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Godspell by Jill Dolan

The ensemble plays in the water in the show's openingComposer Stephen Schwartz and director John-Michael Tebelak conceived and wrote Godspell as Carnegie-Mellon University students in the early 1970s (almost all the lyrics are taken verbatim from the Gospels).When it opened Off Broadway at LaMama in 1971, the Viet Nam War still raged; Charles Manson and his followers were being sentenced for the murder of Sharon Tate…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 5:18pm on November 30, 2011

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