The Bible tells so many wonderful stories, and one of those stories will be rockin’ C.Y. Stephens Auditorium Oct. 5, 1995 A.D. at 7:30 p.m.

The original rock musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is on a coast-to-coast tour. The production stars Ted Neeley recreating his role of Jesus from the enormously popular motion picture released 20 years ago.

According to Performance magazine, Superstar is the number-one selling theatre tour in the country this year and has already been featured on “The Tonight Show,” “CBS News,” “48 Hours” and NBC’s “Today Show.”

Superstar boasts music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, with lyrics by Tim Rice, whose collaborations with Webber include the Tony Award-winning Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Jesus Christ Superstar’s remarkable score features several of Webber and Rice’s most memorable songs like “Hosanna,” “Superstar,” and the hauntingly beautiful, “I Don’t Know How To Love Him.”

Superstar tells its story entirely through song, considering the last seven days of Christ in contemporary pop terms.

While still in his early 20s, with lyricist Tim Rice, Webber wrote Jesus Christ Superstar. Its initial theatrical performance took place at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City Oct. 12, 1971, and admittedly was greeted with loud controversy, denounced by some religious groups and fervently defended by others.

The current production is directed by Tony Christopher. He returns Broadway’s Jesus Christ Superstar to its rock opera roots, utilizing contemporary theatre technology, including state-of-the-art hand-held and headset wireless microphones, fiber optics and computer generated lighting.

Hailed by Variety as “the biggest all-media parlay in show business history,” Jesus Christ Superstar started its phenomenal history as a record album with sales soaring into the millions, a subsequent concert attraction, a full stage spectacle, a motion picture, then television presentation and a theatre piece destined for revivals.

Tickets are on sale now and are available at the Iowa State Center Box Office, all TicketMaster centers or charge by phone at 233-1888. Tickets are $18, $24, $28; ISU students can get them for half-price.