[cyncooper]

I said during the musical, Judas sings to him as he's being nailed to the cross. BUT, I didn't say the resurrection is depicted as taking place simultaneously. The words to "Jesus Christ Superstar" are set in present day. So the artistic conceit is that while Christ is being crucified Judas is debating the wisdom of when He came down to earth to become man at that particular point in time. And the Christ he sings to is glorified and radiant, not the dirty and disheviled Jesus we've been watching in the play.

"If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation"

See? I disagree that the musical left him in the grave literally.

[Agamemnon]

I disagree that the musical left him in the grave literally.

I can appreciate your desire to want to defend feelings you have for JCS. Something about the work grips you and I'll grant you that.

It is nonetheless a grossly corrupted rendering of the story of the sacrifice of Christ, and mis-depiction of such persons as Mary Magdalene. Respectfully, you are deceiving yourself as you allow the wide berth for distortion that this work is, even as you are content to let corruption reside behind the fiction of all fictions: artistic conceit.