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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Linda Goodman Zebooker Date: 13 Nov 04 - 10:17 AM I went to an incredibly moving production of Godspell, staged by the students at Gettysburg College (in Pennsylvania) in the late '70s. The setting was a "vacant city lot", and the stage seemed to be bare of any scenery, but throughout the play the actors would before your eyes assemble things out of the newspaper, bottles, wire and other "trash" in the lot. Whole trees and other objects would suddenly appear. I still remember the cast entering by streaming down the aisles singing "Pre-e-e-pare Ye". --Linda Goodman |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: hesperis Date: 13 Nov 04 - 04:52 AM I sang "By My Side" solo in the Church youth choir's production of this, back in 91 or 92. All I got out of it was a t-shirt, a horrible dislike of theater politics, and an ability to fingerpick guitar. I was originally supposed to play guitar and sing on stage, but then the director got scared by my playing and said I'd only be singing... but then two months later when the production was only a few weeks away I had to teach the guitar player how to play it, because he wasn't used to that much fingerpicking. |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Nov 04 - 04:21 AM Silly link - I used to work with a lady who could have been Maria's twin sister.... wasn't though. She sang beautifully too. Her son was once featured as the 'lickle drummer' on Chris Evan's TGIF programme. It got him horribly bullied at school, where they threatened to break his hands. Nice children. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 13 Nov 04 - 02:43 AM i'm going to buy the dvd about this, today is saterday, i will go to the dvd ship in town, might haf to order it, i wonder how much it is [i wont pay more than 15 poiunfds, , i will go leeds, borders in leeds, big cd and dvd place, cheap as well. |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Peg Date: 29 Dec 03 - 11:06 AM the film version is very good too; with Lynn Thigpen (who died recently) as Peggy and Victor Garber (who is now in Alias) as Christ... |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Pooby Date: 29 Dec 03 - 10:21 AM A bit of "Godspell" trivia I forgot in the previous posting, for those who care about such stuff. The actress who played "Sonia" in the original cast (and sang the raunchy-sounding "Turn Back O Man") was Sonia Manzano, who later became even more familiar (to American audiences, at least) as Maria, one-half of the Hispanic couple who lived on Sesame Street. Interesting career arc, I'd say... Poobs |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Pooby Date: 29 Dec 03 - 10:13 AM My daughter recently appeared in "Godspell," 25 years after my own performance in the show. In the course of her rehearsals, I learned something new. When I heard them working on "Prologue" and "Tower of Babel," I asked the director if these were something new. He explained that they were not usually done in productions because of their complexity. Furthermore, the track list on the CD is different from the complete score because the producers wanted the cast recording to have more of a "rock album" feel, so they left out those two tracks and started off with "Prepare Ye" followed by "Save the People." Having said all that, my fave songs in the show would probably be (in no particular order) "Turn Back O Man" (for reasons already given by others), "All For the Best" (same here), and "We Beseech Thee" (probably for its infectious quasi-Bo Diddley beat, among other attributes). A great show, still hugely popular after all these years, and boy does it ever piss off the religious right. (Another strike in its favor). Pooby |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:49 AM My favourite was always 'Turn back, O man', I love that raunchy piano at the beginning and the voice like a bag of ball bearings being rolled down a corrugated tin roof..... My version is the London cast recording, Jeremy Irons, David Essex etc. I did actually see a performance of it a few years ago in Ilford, Essex, but the sound production was so bad we heard nothing of the dialogue and the songs were all distorted. I'd love to go and see a properly staged version of it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:12 AM Hi, John - I don't have them where I can reach them right now to get the numbers, but I have the original cast CD, which was on the Arista label in the U.S. I also have the DVD of the movie. I think it was 1976 when I first saw the movie - at the base theater of China Lake Naval Weapons station in the Mojave Desert of California. I was working there, away from my family during the week before Easter, and I was lonesome. It was a good time to see that movie, and it really affected me. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:39 AM is 7.40 am now, i bang there doors, but they not in. |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:35 AM I playing it agfain, but i think you alloed to play loud music after 7 am , in moring? i played it really loud before, they dident bang on the walls!, maybe they ded? i might knock there doors, and say " heloo, did you know about jesus and god and all that?" its 7.30am in the morining here, i think they waked up now., i go and see. |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:22 AM Joe-This [godspell] was the first play i ever saw, i saw it at scholl, i seen it at the theatre since, i'm not particulary religous, but it is one of my favourite plays, if i see it advetised in local area, [within 50 miles] i will go, maybe becaause its the first play i saw. |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:19 AM well said joe! joe- yoir track list is a bit different to mine, mine= 1.Prepare Ye 2.Save The people 3. Day By Day 4.All For The Best 5.All Good Things 6.Light of The world 7.Turn Back 8.Alas for You 9. By My side 10. We Beseech the 11.On The Willows 12. The Finale. Joe-Which Cd have you got, and waht is the CD number/label? |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:13 AM Godspell is one of my favorite musicals. It opened off-Broadway May 17, 1971, and ran for six years. Music and lyrics were by Stephen Schwartz, who also did lyrics and music for Pippin and The Magic Show.
The play is based on the Gospel of Matthew, and I think it does a good job of portraying the basic message of Matthew. I try to watch the movie once a year, usually at Easter. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 12:30 AM i playing it now! , [soundftrack to gods spell] problry pissing the neebourghrs off, [i playing it LOUD, serbes them right.john |
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Subject: Godspell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Dec 03 - 12:27 AM Have you seen it, wahts you r faabourite song from it? i think mine is Dat By Day. |
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