
Jesus Christ Superstar
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 'Jesus Christ Superstar' stands as an epochal, revolutionary milestone that permanently altered the trajectory of modern musical theater, opening at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1971 and running for 720 performances. Conceived as a heavy-metal rock opera, the through-sung masterpiece dismantles traditional golden-era formatting to investigate the final days of Jesus Christ through a contemporary, politically raw lens. Featuring standard show tune anthems like "Heaven on Their Minds" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him," this baseline property remains an absolute cornerstone of lyric art, universalized across generations.

