Forbidden Love

Ok, first a little background story. Jesus Christ Megastar, the greatest musical ever made, written by Guam, Quentin Lewis and myself and performed at Boston University. The play was about my character, Jason, that sabotaged the director’s, Pat Casey, thesis play about Jesus. Ok, but this wasn’t a traditional play, you see, we fooled everybody.

We hung flyers all over campus announcing the cast. Talked up this great musical. Then people show up, sit down. The Playbill had fake cast members and their bios. Then I stroll in, 10 minutes late, the audience is antsy, a woman on my arm and Ole Dirty Bastard playing on the radio. The announcements start. “Tonight, the roll of Jesus will be played by Jason Rodriguez. The roll of Judas will be played by Jason Rodriguez.” Etc, etc, etc. The orchestra was replaced by keyboard player Quentin Lewis. And then the play starts.

The most anti-Semitic song possible comes out of my mouth. It is horrendous, funny, but horrendous. I do the whole thing by myself, playing 5 different parts. I do my jazz hands and pose, the audience is dead quiet.

Pat Casey, the director, who was on stage trying to drag me off while staying in some character looks haggard and shouts “JESUS WAS A JEW!”

This is Jesus Christ Megastar. The plot unfolds as the play goes on but the point is, I sabotaged Pat’s play to do my own play and I never really read Pat’s play. And now I have to improvise a musical about Jesus with Pat and Dan trying to keep me on course because I know nothing about Jesus.

Believe it or not, there’s even more to it than that. It was a sick, sick play.

So why am I talking about it? Below is a link to a track called Forbidden Love, the second song in the play. In this song, Mary Magdalene, who was played by a blow-up sex doll with track pants and a sweater on, is professing her love for Jesus. Jesus is conflicted.

I was Jesus, obviously, and the voice of Mary Magdalene was Pat Casey, trying to salvage his play. I love the ending, when he gives me the cliff-note version of Jesus’ life to make sure I do everything right. Now that I listen to it, Mary sounds like Guam, maybe we used Guam for the CD but Pat did it during the play. During the play Guam was a preacher planted in the audience.

Enjoy. If you like the track there are 7 more, I can put them up. But they’re a lot funnier with the acting since the play was pretty slapstick and visual. And now that I think about it, I have the video…

Forbidden Love MP3

And, for an added bonus, the cover to the album. Am I a god of rock or what?


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