Dan Cooney (Episode 58)

So what do you, what is it about Superstar that you like? Obviously-

Yes

... another show that transferred to the stage from an album, and theatrically, it really takes some brilliant direction-

Yeah

... and choreography to make it pop.

What is it about it that you like?

The music.

The, the music.

Yeah.

And it has to also do a lot with the actors.

Like, if Judas isn't good or, like, if, like, Jesus and Judas don't have that chemistry, it, it could fall short.

Like, that show can, like, unravel so quickly-

Mm-hmm

... based on the actors because there's no, there's no lines.

It's sung all the way through, as you know.

So if you can't convey that in your singing, then we have a problem.

[laughs] Yes.

But luckily I haven't seen that production yet, so thank goodness.

[laughs] Yeah, that, that one's super interesting because it is a concert, right?

Yeah.

It's like the last seven days of Christ's life, and it moves very quickly, like Evita, moves very quickly through the events and...

But you know, it's interesting, isn't it? Because I wonder, I...

This is just off the cuff here.

I don't know if this makes any sense, but it's almost like we're doing that with shows that are, uh, fleshed out much more clearly.

We're actually peeling it back and trying to leave more to the imagination, right? Where, like, sometimes I think, uh, what's the, the director that did, uh, that Oklahoma and then Fiddler? Uh, Fine? His, uh, he did that very strange Oklahoma.