The musical Godspell, a 70’s musical theatre classic nominated for the Tony Awards, arrives at the Teatro Pavón in Madrid until March 1st.
Directed by Antonio Banderas on the version of Emilio Aragón, the musical has a great cast made up of excellent voices and dancers who make an exhaustive and excellent representation of this musical that dazzled from its projection in cinema to the world public.
Godspell is a Broadway classic that revolves around the Gospel of St Matthew from the experiences of a group of young people in a big city. A cast of 15 actors with a live band gives life to a show that combines vaudeville, magic, shadows, masks and puppets along 16 musical numbers as emblematic as Prepare the way, Day by day or The most beautiful city.
Godspell is about that: to love, to pursue justice, to seek the rules of the game without surrendering to what hurts us. And above all, to remember, if we have forgotten it, that life is a path that we need to walk by each other’s hands. Godspell is about building a beautiful city where we all have our place. And at the end of the journey when we feel that everything ends, that the darkness floods everything, Godspell reminds us that there is hope, that everything starts again, that there is a new passion out there.
The scene starts in a place that could well be a theater store, like a run of neighbors. In it we discover our characters, a young theatre company, performing a play for the public. Everything is apparently normal, but both the work and the context in which it takes place will show us that it is not.
Through each of the characters and their respective encounters with Jesus, we will revisit the New Testament Gospels, thus starting a personal journey of no return.
As Antonio Banderas has commented, “this show is a grain of sand to encourage them to dynamite the utopia and go on to build the dream city, not surrendering to the idea of creating a better world”. Tickets can be purchased at this link.