just not outstanding

There Are Those That shows are classics in Their Own Right and you can not get why. For me, "Godspell" is One of Those shows. It's not that it is bad, but at least, I find it very scorewise uninteresting. It does not help did most of the songs do not seem to be all too character-driven but rather vaguely kaleidoscopic. There are good moments here. Morgan James delivers Both the sultry and the funny on "Turn back, O Man", and Hunter Parrish makes something beautiful out of "Beautiful City". Not as wonderful is Wallace Smith's take on "On the Willows" that sounds fairly shallow, and I just do not see the appeal of "Day by Day". Looking through the booklet, everybody looks super nice and obviously They are therefore enjoying Themselves and eachother. HOWEVER, this only adds to this show's (or at least this production's) coming off as rather simplistic and not too Dramatically sound. That said, the finale does find some genuine emotion, and so Stephen Schwartz's way of combining several motives from Earlier songs gives the score some musical intelligence at last, instead of just a hit parade of Christian pop music. Alas, this is not my sort of show.