All Female JCS production

Actually, not only was this done high-profile on the East Coast at the beginning of last year, but a cast recording is forthcoming. The University of Utah did one as well this past fall/winter, so it would seem the New York company has kicked off a minor trend. (Which is not to diminish anyone who wants to go all-female with this, just that -- at least in my view -- it's only a trend until the number of productions are in the double digits.)

Updated On: 3/31/18 at 07:52 AM

Not REALLY the first time a woman's played Jesus.

The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Sailers were Jesus and Mary respectively in a semi-staged concert version of the show in Atlanta back in the 90's that toured to a few cities.

It was re-orchestrated to be a mostly guitar led sound, and the Overture is incredible.

Amy, imho, turns in one of the best Jesus performances I've heard. It issued a cast recording and video on VHS.

The promo materials I've read for the ROL production do read as if they're the first but that's simply not the case, and is kind of misleading. It's happened a few times since Amy and Emily did theirs.