{"id":35700,"date":"2012-11-16T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/broadways_unholy_alliance_with_religious_musicals\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:00:55","slug":"broadways_unholy_alliance_with_religious_musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35700","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Broadway&#39;s Unholy Alliance with Religious Musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When &#8216;Scandalous,&#8217; a musical about Canadian-born evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, opened on Broadway this week, it became the latest entry into the risky category of religious musicals.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of &#8220;The Book of Mormon,&#8221; which swept the Tonys in 2011 and continues to play to packed houses, many Broadway musicals with evangelical themes have had dubious track records in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps hoping to tap into audiences that loved &#8220;Godspell&#8221; or &#8220;Jesus Christ Superstar,&#8221; &#8220;Leap of Faith,&#8221; based on the 1992 Steve Martin movie, ran only 19 performances at Broadway&#8217;s St. James Theatre. &#8220;Sister Act,&#8221; based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg movie, was more successful but didn&#8217;t break any records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324735104578116981988519420.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When &#8216;Scandalous,&#8217; a musical about Canadian-born evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, opened on Broadway this week, it became the latest entry into the risky category of religious musicals. With the exception of &#8220;The Book of Mormon,&#8221; which swept the Tonys in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35700\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,132,108,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-music","category-religion-culture","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}