Eli, Carmen, Mariluz and Ana return to the theater where it premiered, just 48 years ago, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. “For us it was a revolution,” they remember while showing photos taken then. They barely missed a performance and their passion was so great that in the end they ended up becoming friends with Camilo Sestowho asked about them when they missed a session.

When they were barely 15 years old, they confronted their parents – “Some fights would happen,” Eli confesses – and the fascist groups of Fuerza Nueva that demonstrated at the door of the Alcalá Theater. “One day they fired tear gas,” Carmen remembers. The work was barely four months in poster and its protagonist invested all his money in it. It was his biggest bet, as recorded in the documentary ‘Jesus Christ Superstar: history of a milestone in Spanish musicals’, released in 2018.

Despite the efforts of the censorshipwhich “cut everywhere”, as recalled by actor Javier Godino, who plays director Jaime Azpilicueta, director of that production, in the series ‘Camilo Superstar‘, The result ended up being a success. that transcended further: “It was a peak in a wall that broke all the molds, rather barriers, that could exist towards culture,” says Adrián Lastra, who plays Teddy Bautista.

The person in charge of playing Camilo in the series that Atresmedia is now premiering is Alejandro Jato: “The culture we consume also shapes people and a country is also shaped by the music it listens to, with the movies it sees,” he maintains. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ was the key that opened the door to that change.