Just to show ya...

That I can still appreciate the artistic talents of certain "liberals/liberal minds..."  

I stumbled upon this on YouTube, earlier this afternoon. Apparently, NBC produced a live broadcast of the classic Rock Opera, "Jesus Christ Superstar." from Brooklyn, just for Easter Sunday. Having been a huge fan of the original Broadway musical and seeing it there (I was, once, into theater, heavily in my HS days), I was intrigued by this. At the time, the Broadway Musical starred Ben Vereen as Judas (my first introduction to him), and Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene. But wouldn't ya know.... On our date to see it, Ben Vereen was out sick (had that accident) and his understudy, Carl Anderson was playing Judas that evening. As it turned out, Carl did go ahead and play Judas in the film production.

In this live broadcast last night, there were some actors with whom you might have some familiarity.... Sara Bareilles (singer who wrote/sang "Love Song" and "Brave"), plays Mary Magdalene and Johnny Legend plays Jesus. And, of all people. Alice Cooper plays King Herrod. But I learned later that he has experience doing that role so he was an easy choice.

This is a pretty faithful rendition of the original Rock Opera. And all of the actors do the material justice. Both Lloyd-Webber and Rice were involved in this production, so it appears to have the "seal of approval."

If you want to see it, the whole thing is on YouTube in chunks, but you can see them in sequence:

Jesus Christ Superstar - Live from Brooklyn...