FREE: Godspell cd A Musical Based Upon The Gospel According to St Matthew

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Pre-owned Godspell cd. As with all games and movies I offer, there may be some scratches from use but discs have been tested and play without issue.

Cast: Lamar Alford (vocals, piano), Peggy Gordon (vocals, guitar), David Haskel (vocals, shofar), Joanne Jonas, Robin Lamont, Sonia Manzano (vocals), Gilmer McCormick (vocals, guitar), Jeffery Mylett (vocals, recorder, guitar), Stephen Nathan (vocals, ukulele), Herb Braha (vocals).The Band: Steve Reinhardt (keyboards), Jesse Cutler (guitars, bass), Richard LaBonte (guitar, bass) and Ricky Shutter (drums, percussion).

Jesus Christ made a big comeback at the start of 1970s in the guise of a rock star. Perhaps it was the general disillusionment of the late '60s that sent people back to that old-time religion, or maybe it was just that, with his scraggly beard and sandals, Jesus was suddenly identifiable as the prototype of the anti-materialist hippie. In any case, his (or His) return to prominence was heralded by the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which topped the American charts in February 1971. Lloyd Webber and Rice had always intended Superstar to be a stage musical, only recording the album when they failed to find the funds for a production, and they wasted little time in putting it on Broadway, opening the following October. But in between, another stage show about Jesus appeared, Godspell. It was the brainchild of John-Michael Tebelak, who had written the text as a college exercise at Carnegie-Mellon University. Tebelak brought in 23-year-old fellow alumnus Stephen Schwartz to write the music and the "new" lyrics, which, like the book, were adapted from the gospel according to St. Matthew, along with some borrowings from Mark, Luke, and John. The show opened modestly at the tiny Cherry Lane Theater off-off-Broadway in Greenwich Village on May 17, 1971, and slowly built into a worldwide phenomenon.