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"Great Performances" The Gospel at Colonus (1985)
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"Great Performances" (1972)Original Air Date:
November 1985 (Season 13, Episode 2)Plot:
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Broadway Musical
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Now available commercially! moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | The Blind Boys of Alabama | ... | Themselves |
 | Morgan Freeman | ... | Messenger |
| Jevetta Steele | ... | Ismene |
| The Soul Stirrers | ... | Themselves |
| Isabell O'Connor | ... | Antigone |
 | Carl Lumbly | ... | Theseus |
| Clarence Fountain | ... | Oedipus |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kevin Davis | ... | Polyneices |
| Martin Jacox | ... | Chorus Leader |
| Robert Earl Jones | ... | Creon |
| Jearlyn Steele | ... | Ismene's Sister |
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After 23 years this wonderful show is available for purchase. Check eBay and Amazon for vendors. Also, you can get it from Netflix! The video and sound quality are excellent. The performances continue to pack a wallop. Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's audacious theater piece has been staged all over North America to great acclaim, by choral and theatrical groups large and small. The tragic end of Oedipus' life brings the viewer feelings of horror and pity that the ancient Greeks called catharsis. The theme resonates with the African American Pentecostal experience in many ways, and there has been an ongoing conversation about how true a match the two traditions make. Lift him up!