"What is Truth? We both have Truths, are yours the same as mine?" One of the greatest lines ever written!

6:09, when pilate snaps is my favorite part of the entire play. this guy kills it. its the best i've ever heard it sung and best i've ever seen it acted, and i've seen it performed on broadway. f*cking amazing!

The director, choreographer, lighting crew, musicians, and cast put in one helluva performance. This is theatre!!!!!!!!!

what a damn AMAZING PILATE! Wow, he's wonderful! The best I've ever seen!

I love this version so much. Not only Judas by Drew Sarich is incredible, but this Pilate is just... really good. I never thought his part can be played like that. Very original impression of the character.

Ive always been partial to the original cast, this interpretation is rather good though, it's one of the few that understands keeping a quick musical tempo is essential to this scenes intensity.

Wow. This is my first time seeing this performance from this production (I've seen the Drew Sarich performances many many many times).... This was amazing. One of the best Pilate performances I've ever seen. I had chills. The emotion was on point. The beauty of JCS is the duality of the "villains". They're very conflicted. This captures that. Amazing performance.

WOW! This might be second best only to the original. I love it!

I Love the choreography when he gets the lashes, How the people move with each lash...Really good

Love it this is the type of movie I could watch over and over such good pyrics and music

Wow, this is one of the best whipping scenes I have ever seen in a Jesus movie!

This the tightest and best show ive seen in a long time!!!!! WOW!!!❤

That was AWESOME!!!!! Wow. Everybody in the cast was amazing. And the actor who was in the 1973 film version was always my favorite, but, I think I just found a Pilate I may like even better. :) Bravo to everyone, powerful musical. I think everyone should see it at least once, regardless of their religion or even lack thereof.

They always did one less lashing than was sentenced. It was a way to minimize the risk of giving one lash too many, e.g. 41 instead of 40.

I love informing people of the following: On the original LP, the voice of Jesus=Ian Gillan: most famous for singing "Smoke on the Water" (1972). The voice of Judas=Murray Head: most famous for singing "One Night in Bangkok" (1984).

The crowd says "Kill him, he says he's God, he's a blasphemer./ He'll conquer you and us and even Caesar"

Great , amazing. Congratulations.

It was also thought at that time that forty lashes would kill a man. So Pilate had him whipped just until the point of death.

i LOVE this scene! thanks for putting it up!

that...was... amazing!

Good morning

this the BEST one i've found on youtube

i love all the versious i have seen so far wither msucial or msucical movie, and i have to say my favorite scene is that with pilate. and I love the 39 lashing part,k alot ofthem are so contemorary....LOVE IT...but i have to say fred johanson is my favorite pilate

Yay, love that song

Pilate is Rob (Frank n Furter) Fowler.

Gotta love this cast :')

Furthermore: for comparison, watch the 1973 movie. The people in the mob look like the disciples...they're all just people. And the scene is far more powerful that way, because it shows ordinary people turning against Jesus out of fear rather than cartoony villains turning on him out of evil. Given that the truly revolutionary thing about this play is that it gave the "bad guys" motivations and made them sympathetic, the whole point is that the mob is ordinary.

40 lashes was also traditionally considered a death sentence. Since Pilate was trying not to have to kill Jesus, he assigned one less than the death penalty. Also clever.

what an amazing concept, this jesus christ superstar....quite radical!

this is great!

Best version

素晴らしい❗

Oh wow. The guy who plays Pilate is awesome...

My goodness... Even though I know it's not real, this is horrific. Incredibly done, the acting is AMAZING!

Ah.. Thank you!

excellent

1 to 39

His name is Rob Fowler. I like his version of it.

i like this one who was Jesus in this cast?

Acid King brought me here ...

@hazzagal the 39 lashes are due to the fact that according to roman law, 40 lashes were considered an execution. 39 lashes was the maximum number permitted without a death sentence.

this is amazing! pilate is awesome! what does he say when he says "you misguided ..."

@sex6cult9revolution Ian Gillian was Jesus on the original LP? That's neat trivia, thanks I like informing people of this: "One night in Bankok" is counted as the first rap song to reach #1 cos its entirely spoken word. Cheers

i think you were right!!!! :)

just a little correction. it's where are you from Jesus What do you want Jesus :)

@hazzagal 39 was the standard number of lashes in the Bible. 40 minus 1.

Can you please put up the temple and lepers scene? Nontheless, this was fantastic

@tsimos4eva Yeah, I like that they've done Caiaphas like that. Neat touch, I think :-)

is there any way to see this versoin of the show in its entirety? I just played this show a week ago but this version is amazing

I like Annas' girly fan :)

Gosh me too. Is there an official DVD release of this?

After this, (Never seen it before) is this when Judas comes back in? Or isn't that the Beg.? I'm pretty sure it was at least.

@hazzagal it does mean it but its a translation error

seeing the jcs tour in april

How do you get this? Is it on DVD somewhere?

R.I.P jesus christ of nazareth?

@hazzagal Well, the reason they didn't do 40 was because ( I forget where) in the Bible, 40 lashes could kill a man. I think that means Pilate wanted to give Jesus one more chance to save himself. But that's just my thought.

His "Die if you want to!" speech wasn't as shouty and angry as the others but hey it sounded good all the same.

6:09

I think it's: "Now look at him!"

I think it's "Now look at him!"

wht is Pilate saying after he does the number 23 ???

Professional and austria, check the comments

Yes, after this Judas comes in for the Superstar number.

What does he say after 23?

@hazzagal I think that 40 lashes kills a man, Pilate never wanted to hurt Jesus, You can see pilate getting more and more distressed with each lash, So He stops at 39 to avoid killing him ant trying to shut the crowd up...

@dars2607 Oh, I get it now.

only in the jewish law was forty too much... the romans had no limit........ read deuteronomy25:3 and the jews werent worried about degrading him for in the law any man who hangs on a cross is cursed... just saying....

poor jesus i feel bafd for him this is a real play on the bible.

@treblemaker24 "misguided martyr"

tim rice's idea")

What the hell is with modern productions of JCS and their costuming of the mobs to look like caricatures of Chassidic Jews? Pretty much every character in the damn play is Jewish, but I don't see any good guys in stereotypical costumes...yet in every post 2000 production I know of, the angry mob has been made to look as "Jewish" as possible! Yeah, the 70's version was corny, but at least it wasn't anti-Semitic. I can't effing BELIEVE this...

My mother did this play! She whipped Chri and killed some other guy.... With a j name i think.... er, She still did that though!

No, it's real.

How dare they! Dance while Jesus is being tortured! That's just absurd!

playback

It's kinda sad. Over the past however many years the video has been available its been pretty unanimous that Jesus is the weak link in this show, but let's be honest here for a minute: even the best would look like garbage up against Drew and Rob. I mean, he's still stage dressing pretty much, but I think things were stacked against him to begin with 🤔

Why do people need to be dancing when Jesus is getting beaten and scourged?

And since when have a few anachronisms been unacceptable in a musical? Why is historical accuracy's importance when it's a charicature being created, and not a genuine representation of someone? Especially to nit-pick over something as moronic as clothing? For God's sake, in this particular production, Judas SHOOTS himself.

No please don’t heart him ho stop ho Jesus

thx God i was in te 2000 production and was much better that this shit

...but...you know the mobs were jewish. its not anti-semetic just historically acturate. and they wanted to make them caricatures to make it seem more over the top

It's kinda sad. Over the past however many years the video has been available its been pretty unanimous that Jesus is the weak link in this show, but let's be honest here for a minute: even the best would look like garbage up against Drew and Rob. I mean, he's still stage dressing pretty much, but I think things were stacked against him to begin with 🤔