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| Stu Freeman, Gini Eastwood, John Twomey, Anne Sarofeen, Tom Martel. |
HARD JOB BEING GOD
[Musical/Bible/Fantasy/Period/Religion] M/LY; Tom Martel; SC: the Bible: Old
Testament and Apocrypha; D: Bob Yde; CH: Lee Theodore; S: Ray Wilke; C: Mary
Whitehead; L: Patrika Brown; P: Bob Yde i/a/w Andy Wiswell; T: Edison Theatre;
5/15/72-5/20/72 (6)
An intimate, low-budget rock musical based on episodes in
the Old Testament, in which each actor in the small troupe played several
roles. Composer-lyricist Tom Martel played one role—God, “a whining creature .
. . spavined and spineless,” who hates his job because he has to keep giving,
but gets nothing in return.
“Everything about Hard
Job was on the same crushing level of unconscious failure,” declared Edith
Oliver. Clive Barnes felt likewise about this “simplistic, naïve and
distasteful” show. Hard Job Being God
had a hard job competing with the era’s other religion-inspired musicals, such
as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.