JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR LYRIC OPERA CHICAGO TICKETS SERIES
This stage production was first produced in 2016 at Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre, and looks similar to, but smaller than, the TV set-a series of stacked platforms around a walkway, backed by greenery, containing the six rock musicians and providing entrance and exit space for the throngs. That Eastertime JCSS ethos is back first with NBC’s live television broadcast on the actual Sunday, and now with the North American premiere of Timothy Sheader’s Olivier Award-winning London production at Chicago’s Lyric Opera, conducted by Tom Deering (also part of the original creative team). had no mass communication ” and the deeply existential idea that “to conquer death you only have to die.” I dug Tim Rice’s funny and accessible lyrics: “One thing I’ll say for him, Jesus is cool ” the attention to early marketing with “Did Mohammed move the mountain or was that just PR?” and “Israel in 4 B.C. I adored Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan as Jesus, nailing the high notes of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s complicated score. I saw a local college production with a female Judas.
I choreographed “Simon Zealotes” for a high school talent show. We’d play the brown London double album after returning from Presbyterian Easter services to combine worship and rock n’ roll. My sister and I found religion with JCSS in 1970.
I was a budding theater nerd when my cool uncle Tommy turned me on to The Who’s Tommy in 1969.
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