osprey_archer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
osprey_archer) wrote2016-02-05 08:51 am
osprey_archer) wrote2016-02-05 08:51 am
Entry tags:
Jesus Christ Superstar
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.
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.
no subject
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.
(no subject)