What shows have bible content in them?

[broadwaybaby077]

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]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 1:20am

two by two (about noah)and randy newman's faust are two that come to mind...

[WOSQ]

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]

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]

Posted: 11/17/09 at 11:21pm

The 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.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 11/28/09 at 7:53pm

Children of Eden

[redheaded]

Posted: 1/12/10 at 4:01am

the apple tree

[StepInTime]

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