Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert

[MA]

This is going to be on NBC tonight at 8/7C for those who are choosing to watch.

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by MikaelaArsenault

This is going to be on NBC tonight at 8/7C for those who are choosing to watch.

Yeah! I was talking to my Sister on the phone earlier! She told me about it and I saw previews. She's anxious to watch it! Maybe I'll check it out!

[MA]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

Yeah! I was talking to my Sister on the phone earlier! She told me about it and I saw previews. She's anxious to watch it! Maybe I'll check it out!

I'm listening to Roseanne in the next room instead.

My parents aren't interested in it, but my mom found out and she said it was gross.

[Bonniegirl]

We are watching it right now!! It is AMAZING!!! The talent and singing /music are wonderful!! it's heart tugging though!! I'm in tears as I'm watching!! VERY EMOTIONAL!! I don't even know how to describe it besides that it is AMAZING!!

[MrCleveland]

I forgot it was on...was it any good?

What's interesting is that Alice Cooper is in it...and he's a God-fearing man!

[opus]

Originally Posted by MrCleveland

I forgot it was on...was it any good?

What's interesting is that Alice Cooper is in it...and he's a God-fearing man!

The poster above you said it was great, and most of things I've heard and read have been complimentary (although you can't please everyone, of course).

Speaking for myself, I only saw one song, 'Don't Know How To Love Him', and it sounded fine to me.

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

The poster above you said it was great, and most of things I've heard and read have been complimentary (although you can't please everyone, of course).

Speaking for myself, I only saw one song, 'Don't Know How To Love Him', and it sounded fine to me.

Yes! As I posted last night. It was really fantastic !!


"I don't know how to love him" was beautiful as was "Try not to get worried" ! Mary Magdalene's part was really good. When she was on was when I really teared up ! The actress Sara Bareilles was beautiful , with a beautiful voice ! She was casted very well!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WRA0wSWDg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O8KWoGJcL4

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by MrCleveland

I forgot it was on...was it any good?

What's interesting is that Alice Cooper is in it...and he's a God-fearing man!

Yeah it was great seeing Alice. He was really good! Very theatrical Although his role as King Herod was pretty much only one scene !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk9JZYSmmdw

[TMC]

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert offered three lessons in staging a TV musical
One lesson is that concert staging works. "The larger lesson is one that all live TV musicals can learn from: Strict photorealism is not your friend," says Constance Grady. "The trick is to borrow from performance styles that already have accepted cinematographies, that audiences know how to watch on television already. We’re used to watching rock concerts on TV. We know what they’re supposed to look like." Another lesson is that sung-through shows, where the audience doesn't have to move between "different layers of artifice and emotional reality" between dialogue and songs, help keep the energy level of viewers high, says Grady. The third lesson is that spectacle is the most important. "In Jesus Christ Superstar Live," she says, "the spectacle was as simple and evocative as the shot of the back of the stage opening up, forming a cross made out of negative space, as Jesus’s cross floats back into the fog. It’s a moment that would do very little in a produced movie, and the effects could be tricky to handle in a theater. But in a live TV musical special, it became the kind of extraordinary, haunting image that future live TV musicals would do well to emulate."

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Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert had a lot of excess, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing

NBC's latest live musical was a lot to take in, says Maureen Ryan. "This musical threw together glitter, sequins, leather, writhing hotties, a few big performances pitched to the last row, and camerawork that often felt as though it was hopped up on too many lattes," she says. "Actually, the ragged edges of a unifying concept did emerge over the course of the NBC musical’s two-hour-and-20-minute running time: If its philosophy could be summed up in one word, 'excess' would just about cover it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. But this live show was a lot. The musical was intensely earnest, often endearingly so."

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• This was the best TV musical yet, providing viewers with an actual spiritual experience
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  It was an exhilarating production that revolutionized the "still-evolving live musical format"
  The star power was equaled by depth of feeling and characterization in all the principals
  Chrissy Teigen took on trolls, but had a fun time live-tweeting her husband as Jesus
  Jesus Christ Superstar lyricist Tim Rice tweeted: "Good to see something we wrote a while back still appreciated"
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