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Podcast: Comfort Films Podcast
Episode: Comfort Films 28: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Description: This week, we're closing out our month-long series on musicals with an episode on Jesus Christ Superstar. Â We explore the film as the passion story from Judas's perspective beginning to end, the perfection of Carl Anderson, the career-defining performance of Ted Neeley, who has played Jesus for decades, and the relative merits of both the film soundtrack and the concept album.
Note: this is definitely still a podcast episode about a fictional movie, not a theological/religious discussion. So you're welcome to listen regardless of your belief system, as long as you're okay with adult language and o...