He’d just breezed in from Atlanta, he said, via Hollywood, where he had written Brute Force for Mark Hellinger. He wanted a job. In March 1946, he got the job—writing the new society chitchat ...

Dear World is almost in the megaton class (it cost $750,000), and the stage at the Mark Hellinger Theater is a smoldering rubble of tedium. Plays converted into musicals have a high disaster ratio.

“Jesus Christ Superstar,” Webber’s iconic rock opera, made its world premiere on Broadway in 1971 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The Tony-nominated musical is a loose retelling of Jesus Christ's final ...