To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the musical drama, members of the cast and crew will be part of a special screening in Santa Ana.
“Fans of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ will be celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest screen musicals ever produced alongside stage and screen legend Ted Neeley,” Crow reminded. “It’s going to be electric, it’s going to be great. We’ll have people dancing in the aisles, singing along.”
Neeley was a member of that original stage production, as part of the ensemble cast and as the understudy for Jesus. A couple of years later, it was his turn to rise when he got the lead role in the film adaptation, which came after Neeley got a call from the film’s director, Norman Jewison, asking him to come to London for an audition.Like the musical, the film version recounts the last days of Jesus Christ told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, who worries that Jesus is falling for his own hype. And after Jesus has an outburst in a temple, Judas betrays him.
“The movie is the greatest screen adaptation of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical,” Crow said. “The music is incredible, it crosses so many genres, it’s an incredible rock opera that still stands up 50 years later.”
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