Well, it is Palm Sunday.
Considered by some as blasphemous, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar does at least one thing brilliantly -- it captures a human, doubting, angry, defiant and ultimately compliant Jesus. And all at once in the moving Garden of Gethsemane "I Only Want to Say" scene (both my favorite part of the Gospel and the Musical).
Some Christians don't like this side of Jesus, but isn't Jesus' humanity sort of like, well the point?
See if chills don't go up your spin at the climatic point in the song when Jesus sings "Die!"
Oh, and hunky disciples in the beginning don't hurt.
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I love Jesus Christ Superstar. A traveling show is making its way to Pittsburgh here soon, so I think I'll try to score some tickets. It'll be harder to see the hunky disciples, but the music'll still be good.
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