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From a theological viewpoint, at least, a Jerusalem under Israeli jurisdiction makes certain sense. More than for Christianity or Islam, the city has special meaning for Judaism. For Moslems, Jerusalem invokes deep feelings, and the Dome of the Rock makes the city the third holiest for Moslems after Mecca and...
Like Jesus Christ--Superstar, Godspell avoids the Resurrection. "Long live God," the cast sings as they carry off Christ's dead body rather as if he were Hamlet or perhaps Thomas a Becket. Consequently, this musical never has to come to terms with itself. Who or what is this Christ...
Sir: Something more than God died in Broadway's Daliesque pastiche. Jesus Christ Superstar [Oct. 25]. With the last days of Christ acted with flashy vulgarity onstage, and the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah lived with frightening reality at the opening-night party. JC$ writes the R.I.P. on...
Outside the Mark Hellinger, police patrolled the sidewalk at curtain time on opening night while pickets marched in protest. Queues of buses continue to disgorge paying customers who have bought seats in blocks: suburban klatsches of all sorts, whole schoolfuls of children, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish lay groups, many...
On these terms Jesus Christ Superstar is simply a pop musical forced to stand in for "the greatest story ever told." It does not pretend to span the enormous scope of the Gospels, simply the last seven days in Jesus' life but with the divinity of Christ and the Resurrection...