutely nothing like a Grateful Dead concert..."
I've never seen any of them, but it seems to me that Godspell (also came out as a movie in 1973) is closer in style to The Electric Company than JCS is.
Godspell (apparently an old spelling of "gospel") was totally not on my radar, ever, except as a sort of Superstar spinoff, cashing in on the Jesus Freak movement.
Silly me! I was in a snivelly mood when i read the Wikipedia entry, and then looked at some of the videos. It was vaguely like watching everyone but me tripping at a rave, but I cried and snivelled at all these happy, pretty, multicultural people in early '70s religious ecstasy. Yes, it was a lot more like The Electric Company even than JCS.
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Anyway, symbolic significance abounds: There are as many Ways as there are people to take them. And "there is absolutely nothing like a Grateful Dead concert..."
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Silly me! I was in a snivelly mood when i read the Wikipedia entry, and then looked at some of the videos. It was vaguely like watching everyone but me tripping at a rave, but I cried and snivelled at all these happy, pretty, multicultural people in early '70s religious ecstasy. Yes, it was a lot more like The Electric Company even than JCS.
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Except for the last thing.
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