The Gospel at Colonus has built a fervent following over the past four decades or so. This superlative take on Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s gospel retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus boasts a powerhouse cast, including Morgan Freeman, Jevetta Steele and Robert Earl Jones (James’s father).
Here is the 1985 production from the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, which transferred to Broadway. The score, which features some of the funkiest, most rousing numbers ever heard in a musical, surges to vivid life.
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