ELOC’s Autumn 2019 Show - Jesus Christ Superstar
15th-19th Oct 2019
Here are just some of the comments we've received from audience members after watching our show this week so far...
"Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything like that. It was so professional in every area. That was as good as anything in the West End"
"I just wanted to say that we saw the show last night and I can’t praise it enough. Utterly brilliant. So much so I’ve booked to see it again on Friday!!!"
"Everything from the Superb scenery, props, lighting, and the intermittent fog on the stage was just magnificent. I could spend all day talking about the individual performances of good ol JC, Mary Magdalene, Judas, Pilot, and the campest Herod I have ever seen, but I won't because I will run out of adjectives, just to say all were absolutely 100 per cent brilliant!"
It’s never too late to book your tickets at Epsom Playhouse.
Jesus Christ Superstar tells the story of biblical Jesus in the final days leading up to his crucifixion. Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, the musical has no spoken dialogue and is sometimes considered a modern rock-opera. Loosely based on the Gospels, Superstar focuses on the personal conflicts between Jesus, his disciples, the people of Israel, and the leadership of Rome. Special attention is played to the relationship between Judas Iscariot and Jesus, as well as Jesus’s relationship with Mary Magdalene. The musical is unique among biblical retellings in that it focuses on both Judas’s struggle making the decision to betray Jesus and Jesus’s human psychology, fear, and anger in understanding and accepting his role as both leader and martyr. The show is a product of its era, permeated with 1970’s rock, gospel, folk and funk themes, language and colloquialisms of the time, and high-energy dance numbers.
