JCS is a product of its time, and is somewhat dated.
OK, it's really dated, and it isn't aging well. Ted Neely screamed his way through the movie version of the play, and probably has no voice left anymore. And if they're going to stage it, a man in his 60s as Jesus is not quite believable.
JCS is based on the Gospel of John, which is the most anti-Jewish of the four Gospels. See JCS sometime with Jews, and hear their take on it.
Interesting to hear your take. I've been off-book on this musical for 25 years, and it was quite a revelation when my college roommate first played it for me. I was taken aback by the ending, too, just because I had been raised in Fishtian churches and expected a Big Showstopping Resurrection. But, finally, the point of the musical, I'm pretty confident in pronouncing, was to provide a mortal biography of a man whose existence has, for better or more often for worse, had enormous consequences for all of Western civilization. This isn't in the slightest about miracles or anything supernatural. This is about the last days of the ministry of Yeshua of Nazareth, his philosophies and principles, his doubts and human weaknesses, and particularly how his radicalism got him killed by the establishment. (That this musical was the product of an extremely anti-establishment era is no coincidence.) So: no rolled stone, no ascension, none of that hocus-pocus. 'Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit,' he says, and the play is done
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This sentence SO made my afternoon!
I was just talking about Bible spankin' the other night!
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OK, it's really dated, and it isn't aging well.
Ted Neely screamed his way through the movie version of the play, and probably has no voice left anymore. And if they're going to stage it, a man in his 60s as Jesus is not quite believable.
JCS is based on the Gospel of John, which is the most anti-Jewish of the four Gospels. See JCS sometime with Jews, and hear their take on it.
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