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Critics Consensus: Shaking up traditional religious and musical iconography, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert is a sight to be heard, superbly infiltrating the classic source material with originality, rock legend star power, and soulful depth.
Critic Consensus: Shaking up traditional religious and musical iconography, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert is a sight to be heard, superbly infiltrating the classic source material with originality, rock legend star power, and soulful depth.
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This Superstar was the closest that live television has come to creating a hybrid new form, combining elements of epic cinema, the stage musical, and the concert film. It's a minor miracle.
Buoyed by that striking production with its industrial, modern urban vibe and a star-making performance by Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas, "Jesus Christ Superstar" provided plenty of thrills for musical-theater fans.
Throughout, I kept wishing for a better balance of energy... But when it did find it, it verged briefly on miraculous.
Led by an ethereal John Legend, the show's talented cast breathed new life into Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1970 rock opera.
[Sara] Bareilles was excellent as Mary Magdalene, bringing warmth, commitment, and distinction to her songs.
But by the grace of God, or maybe a great cast and lots and lots of expert staging, a great musical became a great TV production.
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert proved just how freaking good a live TV musical can be when it's firing on all cylinders.
Masterful performances impress in modernized rock opera.
The ensemble players were the unsung heroes of the night, throwing themselves into every exhausting, frenetic number.
Superstar glittered its way through the last days of Christ - on Easter Sunday, no less - with enormous energy and verve, and managed to stick the landing with an unforgettable final image.
Jesus Christ Superstar, even at its gaudiest, never once registered as a joke, or an out-of-control melodrama in need of a collective social media puncturing.
We were part of the live audience ready to be taken to church by John Legend and company. Not only did we find salvation, we'd venture that this was the best live TV musical yet.
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