Stephen Schwartz - Godspell (2001 National Touring Cast)
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Artist: Stephen SchwartzEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Opening -
- Tower of Babble -
- Prepare Ye -
- Save the People -
- Day by Day - McKeehan, Toby
- Learn Your Lessons Well
- Bless the Lord
- All for the Best
- All Good Gifts
- Light of the World
- Beautiful City
- Turn Back, O Man
- Alas for You
- By My Side
- We Beseech Thee
- Day by Day
- On the Willows
- Finale
Music reviews of Godspell (2001 National Touring Cast)
Music Review: I just don't get it
Rating: 3 Stars
With all the talk about this being an updated, more contemporary version I guess I was expecting more or at least something much, much different. I'm not sure what year it was supposed to be updated to, but to me it just sounds like they took it from 1970's folk rock to 1970's amped rock by adding more instruments and going from acoustic to electric. And at most times it doesn't feel different enough. At other time it feels so forced and exaggerated to me that it just feels overly campy now - almost disrespectful to the original cast recording. The original had such an innocent sincerity to it. I don't exactly hate this updated version, I just don't get it and have to ask "why bother?". To me they just didn't succeed in what they set out to do and what they are being credited at having done - updating it to something new and fresh. Maybe seeing it on stage is what I'm missing - my Mom took me to see the original in NY for my birthday when I was a kid in the 70s - it was my first Broadway show. Since seeing it in NY, I've been to many H.S. productions and always love the new updated interpretations keeping the music pretty much the same. I have to wonder if the elder Schwartz being involved with this project had something to do with the fact that this feels so constrained to the original. I don't fault him for that, I love the original. I guess I was planning on really hating this, but instead I'm just indifferent.
Description of Godspell (2001 National Touring Cast)
Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair are often named as the two best "rock musicals," but Stephen Schwartz's Godspell--which opened off-Broadway in 1971 and on Broadway five years later--is, for many people, a sentimental favorite. The musical style involves consistently catchy pop and is inspirational without being preachy. Instead of presenting a linear narrative, the book is made up of a succession of vignettes illustrating biblical parables through a hippy prism--making it particularly easy to adapt and update. Directed by Schwartz's son Scott, this touring production (including new lyrics by Schwartz senior) is set in a hi-tech environment and incorporates references to video monitors and computers (which form an electronic crucifix). This revival is sometimes marred by weird arrangements (new orchestrations have been made by Alex Lacamoire)--as with the quasi drum & bass beat on "Tower of Babble" or the metallish guitar licks on "Save the People." Still, the performance presents an exuberantly youthful cast and is highly energetic. To hear an equally upbeat but less aggressive update of the show, you might want to check out the 2000 Off-Broadway cast recording. --Elisabeth VincentelliGeneral CDs
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