This Easter Friday, Arwen reviews the timeless film opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.” How did this unlikely opera find its way to film? What choices led up to the unusual film style, even for the Seventies? What about the picking of the cast? And what are the limitations of filming a Rock Opera on location?

Directed by Normal Jewison
Screenplay: Melvyn Bragg & Normal Jewison
Book and music: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
Starring:
Ted Neeley as Jesus Christ
Carl Anderson as Judas Iscariot
Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene
Barry Dennen as Pontius Pilate
Bob Bingham as Caiaphas
Larry Marshall as Simon Zealotes
Josh Mostel as King Herod

0:00 "Jesus Christ Superstar" the album 1970
1:20 The single "Superstar" with Murray Head
with the Trinidad Singers
2:20 Turning a musical into film
3:00 The cast of the movie
5:05 Ted Neeley in "Starsky and Hutch"
5:40 Opera film and album
7:10 Easter film
7:55 Overture - introduction of the film
9:30 Film adds to the music
10:20 Based on the Gospels
11:20 Not everything is explained in Opera
12:55 Secular interpretation
14:17 Abstract filming locations
17:00 Hippy abstract
17:45 Such a sad story
18:45 The period of "the Passion"
21:30 The picking of the cast
22:45 Mention "A Chorus Line" 1985
23:30 Andrew Lloyd Webber's music choices
24:00 BTW it's still an Opera
24:40 Israel coproduction

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Music: Magnetic Rag by Scott Joplin
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