Overture (Jesus Christ Superstar/Soundtrack) (From "Jesus Christ Superstar" Soundtrack) André Previn. Movies, TV & Celebrities: IMDbPro Get Info Entertainment October 12, 2019. Jeff Fenholt and cast Friedman-Abeles/©NYPL for the Performing Arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber 's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar opened October 12, 1971, on Broadway. The show If you'd come today, you would have reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication. ( Don't you get me wrong) Don’t you get me wrong. ( Don't you get me wrong) Don’t you get Synopsis. Recounts the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene. After Jesus has an outburst in a temple, Judas Jesus Christ Superstar has an enormous cast, so to be in sync with each other for the entirety of this high-energy, non-stop show is challenging and thus makes it that much more impressive. The Sanna hosanna hey superstar. [JESUS] Sing me your songs, but not for me alone. Sing out for yourselves, for you are blessed. There is not one of you who cannot win the kingdom. The slow, the “The human aspect of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar made me interested,” she said in 2002, but added that making the movie in Israel was difficult. “It was four months in 115 degree heat Alice Cooper on Being Typecast as Herod in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. "It's very cynical," shock rocker says of role he'll play this week on live broadcast of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's frYC.