I love both very very much but I also have to go with Jesus Christ Superstar. The music is better and pulls emotion after emotion out of you. Godspell is a fun musical with great songs but the winner is def. JCS!!
EDIT: Renthead....try to find the 1996 London Revival Cast or the Australian version. Those two are the best in my humble opinion.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
They are very different approaches to the same story, but Godspell is actually much more informative and more diverse in book and score. JCS is more emotional and serious. I like them both, but for very different reasons.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
I haven't heard much from JCS, but I LOVE the 2000 Off-Broadway Recording of Godspell w/ Barrett Foa.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
i've played both roles..and i can just tell you right now...it's two completely different shows. like TOTAL OPPOSITE of the spectrum. but i felt so fulfilled with both of them. woohoo! i get excited thinking about them! good shows.
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
umm..jcs is more realistic...and dark. i think it's focuses more on a cathardic reaction from the audience. (plus the beating scene...pretty intense) godspell brings the story to the table in a completely different approach. the music is bright and random. but in the end, it's so heartfelt and personal. (the crucifixion scene...intense as well..but in a more...shock value way)
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
Oh, must I really choose? Alright then! I would have to say that I prefer Jesus Christ Superstar, because I enjoy the rock style that show has. Still, Godspell is great, and I can't wait to audition for it in March!
Hmmm....I'll give a resounding "Godspell." While I adore much of the music in JSC, I find Godspell to be more quietly moving and majestic. I swear I'll be in this show before I'm too old.
tough question.....Godspell was earlier, and is done much more in the 1960's flower child type......I really like it, and originally saw it in London. JCS is much more emotional.......I'd have to go with Godspell
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
You're wrong Elphaba. Plain wrong. I'm Muslim and found Godspell highly offensive. I hope everyone else on this board isn't so culturally intolerant as you. It's people like you who are perpetuating fear and attacking freedom of expression in the world today.
Definitely JCS. GOdspell is way too preachy for me. It's like I'm going to a Sunday school class or something. The Australian recording of JCS is pretty ridiculous. In a good way. Kinda cheesey orchestrations, but Jesus and Judas freaking rock.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"