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Apr. 15th, 2014 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI spent all of my commute time today listening to the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar for the first time in over a year.
There is a lot of musical theater that was sort of formatively important to me, and I can remember how I first heard or first acquired almost all of it. I remember listening to Les Miz in the living room of our first house in Delaware. My parents gave me the sountrack to Phantom for Christmas one year and I actually wrote to the address in the liner notes of the cassette tape to get the complete libretto. Jekyll & Hyde I bought on a whim one day when I was about 12. One of my aunt's boyfriends introduced me to The Fantasticks*. Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and RENT all came from my highschool theater department.
I have absolutely no memory of ever actually learning JC Superstar. It's just there, like "Red River Valley" or "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain." Huh.
I still pretty much love it, too, for all its ridiculousness. It's the first version of the Passion narrative I ever learned, after all, which isn't my story** but is still a good story. And fun to sing.
*He told me that I reminded him of Luisa. In retrospect, I'm a little offended, even though it's probably accurate. I figure that at this point I have achieved "not evil, but a little worldly-wise", but I'd still rather like to to take a week or two and never do a chore, to wear my hair unfastened so it billows to the floor.
**Except insofar as the story of Christianity in general influences the culture I inhabit.
There is a lot of musical theater that was sort of formatively important to me, and I can remember how I first heard or first acquired almost all of it. I remember listening to Les Miz in the living room of our first house in Delaware. My parents gave me the sountrack to Phantom for Christmas one year and I actually wrote to the address in the liner notes of the cassette tape to get the complete libretto. Jekyll & Hyde I bought on a whim one day when I was about 12. One of my aunt's boyfriends introduced me to The Fantasticks*. Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and RENT all came from my highschool theater department.
I have absolutely no memory of ever actually learning JC Superstar. It's just there, like "Red River Valley" or "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain." Huh.
I still pretty much love it, too, for all its ridiculousness. It's the first version of the Passion narrative I ever learned, after all, which isn't my story** but is still a good story. And fun to sing.
*He told me that I reminded him of Luisa. In retrospect, I'm a little offended, even though it's probably accurate. I figure that at this point I have achieved "not evil, but a little worldly-wise", but I'd still rather like to to take a week or two and never do a chore, to wear my hair unfastened so it billows to the floor.
**Except insofar as the story of Christianity in general influences the culture I inhabit.
