Jesus Christ, Superstar
This month I’m speaking on Jesus Christ, Superstar, Norman Jewison’s 1973 film based on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera. Jesus was played by Ted Neeley.
(Director: Norman Jewison) (Ted Neeley… Jesus Christ, Carl Anderson… Judas Iscariot, Yvonne Elliman… Mary Magdalene, Barry Dennen… Pontius Pilate, Bob Bingham… Caiaphas, Larry Marshall… Simon Zealotes (as Larry T. Marshall), Josh Mostel… King Herod (as Joshua Mostel), Kurt Yaghjian… Annas, Paul Thomas… Peter (as Philip Toubus), Pi Douglass… Apostle, Richard Orbach… John, Robert LuPone… James, Jonathan Wynne… Apostle, Thommie Walsh… Thaddeus, Richard Molinare… Andrew, David Devir… Apostle, Jeff Hyslop… Philip)
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December 23rd, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Can you post all your podcast into Itunes?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
thank you .
September 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Several times you refer to the cast as “students”. Yet there is no such indication in the movie that they are anything other than an acting troupe.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I think there are “indications” - their similar ages, their style of dress, their interactions and so on. It’s not definite proof, so perhaps another word might have been more appropriate, but I think it’s fairly likely that that is what is intended.
Matt
February 21st, 2009 at 10:37 am
Thanks for this; it’s really interesting. I don’t know if I’d call the timing of the last cross shot “fortuitous” though… According to Ted Neeley, the inclusion of the shepherd in the final shot was a [purposeful] concession to the Christian community, including Neeley himself. Gread podcast!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
Thanks for your comments everyone.
LJ, I’d be really interested to know your source for that? Going by memory (and this was almost 2 years ago), I watched the director’s commentary (which also featured Neeley) as part of my prep for it, and I thought that it was only then that I picked up it was an “accident”. But then I may very well have remembered that all completely wrong.
Or it might be that it being captured on film was an accident, but the decision to include it once it had been discovered was, as you say, “a [purposeful] concession to the Christian community”.
Thanks again,
Matt