The network had its mind made up: it wanted more, and it signed Zadan and Meron to produce more live musicals with NBC in the future. The formula seemed simple, the way Greenblatt put it: pick a recognizable title preferably a Broadway classic, family-friendly, with a lot of familiar songs , pack it with appropriate stars and the right supporting talent culled from both television especially if they already had NBC ties and the theater district, broadcast it as a special holiday event, and hopefully profit.
Blige, and Queen Latifah , and Hairspray Live! In spring , Fox, known in America largely for being a morally — and politically, in its reporting — conservative network, decided to cash in on the live musical format by presenting a TV special called The Passion ; based on a similar Dutch television franchise, which was in turn adapted from the BBC special Manchester Passion , it was a contemporary retelling of the passion of Christ set to popular music.
Featuring such music stars as Jencarlos Canela, Prince Royce, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Daughtry, and Seal, and hosting and narration from Tyler Perry, the presentation, a mix of live and pre-recorded segments broadcast from New Orleans, met with decidedly mixed reviews.
A year later, this reviewer learned to be careful what they wished for. When a proposed live holiday presentation of Bye Bye Birdie starring Jennifer Lopez on NBC was delayed due to her packed schedule, everyone in the theater community wondered if NBC would just give up on live musicals altogether. Ratings had remained more or less steady even though they were dropping successively with each new special , and each show continued to meet with mixed reviews at best.
So it was a matter of great surprise in spring when it was announced at the NBC upfronts a gathering at the start of important advertising sales periods held by network executives, and attended by major advertisers and the media, to see who would buy in on their forthcoming product that NBC would present JCS as their next live musical event, set to air the following Easter Sunday April 1, It was reported that in addition to the regular team of Zadan and Meron, Marc Platt, a renowned producer and Universal exec who had announced a film remake of JCS was on his slate ten years prior, and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber themselves would be joining the executive producing unit.
Same result, but shorter. After this initial announcement, however, everything fell silent. In the past, NBC had traditionally announced more of the creative team by that point in production, and the Internet would be buzzing with casting rumors. But in early December, the silence broke with the first casting announcement: Alice Cooper, who had last essayed the role for the studio recording that marked the first West End revival of JCS , would be playing King Herod.
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