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...last thing I expected to see was a Broadway musical based on the life of Jesus Christ - much less a rock opera." But as Jesus Christ Superstar began its evolution from record album to stage spectacle, Bender recognized its importance early on. Lyricist Tim Rice and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber were putting the finishing touches on Superstar in London when Bender mentioned the imminent debut of the opera in our Jan. 12, 1970 cover story on The Band, one of the first rock groups to give penetrating treatment to religion. As soon as the Decca recording appeared last fall...
...cover all facets of Superstar in words and pictures required a large cast of journalists. Bender and Reporter-Researcher Patsy Beckert interviewed Rice and Lloyd Webber, attended preview and premier performances, reviewed the merits of the show with the notables at the opening-night cast party. Show Business Correspondent Mary Cronin, who saw the production four times, obtained much of the background material for the story in two weeks of intensive interviewing. Jay Cocks, a movie critic who occasionally patrols Broadway as well, wrote a separate profile on Superstar's director, Tom (Hair) O'Horgan. Foote prepared...
...told." It does not pretend to span the enormous scope of the Gospels, simply the last seven days in Jesus' life but with the divinity of Christ and the Resurrection left out. JCS was created by two talented, engaging young Englishmen, Lyricist Tim Rice, 26, and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...wrong for Jesus? Why didn't he choose to make his appearance on earth today, when he could have the benefit of mass communications to teach his followers? Armed with a paperback edition of Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ, which compares and calibrates the Gospel stories, Lloyd Webber and Rice burrowed and borrowed from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to create a libretto. The first three Gospels, says Rice, seem more dependable, since John "was much hotter on visions and supernatural things." They concentrated on Christ's reputation as a humanitarian thinker, the charismatic leader of a dissident...
...prosperity back on the scene? In some key parts of the economy, a state approaching prosperity has indeed returned, yet this year's first-quarter results were far from evidence of fast or full recovery. Says Economist Robert B. Johnson, vice president of Wall Street's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis: "It's quite true that the economy is turning the corner. But one thing is sure-it isn't doing it on two wheels...