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To: stanz
Didn't Jesus appear from a chrysalis(sp?) at the end.?

The actual original album ends with Jesus saying "Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit." followed by silence, and then the postlude called "John 3:16".

The movie with Ted Neely starts with a bunch of hippies driving a bus into the desert. They pull out props and costumes and then start to perform the play. That movie ends with everybody packing up and going home leaving Jesus hanging on the cross. Judas is looking at him thoughtfully as the bus pulls away.

For the record, Godspell ends with the cast bearing Jesus' body out of the theater singing "Long live God/Prepare Ye"

Shalom.

100 posted on 06/20/2002 12:25:59 PM PDT by ArGee
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To: ArGee
The actual original album ends with Jesus saying "Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit." followed by silence, and then the postlude called "John 3:16"

In the stage production I saw in Boston (featuring Ted Neely and Carl Anderson), Jesus, on the cross, said the line and then was lifted up towards heaven (the rafters) as the curtain dropped. I am not an emotional guy, and I had to fight back tears. My girlfriend (now my wife) wept openly, and so did several other people in the audience.


109 posted on 06/20/2002 12:31:08 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: ArGee
I'm talking about the Broadway production.(Yes, back in the '70's) I recall seeing Ted Neely emerging from a chrysalis in dazzling white garments.
116 posted on 06/20/2002 12:36:38 PM PDT by stanz
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