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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 Hardback by Henry Bial

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/08/2015
      ISBN13: 9780472072927, 978-0472072927
      ISBN10: 0472072927

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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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