Summer Stages

The faux-naive ethos of the era found perhaps its most enduring stage ambassador in 1971 with Stephen Schwartz's pop-pastiche pageant "Godspell," which ran for most of the decade. A Broadway revival has been tentatively slated for August. That makes it the first major revival of Mr. Schwartz's work since he wowed a new generation of youngsters with "Wicked," which had its premiere in 2003. Also due in August is "Hair," a show that had an even larger impact on the musical-theater landscape when...