I watched this production of JCST a few weeks ago - AMAZING, BRILLIANT! Jesus Christ Superstar is my favorite musical of all time and I've watched the original a lot! But this production blew my mind. It was so good. I LOVED IT!!! Congratulations to all the amazing stars and lastly Andrew Lloyd Webber - ROCKS!!!! Angie Wilkin, Auckland, New Zeland

AMAZING production last night on Easter! I grew up on the old production and this show was fresh and new. I was moved from the very beginning. When Legend came out and blew a kiss then outstretched his hands to the audience in the very beginning I knew this show was going to be very special! AMAZING show! Very wonderful! I hope they make it possible to purchase a CD! BRAVO everyone!

@221BSam

3 жыл бұрын

We just saw it for the first time in England over the Christmas break, my Dad also grew up with the original & he *loved* it! He’s always told me he doesn’t like musicals (I do) he knew every single word 😁

@imy5279

3 жыл бұрын

@@221BSam awesome

Last year , I went to the Jazz Heritage Fest in New Orleans . I saw all types of performances , from Snoop Dog , Dave Mathews , And many others . I could totally see John Legend perform amongst these greats . He's top notch . Much respect for this man .

I watched this to hear from Brandon who replaced Leslie Odom, Jr. as Burr in Hamilton so he's the most experienced. Very insulting that the director only talked about John, Sara, and Alice. Judas is the pivotal role in this musical. Well, he was brilliant and we all know it.

What the hell no words with Brandon Dixon the real star of the show?

Brandon Victor Dixon was incredible! All the cast did an outstanding job but Dixon is a superstar!!!

Alice , every time I see more interviews you are in...you just keep impressing me..God bless you and your faith!

@jimfelix3684

6 жыл бұрын

I've met Alice , his daughter Calico and his son Dash whom I consider a friend..decent people

@BigSleepyOx

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not at all familiar with Alice Cooper's music, so I'm not a fan of him like that (I'm actually more familiar of his participation in a WrestleMania years and years ago haha), but every time I've seen him interviewed, he's always come off as a well-spoken, cool guy. :) Unlike Ted Nugent. lol

@shay2218

6 жыл бұрын

jim felix great names!

@a.d.marshall2748

3 жыл бұрын

He hates Christ. You have to to be a part of this satanic dung. Wow people believe anything.

I’ve seen different versions of this musical! Ted Neeley nailed it and is still nailing it! Steve Balsamo is so emotive and on point! Glenn Carter was amazing! Ben was amazing as well! Jon Moses too! Now I can’t wait to see what John Legend brings on Easter Sunday!!

@paleezze

6 жыл бұрын

Ted Neeley is the BEST Jesus EVER an nobody can step into this roll, but even with that said, John Legend was awful. He just isn't connected at all. Otherwise, it's an OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

@michaelkadunce3155

6 жыл бұрын

Sharita Taylor.

I can;t wait. What perfect picks for each role - Legend as JC?!?! Wow. Alice as Herod! - inspired. Sara as Mary - a role perfect for Yvonne and now just waiting for Sara!

When I watch it it was the best musical I have ever seen even though I am don’t go to church but i am happier to watch it and see the whole band play it was mind blowing

As I have alway's love Jesus superstar I think John really made me feel connected to the personality of Jesus he did a Great job I would rate his performance100 present delivery was 100 present his vocals 100 precent overall 500 precent the best man for the role producer 100Alace copper great and thetic job overall

A head scratching and incomprehensible Jesus Christ meets West Side Story mashup, but with many strong vocal and theatrical performances by some very talented actors here. Strangely, Alice Cooper's twisted and ridiculous vaudeville performance as King Herod was a high point, despite his channeling Bob Hope by stepping out of character to play to the theater and home audience for applause and instant praise. But, for both the theater and home audience, I cannot deny there were not some great moments here, some of which both brought tears to my eyes as well as spiritual inspiration. The limitations of commercial television with commercial interruptions between every song number was the certainly a momentum buster when the show had managed to work well and capture the audience imaginations.

I grew up forced to go to Catholic schools for a good portion of my youth....thank God...8th grade was the finale...but I never really understood much about anything until the first time I listened to the album and saw the original movie. If it brings a teen to Jesus, it’s a true Godsend! I haven’t been to a Mass or service inn many moons, but every year I celebrate Easter with the Show! Shows!

I can't wait to see this.

Thanks for making this musical love it

6:08 response of Alice Cooper. Wow. Just wow! He has a deep understanding of who Jesus really is.

@jordansinger8543

9 ай бұрын

Alice cooper was indoctrinated as a child. Jesus is a myth made up by middle eastern sexist men - hell bent on controlling woman. The bible endorses slavery, incest, rape, genocide, and even human and animal sacrifice! You should try to actually read the bible. Alice Cooper was indoctrinated from birth by his parents - the only way religion finds its way into the mind of humanity. No Jesus is coming for you!

This is perfect timing for this to be shown. Not trying to be religious on here , but i have my faith in god ,and Jesus , we need some light in this wold that is so full of fear , and hate , we need to start loving ,and being respectful to one another instead of blaming others . Now any one can believe in what they want to believe in and that is perfectly ok , But my faith has always been by my side when I felt like I wanted to just give up I have been through a lot of hard struggles in my life that were very hard , and lonely . As Jesus said , we need to heal ourselves . we have the power to change for the better . Yes he could heal you with a touch of his hand , but their was to little of him to go around . But with that being said he is always around even when we feel like giving up and feel like all hope is lost . Again people can choose what they want to believe in .

@camillemaez3819

6 жыл бұрын

I am just curious, what do you mean when you say there is too little of him to go around?

@phantomlover1000

6 жыл бұрын

In the temple scene of Jesus Christ Superstar , the poor ,and the sick , and dying , know that he has powers from god ,and that he can heal all of their Problems . They where crowding him ,and He said that there is to many of you ,and too little of me . And He screams HEAL YOUR SELVES ! What I mean is that people where taking him for granted ,and not trying to help themselves when they have their own power to help their own self and lives get better . That is what I take from it .

In the early days of iTunes Music Store, Apple asked John Legend to submit a "celebrity playlist" and his was 3 time longer than any other celebrity we got them from, and his was very eclectic.

On October 3, 1847...a miracle that not too many people know about occurred in Ocotlan, Jalisco...a village in Mexico...The villagers there had gathered to mourn the loss of 40 villagers who had died there just one day before, after an earthquake hit their village...the mourners were having a church ceremony when suddenly two clouds showed up in northwestern sky...the clouds separated...then Jesus appeared to them from between the two clouds...He was hanging on the cross suffering for them...He was seen by many villagers from all different directions...it is documented that 2000 persons witnessed Jesus's image in the sky...Jesus Christ Superstar 2018 reminded me of that wonderful miracle that God granted Mexico... 170 years ago!!!

Not a word from Tony nominee & Broadway native, Brandon Victor Dixon? Are you kidding? He's playing Judas, which is a co-lead with John Legend. Incredible vocal demands and amazing songs. I'm very dissatisfied with this interview.

@LouisVitale420

6 жыл бұрын

Kris Tonner I thought the same thing! I'm playing Judas right now in a local production in Vermont, and it is no easy task!

@paleezze

6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Victor Dixon is the BEST! He's outstanding!

@IAmLovesLight

6 жыл бұрын

I'm watching the interview and skimming comments and your comment makes me want to turn it off. What a shame!

@michaelkadunce3155

6 жыл бұрын

Kris Tonner.

@lauramiller9672

6 жыл бұрын

I can't believe they didn't ask Brandon questions this is a story from judas's point of view

Whether y'all chose to edit out Mr. Dixon/Judas or simply didn't include him, that is so unfortunate. He definitely was "the" star tonight. What an amazing show, overall! Just highly disappointed with this interview. Why?????!

John was completely overshadowed by everyone else in that musical.. Broadway singing is a completely different level and they had him up there with Sarah and Brandon, 2 massively successful performers.. and they both just outperformed him. I felt bad for John cause he just didn’t have that range.

Shame on all of you for not mentioning Brandon Victor Dixon. I don't understand why he was not included in this interview. He was fantastic in this production.

@datsnuffydude5460

4 жыл бұрын

Meg Edwards he probably was. This is cut from a longer interview but I’m like you, would have loved it if they included some of Brandon’s comments. After all, he is a Broadway actor and really carried the entire show.

@221BSam

3 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure he was there.

As a family we were disappointed with the lack of acting, and then my husband pointed out it was advertised as a concert. Listening to the interview above, they are pretty much saying it was planned as a interactive concert. The music is awesome, however I enjoy the story just as much and wish they had incorporated more acting. Was surprised to learn A. Cooper played Herod back in what did he say 1960?

tim rice's podcast brought me here. enjoyed the interviews and the show itself.

Alice Cooper was the absolute best part of the show.

The 2000 Broadway version seemed pedestrian and mediocre until the last quarter hour. For some reason at Jesus' death, I broke down weeping and began praying. My guess is that Jesus Christ Superstar brought souls to Christ, and precisely those souls who are turned away by the words and actions of some of the haters on this thread.

WHAT A SAVE!

This is not a time of entertainment. This is one of the most important time of the year. It is a time of reflection and being grateful. We need to take this serious. We have other times to enjoy entertainment. Please be respectful Jesus died for our sins.

@camillemaez3819

6 жыл бұрын

kjh lk thank you! I feel like I'm in a twilight zone seeing so many people praising their talents more than Jesus himself and what he's done for us.

So looking forward to this!!! John Legend, Alice Cooper, Sara B & Brandon V Davis?!!?! OMG...this simply can't go wrong!!

Johns way of saying no i cant hit any of those notes

Want to see Ian Gillan as Jesus and Alice Cooper as King Herod on the same scene

For some of the comments: why are you obsessed with fighting? God is love

Agree this story is not put down our faith. The only thing is that I wish it did the whole story and not stop at Jesus's death. Being aired on the day of the celebration of Jesus resurrection it would have been nice to see the whole story.

@jordanamos2460

6 жыл бұрын

Tammy Poitras they won't change the original text for the show and write more songs, why are people being so stupid here

I look forward to watching this production! I am doing a review on the movie Jesus Christ Superstar. I love the melodies! However, the depiction of Jesus is quite controversial in some scenes. What’s with the tons of guns in the movie? More like Jesus the revolutionary or freedom fighter!

@4dultw1thj0b

6 жыл бұрын

I mean that's pretty much what Jesus was

@carolinekangwa5996

6 жыл бұрын

AlwaysGonnaSing How true! Usually we think of Jesus as just this calm pacifist and forget his activist spirit. He has been on the side of poor, oppressed and he is not afraid to disrupt the status quo. Thank you for reminding me if this.

@vsilverisisv

6 жыл бұрын

I believe the scene you are referring to is the one where the apostle Simon is trying to get Jesus to build an army and march on Rome after having a fight with the Roman guard. Jesus at the end of it doesn’t agree with him and says that Simon is misunderstanding the point of his message. The fact that the fight broke out because Jesus hippy dippy verbally flipped the bird at the pharisees is not mentioned.....

I'm sorry but no one can play Jesus in Superstar better than Ted Neeley. No disrespect to John. Ted nailed it. You saw his heart, emotions in the Garden. Through the whole movie. .... and no one can hit those high notes like Ted. If anyone wants to compare performances go to Jesus Christ Superstar the Garden of Gethsemane 1973 Ted Neeley. For someone who knew they were going to be crucified shortly John didn't show the emotion like Ted did. John is a great singer but he didn't sell it. Especially in Gethsemane. He just sang the song. Again, just my thoughts and not to disrespect John Legend.

@mrswilbert

5 жыл бұрын

Glenn Carter was better.

I have always liked Jesus Christ Super Star the rock opera in the context of being seeing through the eyes of Judas. Alice, love ya, but one of the things that doesn't sit right with me about it though is the confusion of Christ when He says "I wanna know my God" He knew His God and why he had to do what he did. He had a struggle with it but never any confusion. - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told - Les Ullrich

The only thing that is important here is that Alice Cooper is in this production. Although he should be Jesus.

Why nothing from Dixon?? he is THE co-star of the show. The whole story is told from his point of view. For me the most disappointing aspect of the show itself was how the hid the death of Judas. I wonder if it was because of all the suicide awareness movement these days. I thought it a cop-out.

@221BSam

3 жыл бұрын

And, the age of the viewers couldn’t be anticipated, it still works.

Ian Gillan wasn't available for the role he made popular?

I enjoyed this production a lot, I celebrate that they did it. Having said that, John Legend was totally miscast; he doesn't have the vocal range needed for the role, he gave a very mediocre rendition of Gethsemane. Sara Bareilles' voice is beautiful but you could always tell she's not an actress. Her movements were dorky all the time because she just doesn't know how to stand, move, *be* on a theatre stage. Alice Cooper was fun and I was happy to see him being part of this, however nothing outstanding about his performance. Ben Daniels was the worst Pontius Pilate I've ever seen/heard. (He even ran out of voice during his final solo.) *Brandon Victor Dixon was amazing* (I think he was the best out of all the cast.) The musicians were amazing and the overall orchestration was beautiful. I wish these beautiful productions a better casting selection next time.

I responded to the wrong comment somehow. Oops.

Where is simon

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THIS MUSICAL IS A BLASFEMI

Ted Neely.

The reality is people will perform any role that's willing to pay them a dollar, but I personally think it's totally disingenuous of people who are not Believers in Christ Jesus to be portraying him in any aspect or any other the biblical figure for that matter.... but I do know show business/Hollywood does have extremely low moral standards if any at all so I'm not at all surprised.

@dwanahackman1304

6 жыл бұрын

Who are to judge someone's Salvation? It may wake up a teenager.

@camillemaez3819

6 жыл бұрын

The problem is this is about entertainment, the music.. Not about Jesus & what he did for us. Not even once did you hear any of them mention that he died on the cross for our sins.. it's all sweet nothing's about the "music".

@michaelkadunce3155

6 жыл бұрын

Jason black.

@221BSam

3 жыл бұрын

That is a bit mean, John Legend may not broadcast his Faith but, how do you know he doesn’t have beliefs? some people like to be private about those things.

Alice, Baphomet incarnate, claims to be a Christian while singing the most blasphemous song in the most blasphemous satanic musical ever written.

Just terrible casting based on virtue signaling. A black asian, really? No wonder the work suffers when the last thing as selection criteria are talent and the ability to sing.

I was thinking that I can't wait to see this when I heard that Alice cooper was in it! "Jesus Christ Superstar" is my favorite rock opera and one of my top 20 all time favorite albums, WITH THE ORIGINAL cast of singers, which included the incredible Ian Gillan! However, FYI, Jesus was JEWISH, NOT African! It's aggravating that Black people keep trying to claim that everyone who is considered to be respectable was actually Black! Stop trying to rewrite history! Jesus was Jewish, which means that the look that he has been depicted with through the millennia, is likely correct!

@googletimes89

6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind it except for the fact that it seems they HAVE TO, in other words the way they think "Well we can't have Him be who He is, so let's go liberal", anyways Cooper nailed it, if that wasn't the slyist testimony I don't know what is, here's he's saying "I don't think it's blasphemous", when the rest probably don't understand that word, Alice is a real, hardcore Christian.

@4dultw1thj0b

6 жыл бұрын

Dude, Black people can be Jewish. Also, to be more precise, it's likely that he was of North African/Middle-Eastern descent. Also, it's not a literal depiction of the people as they actually existed in history. Did you think Hamilton was trying to convince people that Hamilton was Puerto Rican and Washington was Black?

@googletimes89

6 жыл бұрын

I understand, the second I wrote that I realized it came out wrong, I can promise you I'm not racist. So here me out and hopefully you'll get my point. I went to school with about 33% dark skin people, then I boxed and it was almost all dark skin people, but I NEVER THOUGHT OF PEOPLE IN TERMS OF SKIN COLOR, I happen to think it's the most ignorant, racist stupid thing ever. When I refer to people, HUMANS, I never refer to them by their skin color. So the point I messed up, I've noticed that OTHERS DO MAKE A BIG DEAL OF SKIN COLOR, to me THAT'S RACIST, I agree with MLK that we should not "Judge a person by the color of their skin but by the content of their character", but THAT'S NOT WHAT I SEE IN SOCIETY, what I see are Hollywood liberals saying "Oh we don't have enough black skin people, so let's balance everything out", so from my standpoint, as someone who doesn't see skin color, for WE'RE THE SAME, EXACTLY THE SAME, if I died my skin black and a dark skin person had their's bleached are we now different? No, we're the same, just different skin color. So my point, which I made so badly was this, "Diversity", Diversity is THE MOST RACIST THING I CAN THINK OF, it says "We won't judge people by character, but by skin color, so if we don't have enough white skin, brown skin, blacker skin we need to balance it, and ignore who they are", follow me? See how that's racist, for they are NOT judging on the person, but the skin. So I wrote that bad, racism is REAL, I made a dark skin guy manager of my business, TWO PEOPLE said "I'm not taking orders from a N....er", I immediately fired them, and it made me sick, sorry for the confusion.

@4dultw1thj0b

6 жыл бұрын

Damn, this is a mess. I don't even know where to start. I will say that just because you believe that you don't think race matters does not mean that you are not or can't be racist. It just means that you have no idea what you're talking about on the subject and seem to have no willingness to learn.

@googletimes89

6 жыл бұрын

OK you know what, I didn't have to come on here, I did my best to explain it, and if that's not good enough for you I really don't care, go nag someone else.

Not one to or about Brandon's performance. Shameful

cant take legend.....he is joke... no humility

He's awful! Worst Jesus ever played. The rest of the cast and production is outstanding! John Legend isn't an actor and isn't connected to his character at all!

@1957bullshit

6 жыл бұрын

Bee zee - Totally agree... he showed no emotion & was one dimensional. Crooned through his songs like he was Frank Sinatra singing My Way. Legend should have listened to Ian Gillan on the original recording to get a clue on how it's done.

@the22ndday

6 жыл бұрын

Ms Judged - or watch the movie with Neeley and Anderson. Those voices and the way they play off each other was awesome!

@Marlowe327

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t believe you watched the same version on Easter that I did! Legend is just that!

@premillawilly6134

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed he is not an actor but a singer but even the singing was not up to par.

@ramonserna8089

6 жыл бұрын

The rest of the cast was so amazing it made me give Legend a pass. Best Jesuscrist Superstar version ever in my opinion only the original come close to it.

the performance was pathetic.. the vocal quality was terrible,and they completely ruined this classic..

@mrswilbert

5 жыл бұрын

Completely unwatchable.

Terrible, all of this.

Legend was crap. Worst Jesus ever. No connection and voice was awful. Such a shame..

All I know is this musical better not be like the original Blasphemous twisted Musical the first one was depicting Jesus as having a wife I hope the produces actually read the Bible before they put this project together. But then again I think I'll pass on this corny play I have absolutely no interest in seeing how this corrupt World depicts my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ😉

@standudek6676

6 жыл бұрын

JustThink 1 How loving you come across. 😉

@camillemaez3819

6 жыл бұрын

The way they depict Christ is as a man who did good for humanity. Jesus IS GOD. Jesus was never having an affair with Mary Magdalene. Jesus was not ONLY a man.. they are blaspheming God.

@the22ndday

6 жыл бұрын

JustThink 1 - LOL!

Horrible performance. The Original was the BEST!!!!!