What's so wrong with an "updated" Godspell? Golly, aren't they all updated? Perhaps no other American musical cries out for retrofitting more than this one, with its strung-together parables and arid stage directions: It's really just a cut-down copy of Matthew, a songbook, and a brief: Be relevant to today's youth.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:22AM on November 8, 2011