Jesus Christ Superstar Australia 1972 - Jon English

Jon English performing 'Heaven On Their MInds' from the original Australian production of JCSS in the 70's ... if you are interested in a copy of the Lp on CD, just contact me...

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• christ
• jesus
• superstar
• jon
• english
• australia
• stageshow
• live
• trevor
• white

[caz4777]

I was having a look at the National Library of Australia's Trove website, and found some colour pictures and an article featuring Trevor White, Jon English and Michele Fawdon in a digitised copy of the Australian Women's Weekly dated the 26th of January 1972, and another one dated the 5th of April 1972. You should have a look Roxycat68

[roxycat68]

@caz4777

Thanks for that info Caz ... found the articles ... great !

[diehardhushfan]

I saw this show in 1972 and 1973 at the Capitol in Sydney.Sat there spellbound

both times.The highlight of the show for

me was Judas's death.The first time John English did that the harness he was

wearing broke and he was nearly got killed.

[roxycat68]

ahh the beauty of live performance ! LOL

[roxycat68]

hiya ... I will try to get them on here very soon ...

[DukeHendrix]

the best ever! does anyone have any film of this?

[roxycat68]

I wish I knew ... I have being trying to find footage from this show for years ...

[caz4777]

Watching and listening to Jon English at the Capitol Theatre, I was very impressed. The man has an exceptionally good singing voice. At the auditions they knew they had found the ideal person to play Judas, and he did a first class job.

[caz4777]

@diehardhushfan I don't recall him doing that, not to say that he didn't. You can see him in the chorus line of acolytes at 0:36 to 0:39 and other parts of this video with Trevor White kneeling in front of them.

[caz4777]

Just before Christmas 2011, Jon English appeared on the SBS programme "Rockwiz", singing the theme song for Jesus Christ, Superstar.

[dasar750]

Fantastic - know every word to every song!

[YumiRulz]

He was always the Pirate King to me... It just shocks me how young he is in this. He sounds awesome. :O

[Secretvictoria66]

@diehardhushfan I remember that happening. I remember there was a newspaper article about it and they had a photo of Jon English and he was kind of making a slicing motion across his throat and his tongue was sticking out - lol.

[Secretvictoria66]

You really can't fault the cast of the original Australian production or this recording. Please roxycat, can you please put some other songs from this album up. It brings back so many fond memories of growing up listening to this on my parent's stereo.