#what is it about this show that makes weird teens (icl. teen me) so insane about it.

[annabelle--cane]

there is something so blursed about jesus christ superstar. the music is unimaginably catchy. it seems like every production is fated to have one element that makes it unrecommendable to all your friends no matter how much you love the rest of it. it is almost explicitly textual that judas is in love with jesus. mary magdalene is absolutely implied to still be working as a prostitute for the entire duration of the show. every year it makes a new crop of teens crack open ao3 to read jesus/judas porn. there's one section of a song that is just jesus getting whipped on stage for two straight minutes. I once saw a production where king herod was a drag queen.