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Jesus Christ Superstar Review: Bright Lights and Hotpants by Jonathan Mandell

When “Jesus Christ Superstar” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater in 1971, the concept album had already sold two and a half million copies. So, while protesters picketed the sacrilege of Andrew Lloyd Webber's first Broadway musical and theater critics were largely unimpressed ("minimal artistic value"), it hardly mattered then. Now “Jesus Christ [...]

SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:31AM on March 29, 2012

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