Productions2 on Broadway
| 1976 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. June 22, 1976 · John-Michael Tebelak | 527 performances |
| 2011 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival. November 7, 2011 · Daniel Goldstein | 264 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Godspell matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature44 passages
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p225
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p232
Godspell, another long-running off Broadway musical, moved to the Broadhurst, eventually managing 2,118 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p104
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. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p167
Several Broadway musicals, such as Godspell and Rent, have had their “tryouts” as off-Broadway shows. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p395
The earlier Stephen Schwartz musical, which had been running Off-Broadway since 1971, had an enormous following of happily satisfied group sales buyers—the perfect market for The Magic Show. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p596
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