If you start from the point of view of being a prog rock fan
- and listen to the album verson released before it ever made it to stage, the one with Deep Purple's Ian Gillain as Jesus - then it's less "ALW musical" and more "prog-tastic extravaganza", more "KIng Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table on Ice" - i.e. it's an overambitious 70s concept album.
Another reason for prefering the old version of it is that as time has gone on, the lyrics have been sanitised to appease the Christian backlash.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 12 Apr 2020, 7:54,
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