Jesus Christ Superstar - classic or dud?

Classic, but it's like one of those Buddhist koans: how can something be classic when it's written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Especially the recording with Ian Gillan

David Yow--Jesus, or Judas
William Bennet--Pontius Pilate
Cat Chan--Mary Magdalin
No Neck Blues Band or Acid Mothers Temple--Disciples
Onieda--temple elders

crucifixion and overture reworked by Steven Stapleton

others?

well this seems... inevitable

http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/news/alice-cooper-to-play-king-herod_83424.html/

by accident i ended up watching this on bbc2 a few weeks ago and realised just how insanely brilliant the film soundtrack is.

is that the 70s film adaptation? it was on over Christmas and I was surprised at how extemely vivid/lurid it is. also the guy who played Judas was just incredible in terms of performance / voice.

I don’t really like ALW that much, which I confirmed this weekend when I went down a Patti Lupone rabbit hole, and I hated this at the time but since then I have been slowing warming up to what the buzz was about.

Why does the OMPS say Overture, André Previn?

is that the 70s film adaptation?

yup.
tis off the scale.
archive.org has the film soundtrack in very listenable form to download.

https://archive.org/details/jcs-1973-soundtrack

Found some info here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/01/classicalmusicandopera.usa

It is sometimes claimed that the best classical composers are working in the film industry: Morricone, John Williams, even Andrew Lloyd Webber. Previn worked on the scoring for the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, as a favour to his friend Norman Jewison, who directed. "I'm not a great fan of Lloyd Webber's. He doesn't need me to be a fan. Believe me." And the others? He winces. "John Williams is without question talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. But, no, of the others ... You know, when I hear Titanic - James Horner - which was a huge hit, it's the same 16 bars played 185 times. It's not interesting." His favourite composer of theatre music is Harold Arlen; his favourite lyricist is Sondheim; beyond that, there isn't much to excite him in musical theatre these days. "Those awful Disney musicals - mermaids with long eyelashes, that's not interesting."

This film soundtrack is pretty good, not sure how much credit to give André Previn. May have to listen to the concept album to compare.

Shostakovich saw it on stage in London, apparently loved it and went back the next night. He said he wished he could right something for rock band...

Concept album sounding pretty good as well

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