NYTimes.com: “GODSPELL,” the 1971 musical about Jesus and his apostles, brings to the stage a vision of spirituality so earnest that it can veer perilously close to self-parody. With its thrift-store costuming and vaudeville-style song-and-dance numbers, the show is the ultimate in accessible feel-good Christianity. In the 2000 movie “Meet the Parents” Ben Stiller’s future in-laws ask him to say grace, and the only words he can conjure are the lyrics to “Day by Day,” the “Godspell” ditty that the composer Stephen Schwartz set to lyrics from a 13th-century Roman Catholic prayer. Everyone, even a nervous Jew under the watchful eye of a C.I.A. agent father-in-law, remembers those tunes.
Friday, November 04, 2011
Broadway Revival of ‘Godspell’
NYTimes.com: “GODSPELL,” the 1971 musical about Jesus and his apostles, brings to the stage a vision of spirituality so earnest that it can veer perilously close to self-parody. With its thrift-store costuming and vaudeville-style song-and-dance numbers, the show is the ultimate in accessible feel-good Christianity. In the 2000 movie “Meet the Parents” Ben Stiller’s future in-laws ask him to say grace, and the only words he can conjure are the lyrics to “Day by Day,” the “Godspell” ditty that the composer Stephen Schwartz set to lyrics from a 13th-century Roman Catholic prayer. Everyone, even a nervous Jew under the watchful eye of a C.I.A. agent father-in-law, remembers those tunes.
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