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God on Broadway: Revealing the Sacred in the Spectacle

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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles A. GillespiePublish date:11/18/2025Pages:225
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fortress PressISBN-13:9781506481852ISBN-10:150648185XUPC:9781506481852Book Category:Religion, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Christianity, Theater, Christian TheologyBook Topic:Literature & the Arts, History & Criticism, SystematicWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ2TW4ZPQ

What has Broadway to do with Jerusalem? God on Broadway explores the theological questions cracked open by commercial theatre. It shows how the Great White Way--that apex of tourist consumerism and a synonym for the business of spectacle--can be a place for theophany and critical reflection on religion. God is ready to be part of the show. God takes the stage as the clowning Jesus Christ of Godspell and in the comedian of An Act of God; God seems to overhear Tevye's soliloquy-prayers from the balcony; God gets invoked in Backstage traditions and superstitions, in the booming voice of a director calling cues with a ""god mic"" and in the mystifying rules about a Scottish King's name. Broadway has a God ""waiting in the wings.""

Broadway shows operate in wider culture as a secular catechist. They instruct us about God outside the walls of an institutional church. God on Broadway sits out in the house--where an audience of paying customers and strangers transform into co-players--and shows how God is revealed in the small choices of a playwright and in the flashy song-and-dance numbers of musicals.

Looking for God ""on Broadway"" is a way of doing theology, a method for interpreting and talking about God for and with a mixed, public, and inclusive audience. A commercial theology performs on Broadway. This book invites theatre-lovers and theologians to play along.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Fortress PressISBN-13:9781506481852ISBN-10:150648185XUPC:9781506481852Book Category:Religion, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Christianity, Theater, Christian TheologyBook Topic:Literature & the Arts, History & Criticism, SystematicWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ2TW4ZPQ
Gillespie, Charles A.: -

Charles A. Gillespie is assistant professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University, where he is director of Pioneer Journey. He co-founded an interdenominational liturgical drama troupe called Theatrum Sacrum. He lives with his family in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Publisher: Fortress Press

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