The 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera is a camp masterpiece. But how would it fare with someone who isn’t a musical aficionado?
Frank knows the Superstar tune from the playground – “Jesus Christ, Superstar / Do you think you’re what they say you are?” – but in a “Jingle bells, Batman smells” kind of way.Jesus Christ Superstar opens with a meta overture where the actors disembark from a dusty bus in Israel’s Negev Desert, dressed in streetwear. Judas, played by the late Carl Anderson, peels off to have an immediate dark night of the soul, pelting along a mountain ridge.
Jesus Christ Superstar’s opening: a meta overture where the actors disembark from a bus and start lifting props. What role would I play? Well, the female roles are limited to sex workers with no lines, other than Mary Magdalene, who is way too handwring-y . So I’d pick Caiaphas, the High Priest. He’s depicted with smouldering intensity by Bob Bingham, roaming around scaffolding in the desert in a BDSM-style chest harness and a bulbous black headpiece. There’s clearly a wind machine just off camera.
“He looks like a camp Russell Brand,” Frank says, ruining decades of fantasies. Equally unwelcome is his assessment of the Roman soldiers, in their shiny helmets, army pants and purple singlets: “This is very Monty Python.”
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