IF YOU GOWhat: “Godspell.”When: 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday; 2 p.m. Sunday.Where: ReCreate Café, Salvation Army 614 Corps, 800 McCallie Ave.Admission: $10, $8 seniors/students.Phone: 756-1023.Website: www.csarmy.org.
Art will imitate life tonight when a wandering band of actors portrays a wandering band that follows Jesus in The Salvation Army 614 Corps’ presentation of “Godspell” at the Corps’ ReCreate Café.
The musical, based on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, uses both housed and homeless actors in the work by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak.
The actors are working under the direction of Deborah Kirby, a theater faculty member at Covenant College, and Steve Ray and Gaye Jeffers, faculty members at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
“Deborah has done a really good job encouraging us to see we’re all just like [homeless individuals],” said Tenika Dye, the ReCreate Café artistic director who’s also in the cast. “We’re all kind of wandering around. Our characters are not part of the [mainstream] community. Each of the characters is on an individual journey to Jesus.”