Religion has inspired some of the best – and worst – musicals
![Ben Forster in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo: Tristram Kenton Ben Forster in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo: Tristram Kenton](/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/178/1527-Jesus-Christ-Superstar_LargeLandscape.jpg)
Ben Forster in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo: Tristram Kenton
While Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice cornered the theatrical market in ‘sinaglong-a-biblical’ with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar, they were hardly the first to marry religion and theatrical music
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