New Website Launches for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

It's sure to be a busy year for Jesus Christ Superstar, with a production heading to Broadway in March and iTV working with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create a new reality competition series. Now a new website has been launched for the musical, which features news about the television show, SUPERSTAR, the upcoming Broadway transfer, and even regional productions. Click here to check it out!

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff, will open on Broadway on March 22, 2012. Previews begin March 1, 2012 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The cast will feature Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas. 

This ground-breaking rock opera, which reinvented musical theatre for the modern age, tells the story of the last week of Christ's life. The score includes such chart-topping songs as "I Don't Know How To Love Him," "Everything's Alright" and "Superstar."

Earlier this week BroadwayWorld announced that ITV1 and Andrew Lloyd Webber will launch 'Superstar,' described as "a brand new show that will give the British public the chance to choose the country’s next major rock star." The show seeks the new lead in an arena tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, to kick of at the O2 Arena in London. Want to apply to audition? CLICK HERE!

Auditions are slated in February and March across the country in London, Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff. The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR begins performances on Broadway this March.