I came across this story over the weekend-- the Central Academy of Technology and Arts in North Carolina has drawn the ire of Moms for Liberty and other reactionary folks by staging a production of Jesus Christ, Superstar in which casting was done without any consideration for gender.
I had several thoughts, including flashing back to my high school days in the early 1970s when Superstar was all the rage and was also stirring up all the rage. The title song was a radio hit and so many pearls were clutched , and then clutched even more when folks discovered that the single had King Herod's Song on the B side, which in retrospect strikes me as some top quality trolling, because taken out of context that song certainly seems a tad blasphemous. I also vividly remember that in the world of church youth ministries, Superstar was greeted with great enthusiasm. The JCS flap was my introduction to that phenomenon in which many people who get all offended on behalf of religion are not actually all that involved in the church.School Leadership 2.0
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