Jesus Christ Superstar

[osprey_archer]

I saw Jesus Christ Superstar.

Unfortunately it ran afoul of both my dislike of musicals without any dialogue (they could have had so much more character depth if they had replaced some of those vistas of rocky deserts with people actually talking to each other!) and my dislike of modern-costume productions (especially in the way that Jesus Christ Superstar does it, where the costumes are sort of half modernized so it just looks sort of slapdash), so I didn’t like it very much.

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[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

I never really "got" Jesus Christ Superstar until I listened to the muppet version.

I don't have a problem with all-music musicals. But I think the movie production at least undermines itself with its location and costuming choices. I imagine it works a little better as a stage production -- the staginess of the costuming compared with the "realistic" location is a constant low-level distraction for me.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'll have to listen to that at some point! The Muppets make everything better. I still think that Muppet Treasure Island is the best Treasure Island adaptation ever.

Yeah, the costumes and a lot of the action are very stylized and stagy in a way that clashes with the setting in the ruins. I think they would have done better to either make it look at least a little more period, or to choose a location that didn't draw quite as much attention to itself.