# Jesus Christ Superstar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610 "2018-04-02T00:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/1 "2018-04-02T00:22:46Z")
Anyone watching? ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/2 "2018-04-02T00:30:05Z")
I love the set. I am very impressed ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/3 "2018-04-02T00:30:24Z")
John Legend is stinking up the joint. Whoever is playing Judas is killing it. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/4 "2018-04-02T00:32:24Z")
It is a very inventive production. Caiaphas the Klingon was really good ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/5 "2018-04-02T00:33:39Z")
I don’t think i have ever heard anything by John Legend ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/6 "2018-04-02T00:38:45Z")
He is a little on the “white bread” side, isn’t he? He has a nice enough voice, but there’s no one home in soulville. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/7 "2018-04-02T00:40:43Z")
I’m enjoying it so far. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/8 "2018-04-02T00:42:02Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > He is a little on the “white bread” side, isn’t he? He has a nice enough voice, but there’s no one home in soulville. That is a great description . ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/9 "2018-04-02T00:43:01Z")
I didn’t know Norm Lewis was in this! Love him! ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/10 "2018-04-02T00:45:26Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > That is a great description . I stole the line from Nipsy Russell as the Tin Man in “The Wiz” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/11 "2018-04-02T00:49:10Z")
I just turned it on and it looks awesome to me so far. Loving this ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/12 "2018-04-02T00:50:34Z")
Recording it, looking forward to it, as I love the music, hoping its a good production. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/13 "2018-04-02T00:51:56Z")
Mary Magdalene has a lovely voice. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/14 "2018-04-02T00:55:37Z")
Not sure if Legend is a poor actor, or if it’s on the director, but the bits where he should be emoting strongly - upbraiding Judas in Strange Thing Mystifying, driving the money changers out of the temple, trying to escape the people coming for healing - are all so understated. His complete lack of reaction to ‘won’t you die for me’ is almost certainly a deliberate choice, and it’s really weird, though I do like his bathing in the adulation up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/15 "2018-04-02T00:59:29Z")
I wish someone stepped up to present this “commercial free” like all (most of?) the other live musical events. The sets and costumes aren’t even complicated or changing much (although I’m digging them). ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/16 "2018-04-02T01:08:04Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Not sure if Legend is a poor actor, or if it’s on the director, but the bits where he should be emoting strongly - upbraiding Judas in Strange Thing Mystifying, driving the money changers out of the temple, trying to escape the people coming for healing - are all so understated. His complete lack of reaction to ‘won’t you die for me’ is almost certainly a deliberate choice, and it’s really weird, though I do like his bathing in the adulation up to that point. You can tell the other actors have had extensive experience in musical theater. John Legend is a great singer and composer, but he can’t match his stage mates in the acting or stage presence department. Oh well. We can’t be good at everything. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/17 "2018-04-02T01:09:00Z")
The more I watch this the more I’m LOVING the presentation. The fact that they’re making this as close to a Broadway show as possible and not pretending it’s a movie or TV show like the others do makes it more real to me versus it being a…_flourishes hand_… production ETA: I kinda-sorta just came in…did I miss Alice Cooper? Who was he? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/18 "2018-04-02T01:09:25Z")
Brandon Victor Dixon would have been a great Jesus. John Legend is way too wimpy. His screaming at the temple was pathetic. I really hope he doesn’t screw up Gethsemane, I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/19 "2018-04-02T01:10:59Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > ETA: I kinda-sorta just came in…did I miss Alice Cooper? Who was he? King Herod. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610/20 "2018-04-02T01:16:04Z")
I am really looking forward to Alice Cooper as Herod [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-christ-superstar/811610.md?page=2)