Godspell tour?

I see Godspell is touring next year. Anyone know who's doing it? Is it NETwork?
http://www.teamonetickets.com/godspell-tickets.html

I've heard it is Columbia Artists Theatricals and Drayton Entertainment.

Updated On: 8/24/13 at 08:29 PM

I clicked on one of the ticket links and received an odd picture of a cat with the following caption:

"Ceiling cat was unable to find any tickets for this event."

Lol, MUCH more entertaining than the Godspell revival.

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Well Rentboy,
I, for one, am familiar with both companies and 25 seconds on Google would have yielded the home pagesColumbia Artists for both, as well as almost anything you would need to know as to identify them.

Drayton is a Canadian company, which would explain why you are not readily familiar:
https://www.draytonentertainment.com/Online/default.asp

Columbia Artists has worked on a large number of tours, among them NETworks' Wizard of Oz, Jekyll and Hyde and Deborah Cox and Constantine Maroulis, the current Chicago tour, as well Blue man Group and many others:
http://www.columbiaartiststheatricals.com/

Both companies are quite legit with lengthy histories.

I don't think they'll re-stage it entirely different. After all, the re-staging was what made the revival unique and different. I remember reading online about two years ago or so that Richard H. Blake was rumored to play Judas. Anyone know if it was true?

and the Broadway revival was incredibly different than what was seen onstage at the Paper Mill Playhouse..

But Columbia IS one of the typical road companies. They just are not usually depicted as marquis name on a tour.

Technically speaking, you can not "scale back" a production of Godspell. Gospell is a bare bones show to begin with..

and the "wine" was a feature of the revival. It has nothing to do with the show itself as written, so not having that has nothing to do with scaling back and everything to do with having a different creative take.

Licensed, perhaps. But, as they discussed when creating the original AND revival versions, its a bit more free form and dependent upon improv to tell the story. Many companies still use original cast member names as charaters, but I dont consider those, gospell, pardon the pun, so I suppose we will agree to have differing opinions on what is germaine to the script of the show.

If anyone has a general question about the GODSPELL tour, feel free to PM me. The tour begins in October and goes till March.

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