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Whatever your religious beliefs – or total lack of them, the story of the crucifixion of Jesus remains a powerful and moving tale. Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice’s telling is hardly the first, after all Passion plays have been a central part of Christian Easter Ceremonies for centuries. As with the Passion plays, Lloyd Webber and Rice only tell the story as far as the crucifixion and death of Christ, not the resurrection. This is something that some Christians find hard to accept, as well the suggestion that Jesus was just a man, not God embodied.
Enough of the theology. After all, many Jewish, Muslim and Christian stories are simply retellings of earlier religious texts, so why shouldn’t mere musical writers get in on the act?
Depending on how much of Lloyd Webber’s own musings you choose to believe, he and Tim Rice were persuaded to write the musical by a Sunday Times critic whose son was in the first large scale performance of their...
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Enough of the theology. After all, many Jewish, Muslim and Christian stories are simply retellings of earlier religious texts, so why shouldn’t mere musical writers get in on the act?
Depending on how much of Lloyd Webber’s own musings you choose to believe, he and Tim Rice were persuaded to write the musical by a Sunday Times critic whose son was in the first large scale performance of their...
Read the full review...