What shows have bible content in them?
broadwaybaby077
Swing Joined: 3/23/08
#1What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/3/09 at 5:58pm
I am doing a project for my bible literature class about the bible in straight theater/musical theater. I'm looking for names of shows that come from bible stories or that have to do with the bible in someway. On my list so far are Pippin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Children of Eden.
Thanks!
Updated On: 11/3/09 at 05:58 PM
surething92
Swing Joined: 11/4/09
#2re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/4/09 at 1:20am
two by two (about noah)and randy newman's faust are two that come to mind...
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#2re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/4/09 at 3:56pm
"J.B.", a play in verse by poet Archibald MacLeish (sp) won the Pulitzer in about 1959 and retells the story of Job.
It is available in libraries although it is not produced very often at all these days which is to say I cannot remember a production since the early 60s.
But for sheer Bible content, this is a big one.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#3re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/6/09 at 7:59pm
"God's Favorite" by Neil Simon is also a modern, comical version of the Book of Job.
eponine88
Broadway Star Joined: 12/8/03
#4re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/17/09 at 11:21pmThe Last Days of Judas Iscariot (by Stephen Adly Guirgis) doesn't focus on one particular Bible story, but it does address several Bible stories over the course of an imagined court appeal in Purgatory regarding the damnation of Judas.
#5re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 11/28/09 at 7:53pmChildren of Eden
StepInTime
Swing Joined: 1/1/10
#7re: What shows have bible content in them?
Posted: 1/14/10 at 7:07pm
I might be pushing it but, "Children's Letters to God".
Updated On: 1/14/10 at 07:07 PM
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