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...PROBLEM with the Bible, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is that it's too far removed from the twentieth century. So the musical-writing duo decided to update the story of the Gospels, and Jesus Christ Superstar was the result...
Giani also deals handily with a second problem often associated with productions of Superstar--the music is very difficult to sing. Webber and Rice write catchy tunes, but their use of demanding harmonies often results in offpitch notes from even good vocalists...
...Judas, Daniel Banks faces the challenge of playing one of history's great villains. When Webber and Rice wrote the part, they elected to present Judas as sympathetic--one of Jesus' followers who thinks that the movement and the adulation have gotten out of control...
...offer in London's commercial theater, it is only one of four musicals slated for the Great White Way. The others are Chess, a cynical and muddled narrative in which Sicilian openings and checkmates serve as metaphors for nuclear disaster; Phantom, a quasi- operatic retelling by Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats) of the much- filmed monster-meets-girl melodrama; and another revival from the heyday of the Broadway tunesmiths, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, in a consistently lively rendition by the Royal Shakespeare Company that nonetheless will need star quality recasting to prosper on Broadway...
...previous record of $2.4 billion in 1984. Even TWA, a perennially struggling carrier now run by Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, is expected to enjoy a banner year. "The airlines are living in the best of all possible worlds," declares John Pincavage, who follows the industry for the Paine Webber Group investment firm...