OK, I might be getting a little soft in the head.
A local group is putting on a production of ‘Godspell’, that hip musical from 1970 about the last days of Jesus Christ, based on the gospel of Saint Matthew. I agreed to buy a couple of tickets, figuring it would be an evening of light entertainment, and the money would go to a good cause.
But today I suddenly had doubts. Fragments of troubling memories appeared like ghosts, momentarily rising to the surface of the bubbling corn chowder formerly known as my consciousness.
And then it hit me. When I bought tickets for Godspell, I didn’t think I was buying tickets for Godspell. I thought I was buying tickets for something else! I thought I was buying tickets for ‘Jesus Christ, Superstar’, that hip musical from 1970 about the last days of Jesus Christ, based on the gospel of Saint John. The hip musical that I like. The one that rocks. The one where Judas is a major, interesting character, and who has some cogent questions for Jesus.
I need to stop making mistakes like this. I could end up seated in a production of ‘Sweeney Todd’ someday before I realized it wasn’t ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. Or I might go see ‘Rocky IV’ instead of ‘Rocky Horror’.
Anyway, I really like ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, but I know there are differences of opinion. After all, Godspell is still performed regularly, and that wouldn’t be the case if everyone felt the same way about it that I do. No sirree.
Which do you like better? Godspell, or JCS? Or do you despise them both equally?
Or do you have no idea what I’m talking about?
Is there anyone I haven’t offended?
