SiriusXM aired a special on ALW's career earlier this month; in the special, he talks about how JCS was really meant to be more of a rock-opera concept album, similar to The Who's "Tommy", which is why the show has no book scenes and the show essentially lurches from song to song in a somewhat indelicate manner. He also managed to work out a very cagy deal with the music publishers of the day that allowed him to retain the grand rights <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjKlbvs3cfaAhUSvVkKHdpzAPwQFggrMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGrand_rights&usg=AOvVaw2JFkLVp9vRPJRbvck1ORoS> for his works.
As for the studio cast on the concept album, Jesus was performed by Ian Gillian, the lead singer for Deep Purple, and Judas was Murray "One Night In Bangkok" Head. So I wouldn't say the cast was lacking for musical bonafides. On Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 9:21:41 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: > > > Tom Wolper, in part, tonight (4/19): >> >> I don't know if the album came out before or after Webber and Rice staged >> the show. The album feels like a demo they would use to sell it to >> producers and build anticipation in the public. >> > > Album released in Sept 1970, first staged performance in the US July 1971 > (Pittsburgh), Broadway debut that October, London debut the following year, > Wiki said. > > B > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
