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Jesus Christ Superstar
Few musical forms have fallen into such low repute as the rock opera. Through the bombastic efforts of a handful of well-meaning composers, the whole enterprise has become almos...
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The British musician Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) was the composer of such musical theater hits as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Expre...
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British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is best known for creating the music to some of the world's most popular contemporary theatrical productions. His collaborations with lyricist Tim Rice include Jos...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948, the son of William Southcombe Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone. His younger brother, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, was born in 1951. The family l...
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Critical Essay by Richard Williams
Just as Handel composed "Messiah" and Bach wrote his "St Matthew Passion," so Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have produced "Jesu...
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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr
Lyricist Tim Rice has found for ["Jesus Christ Superstar"] a personal, and I think persuasive, tone of voice. The tone of voice is not merely mod or pop or ...
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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
It is a bit silly for religionists to argue over the theological points in the libretto of "Superstar." Rice has assembled his simple and familiar narrative ...
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Critical Essay by Dan Morgenstern
Can a work so monstrously successful [as Jesus Christ Superstar] be all bad? The answer, sadly, is yes. The Gospel according to Tim, Tom [director Tom O'Horgan...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
[The] rock legend of Joseph, fresher and brighter than "Superstar," is an understandable knockout in ["Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
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Critical Essay by James R. Huffman
With Jesus Christ Superstar, the segment most often pincered for separate analysis is the younger generation—or sliced even thinner for microscopy, and for se...
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Critical Essay by Loraine Alterman
[I came to the film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar"] with virgin eyes and ears both of which were glazed after one hour and forty minutes of almost...
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Critical Essay by James M. Wall
Guided by a longtime prejudice against Broadway musicals and reinforced by a decade dedicated to fighting bathrobe-and-beard Bible films, I attended a preview screening...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
Jesus Christ Superstar [the film] is intellectually as vacuous as the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera it so faithfully follows,… and religiously as auth...
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Critical Essay by William Bender
Superstar builds to considerable impact and evocativeness, in part because it manages to wear its underlying seriousness lightly. What Rice and Webber have created is ...
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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter
[It's] almost impossible to suggest the imaginative impoverishment, the sheer stupefying banality, of … [the] version of the last days of Christ [in ...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
[The movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar is] in many ways odious and in all ways absurd….
[The] entire story is presented without any original point of view, th...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
Being wrong is never funny. When I saw "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in London a couple of years or so ago [see excerpt above], I thought ...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Cott
Messrs. Rice and Webber are talented and clever young Englishmen who command smooth lyrical and dramatic gifts….
But primarily the tone the music and words [of J...
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Critical Essay by Clifford Edwards
[In Superstar the] Christ of faith gives way to the Jesus of history. Rice and Webber have acknowledged modern scholarship's discovery that the New Testament ...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Watt
["Jesus Christ Superstar"] is so stunningly effective a theatrical experience that I am still finding it difficult to compose my thoughts about it. It is, ...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
Nothing could convince me that any show that has sold two-and-one-half million copies of its album before the opening night is anything like all bad. But I must also con...
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Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
"Jesus Christ Superstar" is an enormously successful record album, called a "rock opera" in one of pop music's pathetic and pointl...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Boyd
Can Jesus survive "Jesus Christ Superstar"? Sometimes it is "Love Story" in Jerusalem. Other times it is only "The Greening of the Box...
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