GODSPELL

July, 2008
by Tebelak & Schwartz
Olney Theatre Center, Maryland


At the behest of John the Baptist, young men and women forsake their jobs and take up the mantle of Jesus Christ, becoming his disciples, in a musical retelling of the Gospel of Matthew using modern arrangements of hymnal music. The apostles traverse the city in a series of parable vignettes, spreading Christ's message of love and tolerance as the time moves ever closer to Jesus's betrayal at the hands of Judas and, ultimately, his crucifixion.