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Godspell
''Godspell'' is a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end. ''Godspell'' began as a project by drama students at Carnegie Mellon University and then moved to the off-off-Broadway theater La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan. The show was rescored for an off-Broadway production, which opened on May 17, 1971, and became a long-running success. Many productions have followed worldwide, including a 2011 Broadway revival. An abbreviated one-act version of the musical designed for performers aged 18 and under also exists, titled ''Godspell Junior''. Several cast albums have been released over the years. " Day by Day", from the original cast album, reached #13 on the pop singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John-Michael Tebelak
John-Michael Tebelak (September 17, 1949 – April 2, 1985) was an American playwright and Theatre director, director. He is best known for creating the musical ''Godspell'', based on the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Saint Matthew, with the composer Stephen Schwartz (composer), Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the music. Some of the lyrics are original to the show, while others were taken from either the Bible or traditional hymns in the 1940 Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal hymnal. Biography Education and ''Godspell'' Tebelak was born in Berea, Ohio and graduated from Berea High School in 1966. His parents were Genevieve and John Tebelak, and he had one sister. He first produced ''Godspell'' as his Master's Thesis, master's thesis, under Lawrence Carra, at Carnegie Mellon University in December 1970. He had been studying Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, Roman mythology, but became fascinated by the joy expressed in the Gospels, with the deadline for his t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day By Day (Godspell Song)
"Day by Day" is a folk rock ballad from the 1971 Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak musical ''Godspell''. It is the third song in the show's score and is reprised as the closing number for the 1973 film version. Lyrics The song's refrain follows a prayer ascribed to the 13th-century English bishop Saint Richard of Chichester: :May I know Thee more clearly, :Love Thee more dearly, :Follow Thee more nearly. The version in ''Godspell'' follows more closely the wording in Hymn 429 of the 1940 ''Hymnal'': :Day by day, :Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: :To see thee more clearly, :Love thee more dearly, :Follow thee more nearly, :Day by day. "Day by Day" was first a hit in Australia, where both Judy Stone and Colleen Hewett released competing versions of the track in late 1971. Hewett's version reached #2 in the Kent Music Report, while Stone's take reached #25. In 1972, a version of the song from the album ''Godspell'' (1971) by the original off-Broadway cast was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as ''Godspell'' (1971), ''Pippin (musical), Pippin'' (1972), and ''Wicked (musical), Wicked'' (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including ''Pocahontas (1995 film), Pocahontas'' (1995), ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film), The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), ''The Prince of Egypt'' (1998, music and lyrics), ''Enchanted (film), Enchanted'' (2007), ''Disenchanted (film), Disenchanted'' (2022), and the Wicked (film franchise), two-part adaptation of ''Wicked'' (2024-2025, music and lyrics). Schwartz has earned List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Schwartz, numerous accolades including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Garber
Victor Garber, (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian stage and film actor and singer. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards, and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Garber originated roles in the Broadway productions of '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' in 1979 (as Anthony Hope), '' Noises Off'' in 1983 (as Garry LeJuene), '' Lend Me a Tenor'' in 1989 (as Max), '' Arcadia'' in 1995 (as Bernard Nightingale), and ''Art'' in 1998 (as Serge). He's received four Tony Award nominations for his performances in the play '' Deathtrap'' in 1978 (as Clifford Anderson), the Neil Simon musical '' Little Me'' in 1982 (as The Men in Belle's Life), ''Lend Me a Tenor'' in 1989, and the musical comedy revival of ''Damn Yankees'' in 1994 (as Applegate). He created the role of John Wilkes Booth in the original cast of the 1990 Off-Broadway run of ''Assassins''. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter Parrish
Hunter Parrish Tharp (born May 13, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing the role of Silas Botwin in the Showtime series ''Weeds'' and for his performances in the Broadway productions of ''Godspell'' in the role of Jesus and '' Spring Awakening'' as Melchior. Early life Parrish was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Annie Parrish, who works with children with autism, and Bruce Tharp, an engineer. Parrish has an older brother. He graduated from Plano Senior High School and Texas Tech University Independent School District. Career 2003–2005: Early career After being seen at a showcase in New York, directed by Peter Seidman, Parrish was offered professional representation and went on to guest star in several television shows and appeared in the film '' Sleepover'' (2004). 2005–2012: ''Weeds'' and Broadway debut Parrish gained recognition when he began starring in the hit Showtime series ''Weeds'' in 2005. The show ran for eight seasons, ending i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Haskell
David Michael Haskell (June 4, 1948 – August 30, 2000) was an American film, stage and television actor and singer best known for his performance in the musical '' Godspell''. Early life David Haskell was born in Stockton, California. David graduated from Terra Linda High School, San Rafael, California, in June 1966. He attended the College of Marin before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a Past Master Councilor of the Mill Valley Chapter, Order of DeMolay. Career Haskell is best remembered for his performance in the 1970s in the New York City, New York, Off-Broadway musical-theatre production '' Godspell'' and its subsequent film adaptation (1973) in the dual roles of John the Baptist and Judas Iscariot. He also appeared as Claudio in the Joseph Papp Public Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival off-Broadway theatre production (1976), at the Delacorte Theater, of the play ''Measure for Measure'' (''circa'' 1603 or 1604) by William S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Covington
Julie Covington (born 11 September 1946) is an English singer and actress, best known for recording the original version of " Don't Cry for Me Argentina", which she sang on the 1976 concept album '' Evita''. Early life Julie Covington was born in London. Her parents were Ernest Gladden and Elsie Gladden (née Moody). Her parents divorced and her mother married Leslie Covington in 1957. She attended the girls' grammar school Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in Kilburn, northwest London, then studied at Homerton College, Cambridge. She started acting at school, and performed both acting and singing at two Edinburgh festivals. She won the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best Actress Award. Career Covington started singing songs written by Pete Atkin and Clive James after joining the Footlights while still at teachers' training college in Cambridge. She toured North America with the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company and appeared on stage in numerous Footlights related ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Scardino
Donald Joseph Scardino (born February 17, 1949) is an American television director, producer, and retired actor. Career Acting Scardino was born in New York City, to jazz musician parents, Dorothy Denny Scardino and Charles Scardino. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in ''The Playroom'' in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include '' Johnny No-Trump'', '' Godspell'', and '' King of Hearts''. Off-Broadway he appeared in '' The Rimers of Eldritch'', '' The Comedy of Errors'', '' Moonchildren'', and '' I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road'', he was also the lead in a B horror movie titled '' Squirm'' in 1976. He additionally starred in several episodes of the '' CBS Radio Mystery Theater'', which ran from 1974 to 1982. In addition, he served as artistic director at Playwrights Horizons from 1991 to 1996. On television he appeared on the daytime soap operas '' Guiding Light'', '' All My Children'', '' Love Is a Many Splendored Thing'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Essex
David Essex (born David Albert Cook; 23 July 1947) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. From 1973 to 1994, he attained 19 Top 40 singles in the UK (including two number ones) and 16 Top 40 albums. Internationally, Essex had the most success with his 1973 single "Rock On". He has also had an extensive career as an actor, which includes a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for the film ''That'll Be the Day'' (1973) and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Musical for ''Evita'' in 1978. Early life Essex was born in Plaistow, Essex (now an area in the London Borough of Newham, included within Greater London) on 23 July 1947.Sarah Fielding. "From Rags to 'Rock On': How David Essex Became a Star." ''Music Scene.'December 1973.p. 18. His father, Albert, was an East End docker and his mother, Olive (née Kemp), was a self-taught pianist and an Irish Traveller. His grandfather, Thomas Kemp, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Martin
Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American and Canadian actress, best known for her work in the television series '' SCTV'' and '' Great News''. She has appeared in films such as '' Black Christmas'' (1974), '' Wag the Dog'' (1997), '' Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' (2001), ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' (2002), '' My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2'' (2016), ''Little Italy'' (2018) and '' My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3'' (2023). She has also lent her voice to the animated films ''Anastasia'' (1997), '' The Rugrats Movie'' (1998), and '' Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (2001). From 2021 to 2024, she co-stars in the supernatural drama series ''Evil''. She is currently playing a recurring role on '' Only Murders in the Building'' (2021). Martin has been equally prolific in the world of theater, winning Tony Awards for both '' My Favorite Year'' and the 2013 revival of '' Pippin''. Martin also appeared on Broadway in ''Candide'', ''Oklahoma!'', ''Fiddler on the Roof'', '' Young Franken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passion Of Christ
The Passion (from latin language, Latin , "to suffer, bear, endure") is the short final period before the death of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels. It is commemorated in Christianity every year during Holy Week. The ''Passion'' may include, among other events, Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, his cleansing of the Temple, his anointing of Jesus, anointing, the Last Supper, his agony in the Garden, agony, his Arrest of Jesus, arrest, his trials Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, before the Sanhedrin and Pilate's court, before Pilate, his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion and death, and his burial of Jesus, burial. Those parts of the four canonical Gospels that describe these events are known as the Passion narratives. In some Christian communities, commemoration of the Passion also includes remembrance of the sorrow of Mary, the mother of Jesus, on the Friday of Sorrows. The word ''passion'' has taken on a more general application and now may a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly a part of the University of Pittsburgh. The university consists of seven colleges, including the College of Engineering, the School of Computer Science, and the Tepper School of Business. The university has its main campus located 5 miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh. It also has over a dozen degree-granting locations in six continents, including campuses in Qatar, Silicon Valley, and Kigali, Rwanda ( Carnegie Mellon University Africa) and partnerships with universities nationally and glob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
