Jesus Christ, SuperStar Wars

?Please don’t give me any credit for the article title. It’s 100% from Andrew Murray of Canton, Massachusettes, and it’s not just clever wordplay, it’s his musical. Canton’s Wicked Local, take it away:

Imagine “Hosannah,” the song from Jesus Christ Superstar,
except this time the refrain is “Han Solo.” Or the song “Judas’ Death”
from the original musical, but recast as “Anakin’s Death.”

Andrew Murray of Canton, a junior at Concord Academy, first came up with the idea of fusing two timeless works, Jesus Christ Superstar and Star Wars, when he attended a summer arts program.

“I was working on a project to create a comedy through combining a
written piece of art and a film,” he said. “I was in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar then, and I have always been a big fan of Star Wars. I was tossing around ideas . . . and I thought, why not?”

The result was Jesus Christ SuperStar Wars, a production that
Murray conceived at Concord Academy for Directors Seminar, a class in
which students choose, cast, stage, produce, direct and sometimes write
a play of their choice. In Murray’s words, it was “a character study of
Star Wars using as a backdrop the religious overtone and the music of Jesus Christ Superstar.”

This may be the best idea ever, so I wish there was more than just that picture to go with it, but YouTube seems sadly lacking in videos of the musical numbers. Topless Roboteers of Canton, Massachusetts, get on it. Nerds of the nation — nay, the planet — need to hear “Han Solo” as soon as humanly possible.