‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz?

The New York Times: It was the spring of 1970, and Yvonne Elliman, an 18-year-old singer and guitarist from Hawaii, had just finished performing at a London nightclub when a breathless young man rushed the stage. “You’re my Mary Magdalene!” a wide-eyed, 22-year-old Andrew Lloyd Webber announced.