Ted Neeley

Ted Neeley found the public’s attention when he performed and sang the title part in Tim Grain and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, both on-stage and onscreen, and followed it up with a job in the initial theatrical production from the Who’s Tommy. A vocalist, drummer, acting professional, composer, vocal arranger, and record maker, Neeley was created Sept 20, 1943 in Ranger, Tx. He authorized his 1st record offer in 1965, at age group 22, with Capitol Information, releasing an recording, the self-titled Teddy Neeley, for the imprint along with his group the Teddy Neeley Five. Possessing a baritone performing tone of voice that could rise octaves right into a managed, on-pitch rock-era scream when required, Neeley began acquiring musical theater tasks in LA, which led him to audition for the Broadway staging of Jesus Christ Superstar, and he was chosen as the understudy for the name part, which he stated for the L.A. stage edition that got a run in the Common Amphitheatre, after that reprised for the 1973 film. Neeley released a single recording, 1974 A.D., in, when else, 1974, after that took the part of Billy Shears in Sgt. Pepper’s Depressed Hearts Club Music group on the highway. He continued carrying out musical theater, performing as well in a variety of television dramas through the 1970s and 1980s, including Starsky and Hutch, and made an appearance as Curly in the NBC tv movie creation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Guys. On the other hand, he performed concert events with his music group Pacific Coastline Highway. Neeley reprised his most well-known function in the up to date touring firm of Jesus Christ Superstar in the 1990s, and achieved it again for the stripped-down version from the musical that toured from 2006 to 2010. He released a five-track EP, Rock and roll Opera, in 2013, including a version from the Who’s “Find Me, Experience Me,” a duet with fellow Jesus Christ Superstar alum Yvonne Elliman on “Up Where We Belong,” a undertake the Bryan Adams strike “Do I must Say what?,” a rendition from the Xmas traditional “O Holy Evening,” and, because of some modern anatomist tips, a duet using the past due Carl Anderson on “God’s Present to the Globe.”