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Godspell
musical by Schwartz and Tebelak
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Christology
- In Christology: Film
…Schwartz and John Michael Tebelak’s Godspell (1971). Although those films do not escape the narrative and interpretive problems noted above, the format of the musical has a way of translating Jesus’ story into a lilting account of happy make-believe. A final genre of films about Jesus consists of satires of…
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musicals
- In musical
…with biblical stories, as in Godspell (1971) by Stephen Swartz and Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Other notable later musicals include Stephen Sondheim’s Company (1970) and Sweeney Todd (1979), Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban’s A Chorus Line (1975), Lloyd Webber’s Evita
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