#Women playing judas in godspell free
If you would like to message me privately, feel free to do so and I will be happy to share with you my experience. The only song that became a slight issue was turn back old man we did not change the lyrics but we staged it to make it less about something seductive. After all, the whole point is to say Jesus is every man, or rather Everywoman and we should all be the hands and feet of Jesus. I did write to Stephen Schwartz and received his permission and it was a wonderful, wonderful show. After all, it is the words of the gospel according to Matthew and we didn’t change any of that. Her parents were a little concerned because they are very conservative, but they were quickly won over when they saw the quality of the show and that there was nothing disrespectful about it in any way. She was a very strong Christian, and just so you know I am a practicing Christian as well. Two years ago I did Godspell for the second time and this time around I decided to use a female Jesus because the best person for the part was a girl. Just for clarification: would you have the female play Jesus as a male or as a female? How would the audience know you made that choice? I would change to the correct pronouns for the actress. I know in out current work with the Tempest, it has been very interesting to have Prospera, Antonia and Gonsala in the work. We make changes like this all the time to Shakespeare as it is royalty free, and I think those sorts of alterations and adaptations can serve to further our understanding of a work. But if the publisher says that is ok, good to go in my opinion. I would check with the publisher/author's agent to make sure that is ok. I'm not sure you can make those alterations to the script. But if people are going to react that negatively, they will most likely not even see the show. I know I had a parent producer tell me that people weren’t going to come to our show because of the title alone and how disrespectful it “sounds,” or that there would be a “church and state” ruckus. They were very specific.Īs for community reaction, the people who will react negatively to a female Jesus are the same people who will react negatively to the choice of the show. Jack couldn’t become Jackie and the Witch could not be a warlock.
They said that I could do both (I ended up doing neither because we had “audition surprises,”), but they were very specific that we could not change the gender of the characters. MTI was the same way when we did “Into the Woods.” I called before I cast the show to inquire about having a male play the witch and a female play Jack. It was a choice that we made when we chose the show (to not alter the gender of the characters).Īdditionally, the licensing for the show does not allow us to make any changes without approval. However, one of the reasons that it works beautifully is that we have changed no pronouns, are not doing anything with hair, costuming, or makeup to make any of them look more masculine. It was somewhat accidental that we ended up with the theme of “The men have the titles.
The men in the show play Pilate, Herod and the Priests. I’m currently in tech week for “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and my Jesus, Judas, and Mary are all women, as are all 12 of the apostles, and it works beautifully. Having a female Jesus shouldn’t be an issue.
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