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...Rock, which marks the spot where Mohammed, around A.D. 620, is said to have started his remarkable "Night Journey" to the seven heavens in company with the Archangel Gabriel. Near by are the Via Dolorosa, the path that Christians believe was followed by Jesus on the way to his crucifixion, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which stands on the spot where, tradition has it, he was placed in his tomb...
...imitations--Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Shirley Temple and Donald Duck are numbered among this lord's disciples--and the song and dance routines. There is a soft-shoe number (Christ and Judas singing "All for the Best"), a Simon-and-Garfunkeler ("On the Willow," a hymn to crucifixion), and a nice example of that newest of song-types, revival rock ("Day by Day.") Although most of Stephen Schwartz's songs are interchangeable, Godspell avoids the free-formlessness of Hair. From the sight gags to the pantomimes to the chorus line kicks, each bit in this musical has been carefully thought...
...Jesus Christ Superstar will go down in history as the second crucifixion of Christ in 2.000 years. Unfortunately, America will stand by and let it happen again...
...seems increasingly to draw its power from emotion fed back into the object-sexual or not-that had provoked it. Wrote Critic John Berger: "He has been able to see and imagine more suffering in a single horse's head than many artists have found in a whole Crucifixion." His paintings approach autobiography, a vivid graph of his reactions to public issues and private relationships...
CASTING a Crucifixion drama has sometimes been more dramatic than the Passion play itself. Nikos Kazantzakis, for one, even made the ritual into a powerful tragic novel. But in Manhattan, the casting for the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (TIME, Nov. 9) has been mostly showbiz. Long lines of hopefuls crowded outside the Mark Hellinger Theater last week to read for parts in a touring concert company that goes on the road July 12. Jesus will be Shawn Phillips (left), a blond, bearded Texan with silky hair almost to his waist. Yvonne Elliman, star of the Decca recording, will play...