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Apr. 27th, 2023 10:03 pmLast week my friends and I watched a 1994 acoustic community-theater-fundraiser Jesus Christ Superstar production on YouTube -- an great experience notable primarily for the fact that it stars the Indigo Girls as, respectively, Jesus and Mary Magdalene; notable secondarily for the absolutely incredible costuming choices.
All of us watching were in fact in accord that we would love an in-depth oral history discussing only the costuming choices, ( which I have chronicled in loving detail below )
Okay, Becca (you may ask) I understand that you shrieked every time Dead Victorian Child Pilate reappeared onstage but what was the performance like? Pretty good I think! Pretty good given we were told they only had two days to rehearse as a collective, anyway. Mary Indigo Girl Magdalene gave one of the most vocally interesting "I Don't Know How To Love Him"s I've ever heard, and Jesus Indigo Girl Christ Superstar knocked it out of the park on "Gethsemane." Jesus and Judas had zero sexual tension, which normally I think is a crime in a Jesus Christ Superstar, but I'll allow it when Jesus is a butch lesbian and Judas is a judgmental guy in a top hat (though this of course did make us all long for a production where Jesus and Judas were both butch lesbians) (but it appears that the guy who played Judas was the one who organized the whole thing, which perhaps is why the other Indigo Girl was Mary Magdalene instead). I was surprised when Judas didn't come back for the final number and they instead replaced him with a full funk band, but it was fun to hear the music done in a different style! All things considered, a very enjoyable performance! For the rest of my life, I will wonder why Caiaphas was a cigar-smoking nun!
All of us watching were in fact in accord that we would love an in-depth oral history discussing only the costuming choices, ( which I have chronicled in loving detail below )
Okay, Becca (you may ask) I understand that you shrieked every time Dead Victorian Child Pilate reappeared onstage but what was the performance like? Pretty good I think! Pretty good given we were told they only had two days to rehearse as a collective, anyway. Mary Indigo Girl Magdalene gave one of the most vocally interesting "I Don't Know How To Love Him"s I've ever heard, and Jesus Indigo Girl Christ Superstar knocked it out of the park on "Gethsemane." Jesus and Judas had zero sexual tension, which normally I think is a crime in a Jesus Christ Superstar, but I'll allow it when Jesus is a butch lesbian and Judas is a judgmental guy in a top hat (though this of course did make us all long for a production where Jesus and Judas were both butch lesbians) (but it appears that the guy who played Judas was the one who organized the whole thing, which perhaps is why the other Indigo Girl was Mary Magdalene instead). I was surprised when Judas didn't come back for the final number and they instead replaced him with a full funk band, but it was fun to hear the music done in a different style! All things considered, a very enjoyable performance! For the rest of my life, I will wonder why Caiaphas was a cigar-smoking nun!
