The rest of Godspell is, as they say, history. A set of commercial producers led by Edgar Lansbury and Joseph Beruh were so enticed that they brought in a young composer named Stephen Schwartz to pen a score before installing the show across town at the Cherry Lane (and later, for more than 2,000 performances, at the now-defunct Promenade Theatre). So successful was the original three-day run at CMU that Tebelak brought the show to Ellen Stewart's La MaMa in the East Village. This unlikely theater piece began its life as a master's thesis project at Carnegie Mellon University, where its creator, a young visionary named John-Michael Tebelak, drew inspiration from the Gospel of Matthew, the story of Jesus Christ, and the improvisatory techniques of Judith Malina and Julian Beck's famed Living Theatre. Fifty years ago today - - the musical Godspell opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village.
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