Loving “Jesus Christ Superstar” is one thing, but loving the myriad staged productions of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is another. The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice masterpiece existed arguably in its most perfect form in the original 1970 concept album, and although there hasn’t been a lack of paying customers for thousands of legit productions in the 55 years since, mounting a really outstanding one has been like, well, putting a camel through the eye of a needle, to quote somebody famous. The pitfalls are endless — too proudly irreverent, too stodgy, too stagy, not staged enough — but one of the biggest ones is treating it like a traditional musical
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