Posted on 03/14/2018 7:58:17 AM PDT by Fawn
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR LIVE IN CONCERT
APRIL 1 | EASTER SUNDAY
The globally celebrated musical classic comes to NBC for a one-of-a-kind live staging!
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Looking forward to this!
Personally I’m not a fan of JCSS (though I admit some of the songs are very good). My taste runs more to Godspell.
From here:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Christ-Superstar.html
After Jesus is whipped, the music immediately (and significantly) shifts into the “Superstar” theme. This is a way of saying that the martyrdom has begun, and Jesus has won His fame. This idea is stressed in Judas’s final song, in which he mentions both Buddha and Mohammed but says that Jesus has more appeal because of how He died. The opera ends with Jesus’ crucifixion. There is no resurrection.
To summarize the theme of Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus was not divine but was a fascinating and magnetic man of good intentions who let things get out of control. Overwhelmed by His own fame, He desired to return to a simpler, more sincere life, but He couldn’t. Of the disciples, only Judas recognized what was happening. He hated what Jesus had become but still loved Him and wanted to help Him. Jesus saw only one way out of His predicament: to die as a martyr; then, perhaps, some of His good teaching might be remembered.
Of course, this is not biblical. Jesus is more than just a man; He is the Son of God (John 10:30).
I did grow up in a nominally Christian home and JCS helped introduce me to the Gospel as well. Like you, I still love it, and I love that the movie was filmed in Israel. The lyricist Tim Rice said that he had no intention of being disrespectful or blasphemous; his idea was to write an account of Jesus Christ’s years of ministry from Judas Iscariot’s point of view.
A FAR FAR FAR better set of music, lyrically and musically.....
Keith Green - Prodigal son suite (complete!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TYkAWRdU4
What “Gospel” did it introduce you to, exactly?
The entire show is anti Christian.
One of my senior sergeants gave me the nickname "The Radical" after seeing one of the performances.
Gospel of Judas. Let’s rehabilitate the betrayer for Easter. Falsifying the gospel is NBC’s way of tossing a bone to the Christians on the occasion of their most solemn feast.
Years later, I pulled out the poster and looked at it real hard. Something wasn't right. It took me a bit to realize that it was not a copy of an old painting, because whomever did the poster took an old portrait of the Sacred Heart and moved his hand over the heart covering it all up. Any picture of the Sacred Heart is done to purposely expose His heart. So, somebody had pulled a fast one.
I threw that poster out.
It drew me to the Bible and real (not nominal) Christianity, incomplete as the JCS show is.
Alice Cooper as Herod? John Legend as Jesus? No thanks.
exactly.
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I believe you
Um......this is NOT appropriate for Easter.
Sarah Bareilles is playing Mary Magdalene. She's not transgender, or even gay.
Take a pill. Good grief. And I think there is something about being pompous in the Bible too
John Legend is married to Chrissy Teigen. Check her out: Link
Yup. John Legend.
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