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The movie, the play and the music fits in perfect with the Lenten/Easter season.
Our church youth group just performed it Friday through Sunday.
There were several interesting things about this group of actors one being there were 15 girls and one boy ranging from eighth grade through senior year of high school.
The boy was a late comer to the show so guess what Jesus was no boy, that role was given to girl with long flowing blonde hair.
I imagine to some here this is a very blasphemous thing, but it actually worked out quite well.
As anyone knows that has seen this musical humor is a part of it.
In fact the boy played the role of a woman in one of the parables also got beat up by the girls in the parable of the good Samaritan.
What really surprised me was the acting ability and some of the singing voices which could give any of our church choirs a run for their money and we have some outstanding voices in our choir.
In fact one of the girls sings in one of our choirs, many of these kids have acted and sang at their schools so they were seasoned performers and it showed.
I was fortunate to be at their last two rehearsal to get some pictures because cameras and recording devises were not allowed at any of the actual shows.
I agree and I'm an agnostic (though grew up Catholic). It's a wonderful score, easily Stephen Schwartz' best. And the best song of all wasn't even written by him - By My Side.
Maybe it's just because I'm very musical, but I remember the parables much better from the Godspell skits than from any church readings I ever had. Even now when I think of the Good Samaritan story, "separating sheep from goats," etc. it's Godspell that comes to my mind. So if you bring people to the show, they'll probably remember the parables for life!
I do prefer it without the clown makeup, which is one reason I've only seen the film once.
I agree and I'm an agnostic (though grew up Catholic). It's a wonderful score, easily Stephen Schwartz' best. And the best song of all wasn't even written by him - By My Side.
Maybe it's just because I'm very musical, but I remember the parables much better from the Godspell skits than from any church readings I ever had. Even now when I think of the Good Samaritan story, "separating sheep from goats," etc. it's Godspell that comes to my mind. So if you bring people to the show, they'll probably remember the parables for life!
I do prefer it without the clown makeup, which is one reason I've only seen the film once.
By My Side is such great song along with several others that standout.
Yeah.. in spite of the inspired musical score, it's a shame to see all of those shining, brainwashed faces! Oh well... later we can rework them, when their heads wake up.
"To see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day."
I hope the kids had a great time performing it. Thanks for sharing.
I was talking just yesterday to the youth minister who is in charge of these kids and the musical they put on, he said they were spiritually engaged with this musical so it had special meaning to them and there was much bonding had taken place among cast members along with some tears when they sat around discussing the event at their small celebration after the last show; some of these kids hardly knew each other before they began work on this show.
Besides taking pictures I was also involved with the setting up and taking down of the set, all of us adults that were involved agreed that it did add much to add to our Lenten experience.
It was also good to get to know some very nice people from the parish that I did not know before.
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