In 1971, an illegal performance of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar -- the spontaneous project of students, professors, and a renegade seminarian -- was staged at Gettysburg College. Performance rights were being negotiated when legal action was suddenly threatened against any group staging the work before its Broadway premiere. The cast and crew put the show on anyway, thousands attended, and the outlaw production drew the College and the Lutheran church into a burgeoning national controversy. Drawing from original documents, recordings, and interviews, this book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the production, placing it and Gettysburg College in the context of the protest, experiment, and rebellion that defined the 1960s.