Music Hall Center's

MUSIC HALL CENTER'S 

EASTER JUBILATION!

March 23 Two Weeks                      APRIL 11 6:30pm

GODSPELL

JESUS and his teachings according to the Gospel of St. Matthew, have become a musical and spiritual classic, an Easter tradition not unlike Handel's Messiah.

But Godspell is for Now! For those who slept through it in Church, here is the Greatest Story Ever, put to Rock Musie. No one sleeps through this one. CHRIST is a Clown who I can do a "soft shoe" or pratfall without losing his footing as fVk a figure of Love and Brotherhood.

HIS followers are, like us, not-so-bright siblings who, like us, nevertheless respond. Sometimes. More human, more approachable and less aloof as portrayed by Religion, HE is no less divine. And the Show is Great!

As Lenny Bruce said of the Bible years ago, "It's time the whole thing was rewritten; it's outdated. People can't relate to it. And that is the crucial thing."

GODSPELL relates. Enjoy it with those you love, this Easter Season.

TICKETS $4.50 to $7.50

StudentS, Seniors $1.00 OFF! (for Advance Payments)

GROUP DISCOUNTS 20 - 50 10% OFF!

50 or More 20% OFF!

GOSPEL 

CHRIST was unknown to the Black Africans brought to America 350 years ago. But the one redemption they saw in the Whites who enslaved them was the compassionate humanity in the words of their Teacher, JESUS.

As the Blacks became Christian, their Free Heritage absorbed the Hymns of the White Church and made from it their own kind of Music. From that Union has come the only two truly original music art forms America has ever produced: Jazz and Gospel. Both are still evolving.

In Part II of Music Hall Center's original series, Music of the Black Church, folksinger ODETTA and the Brazeal L Dennard Chorale of Detroit, re-enact what happened when the disciplined, structured music of the White Church became the Black Slaves' only means of free vocal expression: creation of THE SPIRITUAL

WGPR-TV's newscaster Doug Morison will narrate this event.

TICKETS $4.50 to $6.50

GROUPS 10% OFF

Parts III and IV in this series will be presented May 23 and June 13,

The Sound of Contemporary Gospel and The Sound of Progressive J Gospel.

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