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Jesus Christ Superstar - UK Tour

The award winning Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production of   Jesus Christ Superstar   is now on tour across the UK.

Timothy Sheader ( Crazy for You, Into the Woods ) directs the iconic global phenomenon, Jesus Christ Superstar  which tours the UK from September 2023. Reimagined by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, it won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, garnering unprecedented reviews and accolades.

Featuring lyrics and music by Emmy, GRAMMY, Oscar and Tony winners Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber , and with choreography by Drew McOnie ( King Kong, Strictly Ballroom ), Jesus Christ Superstar  is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary series of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ, as seen through the eyes of Judas. Reflecting the rock roots that defined a generation, the legendary score includes ‘ I Don’t Know How to Love Him ’, ‘ Gethsemane ’ and ‘ Superstar ’.

Don’t miss your chance to see this “gorgeous, thrilling, heavenly musical.” – The Guardian

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The appearance of any member of cast is subject to change and may be affected by contracts, holiday, illness, or events beyond the producers’ control. Please check the venue website for details. This sung-through musical (which contains loud music) centres on the final days of the life of Jesus. It contains flashing lights and visual effects, pyrotechnics, theatrical smoke and haze, some violence and an onstage depiction of the crucifixion.

26 September - 17 August 2024

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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• Date May 15
• Event Starts 7:30 PM
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Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production of the iconic musical phenomenon returns to the stage. With lyrics and music by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar reflects the rock roots that defined a generation. The legendary score includes I Don’t Know How to Love Him , Gethsemane and Superstar . 6:30-7:15 pm in the Goldsmith Atrium: join us for preshow entertainment in the Goldsmith Atrium with students from Long Island High School for the Arts. Free for all ticketholders!

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50 th Anniversary of a Global Phenomenon…

Few albums had an impact the size of Jesus Christ Superstar. Within three years of its release in September 1970, it had spawned a Broadway and West End phenomenon, a London cast album and a box-office smash Hollywood film, and influenced many different rock operas that were to follow in its wake.

With this release, we take you back to a time when these bastions of the establishment were strictly underground, working with the cream of progressive rock at London’s Olympic Studios.

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Jesus Christ Superstar is available to academic schools, colleges and universities in the UK and Eire. The show is also available to academic and amateur groups in North America and in some other territories.

To find out if you may be eligible to stage your own production of Jesus Christ Superstar, please check our dedicated licensing website.

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Theater Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR (New Cast for 2022-2023 Tour)

by Maddalena Beltrami on December 31, 2022

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I still have the soundtrack album that I bought when I was 14. I saw the movie when I was 16. I saw the Broadway Revival in my late teens. Today, just over fifty years after Jesus Christ Superstar premiered on Broadway, I had the pure pleasure of seeing it again at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. It’s a mash-up of rock concert stadium staging, lead actors holding microphones, music video, and Broadway-style production values and voices. With Shawn Gough ’s astoundingly tight music direction, Drew McOnie ’s hot-blooded aerobic choreography, Lee Curran ’s magical dramatic lighting, Tom Scutt ’s modern set and costumes, and a beautiful blend of vocals by an immense ensemble, this Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2016 production — updated for a 21st-century audience — is the closest thing you’ll get to heaven, like when you make money online at Aviator BetWinner . It’s a fantastic production that mostly gets it right given the uneven casting.

There are 80+ recordings of  JC Superstar from over a dozen countries, not one of which in totality tops the original 1970 Concept Album. This North American tour, which runs well into 2023, returns to that raw street-wise power, and elucidates the timelessness of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score, still his best. Never intended to be an accurate portrait of Christ’s passion, the story is lyricist Tim Rice’s idea of what Judas’s thoughts and motivations may have been, not a Biblical portrayal at all.

Interestingly enough, as much as I loved it, the three leads are somewhat disappointing — if, that is, you are expecting a blend of rock star vocals and great acting. It may be the fault of Timothy Sheader’s direction, which gives Jesus, Mary, and Judas scant sense of backstory and relationship, of which there is precious little to begin with. The leads play second fiddle to the melee and get somewhat lost. Maybe Sheader — who wisely dropped the intermission — thought any of that would get in the way of his hurtling high-voltage trajectory. Thus, Jack Hopewell ’s Jesus — complete with man bun — simply isn’t asked to blow you away like Ted Neeley or Steve Balsamo did. His tenor is lovely and lyrical, and his expressiveness and unique vocal timbre are awesome, even as he is better suited for pop. Maybe his interpretation is supposed to be less threatening to the current mood than a tall Jesus with long locks that rocks his torment. And Faith Jones as Mary was all wrong for the part in stature and looks and definitely in voice. — a beautiful lush high range is needed for her songs.

Still, Elvie Ellis plays the betrayer with a perfect blend of Broadway chops and show biz savvy, even as he lacks distinction. Beeks is particularly dramatic in “Damned for All Time” (when accepting his cash for ratting on Jesus to Caiaphas) and in “Judas’s Death” when his guilt and grief ultimately consume his life (with the help of a noose, here a dangling orange mic cord). When he comes back from the dead, there’s enough super-rockin’ dynamism — and seriously tight back-up Soul Girls L’Oréal Roaché , Savannah Fisher , Lydia Eku  — to make you get a ticket to come back (there are many cities for this tour, but runs are painfully short, most a week, so act fast).

It’s the smaller roles that blew me away, and I could hear every lyric from Isaac Ryckeghem , who is not just slimy as Caiaphas, the High Priest of Israel, but he snatches those low bass notes and spears them through the back of your head. Kodiak Thompson turns the manipulative, bullying priest Annas into a Mordred-like villain, and Nicholas Hambruch is thrilling as Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea.

Mr. Scutt’s set design has a runway-like crucifix, especially effective when Caiaphas and his cronies crack down on Christ, and the orchestra is on levels behind the playing area. The main themes here — power struggles, control, greed — are remarkably clear, visceral and palpable. There is the 21st-century nail gun used instead of a hammer for the cross scene, and, as if to thrust us into the modern age’s divide between the haves and have-nots, Mr. Sheader has his players hurl sparkling gold dust at Jesus to represent each lash he receives. It’s a coup de théâtre, one of many in this most admirable revival.

photos by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

Jesus Christ Superstar national tour Work Light Productions reviewed at  Hollywood Pantages  October, 2019 tour continues into 2020; for dates and cities,  visit JCS

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Saw it in Denver January 2024. I kept expecting the set to surprise me. But it was one of those raw sets where nothing moves, which I always find disappointing in a professional show. It looked good, but man I would have been thrilled if that big cross that they used as a stage rose up at the end. Nothing. I didn’t feel like there were too many standout performances and the choreography felt so robotic. I think all the singers holding microphones was weird and added to the music video vibe which I can see them going for, but it wasn’t working for us. Pilate, Caiaphas, and Judas were very good. I had never seen it live before, and didn’t really understand the point of that one dancer who stood out from everyone else and kind of thrusted her arms dramatically at everyone who was singing. What did she represent? I loved the silver-stained-hands idea for Judas. Mary didn’t have the passion I expected. I’m glad I saw it, but it didn’t wow me. Maybe they need to go back to its hippie/disco roots with the next revamp.

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Since its Broadway debut, this spectacular musical phenomenon has thrilled millions of theatregoers worldwide; mesmerizing them with its passion, captivating them with its story and entrancing them with its anthemic title song. And now, two-time Tony Award®-winning director Des McAnuff brings a bold, new vision to the classic rock opera by Tony, Grammy, and Academy Award-winners Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. 

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What Is the story of Jesus Christ Superstar ? Jesus Christ Superstar will be familiar, in basic fact, to anyone with knowledge of western religion. Borrowing from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the musical tells the story of the last seven days of Jesus Christ’s life. As the show opens, apostle Judas Iscariot is growing concerned that Jesus’ followers will be perceived as a threat to the occupying Roman Empire. Indeed, priests Caiaphas, Annas and more gather and agree that Jesus and his movement must be crushed. An exalted Jesus arrives in Jerusalem only to find the temple filled with unsavory merchants and money lenders. Overrun by a flood of people needing his help, he tells them to heal themselves, and his confidante Mary Magdalene has to calm him down. Judas, fearing the movement is getting out of Jesus’ control, goes to the Romans and tells them Jesus will be in the Garden of Gethsemane the following night. He receives 30 pieces of silver as payment. At the Garden, Judas arrives with Roman soldiers and identifies Jesus by kissing him on the cheek. Jesus is arrested and sent to Caiaphas, then Pontius Pilate and finally King Herod, who condemns his to death on the cross.

"The standout performance comes from Josh Young as a vocally lustrous and charismatic Judas Iscariot, well known for betraying his onetime mentor with a fatal kiss." The New York Times Charles Isherwood

Cast & Creative

Paul Alexander Nolan’s role as August in Water for Elephants will mark his 10th Broadway show. Most recently, he played prosecutor Hugh Dorsey in the 2023 Tony-winning revival o f Parade . In 2021, he reprised his role as Jim in the most Tony-nominated play in history, Slave Play , and toured with that production to the Mark Taper Forum in LA. Other Broadway roles include Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar , Guy in Once , Jimmy Ray in Bright Star (Drama Desk nomination), Pasha/Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Billy Flynn in Chicago , and Tully in Escape to Margaritaville . Off Broadway: Original casts of Daddy Long Legs and Slave Play . Recent regional: Life After at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Ahrens and Flaherty’s new musical, Knoxville , at Asolo Rep, directed by the late Frank Galati. Paul can be heard on 6 original cast albums. TV credits include The Code, Madam Secretary and Instinct for CBS.

Chilina Kennedy recently played Elle in the one-woman play  The Human Voice  (filmed for Toronto’s Ontario International College) and starred as Dina in the International Tour of  The Band’s Visit  opposite Sasson Gabay (Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award). Broadway: Carole King in  Beautiful: The Carole King Musical  (over 1200 performances) and Mary Magdalene in Des McAnuff’s  Jesus Christ Superstar . Off-Broadway: originated the role of Binky in Stephen Trask and Peter Yanowitz’s  This Ain’t No Disco  (Atlantic Theater Company). 1 st  National Tour: Sophie in  Mamma Mia!  Film:  With Me  (BravoFact, NY Shorts and Whistler Film Festivals). Selected Regional: Phoebe in  A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder  (CT and San Diego Critics' Circle Nominations), Evangeline in  Evangeline  (original production and album), Philia in Des McAnuff’s  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum  (Toronto/Mirvish) ,  Ross Petty’s Pantomime  The Little Mermaid  (Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award) ,  three seasons at the Stratford Festival, three seasons at the Shaw Festival and  The Lord of the Rings  (World Premiere Mirvish/Toronto). Chilina is currently developing a show that she composed and co-wrote with Eric Holmes,  Call It Love.  She is also the Artistic Producer of Toronto’s Eclipse Theatre Company.

Tom Hewitt arrives in  Hadestown  via  Chicago  having played Billy Flynn on Broadway, throughout the US and Japan.  Other Broadway bad guys include Scar, Dracula, Pontius Pilate, Captain Hook and Frank N Furter (Tony and Drama Desk nominations).  Off Broadway:  Aaron Marks’  Another Medea, Treasure Island, Jeffery, Beau Jest  (Outer Critics nomination),  Richard III  and  Othello.   National tours:   Finding Neverland, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Urinetown, Chicago  and  Peter Pan  with Cathy Rigby.  Recent regional credits:   Sweeney Todd  (Provincetown Theatre),  I Hate Hamlet  (Bucks County)  My Paris  (Long Wharf),  Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots  (La Jolla Playhouse). Film and TV includes  Law and Order, Elementary, Frasier  and Julie Taymors’  Fools’ Fire. 

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New Cast Set For National Tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

The non-Equity tour will begin the 2023-2024 season on October 3, 2023.

Casting has been announced for the next season of the Olivier Award-winning production of Regents Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar. With lyrics and music by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners  Tim Rice  and  Andrew Lloyd Webber , the non-Equity tour will begin the 2023-2024 season on October 3, 2023 with a performance at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, OH and go on to play over 60 cities including Toronto, Charlotte, Denver, Tampa, Little Rock and more. 

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As previously announced,  Jack Hopewell  and  Elvie Ellis  return to the tour to star as Jesus and Judas.

Jaden Dominique joins the tour in the role of Mary. The tour also welcomes  Grant Hodges  as Caiaphas,  Alex Stone  as Pilate, and Mekhi Holloway as Annas.

The ensemble includes Aja Simone Baitey, Ethan Hardy Benson, Joshua Bess , Sherrod Brown, Kalei Cotecson , Jaylon Crump, Alec Diem, Jaleel Green, Domanick Anton Hubbard , Haley Huelsman , Jeremy Makana Hurr , Katrice Jackson, Cameron Kuhn, Taylor Lane , Thomas McFerran, Jeilani Rhone-Collins, Johann Santiago Santos, Reese Spencer, TJ Tapp, Anakin Jace White, and  John Zamborsky .

Featuring lyrics and music by Emmy, GRAMMY, Oscar and Tony winners  Tim Rice  and  Andrew Lloyd Webber , the North American tour of this iconic musical is helmed by acclaimed director  Timothy Sheader  and cutting-edge choreographer  Drew McOnie . Rounding out the creative team is costume design by 2016 Tony Award nominee  Tom Scutt , with a set based on original designs by  Tom Scutt , lighting design by  Lee Curran , sound design by  Keith Caggiano , with music supervision by  David Holcenberg  and music direction by Ryan Edward Wise.

Elmira, NY 9/29/2023 - 9/30/2023 Clemens Center Columbus, OH 10/3/2023 - 10/8/2023 Ohio Theater Morgantown, WV 10/10/2023 - 10/10/2023 WVU Creative Arts Center Charleston, WV 10/11/2023 - 10/11/2023 Clay Center Charlotte, NC 10/13/2023 - 10/15/2023 Belk Theater at Blumenthal PAC Flint, MI 10/17/2023 - 10/18/2023 Whiting Auditorium Tysons, VA 10/20/2023 - 10/22/2023 Capital One Hall London, ON 10/24/2023 - 10/25/2023 Budweiser Gardens Hamilton, ON 10/26/2023 - 10/26/2023 FirstOntario Concert Hall Scranton, PA 10/27/2023 - 10/29/2023 Scranton Cultural Center Erie, PA 10/30/2023 - 10/31/2023 Warner Theater Toledo, OH 11/1/2023 - 11/1/2023 Valentine Theatre Rockford, IL 11/2/2023 - 11/2/2023 Coronado Performing Arts Center Lawrence, KS 11/4/2023 - 11/4/2023 Lied Center of Kansas Bartlesville, OK 11/5/2023 - 11/5/2023 Bartlesville Community Center Springfield, MO 11/6/2023 - 11/8/2023 Hammons Hall Shreveport, LA 11/11/2023 - 11/11/2023 The Strand Theatre Lufkin, TX 11/13/2023 - 11/13/2023 Temple Theater Tyler, TX 11/14/2023 - 11/14/2023 UT Tyler Cowan Center College Station, TX 11/15/2023 - 11/16/2023 Texas A&M - Rudder Auditorium San Antonio, TX 11/17/2023 - 11/18/2023 Tobin Center Corpus Christi, TX 11/20/2023 - 11/20/2023 Selena Auditorium McAllen, TX 11/21/2023 - 11/21/2023 Coronado Theater Galveston, TX 11/25/2023 - 11/25/2023 The Grand 1894 Opera House Bozeman, MT 11/28/2023 - 11/28/2023 Brick Breeden Fieldhouse Billings, MT 11/29/2023 - 11/29/2023 Alberta Bair Theater Ft.Collins, CO 12/1/2023 - 12/3/2023 The Lincoln Center Folsom, CA 1/10/2024 - 1/13/2024 Harris Center Fresno, CA 1/15/2024 - 1/16/2024 Saroyan Theatre Modesto, CA 1/17/2024 - 1/18/2024 Gallo Center for the Arts Cerritos, CA 1/19/2024 - 1/21/2024 Cerritos Center Denver, CO 1/23/2024 - 1/28/2024 Buell Theatre Ames, IA 1/30/2024 - 1/30/2024 Stephens Auditorium Manhattan, KS 1/31/2024 - 1/31/2024 McCain Auditorium Lincoln, NE 2/1/2024 - 2/4/2024 Lied Center for Performing Arts Bismarck, ND 2/6/2024 - 2/6/2024 Bismarck Event Center Grand Forks, ND 2/7/2024 - 2/7/2024 Chester Fritz Auditorium Green Bay, WI 2/9/2024 - 2/9/2024 Weidner Center Cedar Rapids, IA 2/10/2024 - 2/10/2024 Paramount Theater Sioux City, IA 2/13/2024 - 2/13/2024 Orpheum Theater Davenport, IA 2/14/2024 - 2/14/2024 Adler Theatre Sheboygan, WI 2/15/2024 - 2/15/2024 Weill Center Springfield, IL 2/17/2024 - 2/18/2024 UIS Performing Arts Center - Sangamon Auditorium Bloomington, IN 2/20/2024 - 2/21/2024 Indiana University Auditorium Macon, GA 2/24/2024 - 2/25/2024 Grand Opera House Jackson, MS 2/28/2024 - 2/28/2024 Thalia Mara Hall Lafayette, LA 2/29/2024 - 2/29/2024 Heymann Performing Arts Center Little Rock, AR 3/1/2024 - 3/3/2024 Robinson Center Tampa, FL 3/5/2024 - 3/10/2024 Straz Center Melbourne, FL 3/11/2024 - 3/12/2024 King Center for the Performing Arts Gainesville, FL 3/13/2024 - 3/13/2024 Phillips Center Huntsville, AL 3/15/2024 - 3/17/2024 Von Braun Center Concert Hall Johnson City, TN 3/18/2024 - 3/20/2024 ETSU Martin Center Newport News, VA 3/22/2024 - 3/22/2024 Ferguson Center for the Arts Hershey, PA 3/23/2024 - 3/24/2024 Hershey Theatre New Philadelphia, OH 3/25/2024 - 3/25/2024 Kent State Tuscarawas PAC Kalamazoo, MI 3/26/2024 - 3/27/2024 Miller Auditorium Sioux Falls, SD 3/29/2024 - 3/30/2024 Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science Waterbury, CT 4/2/2024 - 4/4/2024 Palace Theater Schenectady, NY 4/5/2024 - 4/12/2024 Proctors Theatre Portland, ME 4/7/2024 - 4/13/2024 Merrill Auditorium West Point, NY 4/14/2024 - 4/14/2024 Eisenhower Hall Theatre Peoria, IL 4/16/2024 - 4/17/2024 Peoria Civic Center Lima, OH 4/18/2024 - 4/18/2024 Veterans Memorial Civic Center Richmond, KY 4/19/2024 - 4/20/2024 EKU Center for the Arts Evansville, IN 4/21/2024 - 4/21/2024 Old National Events Plaza Binghamton, NY 4/24/2024 - 4/25/2024 Broome County Forum Theatre Reading, PA 4/29/2024 - 4/29/2024 Santander Performing Arts Center Brookville, NY 5/1/2024 - 5/1/2024 LIU Tilles Center Concert Hall

Additional tour engagements will be announced throughout the fall.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary series of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ, as seen through the eyes of Judas. Reflecting the rock roots that defined a generation, the legendary score includes ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’, ‘Gethsemane’ and ‘Superstar’.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a proven musical phenomenon with a world-wide fan base. As demonstrated by NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, this epic work attracted over 9.6 million viewers, earned the highest ratings in its time period, and received the highest critical ranking of any live musical event on network TV. On September 17th, 2021 a variety of special edition Jesus Christ Superstar albums, remastered at Abbey Road, were released. These special anniversary editions are a celebration of the original 1970 double concept album and its continued success spanning an incredible 50 years.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, selling out two consecutive engagements in 2016 and 2017. The production played a West End engagement at the Barbican in 2019 before returning to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in concert version during the summer of 2020.

The 2023-2024 North American Tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is produced by Work Light Productions. The original production was produced by London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

Photo Credit: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

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