Jesus Christ Superstar!

Last night, Dan, Tracy, Dan & I headed down to Milwaukee to see the "original" Jesus: Ted Neeley, who portrayed (the ever-so-attractive, I might add) Jesus in the 1973 movie Jesus Christ Superstar. We saw him last January, and it was excellent; we couldn't even really tell that he was older (he's now in his 60s, which sounds weird, but he's the original!) This year was fun and entertaining, but my, what a difference a year makes! He just sounded so much older; his voice had that kind of wobbly vibrato that comes along once you hit a certain age (or so I've been told). Dan leaned in to me several times to whisper, "Look, it's grandpa Jesus!" which of course made me snicker. But all in all, it was excellent. (Although we both had a hard time not laughing when he sang, "After all, I've tried for three years... seems like 30," because I whispered to Dan, "That's because it has been!" Ah, yes, sometimes the most innocuous things make us laugh. :)

We went out to dinner beforehand, and we had actually made reservations at this steakhouse, but I (stupidly) wrote down the wrong address, so we ended up in the wrong place. Since we were already short on time, we decided to go to Mader's, this German restaurant that was right by where we thought the steakhouse was. We had said we wanted to go there anyway sometime, so we figured, why not do it now? It was delicious; Dan and I both had lobster bisque, while Dan enjoyed the authentic German beer and I had some of the best Lambrusco I've ever had. Tracy had some delicious sauerbraten, which I tried and actually (gasp) liked!

We ended up being a little late to the show and missing the first song, but oh well. All in all it was a very fun evening. I'm just sad that Ted is getting so, well, old! But he was still wonderful to see; and we had fantastic seats where we were in like the 8th row up from the stage. So we were very close, which helped at the curtain call, when I started waving and screaming, "Ted! Ted! Over here!" (Dan complains that I screamed in his ear and he's now deaf; I don't buy it.) He looked in our direction, but I don't know if he actually saw us. Ah well. It was a fun night!