Synopsis
Altar Boy - Rock Star - Pope
"Probably the best lead role in a musical since Frank'N'Furter".........Russell Crowe
In a world not unlike our own, a baby boy is born to a teenage girl called Mary. She’s a good mother, but so poor she’s forced to work as a prostitute to feed her baby son. And so begins a very different version of the greatest story ever told. Featuring a very catchy and original rock/pop score, BBJ is funny, sad, powerful, passionate, uplifting and shocking. It’s a roller coaster ride through modern times.
Johnny’s an altar boy who plays mean guitar, and sings with his rock band The Prophets of Doom. Father Maclean is the wicked parish priest who spots Johnny’s money making potential and manages him along the road to Rome. Then there’s TV boss Charlie Fortune, the guy who gets Johnny to host his new ‘American Idol’ style show called ‘Have Your Say’, to be broadcast live across the world on XTC TV. And it’s on this show that Johnny gets voted by the public - to be the new Pope!
But there’s one big fat problem. The existing pontiff, Pope Liberty III, refuses to step down. He’s getting old and is kept alive with a pacemaker. So Johnny’s number one fan Desire disguises herself as a nun and breaks into the Pope’s throne room. She’ll do anything to help her hero reach the top...absolutely anything. Liberty succumbs to temptation, and straining to reach a state of divine ecstasy, dies of a massive heart attack. The way is now clear…
And so we witness the rise and fall of the worlds first publicly voted, all singin’ all rockin’ Pope sensation! The media goes into a frenzy. Johnny’s the most powerful religious leader on Earth...and His Church is built on solid ROCK! He then discovers that Father Maclean is actually his long lost father, and that the evil priest raped his mother in the confessional box when she was only sixteen. Then, with mounting horror, he discovers that when Mary tried to stand in the way of the priest and Johnny - Maclean murdered her.
Faced with these revelations, Johnny vows revenge and plans to use his new TV show “The Vatican Tonight” to reveal shocking truth about Maclean to the world. But the priest has already decided that Johnny must die publicly on TV. He knows too much, and besides, there’s more profit in a dead prophet.
We reach the terrifying climax as we find ourselves witnessing the ultimate showdown between good and evil - beamed live across the world. Will Maclean and his cronies succeed in crucifying our hero - or will Desire be his savior? And if the story ends in darkness and tragedy, will Johnny, in a flood of light, make a miraculous return, save Desire, resurrect his mother, and send the evil Father Maclean hurtling down to Hell? All will be revealed.
HE IS COMING...
Johnny’s an altar boy who plays mean guitar, and sings with his rock band The Prophets of Doom. Father Maclean is the wicked parish priest who spots Johnny’s money making potential and manages him along the road to Rome. Then there’s TV boss Charlie Fortune, the guy who gets Johnny to host his new ‘American Idol’ style show called ‘Have Your Say’, to be broadcast live across the world on XTC TV. And it’s on this show that Johnny gets voted by the public - to be the new Pope!
But there’s one big fat problem. The existing pontiff, Pope Liberty III, refuses to step down. He’s getting old and is kept alive with a pacemaker. So Johnny’s number one fan Desire disguises herself as a nun and breaks into the Pope’s throne room. She’ll do anything to help her hero reach the top...absolutely anything. Liberty succumbs to temptation, and straining to reach a state of divine ecstasy, dies of a massive heart attack. The way is now clear…
And so we witness the rise and fall of the worlds first publicly voted, all singin’ all rockin’ Pope sensation! The media goes into a frenzy. Johnny’s the most powerful religious leader on Earth...and His Church is built on solid ROCK! He then discovers that Father Maclean is actually his long lost father, and that the evil priest raped his mother in the confessional box when she was only sixteen. Then, with mounting horror, he discovers that when Mary tried to stand in the way of the priest and Johnny - Maclean murdered her.
Faced with these revelations, Johnny vows revenge and plans to use his new TV show “The Vatican Tonight” to reveal shocking truth about Maclean to the world. But the priest has already decided that Johnny must die publicly on TV. He knows too much, and besides, there’s more profit in a dead prophet.
We reach the terrifying climax as we find ourselves witnessing the ultimate showdown between good and evil - beamed live across the world. Will Maclean and his cronies succeed in crucifying our hero - or will Desire be his savior? And if the story ends in darkness and tragedy, will Johnny, in a flood of light, make a miraculous return, save Desire, resurrect his mother, and send the evil Father Maclean hurtling down to Hell? All will be revealed.
HE IS COMING...