Jesus Christ Superstar the Musicals

[Jumbo]

HogNose...in my vinyl I still have my extra copy (mint) with all the materials it came with--even my original copy was recorded at 15 ips to a Crown SX 824 studio r2r tape deck and played seldom, and then only on top of the line analog rigs (complete Linn kit at that time).

[Burgold]

A wonderful show and I love the questing nature. That hunt and hunger for truth and never being certain. Powerful and quite sincere when done well.

The worst version I've ever seen (I think I've seen it live three times) was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber himself. He ratcheted up the cynicism and really tried to emphasize the Jesus as huckster possibility which I think runs contrary to the lyrics.

It's interesting when the artist doesn't understand what they created.

I honestly think Tim Rice was asking questions and wrestling with what he believes while he was writing the show and it's that doubt, simply and elegantly told with an ultimate desire to believe that makes the work so powerful.

[AsburySkinsFan]

A wonderful show and I love the questing nature. That hunt and hunger for truth and never being certain. Powerful and quite sincere when done well.

That's what I like about it especially giving voice to Judas, which we really never get from the gospels themselves. Obviously, it is speculation, but I always enjoy the use of the holy imagination when trying to fill in the gaps left untold by the gospels themselves. This goes plays really well in "Heaven on Their Minds" and "Could We Start Again Please?".

The worst version I've ever seen (I think I've seen it live three times) was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber himself. He ratcheted up the cynicism and really tried to emphasize the Jesus as huckster possibility which I think runs contrary to the lyrics.

Was that during a stage version? Because, the video (only one of Webber's that I've seen) really plays it pretty fair.

It's interesting when the artist doesn't understand what they created.

Rice or Webber?

I honestly think Tim Rice was asking questions and wrestling with what he believes while he was writing the show and it's that doubt, simply and elegantly told with an ultimate desire to believe that makes the work so powerful.

The doubt, the confusion, the competing agendas, the make Jesus into what we want...all of it...love it!

[Burgold]

Yeah, the Webber version I saw was on Broadway. I think Webber and Rice's vision was a bit different. Tim Rice's world that he conjured and explored in his lyrics were complex, tormented, and sincere. A man who isn't certain about what or whether to believe. Webber on the other hand, revels in the melodrama and the showmanship. You can see it in the difference between Joseph, Evita, and JSC and when Webber went on his own and did CATS, Phantom, and that rollerskating musical

[Koolblue13]

My parents had the original albums, I played them to death and back again.

I will now sing "what's the buzz, tell me whatsa happening" all day. Thanks

[Burgold]

My parents had the original albums, I played them to death and back again.

I will now sing "what's the buzz, tell me whatsa happening" all day. Thanks

You say that like it's a bad thing?

One question though....

Why would you want to know?