I'd like to give thanks to my staff, especially to Bill, Jon, and Amy Rogers. I'd like to give special thanks to the entire cast. Without them, the show would not be possible. And I'd like to give an extra special thanks to the audience. Thank you for coming tonight. This show, Jesus Christ Superstar, is a very controversial show, and has been since the day it came out. Religion is a difficult subject that few of us are able to talk about. But in order to understand why certain things are done in the name of religion, we must talk about it.

This is not presented as an actual history of what happened to Jesus of Nazareth. It is just an interpretation of what could have happened. And in that interpretation, an effort to find out why what happened happened and why He did what He did. I can't ever claim to know what happened and who Jesus of Nazareth really was. But I must try to understand and I hope you will try to understand with me.

Mitchell J. Frank