~ Jesus Christ Superstar Original Cast ~
King Herod's Song (Try It And See)
~ The Movie Soundtrack ~
Could We Start Again
~ Jesus Christ Superstar Movie Soundtrack ~
This duet for Peter and Mary Magdalene was not part of the original production. It’s a little bit of country, marred by a terrible edit at the end on the DVD. Have your box of tissues ready.
This set piece is a real tour de force for Judas, using music from previous scenes. He barges into the Temple’s conference room with the music for “Damned for All Time”. Annas and Caiaphas cut him short with the music from “This Jesus Must Die”. But what happens next is absolute horror: Judas takes up “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, interrupting it with a primal scream. The homoeroticism and horror are actually funny in a sad way. Then Judas makes up his mind. The music is from Judas’ recitative that opens the opera, and he screams his way to his own suicide, blaming it on everybody but himself. The Mainstream Media eggs him on, ending in a Greek chorus.