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Jesus Christ Superstar grossed $24.5 million ($161.3 million in 2022) at the box office [3] and earned North American rentals of $10.8 million ($71.1 million in 2022) in 1973, [14] against an estimated production budget of $3.5 million. [2] It was the highest-grossing musical in the United States and Canada for the year. [15]
Teddie Joe Neeley (born September 20, 1943) is an American singer, actor, musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for portraying the title role in the 1973 film adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar, for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and has reprised numerous times.
Jesus Christ Superstar is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.Loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion, the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters, with much of the plot centered on Judas, who is dissatisfied with the direction in which Jesus is steering his disciples.
Selections from the first Broadway production (1971) of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar were released on the album subtitled "Original Broadway Cast". [2] [3]The album peaked at number 31 on Billboard ' s Top LPs chart in January 1972.
Robert Franklin Bingham (October 29, 1946 – February 8, 2025) was an American actor and singer. Bingham was best known for playing the role of Caiaphas in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in the first USA concert tour, original Broadway cast, original French cast, and in the 1973 film version.
Ted Neeley, who starred in the musical and film versons of "Jesus Christ Superstar" will appear at a screening of the movie Sept. 20 at the Drexel.
In addition to his stints in Superstar, Yaghjian also frequently played the Baker and one of Joseph's brothers in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, once at Playhouse in the Park in Philadelphia [8] and twice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, [9] [10] and appeared in the short-lived Off-Off-Broadway musical Duel in 1979, [11] also appearing on its studio cast album ...
Assumption High School's all-female cast of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is loosely inspired by the 2020 concept album "She Is Risen."