The run closed September 4, 1977
- Opened
- June 22, 1976
- Closed
- September 4, 1977
- Performances
- 527
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 50th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Godspell 1 more that season
| 2011 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Daniel Goldstein | 264 perf. |
Who was in it20 named
Laurie Faso
Lois Foraker
Elizabeth Lathram
Bobby Lee
Tom Rolfing
Marley Sims
Valerie Williams
Tony Hoty
Patti Mariano
Marilyn Pasekoff
Jeremy Sage
John Ann Washington
8 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
Hunter Parrish Jesus
Tom Rolfing John the Baptist/Judas
Robin Lamont "Day by Day"
Marley Sims "Learn Your Lessons Well"
Valerie Williams "Bless the Lord"
Lamar Alford "All Good Gifts"
Laurie Faso "Light of the World"
Lois Foraker "Turn Back, O Man"
Elizabeth Lathram "By My Side"
Bobby Lee "We Beseech Thee"
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- John-Michael Tebelak, John
- Producer
- Edgar Lansbury, Stuart Duncan, Joseph Beruh
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Originally opened Off-Broadway in 1971, the same year as Jesus Christ Superstar, taking the opposite approach: intimate and playful instead of operatic and grandiose. It transferred to Broadway in 1976.
Left: The Company in Godspell. Opened at the Circle in the Squre November 7, 2011 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 16
- The show was presented in a Greenwich Village theatre for three months, then moved to the Promenade (on Broadway and 76th Street) for a total run of 2,124 performances, making it currently the fourth longest running Off-Broadway musical. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 225
- The fifth longest running Broadway musical of the 1970s, The Magic Show was Stephen Schwartz’s third in a row — the others were Godspell and Pippin — to play over 1,900 performances. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 232
- Godspell, another long-running off Broadway musical, moved to the Broadhurst, eventually managing 2,118 performances. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 104
- Godspell is a modern retelling of the Gospel according to St. Matthew with Jesus and his disciples clothed as clowns. There was a delightful sense of innocence, and Jesus seemed like a regular guy (although he wore a Superman T-shirt), but little blunted the source’s religious message. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 167
- Several Broadway musicals, such as Godspell and Rent, have had their “tryouts” as off-Broadway shows. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 395
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Godspell at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.