TORONTO - "Jesus Christ Superstar" continues to gain a high-profile following at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Aaron Walpole, who plays Annas in the acclaimed production, says "a lot of producers" from Canada and the U-S have gone to see the show lately.
That, after they heard that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who created the rock opera, saw the production last month and loved it.
Walpole says it's the biggest reaction a musical at the Stratford festival has ever drawn in terms of buzz south of the border.
Des McAnuff, the Stratford festival's artistic director, helms the show that's been packing the house at the Avon Theatre.
Lloyd Webber scored the music and Rice wrote the lyrics for the hit 1970 "Jesus Christ Superstar" concept album and musical, which opened on Broadway in '71.
Their praise of the Stratford production has fuelled rumours that the show is Broadway-bound.
But Walpole, who placed third on Season Three of "Canadian Idol," says no deals have been made yet.
