Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
2018
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2023 UK Tour. Jesus Christ Superstar is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion, the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters, with much of the plot centered on Judas, who is dissatisfied with the direction in which Jesus is ...
Box office. $24.5 million [3] Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison, and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg, based on the 1970 concept album of the same name written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn inspired a 1971 musical. The film, which stars Ted Neeley, Carl ...
Jesus Christ Superstar: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen. Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life told in an anachronistic manner.
- Norman Jewison
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- IT BEGAN AS A CONCEPT ALBUM BECAUSE NO PRODUCER WANTED TO PUT IT ON STAGE. Lyricist Tim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who met in 1965 when they were 20 and 17, respectively, enjoyed their first taste of shared success with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1968.
- A BOB DYLAN LYRIC INSPIRED THE MUSICAL’S DEPICTION OF JUDAS. That lyric was “Did Judas Iscariot have God at his side?” from the 1964 song “With God on Our Side.”
- ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER WROTE PART OF THE TITULAR SONG ON A NAPKIN. In a 2015 interview, the composer said he couldn't recall exactly when the now-iconic melody first came to him: “What I do remember though, is that I forgot it.”
- THE MELODY OF “I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM” WAS TAKEN FROM AN UNRELATED SONG CALLED “KANSAS MORNING.” “Kansas Morning,” an ode to the Sunflower State, was co-written by Rice and Lloyd Webber and published in 1967.
Apr 1, 2018 · The arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar sold out two nights at Los Angeles' famous Hollywood Bowl, ... listening to the album on Walkman as a way to come up with an idea for how to do the film.
Oct 12, 2020 · History Of: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Celebrates 50 Years. Facebook. Twitter. Email. From its inception in 1970 as a double-LP rock opera, to it's 711-show run on Broadway, to its GRAMMY- and Emmy-nominated 2018 live concert event, look back at five decades of a masterpiece. GRAMMYs/Oct 13, 2020 - 05:12 am. Over the past five decades, "Jesus ...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Oct. 12, 2021. It was the spring of 1970, and Yvonne Elliman, an 18-year-old singer and guitarist from Hawaii, had just finished performing at a London nightclub when a breathless young man rushed ...
