Amazon.com: Ted Neeley makes for a wimpy looking Jesus in Norman Jewison's screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice 'rock opera,' which was a smash on stage in the early '70s. Jewison (Other People's Money) adds some good exterior settings in the desert, but Lloyd Webber and Rice's dialogue-free story (everything is sung, as in a real opera), with its quasi-profundities about the inner demons of principal figures in the life of Christ, is the real hook. Yvonne Elliman sings the show's best-known song, 'I Don't Know How to Love Him.' --Tom Keogh
Rating: - One of the Best Musicals
This is most moving version of this classic story I've ever seen. The talent in this musical is extraordinary. It has been a part of our family from the beginning.
Rating: - Unique, Wonderful Musical
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR has wonderful music and the movie made from it is pretty close to perfect. Shot creatively on location in the Middle East and filled with expertly rendered visual symbolism this musical has a unique take on the last days of probably the most influential person to ever live. No matter what one's spiritual beliefs JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR can give the open minded viewer new insights into a life that changed the world.
Rating: - Rock Opera Provides Believable Portrayal of Judas and Christ
Jesus Christ Superstar is perhaps the boldest of all musicals made during the last seventy years, even though the story it tells is one that has been told, retold, and read for centuries. The way this show presents its subject material, and context has gotten it banned in a heavily Christian nation in Africa, and scolded by many Christian churches, but this musical has proven appealing to both people of faith, and those without. This musical was ahead of its time, starting an era of adaptation for Christianity, which wasn't moving into the new world very well, considering science was beginning to take a stronger grip over cultural knowledge and concepts. I consider this one of the first big steps into making Christianity more believable, and up to the standards of modern society.
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