The show features eight non- Biblical characters, who sing and act out the parables: Gilmer (silly, a great storyteller) Robin (a tomboy) Herb (goofy and entertaining) Jeffrey (happy and excited) Joanne (eager and enthusiastic) Lamar (clumsy and unintentionally funny) Peggy (shy and loyal) and Sonia (dramatic with a put-on sensuality).
Several cast albums have been released over the years. An abbreviated one-act version of the musical designed for performers aged 18 and under also exists, titled Godspell Junior. The show was then rescored for an off-Broadway production, which became a long-running success. 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 parables are interspersed with music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end of the show.
The musical is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew. The 2011 revival played on Broadway from October 13, 2011, through June 24, 2012. The show opened off-Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has since been produced by multiple touring companies and in many revivals. Godspell is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with the book by John-Michael Tebelak.
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