Jesus Christ Superstar
To stage Jesus Christ Superstar, I've long been convinced, is to set yourself up to fail. I'm not just being a crabby cynic here; I love the piece very much. But it was not conceived for the stage in the first place, so putting it on one tends not to work very well. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice initially intended to develop it for the West End, but after every theater producer laughed the young men out of th…