Jesus Christ Superstar (The New Stage Production Soundtrack)

Jesus Christ Superstar (The New Stage Production Soundtrack)

Jesus Christ Superstar (The New Stage Production Soundtrack)
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Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Conductor: Simon Lee
Performer: Peter Adams
Performer: Pete Adams
Performer: Grace Anthony
Performer: Michael McCarthy
Performer: Mark Adams
Performer: Gerard Bentall
Performer: Michael Schaeffer
Performer: Glenn Carter
Performer: Frederick B. Owens
Performer: Tony Vincent
Performer: Golda Rosheuvel
Performer: Kevin Wainwright
Performer: Ben Clare
Performer: Philip Cox
Performer: Shaun Henson
Performer: Fergus Logan
Performer: Mark Carroll
Performer: Jerôme Pradon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture - Glenn Carter
  2. Heaven on Their Minds
  3. What's the Buzz? / Strange Thing, Mystifying
  4. Everything's All Right
  5. Hosanna
  6. Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem
  7. Pilate's Dream
  8. The Temple
  9. I Don't Know How To Love Him
  10. The Last Supper
  11. Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say)
  12. King Herod's Song
  13. Could We Start Again, Please?
  14. Judas's Death
  15. Trial Before Pilate (Including the 39 Lashes)
  16. Superstar
  17. Crucifixion
  18. John Nineteen: Forty-One

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Free Music Review: In defense of Could we start again, plus a few complaints.
Hit: 5 Stars

I have to admit, I love this cd now. There are two critical problems with it, one of which is resolvable. The first problem is that Jerome's Judas is confusing at first. You don't know whether to love the voice or hate it. When you hear the album on your second or third time, however, you realize that his voice is actually a good counterpoint to the voices of Tony's Simon and Renee's Mary. A strong reason to buy this cd is that you finally get a Jesus (Glenn) who has the strength to actually convince.

There is, of course, the matter of the deleted songs, which is the second critical flaw.

Blood money is important to the treachery, and it draws deeply on the psychology of Judas to get its point across. Losing it was a big mistake. The same can be said of the extremely short Peter's denial. There is another song which is used only once, but it's vital to understanding the position of the priests. That song would be, not "Jesus must die," which should have been used, but "Then we are decided." A duet/debate between Ciaphas and his assistant. This song, more clearly than anything, states the precise position of the priests and why Jesus must die. I imagine that it's not used because it's shoehorned between "Strange thing, mystifying" and "Everything's all right." But still, it humanizes the priests to a degree noticably absent from the show.

To clarify: Could we start again, (my personal favorite of the songs in the show) was NOT in the original production, but it was quickly added. This was a good thing, because Mary is noticably absent from the second act of the show, her only inclusion being telling Peter off for his denial. This song resolves that issue. It its most basic point, while you'll first hear it, is to suggest that Mary is a coward. But she is not. All it indicates is that she doesn't yet understand what is happening. She still doesn't know who Christ is, and she is so afraid of losing him that she wants to start over. Basically, it's praying for another chance.

For Christians, or if you wish to see how this turns out, skip this song, but play it immediately after the finale ends, and see what your mind conjures up . . . That is how you sneak a ressurection scene into the show.

While it has its detractors, one of whom I have heard say "It's like Mary breaks up the fighting to sing 'I'd like to buy the world a coke . . .' I do not hold to that. Since I approach these characters from a socio/psychological way, this beautiful song (Could we start again, I mean, not I'd like to buy the world a coke) indicates the effect the stress is having. However, without Peter's denial, this song should have been a solo. Or, more powerfully, if Judas were Mary's assistant on the song instead of Peter. Just think how powerful that would have been, were it Judas who said "I think you've made you're point now . . ." in addition to helping resolve the slightly homoerotic love triangle.

Oh, and one more thing: Bad, bad, bad Ciaphus, and even worse Pilate. Everyone else did well. I rather liked Mary's weeping. Her grief added emotional strength to the songs that Yvonne Elliman did not match in her renditions. (Her take on Could we start again in the movie was so dreadful that the few who still believed in Christ actually joined her singing to keep her on track!)

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