Prepare Ye

Just recently, Tori and I were lamenting the lack of a good musical to totally geek out with lately. We both have incredibly fond memories of seeing Jesus Christ Superstar, ...tick tick boom, and The Last Five Years over and over again, getting way too invested in the productions and the creative teams, and generally having fun getting all obsessive. I'm so ready for a show to completely, unhealthily fixate on again.

Which is why I was so excited to hear that Godspell is being revived! Godspell is such a weird show--it has some of the most rapturously gorgeous melodies of any pop musical, but man alive--it can be a cheesy mess. I LOVED the 2000 off-Broadway revival, but even that one, with its ridiculously talented cast (Chad Kimball, Leslie Kritzer, Shoshanna Bean, Barrett Foa, Capathia Jenkins, the dreamy Will Erat...) got a little overly jazz-handsy at times in its attempts to make the gospels groovy for the kids.

But you can't deny the beauty of that score, and the show can be fun at its best, so I'm hoping it can help reignite some of our dormant theatre-geek enthusiasm. Besides, since I tend to swoon over any actor who plays Judas in a musical (the weirdest and most niche-y of my predilections), I should at least come out of this with a new crush. :o)