Hey, everyone, this is Kava. Just a little heads up about this episode.

We actually went to see Jesus Christ superstar back in November of 2021,

but the plan was always to release it around Easter, so Lindsay is on this episode.

She's not back yet. She's still on her break. But of course, I'll be back with Angie the

following episode and continue on as we have been doing thus far in 2022. All right, guys, enjoy.

All right, everybody. Welcome to the musical explaining podcast. I am your host and Persian New

Year lover, Kava Taharian. And I have risen from the dead after three days.

Today we are joined by a very special guest, Emily St. James,

critic at large at Vox.com and showrunner slash writer of Arden, which is a podcast.

Thank you for joining us, Emily. I am so glad to be here. And you know, I'm the Easter Beagle.

That's what I am. Easter Beagle. I'm so glad we're seeing this production, which we had to

record in November, in order to release in April. You could say the podcast is being resurrected

many months later. Well, I think November is Canadian Easter, so I think we're fine. Yeah,

exactly. It's Easter in Iceland or some non-extradition country. But yeah, the only good thing that

came out of the pandemic was this tour of Jesus Christ superstar, which was the first production

I saw that I actually liked. I actually came back to Southern California, which it wasn't going

to originally. So yeah, we get to go see JCS in that hub of where we want to call it,

a hub of culture, Orange County. It's exciting. It's exciting. I think it's our first one that we're

going to see there, right? Because the only other one we've seen is Frozen, which was in Los Angeles.

Yeah. And then like, this is going to be my second show I've seen there at the Segerstrom

Art Center. You want to know what the first one was? One, yes. Cats. Close. Phantom. It was love

never dies. Love never dies. Sure. Yes. I saw love never dies in the very last row. That was where we

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