Jesus Christ as ALW's best

It's strange because I don't usually enjoy Andrew Loyd Weber much, but I find Jesus Christ Superstar to be a great musical piece, better than anything else he's ever written. Does anyone else feel this way? Why is it that his earliest piece turne dout to be the best?

JCS is one of his best. I would also have to include Evita on a very short list of good ALW scores.

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I really enjoy Phantom, Cats, and Evita, but have always thought JCS his very best and my personal favorite. Couldn't agree with you more.

Amen!

...and my favorite song from JCS is "This Jesus Must Die." Which kinda sucks - you can't exactly go running around singing THAT at piano bars and karaoke.

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I can pretty much take ALW or leave him... but I think EVITA and JCS are not only his two best scores, but two of my favorite musicals (ever). They're both so superior to everything else he's written, it's kind of weird. In my head, I've divorced the Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of EVITA and JCS from the Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of That Other Stuff. And it's weird when I have to reconcile them.

JCS and Evita also have considerably more solid bases that Cats and POTO. I found The Phantom of the Opera(the book) to be overly dramatic and trite. Cats is based on a whole bunch of poems, rather than a story, and is mostly dependant on crazy costumes and make-up anyway. Wheather you are religious or not, the story of Jesus Christ is an interesting one, and any show based on history IMO has more depth. Same goes for Evita.

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Like Sunset & Phantom better

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I am not really an ALW fan but I love JCS.

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I'm singing Gethsemane at karaoke next week.

I'll let you know how it goes.

ALW is absolutely one of the most talented composers of our life time, thats proven by:

JCS, witch he composed and orchestrated before he was 20

EVITA, witch is one of his smartest, and most complex scores

CATS, witch was a great successful experiment to write a show based around a series of short poems

POTO, witch is the most financially successful piece of entertainment ever created

Requiem, witch puts him in a group of very few B-way composers who have tackled classical Catholic masses(the only other one I can think of is Leonard Bernstein)



The problem I find with ALW is that it seems with each success he had, he became cockier and cockier. The work became less edgy and interesting, and became more about ALW score, by the time you get to Aspects.., and Sunset... you have 15 min musical interludes that are serve no purpose other than to have more ALW music. I feel like he went from creating shows that were edgy and original, to creating vehicles for his own music.

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knowstomuch, just because Cats and POTO were sucessful doesn't mean that they were good. I agree with you on everything else though.

I think i would have to go back and watch evita in rder to say something aboutit. I loved when I was smaller

Updated On: 9/6/06 at 11:13 PM

Did anyone like Joseph? I was bored to tears by that show. I don't know which one I don't like more, Cats or Joseph.

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It's also in the movie.

Unfortunately (in my opinion).