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NATCHEZ – On Tuesday afternoon, Mississippi author and Vicksburg native Ellis Nassour, who wrote “Jesus Christ Superstar,” plans a meet and greet to introduce his new book, “Jesus Christ Superstar, Behind the Scenes of the Worldwide Musical Phenomenon.”

The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m. at Big Muddy Inn, 411 N. Commerce St., and will include refreshments and a live performance of two songs from the musical, sung by Big Muddy Inn owner Amy Allen.

Fifty years after his first book, Nassour returns to the world of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to complete the story of how the recording of Jesus’s last six days on the earth altered the world of rock by pushing boundaries never thought to be pushed before, and follows the growth of how a show like “Jesus Christ Superstar” became a nationwide hit, and one of the most well known musicals of all time.

Nassour is a playwright, author, and international arts journalist. He is a veteran of the New York Times and has worked closely with artists such as Rice and Webber. He wrote New York Times bestselling novels such as his bestselling biography Honky Tonk Angel. He was a Times 2006 person of the year and has used much of his success and popularity to not only grow as an artist, but to give back to Mississippi, providing donations to the William Faulkner Archive at the University of Mississippi Williams Library.