Into the Light (vintage, 1986)

Lee Holdridge, John Forster, and Jeff Tambornino’s 'Into the Light' arrived at the Alvin Theatre in 1986, running for a brief, highly publicized commercial residency of just 6 official performances before closing, remaining an essential Holy Grail monument for lyric stage scholars tracking late-century failures. The textually rich contemporary musical drama chronicles an obsessive corporate data scientist who enters an intense psychological battle of wills when he attempts to verify the Shroud of Turin, starring Dean Jones.