Showing posts with label jesus crhist superstar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jesus crhist superstar. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Jesus

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.