Bob Weir’s proposed Old Globe musical followed his arrest at final San Diego Grateful Dead show

The death Saturday of Grateful Dead singer, guitarist and co-founder Bob Weir came 36 years after the fabled San Francisco band performed its final San Diego concert in 1993 and 27 years after he unveiled plans to mount a musical at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater.

Weir succumbed to what his family described as “underlying lung issues” after being treated for cancer last year. He was 78. His death leaves drummer Bill Kreutzmann as the only surviving original member of the Dead, the storied...