QUENTIN LETTS reviews Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) Rating: They sometimes call it the Greatest Story Ever Told and this is certainly the best show so far this year. After a wet June, the Regent's Park Open Air has had a gloriously sunny week — and has opened a must- witness version of the 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Shorn of hippy excesses, infused with melancholy, this production is a work of rare mission and artistic merit. The music is delivered by a band housed in the top storey of a steel- girder set (the structure's lower storey is used by the athletic troupe of singers and dancers). JAN MOIR: A pox on the smug spongers in the Wimbledon Royal Box. By Jan Moir for the Daily Mail. Niagara / norway / oakridge / ogden / orde / oriole park / pape avenue / park / parkdale / pauline / plains road / queen alexandra / queen victoria / rawlinson. London's Long Lost Sports Grounds (and some long lost London teams such as West Ham Hammers Speedway, Thames AFC, Croydon Common FC, Deptford Invicta FC, Catford. Things open with a few bold electric chords and then we are into the overture, full of Lloyd Webber's strong melodies. The cast members enter through the auditorium and leap on stage. Shorn of hippy excesses, infused with melancholy, this production is a work of rare mission and artistic merit, writes QUENTIN LETTSGreat music. When Judas contemplates temptation, a swaggering guitar catches the decadence of the moment — and Judas plunges his hands into silver paint. Later, the brass section blares gaudily for Pilate's scene with Christ. Mary Magdalene despairs of her inability to understand Jesus. This most sensual and worldly of women finds herself an innocent beside His greatness. Young Anoushka Lucas sings the classic I Don't Know How To Love Him with lovely tenderness. How wrong some preachers were 4. We see Jesus progress from his preaching heyday to the zenith of his torment at Calvary. At the very moment the end came, a gust of wind blew across Regent's Park and it was as if the trees themselves were sighing. The flower power- era score today sounds timeless. Declan Bennett is superb as Christ. From the start he is gripped by the daunting nature of his character's destiny. Tyrone Huntley demonstrates vast vocal range as an energetic, needy Judas. Cavin Cornwall's Caiaphas — the temple priests are done up with cloaks and rods that turn upside down to form microphone stands — has a bass as deep as the Jubilee Line. Although not old enough to remember the earliest productions, I sense director Timothy Sheader has given this a more monochrome, balletic, you could even say Anglican reading (in its understatement). The History of Spiritualism, Vol. I by Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., LL.D. Operation Dolphin in Bolivia So far, a team of scientists from the Museum of Natural History Noel Kempff in Bolivia, led by biologist Mariana Escobar, were able to. John Logie Baird 1888-1946 Baird came to Hastings in 1922 to recover from ill health. He took lodgings in Linton Crescent and set up a laboratory over a shop in. We see Jesus progress from his preaching heyday to the zenith of his torment at Calvary, writes QUENTIN LETTSKing Herod's Song is still camp — Peter Caulfield's Herod is in gold lam. Here’s a relevant example. An early version of the log below had Murder Clinic continuing through November 17, 1943, but when we received an email from Karl Schadow. DISCOVERY OF AND EARLY VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA. Although a large amount of research into the documentary annals of the world's history has taken place during.
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