How is the musical Jesus Christ Superstar influential to musical theater? PLEASE BE DETAILED!!?
Jesus Christ Superstar started out as a hit record album, using singers, rather than actors, to showcase the songs. Christ was sung by Ian Gillan, the Deep Purple vocalist, and other contemporary rock singers also had parts. The band consisted largely of highly experienced rock and pop session musicians and there were several hit songs before the show was actually produced on stage. When it hit the stage, the orchestrations and layout of the band was such that it became necessary to amplify the singers considerably more than was normal in a musical. As this was before the large-scale use of wireless microphones, the singers used cabled hand-held microphones and there was an additional off-stage singers’ booth. The resulting show more closely resembled a staged rock-concert and was promoted as such by the show’s first producer, Robert Stigwood, an Australian entrepeneur who managed acts like Eric Clapton and The BeeGees. Stigwood was also responsible for producing the first rock musical
