Chris Jones: With 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' live musical theater roars back to life in London, a moment to be cherished
LONDON - The actors came out with fabric covering their faces, each one apart from another. They found their socially distant marks and drove away the threatening rain clouds over their heads. A tense silence fell. And then the orchestra, so physically separate that the situation required the pitching of a special tent scores of feet away, began to play perhaps the most famous three notes in the almighty canon of rock opera, as birthed in the Year of Our Lord, 1970.
Da. Da. Da.
Trembling hands removed each face covering.
Da Da Da.
The actors turned their
