Variety magazine had quickly predicted that Jesus Christ Superstar would become “the biggest all-media parlay in show business history” upon the concept album’s release. (One company sold out two nights at Los Angeles’ famous Hollywood Bowl, taking $200,000 with a top ticket price of $10.) Success breeding success, Stiggie soon added a college touring company, meaning that, at one stage, three simultaneous authorized arena tours were performing the work around the United States. The second launched on September 17 in Providence, Rhode Island, unleashed once more by the incomparable Robert Stigwood. Indeed, the first/main tour was so incredibly successful - and demand so great - that by the end of the summer of 1971, there were two concert companies simultaneously touring American arenas.
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The Pittsburgh event kicked off a sell-out concert tour of the US, booked by William Morris. These concerts included a cast of 26 plus 26 musicians, with lighting and costumes but no staging or sets. The original touring company (which included Yvonne Elliman reprising her role as Mary, and newcomers Jeff Fenholt as Jesus and Carl Anderson as Judas) visited 54 locations across the USA and performed the show 74 times. On the ‘if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ principle (even though he did beat ’em in the end) Robert ‘s masterstroke was to set up his own touring concert version.”Ĭome summer 1971, 13,640 people crowded the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh for the first concert showing on July 12, breaking the attendance record set there by Tom Jones the year before. Tim Rice puts how it went next best in his autobiography: “…in a way, the pirates did us an enormous favor by showing that there was massive potential in Superstar as a live show without the trappings of Broadway and legitimate theatre.
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With unofficial productions banned, the official stage incarnation of Jesus Christ Superstar was now free to go ahead. Photos from the Broadway production on the back of the album. Percussion: Gordon Gottlieb, Henry Jaramillo, Howard Kirsch Violas: Julien Barber, Selwart Clarke, Harold Furmansky, Emanuel Hirsh, David Johnson, Maury PollockĬello: Maurice Bialkin, Alla Goldberg, Gloria Lanzarone, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Ruben Riveraĭouble Bass: Samuel Levitan, Barbara Wilson Violins: Arianna Bronne, Norman Carr, Harry Cykman, Gayle Dixon, Felix Giglio, Harry Glickman, Emanuel Green, Paul Grotsky, Julius Held, Raymond Kunicki, Morris Lefkowitz, Carmel Malin, Joseph Malin, Michael Markman, Ben Miller, Seymour Miroff, Louann Montesi, Secondo Proto, Alvin Rogers, Aaron Rosand, Frank Siegfried, Herbert Sorkin, Irving Spice, Vladimir Weisman Trumpets: Paul Bogosian, Burt Collins, Alfonse Maiorca, Lloyd Michelsįrench Horns: Richard Berg, James Buffington, Donald Corrado, Fred Griffen, Brooks Tillotsonįlute, Piccolo Flute: Katherine Hoover, Seymour Press, Anthony Saffer Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet: Paul Fleisherĭrums, Percussion: Allen Herman Additional Orchestra Piano, Organ, Electric Piano: Phillip “Pot” Namanworth (Electric and Acoustic) Guitars: Elliott Randall The Chorus………… Robert Barnes, Edward Barton, Ferne Bork, Celia Brin, Dennis Buckley, Kay Cole, Dennis Cooley, Charlotte Crossley, Denise Delapenha, Pi Douglass, Marsha Faye, Tony Gardner, Michael Jason, Melvin Laszczynski, Clifford Lipson, Laura Michaels, Anita Morris, Nathanial Morris, Ted Neeley, Cecelia Norfleet, Janet Powell, Linda Rios, James Sbano, Peter Schlosser, Bonnie Schon, Tom Stovall, Paul Sylvan, Margaret Warncke, Willie Windsor, Samuel Wright, Kurt Yaghjian Priests………… Steven Bell, Alan Braunstein, Michael Meadows I gave a cast member a copy of an early Playbill and by the sixth month, three people had played Judas.” Therefore, if you see any differences in this cast list from other lists of the OBC reported elsewhere, please note that this is the cast as of recording, courtesy of the liner notes for the 2003 Decca Broadway CD release.
For example, a fan on the 2012 Broadway revival’s Facebook page reports: “Ben Vereen… was injuried (sic) and replaced by seveal (sic) Judases. NOTE: Please note that there were many replacements during the course of the show, which was par for the course in a Tom O’Horgan production just ask any former cast members of Hair.
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