Dennis DeYoung (Formerly of Styx) - Talks About "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Live Performance -1993
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Hey kids !
Recently I was sent this very old VHS copy of a video where I performed the role of Pontus Pilate in Andy Webers’s Jesus Christ Superstar. It’s just my three songs. The quality isn’t great but it’s the only video that exists as far as I know. Didn’t know this existed. Wish you could see my facial expressions. I gave good Pilot. Still. Hope you dig it.
Cheers PP
Check out the full performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Orpheum Theater - San Francisco, CA - 05/01/1993: • Video
To isolate the DDY songs in the video, see the following times:
28:38 Pilates Dream
107: 54 Pilate and Christ and me in our first face to face.
1:24. Trial by Pilate
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I saw you as Pilate on tour, and being a huge fan of Styx, I was thrilled to see you. I later lived in NYC for several years and now consider myself a huge fan of Broadway. You, Irene, Ted, and Carl brought these characters down to earth and humanized them for me. I was so excited to find this video of you playing Pilate. It brought back wonderful memories. Thank you for bringing back such a dear memory for me.
"I don't look good in mesh stockings" best line of the year lol!
With all due respect to Ol' Blue Eyes who sadly left us years ago, this right here ladies and gentlemen is, "The Voice".
Wife and I saw Dennis in this musical at The Alladin hotel in Las Vegas. He was, as you could expect, REALLY good. Only one Styx reference at the very end when the cast was taking a bow, they played few chords from "Come Sail Away" LOL, was GREAT!! His voice was unmistakable!
JCS is best rock musical ever imho and I love DDY and Styx. "10 on Broadway" is a hidden gem and really underrated. 👏👏👏
Dennis, love you bro! You know what bothers me about the name of your page? That goofy thing in parentheses (formerly of Styx). I know. You know. We know. They stole your band from you and they keep up their ridiculous, ever changing narratives. Tommy is a very talented guy and JY is ok. But, we all know who walked away from the band. And we all know who was gracious enough to bring him back. Thank you for being who you are. You made that band and you’ve proven that by what you do and what they do. It sucks their arrogant attitudes prevent what could be a great reunion. But, I love this as I love everything you do.
Dennis, you're truly indeed a showman!😍
Mr. DeYoung is just a nice man, thank you for the music sir!
I love this Dennis! I would love if you did these for some of your other songs! Both from Styx, and your solo career! I always wanted to hangout with the musicians from back then (i was born in the 90's), and this almost fills the gap. Stay safe, and your loved ones as well! Keep sailing on 👊🏻
JCS is my favorite show... directed it about 7 years ago. I saw this production, and you were every bit as brilliant as Barry Dennen...you made some beautiful choices in "Trial Before Pilate".
You, Ted and Carl... utter perfection! BTW, my friend Larry was Ted's understudy. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing this amazing gem! My heart is happy 🥰
Dennis was just perfect for this role. Much as I love Barry Dennen's (RIP) bar-setting performance, Dennis's vocal power really adds a dimension. Thanks for posting!
I was born in ‘72 and - apart from the Beatles - Styx and JC Superstar were two of my biggest influences. Kilroy Was Here expanded my vision for what a rock band could be, to the point that when I had my own band in the ‘90s we would hear countless comparisons to Paradise Theater and Styx (oddly, I hadn’t heard Paradise Theater yet). I was introduced to JC Superstar thru performing in a high school production, so was determined to see you perform in it years later at the Universal Amphitheater in LA. Agree that you redefined the role of PP. I hope you keep being true to your heart and your art, and if you get back out to LA after all this, I look forward to seeing & hearing you play again! Thank you for bringing your passion to all you do.
Spectacular performance! Your voice is definitely made for broadway! (and rock and roll of course 🙂)
Amazing you found both gloves after so long--I can't even keep a pair of winter gloves together more than a couple years 😂
I worked this event as wardrobe crew in El Paso, Tx - 1993. 4 days in the theater with the MOST AMAZING CAST EVER. Ted, Carl, and Dennis were all the most down to earth, kind, decent people to be around. I was in constant awe, being a long-time Styx fan, but you blew me away with this perfirmance. Ted took a ton of pictures of all of us together, took my address and promised to send copies when he got them developed (back in the stone age) but sadly, I never received them. I prayed they would at least make a soundtrack available of this cast, so I am so thankful to be able to hear the versions of these songs that have stayed in my head all these many years. Thank you so much for posting this, sir!! No one has, or will ever, sing it better. ❤
Saw Superstar back in the day at the Fox Theatre in St Louis only because of DDY -- a great show. Styx was my favorite band from the moment I discovered them as a kid in '82-'83 or so... too young to go see the Kilroy tour but I later saw Tommy with Damn Yankees, and JY with his band in some no-account bar... all great and significant to me... and finally got to see the complete and true Styx live at the opening date of the reunion tour in Cedar Rapids in what, '97? If only we could see the real Styx reunite again! I do love Tommy and JY, but there is no Styx without DDY. Thanks to Dennis for these videos, he seems so genuine. Hope to see you on tour at some date in the not so distant future...
Always loved JCS, and Pilate's Dream is by far my favorite song from it. Bravo!
Thank you so much for doing these. This one is really special to me because I couldn’t afford to see this production at the time and I regret not finding a way to have borrowed the cash to have gone.
Stay safe and healthy, Dennis!
That was amazing, Dennis. You always make us from Illinois PROUD of you! Any video is amazing to have!
My boyfriend and I saw you in JCS in Chicago (we’re both from the south burbs- Homewood-Flossmoor), and you were amazing! The pit kicked into “Come Sail Away” for your curtain call, and the crowd went absolutely crazy! I had goosebumps, and I’m so grateful we saw you! ♥️♥️
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Dennis, would you do a quick tour of the wall behind you and maybe of your studio?. Thanks!
I've been dying to hear this since learning of it. My parents attended this in '93. I missed it and now I feel cheated. This is incredible. DDY's voice is immortal. And that costume is insane....as expected, this is the only time Barry Dennan is upstaged in the role.
Also, digging the hat DDY
My wife (then girlfriend) and I saw this show when the tour made it to San Francisco. We were both running a community theatre near Oakland, Ca., at the time. We were already theatre nerds. We love this show.... and the movie. Seeing Ted and Carl (RIP) was amazing. Then you throw in the amazing bonus of me being a lifelong Styx and DDY fan!! This was a very fun experience and very well done!
wow
great job Dennis!
I have known every word to this opera since I was 12 and always reenacted it playing Jesus AND Judas.
You did a great job as Pilate.....but your voice is PURE STYX! love it!
Edge of the Century was a great album. There ain’t too many “Show Me The way”s written in our lifetimes. Great show.
And great Pilot. Awesome voice. Truly live! Wow.
I saw you in Pittsburgh. I've never forgotten that performance. Blew me away. 😍
I saw your performance in San Francisco in 1993. God bless you, Brother.
We PLEASE Need A TOUR
Of THE WALLs & Your Studio
Thanks♥️🌟🙏🙏🌟♥️
Holy crap man. You’re a genius music and theater wise. Very few people have that richness in their voice that you have-a richness that I think is a strict musical theater style. I think theater in particular demands a certain richness, purity and emotion in a male voice especially, and you have that. It’s that richness and acting that makes performances such as Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd or Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables so powerful. I’m a sucker for theater so seeing you do it just touches a very special place in my heart.
And it totally works with rock music! A Facebook group I’m part of I think voted Sgt. Peppers as the best Beatles album.
This had me on the edge of my seat. Thank you so much for sharing!
I think you did an amazing job and despite what ever anyone else may say. anyone else that has the vocal ability and the drive to achieve would jump at the opportunity to be in that production!
Thanks for posting. I loved "Ten On Broadway" and would love for you to do a volume two. Don't listen to that other poster.
Dear Dennis D thank you 🙏🏻 4 being you .. I love how you and Suzanne have stayed true to each other and your soul 💕✝️
I will say the same thing that I said after your performance at the Soybean Festival in Martin, TN...your voice is beautiful and strong. I left the concert amazed and very pleased.
Miss Mellie I was at the Martin show also. He and his band held nothing back and sounded beyond incredible!
Saw the Toronto performance you were Excellent in this Role! Thanks for posting this Video!!
Dennis, that is the best insult: “every 4 to 6 weeks empty your bong water!”
Cool hat!! And thanks for the life long obsession with Jesus Christ Superstar ❤️
Wow, that's a real treat. Dennis, Ted, Carl together onstage. Heaven(sorry, PARADISE) on Earth :)
Don’t forget that Irene Cara was also part of this. It also included Danny Zolli as Annas. It was an all star cast for sure.
Dennis wow! thank you for sharing the play. Your voice was outstanding as always, why do you act like broadway is no big deal ? holy crap man! You were phenomenal!! I only ever listened to styx because of your amazing singing. Im a long time fan. I would love to watch you do more broadways!! Thats like going full circle with your music no mics! Only your powerful voice. Anyways im babbling, loved it.
Ah amazing and tears at the end
BTW, our song (my wife and myself) is "Dear Darling". Thank you making that beautiful song!
Awesome!
I love Jesus Christ Superstar, and I saw Dennis perform in it when the tour came to LA. He was absolutely amazing, and I also wore out my 10 on Broadway CD.......so great!😁
I seen the show with you in it .........Pittsburgh Pa !! You crushed it.......... You are the reason I went !! You didn't need a microphone......!!
This was awesome! Thanks for sharing it!
OMG! This is SERIOUSLY COOL!!!!! Thanks for sharing!
I remember this vividly. Great show here in Milwaukee. I took my mother who was a big fan of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was one of favorate shows. I remember the crowd going nuts when Dennis came out. Thanks Dennis. Keep.posting!!!
I loved your Broadway album and for me at the time it was the first time I had heard many of those so-called American standards
Ten on Broadway is an awesome album!
Dennis, you are a beautiful gift to our world. 💗
This should have been made for dvd. Can’t get that time back...
We had tix for this at the Paramount, and then I guess it was right after you took a spill off the stage and so we saw your understudy. A good show, but we missed you.
You weren't just in Styx you are Styx. What is on your hat? Love Dennis 🥳🥳🥳
Looks like a yellow submarine
I think you looked very good Dennis. Have a good holiday. Your fan-Ally
P.S your cape looks amazing
Didn't know you were in that tour!! Ted Neely is a legend and so are you!! 😙💕
Jewel Box NO HE IS NOT A LEGEND HE STILL ALIVE DON´T BE STUPID HE WILL BE A LEGEND WHEN HE DIES!
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Ted has OWNED that role & played it for decades. HE IS A LEGEND.... DEAD OR ALIVE.
Whilst you're sadly just a stupid idiot!
The second number is simply called "Pilate and Christ." Pilate was my first role post college. I wish I could have sung "Pilate's Dream" using the arrangements Dennis used, I even gave the music director a transcribed version based on the recording on "10 on Broadway" but no dice.
I have a ticket to see Dennis here in Fort Wayne, IN. If this d@mn covid ever leaves us.
Thanks for another great video.
I saw the show at the Orpheum in San Francisco. One of the most memorable nights of my entire life.
You probably don't remember the incident, but after the show, I was showing my date around the theater, which she had never been in before that night.
Some fans were on stage, waiting to give you flowers. I saw you on stage and I called out to compliment you on your performance.
You replied something like, "Thanks. Did you see me? I played Mary Magdalene..."
Everybody cracked up.
Thank you so much for the memory, and for this post.
Rock on!!
Oh my God! that cape is gorgeous. Keep the cape that's what I would have kept! LOL
I saw the performance in Montreal and it was great. I regret not buying the audio CD recording at the time.
Awesome I saw this at the Universal Amphitheatre - still have the tshirt somewhere...
I lovelovelove 10 on Broadway!!!♥️♥️♥️
Especially that you included a song from the Abba-guys!!!😄
I love how all the songs have meaning, and that that meaning fits in with all of Your songs! Forever in my heart, thanx a trillion!!!!!!!!!!
Styx Paradise Theatre was set to be my first live concert. However, Tommy hurt his hand, if I remember correctly, and your show in Vancouver had to be cancelled. I was so heartbroken at the time, as a 12 year old kid. (Turned out my first live concert ended up being Elton John instead …. Not bad!!! lol But I still wanted it it be Styx.) When JC Superstar came to Vancouver and I heard you were Pilate, I was so excited. But you didn’t come to Vancouver with the show. It returned a few months later, I attended again, but you didn’t come that time either. (It was still a brilliant show, I loved it so much, but I wish you had come there with it.) I finally saw Styx live in the summer of 2019, and I am a longtime fan of Gowan as well, so I really enjoyed it too. But, I have still never seen a live performance by Dennis De Young to this day!
Absolutely LOVE the hat you are wearing!!! I think I need to find one like it for my Beatles Lovin daughter!! That daughter and I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar in Greensboro, NC. It was disappointing that you weren't going to be in that production. This truly helps make up for it!
Thanks Dennis. keep the vids coming. Doesn't need to be important. Great to hear from you.
Wow.....You got to do it with Neely?!?! Niiiiice!! I really enjoy these videos.
I was literally just listening to suite madam blue
Me too!!
"...so lift up your heart, and Make a new start - lead us away from here....lead us away....." ♥️
It’s my favorite song!😍
Prelude 12 followed by Suite Madame Blue are two of the GREATEST pieces of music ever written & sung. Suite Madame Blue is my favorite Styx song from my favorite album of all time EQUINOX!! The Grand Illusion & Pieces of Eight were absolutely fantastic albums but nothing by any group touches Equinox!
love you man. so happy I get to see you and watch this!
Just Wow!👍
Dennis, I went to the show in Detroit, at the Fox Theater. We got tickets specifically because you were in it. Sadly, there was an understudy for you. Still a great show, but really missed you there. On the other hand, I have seen you countless times with Styx, the orchestra, your current and past line ups. Hope I get to see you again soon. Happy Thanksgiving. Cheers.
Always a pleasure when you pop in, Dennis! I never knew you were in that - but then I never even watched that film before - lol. Quite interesting stuff bro! Thanx for putting this up for us, Dennis!
You are SO talented, thank you!!
Dennis, Edge Of The Century was AWESOME !! Carrie Anne, Chicago, etc. Loved it ! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife. 🍻✌From, the Rockies of Utah.🍻
I saw the Edge Of The Century tour and I loved it!!!! Believe me, I like Tommy but "Edge" was a great album. I listen to it often. Love you Dennis!
Such a beautiful instrument
I saw you in JCS in Pittsburgh on July 7th 1993...I loved your performance,and the other guys werent bad either
Greetings from UK. Nice vlog Dennis, keep on rockin'
I was at Chicago Theatre to see you as Pilate, Fantastic,you came out of the side Balcony,be still my heart,I also saw Kilroy at the Auditorium,with the movie playing before you began,Love you Dennis stay safe, Suzanne too.
A reunion would be amazing. I admire how you are willing to move past old grudges. Just one of the ways that you remain a role model. I was wondering if you would be open to a reunion that included Gowan being involved in some capacity. Please forgive me if you have addressed this already, or if the very thought offends you.
One of my greatest memories in Chicago when we walked out the backstage doors together and saw people who wanted their programs signed and thought I was Ted who played Jesus. They didn’t believe me so I signed my name and you signed yours! Awesome night! Not many people can say they were in an autograph session with Dennis DeYoung!
Goodness, your voice is ever amazing!
Dennis I would really like to see the full length video of JCS. Thanks so much.
Amazing!
I remember that you were in this show. Wished we would have been able to see you in it!
Saw it in Utah. You were fantastic in it!
Was the short bit "Pilate and Christ", maybe? Hopefully my Google-fu doesn't fail me. Had NO idea you had a RUclips channel either, good sir. You have gained another sub this day.
Happy Thanksgiving Dennis, hope you and your family have a Blessed Holiday!!
Great video, thanks
“It’s 117 years old” Lol 😂
🤔with all due respect Denny you're are awesome.
have a safe holiday best as you can. 😷
and how awesome Ted Neely too 😍
We listened to the album, sang into hairbrushes and performed in the basement to no one but our siblings! Would love to see you on the stage in JCSS
WOW! As always, your voice transcends the source material! Hard to believe it was Broadway with those cheesy costumes and corny choreography. Good for you for doing them a huge favor!
Dennis!
Remember playing at the Marist High School sock hops!
HI Dennis I am from Saguenay in Québec I did saw you on show au Theater ville de Labaie
You was there with the beautiful Suzanne in 2006
Hope see you again 2021 if possible of course!🙋♂️
I’d love to see the full Hunchback production. Also, I had purchased your concert featuring some of the actors and yourself on I tunes. I wish I could find it again.
Hi Dennis! How about doing a video of you answering questions submitted by fans? The people that get to interview you always ask the same questions like what's the story of Lady? Babe? Mr. Roboto? etc. We already know the answers because we have been hearing you answer these questions for decades. How about giving us less fortunate folks a chance to ask something?
Hi Dennis! Someone's probably chimed in by now, but Pilate's three songs in JCS are "Pilate's Dream," "Pilate and Christ" (that's the "Who is this broken man cluttering up my hallllway" one), and then "Trial by Pilate" which is where you teach us all to count to 39. I love how you sing "Pilate's Dream" up almost a full octave (I think the original is in Bb minor, and you're doing it in G minor). Really beautiful. Was that your choice, or did the music director ask you to do that to show off your amazing range? I gotta know!
I say 'roouf' instead of rooooof too. I take crap for it from time to time. Glad to see I'm not alone :-)
Saw the show at the Paramount n NYC but I think it was right after you took a header off the stage or something because we saw the understudy. He really worked that cape. We were pretty bummed though.
Hey I like the mixing board its nice
Yellow Submarine hat AND the EVIL FLYING GLOVES!!! EEK! Very cool to finally see/hear this- have always been curious about this period. Did they ask you to sing any differently for this production than what you'd been doing in your own career? Your voice changed during this time, it definitely got even more 'operatic' than it had been 'til that time.
I think the other song you're trying to think of was "Sky Pilate". ;)