#of course if I have them as the Dudeciples instead

[yallemagne]

Miscast AU

Since my brain won’t let me wait till the morning to bring this up, the theatre AU where everyone is miscast has sooo much potential. For JCS (has more biblical characters and a linear plot), I generally have the instinct to assign each person to their opposite/compliment.

Judas is Jesus  Mary is Judas Jesus is Mary Simon and Peter switch Annas and Caiaphas switch Herod and Pilate switch

Wow, Peter, now you’re a terrorist (honestly my first viewing I thought Simon and Peter were the same character played by the same guy - they were hardly there). Simon is a bit bummed he doesn’t get to sing the song literally named after him, but he does get to pull a knife on a Roman Guard. So it’s still a win? 

It’s the Pharisees and Kings that really got me here because Caiaphas is TALL and his voice is LOW, Annas is SHORT and his voice is HIGH. So like either Caiaphas sings Annas’ parts down several octaves, vice versa, or this low low bass has to sing this high high tenor part.   Also they have very different personalities. Would they put Annas in damn stilts??? Would they force Caiaphas to walk around on his knees like he’s playing Lord Farquaad??? Ohh the possibilities.

Herod is flamboyant to the point of being mentally unstable I swear. And then Pilate is super serious and maybe the only rational man here if only he hadn’t given into peer pressure and killed Jesus. Now he’s got a chance to be real sassy (tho the valid Pilates are already sassy). And Herod seems like he’d be a good actor, maybe he’d enjoy being all stoic and serious and spitting everywhere in fury. These two men are gay married and you know that Herod pulled some strings so he could literally get into Pilate’s pants.

I will talk about the big three at some other point in time but that’s a doozy of some vibes right there.