If you’re a Bible Belter who’s always wanted to experience Burning Man but not enough to make the trek to Nevada, find your way instead to Belmont’s Troutt Theater. That’s where the university’s musical theater department is staging the hit 1971 musical “Godspell” through Sunday, and the experience can’t be too far off from the bohemian festival that graces the southwest deserts each summer. If Jesus Christ were to return to earth and restart his ministry in the desert ju

Belmont’s musical theater department will bring stories from scripture to life though song in the Troutt Theater. Premiering the 1971 off-Broadway original on a Belmont stage Friday, “Godspell” tells a story of rebuilding a community using parables from the Bible’s New Testament. It will be the first Belmont musical directed by a faculty member outside of the musical theater department. Director Sean Martin, an adjunct instructor of theater at Belmont, attributes the mileston