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Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven financially and/or critically successful productions, as well as a few notable Broadway flops that highlight the difficulties in adapting the Old and New Testaments for the stage.

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    A Paperback by Henry Carl Bial

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/20/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472052929, 978-0472052929
      ISBN10: 0472052926

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      Book Synopsis
      Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven financially and/or critically successful productions, as well as a few notable Broadway flops that highlight the difficulties in adapting the Old and New Testaments for the stage.

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