Regent's Park Open Air JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Coming to West End and Broadway?

Celebrating 45 years since Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's seminal musical first hit the stage, Jesus Christ Superstar just opened at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and already the production is eying the West End, according to the New York Post's Michael Riedel.

He writes: "I'm told Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wouldn't mind a Broadway production either."

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With a legendary score which includes I Don't Know How to Love Him, Gethsemane and Superstar, musical direction is by Tom Deering (Wonder.land, In the Heights and The Color Purple), design by Tom Scutt(Constellations, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and King Charles III, for which he has received a Tony Award nomination) and choreography byDrew McOnie (Jekyll & Hyde, The Lorax and In The Heights, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography).

The show stars Declan Bennett as Jesus. Declan was the original lead in the London cast of Once (Phoenix), and has also appeared in Boy George's musical Taboo (Venue Theatre), RENT (US tour and Broadway), American Idiot (Broadway) as well as on BBC's EastEnders as Charlie Cotton. As a solo singer-songwriter, his album Record:BREAKUP was released as a live acoustic version in 2013. He achieved five UK Top 20 singles and a UK Top 20 album with Brit Award nominated band Point Break.

Read our interview with Declan Bennett here

The cast also includes Tyrone Huntley as Judas, with Anoushka Lucas as Mary Magdelene,David Thaxton as Pilate, Cavin Cornwall as Caiaphas, Peter Caulfield as Herod, Phil King as Peter, Joel Harper-Jackson as Simon Zealotes and Sean Kingsley as Annas.

Photo Credit: Johan Persson