theheroheart:

Alex Melcher as Judas, Drew Sarich as Jesus
Jesus Christ Superstar – July 2014, München

I have a friend who’s totally obsessed with this staging, so it’s kind of funny for me to find gifs of it on Tumblr. I honestly kind of think it was the obvious thing to do… hell, I could sense the sexual tension between them in the 1973 movie.

I also tend to think that Judas and Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar provided the model for Burr and Hamilton in Hamilton–the way the killer functions as narrator/audience stand-in and presents the title character as simultaneously a larger-than-life, legendary figure and kind of an asshole. Which makes it puzzling for me that when I stumble across Hamilton slash fanfic, it’s always Hamilton/Laurens, and an AO3 search reveals more than 4 times as much of that as of Hamilton/Burr. Like… really? Surely there’s more sexual tension between these life-and-death rivals than between an unproblematic pair of friends.