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Word: heavenzapoppin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then as a double album, finally as a 1971 stage show in New York. It was not the first rock musical -- Galt MacDermot's Hair preceded it, as did the Who's "rock opera" Tommy -- but its impact was extraordinary. Lloyd Webber hated Director Tom O'Horgan's lurid, heavenzapoppin' staging, which featured a transvestite Herod, Judas in silver briefs and Christ emerging from a huge chalice clad in a $20,000 glittering robe. Christian as well as Jewish groups protested the show as offensive, but it ran for 720 performances before heading off to the West End and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS 1971: The Gold Rush to Golgotha JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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