Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera for secular audiences, concentrating on Jesus’s humanity rather than His divinity. The book covers the final days of his life as seen from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. There is no Christian message and there is no Resurrection.
At its premiere in 1971 fundamentalists hated the show and thought Jesus was too human and too hippie. Billy Graham said the performance bordered on blasphemy and sacrilege. The Vatican did not give Jesus Christ Superstar the OK until 1999.
