Jesus must die!!

[logansrogue]

Okays. So, I love Jesus Christ Superstar. Particularly the 1973 version. What's not to like about it? It has all these elements that equal a very happy Nacey:

- Rock-n-roll
- Awesome vocals
- Brilliant actors
- Hippies
- It's filmed in the desert at real ruins
- BARRY DENNEN!
- Hot whores (There is NOTHING you can't BUY!)

So, it was with some slack-jawed horror that I saw the London 2000 production of JC Superstar on Youtube. It features the unique vocal stylings of Jerome Pradon. Jerome Pradon sounds like a man who is having a full colonoscopy without lube or sedation. He fluffs every. single. fucking. SWEET SPOT in the song. And his buddy Jesus (Glenn somethingerathergay) isn't much better. He looks like Michael Bolton's less talented brother's friend. He wears khakis and a wife-beater and gets all gay for his disciples (which normally I wouldn't mind but this dude is so wussy that it just makes me laugh hysterically and that kinda kills the buzz of the drama that they're totally failing to build in the first place). Every cast member is completely shit.

And oh - Rik Mayall. Rik Mayall displays perfectly his descent into crapness with his cameo as Herod. Just because you use WIK voice, doesn't mean whatever you do or say is automatically funny, Mayall.

But don't take my word for it. Here's a video on Youtube of my brother, nephew and I (and other people who wander in and out to have a look) riffing on the fly. It's not a proper riff track so we haven't had time to think up good jokes. We're just lambasting while we go.

We did the entire thing, by the way. So if you go to YouTube, barrydennen12 has it all. :D

Comments

[azinazelle.livejournal.com]

WTF is this trash?! And who called in the Bondage Angels? BTW ... please publicly mock more shitty musicals for our entertainment. You're funnier than MST3K.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Nah I'm not. I bow to Mike and the Bots. :D But we shall be making fun of more stuff soon, don't worry!

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. GOD!

What the blazing fuck was that all about? There are no words... The singing was terrible. The choreography, if you can call that bad writhing around the stage that, was absolute pants... I see that they managed to get in the Jesus/Judas Ho!Yay in there, however. From what I could hear over the commentary (which is fucking funny as hell, LOL), Judas sounded like he was pulling on his balls, what with all that squeaking.

My ratings (10 out of 10 Swiss cheese wheels):

1/8th a wheel for the production

10/10 wheels for Nacey and Co.'s commentary, which was LOL!icious!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, he was pulling his balls. You should see the other vids, they're probably funnier. :)

I'll let my brother know you liked it.

Sorry about disappearing by the way - I've been having computer issues.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Scotty, David and I like MSTing things. Scotty and David MSTed something recently and it was SO FUNNY. Funnier without me there, I think. LOL! But they're hunting for new material now, I think.

[azinazelle.livejournal.com]

I did watch some of the other vids. Man, were these people on crack when they did this production? Then again if they were on crack it would have turned out much better than this.

Be sure to check out the frog-throated Pharisee and leather-fetish Nazi Pontius Pilate in the other clips.