Do you have certain music that you can listen to over and over without getting tired of it?
Because Kira does. And her current favorite, which she requests now every time we get in the car, I have only myself to blame for.
I have loved the music from Jesus Christ Superstar for about twenty years. I own the soundtrack from the movie and know most of the words to all of the songs. However, there are a number I won’t attempt to sing along with because even to my own ears, in my own car all by myself (or with an uncritical small audience), my voice isn’t anywhere in the realm of doing justice to them. Mr. Webber writes some tough tunes.
One of those that is out of reach of mortals is “Gethsemane,” sung by Jesus (Ted Neeley). And that, my friends, is Kira’s passion. “Play the man with the poison, Mommy!” (That would be the lyric, “Take this cup away from me/for I don’t want to taste its poison.”)
I thinks she likes it because he, literally though musically, screams in it. And she gets to scream right along. On key, thankfully.
I love the song myself. But I have to confess I have found myself grateful lately that entire days go by when we do not get in the car, because the only thing more wearing than hearing the same song for an entire trip is hearing it requested for an entire trip.
On a whim I went online yesterday, thinking I should really go see it live sometime, hello.
Woe was me when I saw that it played just a few hours away back in March ‘09 (how did I miss that??), but I’ve decided it might just be worth a longer trip to see Ted Neeley himself perform as Jesus. I bet he’s got it down pretty well: he’s been playing the role, off and on now, for about 40 years. And while I wouldn’t necessarily bet on it, who knows? This might be his last tour.
October 30, 2009 at 4:27 pm |
my mother bought that in the 70’s, along with Godspell. I liked both of them a lot. The teacher I worked with way back when showed our class JCS in history class one day when we were studying ancient Rome. I thought we were going to receive complaints, but we didn’t. It is a dark dark movie.
November 11, 2009 at 7:37 pm |
I’m guilty of listening to the same CD over and over.
The last one the girls made me play and play was a barbie movie CD. I’ll admit, too, that I kind of liked it.