Jesus Christ Superstar Analysis

Sitting in the crowded dressing room getting ready, putting costumes on, doing each others hair, putting makeup one, layering makeup on makeup, making sure that each and every individual appears over the top and able to be noticed from the very back row. Once everyone is ready to go, they all go backstage to start the pre show rituals. Everyone start to shake out their nerves one limb at a time making sure that everyone is ready for the show to start. Standing in the wings, thinking over the words of what are about to sung, waiting for the curtains to open and orchestra to play the opening notes. Fixing all of the costume making sure that everything is perfect. Once they go on, everyone hope that nothing goes wrong with the songs and the choreography. Once everyone goes on they cannot redo anything that they have just done. A mistake is a mistake, no one should let anyone know that it was made, but just keep going on as if nothing has happened. Once everyone finishes the last note of the performance, they go off stage and wait in the wings again. Once the applause starts they go back out and take a bow. Then they all go backstage and get ready for the next show, get notes on what was messed up,so they know for the next time. Sitting in the dressing room getting my hair and makeup done by a stylist. Next they have help putting their costume on to make sure that it is on correctly. They wait in their dressing room reading the script and singing over the songs to make sure they are correct. When they are called for their scene they get ready to head to set. They are now standing behind the camera waiting for the director to finish the scene still going over the lyrics for the songs that are about to be performed. Getting makeup redone every minute before going in front of the camera just to look good in the light. When the director calls a cut, they switch the background to the next scene, everyone gets into position and wait for the director to call action. When the director calls action everyone starts the scene, everything goes well and then someone messes up the song. The director decides that the scene needs to start over until everyone gets it right and the filming of it is perfect for the finish product. Once everything goes well and everyone is all done filming, months after all of the actors/actress have started rehearsing and filming. “It seems that over the last five years this relationship [between musicals and film] has really intensified”(). Even though some think that film musicals are better than the traditional musical performances, musicals are seen as the traditional form of performance and film musicals are the innovations because the use of props, limits of character swaps, and the use of staging. Two musicals that these differences are most noticeable in are Jesus Christ Superstar, and Mamma Mia. In the first musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, there was a vast number of props uses. Some of the props that were used were lights, visuals, giant crosses, scaffolding, simple but elaborate costumes, and other little costumes. The props used in Jesus Christ Superstar help to make the musical such an elaborate musical because the use of lighting on the actors and also the …show more content…
In an article about Musicals and Hollywood’s adaptation of the musical there was a chart that had a list of the names of the main characters that were in the musical. “The main characters that were in the musical were Jesus, played by Jeff Fenholt, Judas, played by Ben Vereen, Mary Magdalene, played by Yvonne Elliman, Heriod, played by Paul Ainsley, and Pontius Pilate, played by Barry Brennan”(Hischak). One can see from this list that these actors were the original cast that had performed the first performance of Jesus Christ Superstar; however, the the musical went off Broadway from a few years and then came back to performances they had to cast a whole new cast. This cast would not be the same as the original, but they had to be close to