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Leesa (gallytrotter@mchsi.com) 05:32 pm UTC 02/11/08 |
| In reply to: | I found Jesus last night - Smeghead 01:28 pm UTC 02/11/08 |
| About 1999, Priscilla Blanchard, another Bull Terrier person in Iowa, and I drove to St Louis early spring together for a Bull Terrier Specialty (dog show with just BT's). Over dinner, I commented on her 'Jesus Christ Superstar' leather jacket. Come to find out, she and her husband were something of JCS groupies--they had seen the performance countless times over the years and were good friends with both Ted and (now sadly the late)Carl Anderson who played Judas. I loved JCS, my first experience in rock opera, and was stunned she knew both these guys so well. I immediately started telling her about the Ted/Jim connection, and although she loved the Loaf, didn't know much about Jim, nor had it occurred to her about the work Ted had done with him. She was thrilled to make the connection so I wound up giving her my Meat-signed copy of the then quite recently released 'Back in to Hell' that I'd won on MLFC so she could learn more about Jim, according to the Loaf, anyway. What a cool coversation you had with him, Smeg--he sounds to be a very approachable person and has alot of connections between knowing the Lord Webber and being in a such a successful production for damned near 40 years. Do keep us posted, especially if any hookups or excecution of ideas transform that you hear of. I'm sure he remembers Priscilla as well--she had a cool jacket! Thanks again for sharing. Cheers! Leesa J > Went to see Jesus Christ Superstar staring Ted Neely > (Jesus from the motion Picture for those who don't > know)Ted was amazing for being 65 years old He can still > do what some of his contempararies can't. However the > direction was awful. The director totally missed the > point of the whole show. He had made Jesus into some type > of diety that spent all his time loving the adoration of > the people and conversing with God. Almost everything > from the Blocking to the character's portrayals was > directed so wrong that the show came off very amateurish. > A shame because Ted's portrayal in the film was spot on > perfect. > > Afterwards we got to meet Ted and he was the nicest > celebrity I've ever met. He had a large group waiting to > talk to him and he made time to spend personal time with > every one of them. I told him that I had a version of him > singing "Come in the night/How do you bury the skull of > your country" on my website which surprised him... > everyone who talks to him seems to think he has only > played Jesus his whole life. > > We talked about Jim Steinman. He told me how Jim was > there with so many of them from that time from the > begining with Hair and how Jim was a true genius. He > mentioned how many of Jim's shows there are that are > brilliant that no one has seen. He talked about how Jim's > work is so good that some day it has to be heard. > > He mentioned that he saw Dance of the vampires and that it > was a good show that was handled all wrong. I asked if he > saw the German version and he said "No" he had only seen > the American version. I told him how the original version > was a perfect show directed by Polanski. > > He then talked about how Jim had been brought in to do the > lyrics for WDTW. Saying how so many people realize his > talent and want to work with him. I told him about our > production of Conficence Man and he said that more people > ned to get Jim's work out there. We talked about much > more, but I thought I'd share what he had to say about > Jim... | |
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