Jesus+Christ+Superstar+-+Synopsis

__ Jesus Christ __ The main character, the musical is based on the last couple days of his life. He is a tenor and some of the songs that he sings in the musical are The Temple and Gethsemane but Jesus is featured in many of the songs. __Judas__ One of the main other characters, is a follower of Jesus and worried about the attention that Jesus is getting. Judas is also a tenor is he sings the theme song Superstar along with songs Heaven is on Their Minds and Strange Thing Mystifying. __Mary Magdalene__ Is also a follower of Christ, and she is falling in love with Jesus. She was a prostitute. She has a mezzo soprano voice and some of the songs she sings are I Don't Know How to Love Him and Everything's Alright. __Caiaphas__ The High Priest of the church, who sees Jesus as a threat and a liar. He is a bass and is featured in the songs The Arrest and This Jesus Must Die. __Annas__ One of Caiaphas priests, how has convinced him that Jesus is a threat. He is a countertenor and sings with Caiaphas in most songs and one of the songs he sings Then We Are Decided. __Pilate__ Is the Governor of Judea, predicts Jesus' crucifixion and soon that comes true. Pilate sings in the songs Pilate and Christ and Pilate. He voice is a tenor. __King Herod__ He is the King of Galilee and Pilate sends Jesus to him after Pilate can't decide his fate. Herod is a tenor and the only song he sings in is King Herod's Song.
 * Christ Jesus Superstar Synopsis **
 * By Emily L and Brendan **
 * Characters **

__ "Heaven on their Minds" __ The musical starts with the Judas singing about how consumed the crowd has become with the thoughts on heaven. He tries to convince Jesus that the authorities will go to any extent to put him away but Jesus ignores him. __ "What's the Buzz" __ The apostles ask Jesus what are his plans and follow him everywhere. Jesus becomes annoyed and tired so Mary Magdalene comforts Jesus by rubbing him with expensive oil. Judas arrives and asks what Jesus is doing with a prostitute. __"Strange Thing Mystifying"__ Judas continues to criticise Mary but then Jesus stands up and tells him to leave her alone. He then says everyone here including all his followers does not care about him and leaves. __"Everything's Alright"__ Mary tells Jesus to calm down and not to worry about anything. She rubs oil on his feet and hair again. Judas comes back and asks why money was spent on an expensive oil instead of given to the poor. He replies they cannot be helped because he will be dead soon. __"This Jesus must die"__ Caiaphas and the other priests are discussing what they must do to Jesus. They see that he is getting too popular and can be a threat. So they conclude that they must kill him. __ "Hosanna" __ Jesus arrives in Jerusalem and the crowd is jumping around, singing with joy. __"Simon Zealotes"__ Simon attempts to convince Jesus that he can convince the people of Jerusalem to fight Rome. __"Poor Jerusalem"__ Jesus tells them no one will understand what true power is. He also says one must die to conquer death. __Pilate's Dream__ The next day Pontius Pilate tells a very disturbing dream that has troubled him for months about Jesus and how he had to die to conquer death. __"The Temple"__ Jesus arrives at the temple. He finds out this is place has turned into a large trading area and is not a house of prayer anymore. He cries and kicks everyone out. Then he collapses and dreams that he is surrounded by a massive crowd of sick and poor people. He cannot help them because there is too many people __"Everything's Alright" (Reprise)__ Jesus wakes up and finds Mary is at his side again. She sings everything's alright and calms him down again. __"I Don't Know How to Love Him"__ Jesus is sleeping in Mary's arms. She realises that he has turned her whole world upside down and she has never experienced love like this before. __"Damned For All Time/Blood Money"__ The Priests have a plan to get rid of Jesus but they have to get him when he is alone. Judas betrays Jesus and tells the Priests that he will be in the Garden of Gethsemane by himself for money. He believes this is the best solution to this madness. __"The Last Supper"__ Jesus eats with his twelve apostles knowing that he will soon be dead. He is worried that they won't remember him when he is dead. Jesus says that Peter will deny that he is an apostle when he dies. Judas arrives and confronts Jesus telling him that he is the one that ruined everything that they have achieved. __"Gethsemane"__ Jesus talks to himself questioning whether he can go through what lies waiting for him in the next three days. __"The Arrest"__ The soldiers rushed in and arrested Jesus. He was then taken to Caiaphas. __"Peter's Denial"__ Three men recognise Peter as one of Jesus's apostle but each time he denies it like Jesus said he would. __"Pilate and Christ"__ Jesus is brought to Pilate. He feels that he must instruct the guards to send him to Herod. __"King Herod's Song"__ Herod has heard about Jesus and his miracles that he has done. He mocks Jesus and wants him to prove that he is 'God' by changing water into wine or walk across a swimming pool. __"Could We Start Again, Please?"__ Mary and the apostles wish that they could turn back time when everything was perfect again. __"Judas's Death"__ Judas sees that Jesus is half dead from the guards beating him and realises he is the one that caused all this to go wrong. He becomes frightened and angry for what he has done so he commits suicide. __"Trial by Pilate"__ Jesus is brought to Pilate again. A crowd is screaming for Jesus to be crucified. He asks Jesus if he is the King of the Jews one more. Jesus replies "it's you that say i am" and Pilate flogs Jesus 39 times to make the crowd happy. __"Superstar"__ Jesus is taunted by a hallucination of Judas asking him is he really God and how did everything go wrong. __"Crucifixion"__ Pilate decides Jesus must be crucified. __"John 19:41"__ The apostles are comforting each other and realise the impact Jesus has had on their lives.
 * Storyline**
 * __ ACT I __**
 * __ACT II__**