'Superstar' Tim Minchin | Jesus Christ Superstar 

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"The Father and I are one." (John 10:30) This dramatised Jesus is nothing like the real Jesus, who knew His true identity and calling, and chose to die not for his own fame, but to erase the sins of mankind.

@@melodymoon5768 they made mockery of Lord Jesus Christ. These acts harrass the faith of true Christians . They slander the faith of Christians , they Slander the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And the blown kiss. Savage. Brilliant!

It delights me every time I watch it.

I like to imagine it wasn't anyone's idea, he just showed up with it and they went with him lmao

Andrew Lloyd Webber of course

What I don't get is why they didn't bust out a piano for him. Can you imagine?

LMAO I SCREAMED

Judas: Its just a prank, bro

Jesus: Noo! You can't just dance while I'm being crucified! Judas: Haha tambourine goes tingting

Jesus loves you repent and trust in him and you will be saved !!

@@joeygibbs4775 Im good, thanks.

The passion

The editing at 3:05 where Judas' belt becomes Jesus' scream of agony is superb.

@@carpelibrarium8522 OMG i didnt notice that is superior detail

Just like the real world.

Also the ironic "Jesus Christ. Who are you, what have you sacrificed" while he's dying, implying that he and his death are not important

I mean, he is already dead at this point so why not just go all in with a tambourine?

Maybe it woulda been better with a cowbell? "...I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell". I cracked up watching him play the hell outta that tambourine, and it made me think of the Saturday Night Live Will Ferrell/Christopher Walkin skit. *I need more COWBELL* 😂

Hahahahaha

Actually he died before Jesus did but whatever.

afterlife*

I'm sorry but Gethsemane is the best.... Especially when sung by the legend Ted Neeley!

@@colliric noooo! if you want the real legend you have to see steve balsamo

Don't forget the late Carl weathers

Tim is fantastic. But this is far from the best song in the show. Not even top 5 for me.

@@maxhall7236 Steve is amazing! Ted is also amazing! You can like both.

Allegedly Minchin wears eyeliner because that allows people to see the expressions of his eyes better.

@@christianealshut1123 That is how stage makeup works, yes. Most stage performers wear *some* eyeliner. Minchin wears enough that it's actively noticeable - he's amplified practical stage makeup into an all the time aesthetic, and it really works for him.

This is such a great analysis

you ain't seen shit

@@christianealshut1123 well in day to day life he wears it because it makes his eyes look cool

Again, missed the point of the song.

THESE COMMENTS ARE SO FUNNY HELP

@@allanmoorhead9492 Actually I am wondering, what is the point of this song? As a kid, I didn't really think about it, but it's interesting that the words "do you think your what they say you are," can drastically change the meaning depending on how they're interpreted. The 2000 version makes those words sound like the chorus is cruelly mocking Jesus. What do you think the intention is? Don't you get me wrong: I only want to know.

@@Blokewood3 Judas raising every inner doubt Jesus ever had, which is a reasonable sort of hallucination that Jesus might have at the end, in my opinion. This version of the Passion and its music mean different things to different people. I thought this scene from the 2000 version was reminiscent of Princess Diana's death with those paparazzi photographers ignoring his pain while they took pictures like they were on coke.

@@Blokewood3 from an atheist perspective (Tim and mine) if Jesus was real, and did everything the bible says, then why didn't he come later? Why did God (what God) decide to impregnate Mary? In an ancient time where Jesus couldn't reach many people. Bit dumb right? Or was Jesus an insane young man who could have become an all mighty dictator the worst the world has ever seen? So come on Jesus, are you really the son of God, where's your daddy now?

And a "wait, who are you"

So true

The eyeliner was riveting

Me either!!!

Agree. To me he was the best part of the show.

Totally agree I never knew he was such an amazing performer!!

Agree!!! He’s A-ma-zing!!!!

Seems pretty lively to me

Looks like he descended from heaven to mock Jesus with an army of beautiful women.

@@perhapsismpodcast yes but a few songs prior he hung himself

It's only a musical, it's not actually real 🙄

@@markdacey3950 It's more real than the religion is.

😂😂😂 Fair point! I hadn't noticed that!

I mean to be fair he's already singing in his face

I'm pretty sure he was so caught up in the moment that he just manifested a tambourine out of thin air.

@@ninianeaubert2948 he does just radiate that kind of energy, doesn't he?

I burst out laughing at that part. It's just AMAZING and somehow perfect.

THE LAST JEDI 😂😂😂

Oh dear, looks like your dead ex-best friend/traitor shows up. Way to kill the mood

That I personally didn’t care for

Jesus loves you repent and trust in him and you will be saved !!

One more like for the worst number ever on a video like this lol

Anna Thompson on the podcast Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know, they’ve talked several times about a production a couple of the hosts did where Judas WAS played by a woman - don’t give up on that dream!

A woman could still play the role

Why not have a woman Judas? Or Jesus? And Marty Magdalen, that young man who knows how to use his assrts to play to a cougar?

My high school did Superstar this year (I was Pilate), and we had girls as Judas, Jesus, Simon, and Mary

Same problem , It has always been the role I’d love to do.Tim was amazing in this, def one of my fav Judas’.

Tangentially related but the editing was fantastic at 3:05 with Judas’s scream cutting to Jesus’s wail of torment. It’s a cool visual, like he’s mocking his pain and suffering

It would be very hard not to start bopping if you were playing Jesus. Especially if it was Tim celebrating.

Right!? I count myself lucky when I go downstairs without any mild panic. But dance on em....? Pfffffff, no thanks

In heels-

I hear that. I did a production of the show on a raked stage - meaning the floor was _slanted_ toward the audience (not a gradual rake - it was built to a _steep_ rake so going upstage was _literally_ up like climbing a hill) and there was one dance moment where we had to bend back and touch the floor behind us and rebound right back up. Easy the first time facing downstage, not so much repeating the choreography for the second verse blocked facing _upstage._ First run on the set everyone forgot and there was quite the avalanche of people falling and sliding toward the orchestra pit... They had to reblock so both backbends happened facing downstage.

Did Joseph on stairs. Thankfully the choreography was simple enough

On live TV I had to walk down 1 step whilst singing and eye balling the camera. I found that stressful let alone something like this 😂

Ben Forster honey! xx

Tracey Leeds thank you!! I’ve edited my comment & corrected the name!😅👍🏻

I just want every version of gethsamane

yes, but please take away the auto tune from Tim's voice. He doesn't need it!

It might be on spotify

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This made me laugh so much.

@@korevarzeacox4298 did u get this in your recommendations too

Why

@@adonaiyah2196The video was in my recommended and then I saw the comment.

He'll suffer the fate of Judas, as well, if he doesnt repent.

Anderson still the best Judas

@@harrylime9611 Most of us would rather suffer whatever particular version of hell you believe in than worship a God so insecure he creates people than damns them to suffering for using the free will he gave them. You wanna waste your life for a chance at some eternal salvation. Id rather do good without indoctrination

@@mudawott Understood. Best of luck.

@@harrylime9611 hey, im Catholic but let's not force our religions onto other people. Thanks.

@Grayson Davenport The live one with John Legend and Sara Bareilles is my favorite but Ted Neely is also amazing

@Grayson Davenport i thinnk this version is the best, tim minchin designed it

@@phinp4947 I agree that the movie was amazing and Brandon Victor Dixon did absolutely amazing in the live version, however I do not think John Legend was cut out for the part of Jesus he couldn't sing the part quite up to par

@@taylorpaulsen8219 i agree but he did some songs well

@@phinp4947 ...really? why?

To be fair, this song it's the Writers singing through Judas. Since I don't know Judas would know about the future of mass communication, and all the rest. But he grooving haahahaha

I'm not sure if I read this or watched something about it but I think that this scene takes place in Jesus's mind; due to the first words of the song being the last words Judas ever spoke to him - "Every time i look at you i don't understand...". What makes it more tragic is that Jesus never knew of Judas' suicide, so he probably thought Judas was celebratory :) Also that Tamborine is my hero.

lol happy tamborine, that killed me :-)

The clue is in the words of the song "If you'd come today". The song is being sung 2000 years after the Crucifixion.

Uhhhh no........ no we don’t but ok

That's why it sucks.

@@allanmoorhead9492 lol JCS was written by atheists and was highly controversial when it first came out due to its use of rock music with the Lord. If you think otherwise, you clearly weren't paying attention to the lyrics Heaven on Their Minds and this number

@@TheBabysittersReview I know Tim Rice was an atheist and I'm perfectly aware that the musical/opera is written from an atheist perspective. I have listened to JCS since it was first released. I own about fifteen different versions of it. Webber at the time classed himself as agnostic and said he admired Jesus as a great historical figure. It wasn't intended as openly gratuitous atheist propaganda. Minchin completely spoils this number by letting his atheism show. It's performed as a corny "song and dance" routine, like King Herod's Song. Herod really was ridiculing and condemning Jesus. This is supposed to be the grand finally of the opera, a highly emotive and stirring number, and Minchin kills all of that. Judas is not celebrating Jesus's death, he is lamenting Jesus's demise and questioning him about the way he acted, though the lyrics contain a lot of irony. He was Jesus's friend, and he committed suicide out of guilt at betraying him to his death. This song is not supposed to take place at his crucifixion, but immediately before it, after he is sentenced to die. In this version they are making a joke out of Jesus's death. Wrong! And that awful singing! No wonder Minchin stuck to comedy. The backing singers are better than him! Why would you cast a comedian in a main role in an opera? Along with those terrible dancers and choreography lol. What did they hire strippers for that? And look at the budget set! Were the set designers on strike? I don't know why Webber approved all of this. Perhaps he is doing it just for the money now, like George Lucas.

@@allanmoorhead9492 Agreed. This feels so blasphemous and gross. I have yet to get okay vibes from any JCS performance besides the original movie (I have only seen a few clips of performances so far though). I won't let this performance ruin the original for me despite how sickening it is.

@@Lablbobla JCS was always blasphemous in the sense that it denies the divinity of Jesus and portrays him as a victim and his death as futile. It was written from an atheist perspective (though Webber said he was agnostic). Yet the early performances, at least, told a story with characters who were treated sympathetically and with dignity. Jesus wasn't spat upon or portrayed as a clown. The events are portrayed as tragic, not humorous. It was a dramatic and emotional production in its own right. This performance starring Minchin is just a militant atheist's wet dream which openly spits upon the Gospels. There's no emotion in it - it's done for cheap laughs. And it's outright awful - the singing, the choreography, the costumes, the set. It looks like a bad high school drama student musical.

To me the hardest bits look like the parts where they stop dancing and pose with their sticks to sing the chorus. It's really difficult to suddenly stop dancing and sharply hit a pose without wobbling, and they nailed it. Watch the dancer in the bottom left at 2:33!!

It’s the synchro that’s hard Getting any dance clean is the toughest part

Cool!!!

@@msjannd4 Thank you. There's a video-adaptation of 'Heaven On Their Minds' on my channel. I'll be happy if you watch it. 😊

Wow which year was that? Bombay?

@@meeraisaacable 2014. And yes, Mumbai. I've paid my tribute to Alyque on my channel. Do watch when you have a chance. It's a video he had agreed to direct. But then I lost him before I was ready. So I made the video on my own.

@Ian Rowles Wow, I'm honored to hear from you sir! I'd love to watch your video if you share. My video is on my channel.

I know! Tim Minchin is the absolutely owned this performance.

You can also find Mel C singing “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” on her album Stages - it’s on iTunes!

It’s on RU-vid

They did when they realized the "remastered audio" version for the DVD which is HEAVY autotune and pitch correction.

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Well played.

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20 seconds at least.... sing Happy Birthday twice.... don't skimp on the soap... brush under the nails....

Omg. Best. Comment. Of the week. A++++

Same same!

that British time zone 👊😔

Same

its back on!

Round 2!

I'm so excited omg

Phantom of the opera is next

@@Esgles the 1998 Cats is more likely first.

@@colliric or evita

@@colliric It's Phantom it's been confirmed. And thankfully it's the 2011 broadway anniversary one and not the awful Gerard Butler movie.

I think it would have been cool if they hadn’t add him wear the shoes

Amen. Big love for this performance.

Judas for the win!

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Ben and Mel were both incredible too .....

@@tijay8507 They were. I think Judas is the best role in the show to begin with, but Tim Minchin was bombass phenomenal. Fan for life.

I just bought the DVD on Amazon yesterday!! It wasn’t even delayed shipping either, it’s gonna arrive around Friday!!

We have bought this on Amazon Prime and watched it back to back just now! (Not for the first time, certainly not for the last either!)

IKR

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Because Judas is the only realistic character in the entire Bible. Everything else was "holier than thou" rubbish

Yeah one of my favourite musicals as well

@Jo O’Brien its in 2 weeks and hasn't been announced x

Remember when you enter Hell you will REMENBER your so cal dad mother brother sister beg for pity broad of viper your are of the the devil coward

@@cindyruiz7434 don’t worry, I’ll remember you and tell Satan to invite you, you polite and good person.

@@cindyruiz7434 pretty sure Jesus and God would love me just the way I am

@@lisilein2 we don't stoop to your level but all we can do is pray for you but you remember your words when your Eternal damnation remember me and what you said you should be so grateful that we're praying for you scoffers hater Liars

And the guy who wrote and preformed the critically acclaimed song “Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins”

Same guy who wrote and performed "The Pope Song," "I Love Jesus," "The Good Book," "Thank You God," and "Come Home (Cardinal Pell".

Caralee Pending ??

i actually travelled from Brisbane to Melbourne to see this show as it was completely sold out there. i really regret not picking up a programme. They did an amazing job modernising the setting

Shirley Lee I love him singing that, too! I found that it’s in the “Unmasked: The Platinum Collection” album that has a bunch of different tracks of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s works. Tim Minchin singing “Heaven on Their Minds” is on that album

Nicole Ziege thank you for sharing this. I will track down a copy of the album now. I wish they had made a recording of this cast’s version of the show

There is one of Tim singing heaven on their minds or atleast there was. I've watched it several times over the last few days.

Siany Bella thanks, I’ll see if I can track it down today

Have you seen Tim’s performance of Superstar introduced by Michael Ball? IMO it’s even better than this - and no auto tune

Lola the Bola Omg literally same! I watched on the Friday and Saturday and then again today... then bought on blue ray! I remember watching back in 2012 but it feels like I’ve just been introduced to it again!

I bought the RU-vid video rather than dvd, it was incredible could watch it everyday.

Me too. Bought it via Amazon Prime and have the whole musical via soundcloud on repeat all day :D

Mel C. Same

Which is interesting as now Ben Foster is a huge west end star. He also had a lot more training. But yes Tim is probably the most believable Judas ever. Highlights the internal conflict very well.

Mel C. Mel C. is what did it for me. Talented and hot...

Yarn Campbell Northampton England’s finest, you guys just borrowed him 😉

May God have Mercy on your soul Amen Amen Amen

David it was live

@@louiscollett1429 Yes.. but the audio we get now is not... (ofc) And in post production for one reason or another the production team went in and worked the audio. Most likely to make it more even and "flat".. to make it easier for broadcasting/home video production.

LFC FOREVER I know it was live, I saw the show when it came to Melbourne in Victoria

Have you seen the movie from the 70s? That's pretty epic too

@@joeypotter6051 Not to be a bitch, but that movie made me HATE the musical before I chanced a glimpse at a different version. It's a disjointed mess with just flat-out bad vocal performances (not sorry, Ted Neeley stans) & the only saving grace is Carl Anderson's Judas.