This production was written by two ungodly men who did not believe that Jesus Christ was God incarnate.
Tim Rice had this to say about Jesus Christ:
“For me it obviously indicates that, Christ was just a super-prophet who - a fantastic man, who made a big mark on his time, and we don’t really know all that much about him. The fact that an awful lot happened in Christ’s life that could easily be legend, I don’t think diminishes the importance of the legend. But, I think, as the years roll on, in the 20th and 21st centuries, I think less and less people are going to think of Christ as a god, and I think more people are going to see him as a generally good thing. I don’t see him as a god at all, and the opera doesn’t categorically say he wasn’t but I think it leaves the question very open.”
This is just liberal drivel to water down the Biblical and Holy Jesus.
At one point it shows Jesus utterly unable to cope with the sick people. “There’s too many of you”! Borderline blasphemous junk.
It was also cowardice. Rice didn’t want the work or himself to be tagged as Christian. It would pigeonhole him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber discusses his intent in making Jesus Christ Superstar in these recent article:
https://www.religion-online.org/article/andrew-lloyd-webber-from-superstar-to-requiem/
Webber himself is actually politically conservative, though not particularly religious.
He has said many times tha JCS is not really directly about the person of Jesus than about how Jesus was/is perceived by others. It is about the last week in the life of Jesus as viewed through through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.
More specifically, one of the main questions explored in JCS is the role of Judas, whether he was fated to assume his notorious role and whether, in a manner of speaking, Judas was an instrument of God’s plan. Those are questions that have been explored for two millenia by mainstream Christian theologians.
Yep