Jesus Christ Superstar DVD: 1970's version or 2001 revival stage show? — Page 2

Mr. Nowak's link led me to "Turkey Lurkey Time" from the Tony Awards, when then led me to this fabulous clip of three men doing the same song with most of Bennett's choreography. This clip ALMOST makes me as happy as the Grand Hotel Tony Awards clip.
Act Three Theater Ensemble Turkey Lurkey Time

Random trivia: the London production had no credited choreographer. The "movement consultant" was Rufus Collins, who had recently worked with the Living Theatre and came up with something more free-form. You may recognize Rufus as this guy in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.



To be fair, there was no credited choreographer for the OBC either. Under Frank Corsaro, it would've been Grover Dale (hence his wife Anita Morris making an early Broadway appearance in the ensemble). O'Horgan chose to do most of the musical staging, such as it was, himself, out of movements that grew organically in rehearsal, not unlike Hair (only minus someone like Julie Arenal to pull it all together).

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Updated On: 11/15/13 at 10:44 PM

My guess is that it just didn't sell as well in NY when stacked against the possibility of a Broadway audience. Personally, I'd have taken it uptown, run it out of a thousand seat church in Harlem. Call it "the new Off-Broadway" or something. Try and sell it like they did The Wiz in the Seventies.

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