a dramatic musical depiction of the life of Jesus Christ and includes his birth, his ministry, his arrest and trial, his crucifixion, death and burial, and culminates with his glorious resurrection and ascension to heaven
a mediaeval genre of religious drama, which concentrates on passion, suffering and death of Christ, and it distinguishes itself from any other play describing the entire biblical story from creation to Judgment
a cult object for most Jethro Tull diehards, but it is, and always was, panned to death by GCO, thus it can't be neither overrated nor underrated - both sides neutralize the other one's efforts