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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: In the film version,
* [[Big Applesauce]]: The movie version is set there.
* [[Bishonen]]: In the film, Jesus and Jeffrey both qualify. The latter even has his own [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814194554/http://itsayskeds.bravehost.com/ fansite.]
** In the 2011 revival, Jesus was played by [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/06/arts/06GODSPELL1/06GODSPELL1-articleLarge.jpg Hunter] [http://www.manhairstyles.net/resimler/hunter-parrish-0.jpg freaking]{{Dead link}} [http://www.iballer.com/malecelebs/parrish_hunter/images/hunter_parrish_6_jpg.jpg Parrish]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Book Ends]]: The face painting and face paint removal.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The song
** The ''entire show'' has potential for this. Most good productions run on [[Throw It In]] and [[Ascended Fanon]].
* [[BSOD Song]]: "Alas for You". Jesus is ''not'' a happy camper.
* [[Call to Adventure]]: In the film, John's horn and
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Stephen Schwartz (who wrote the score), is the man drinking coffee in the diner at the beginning of the movie.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: "All for the Best"
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* [[The Lancer]]: Judas. Sometimes his actor also gets the [[Composite Character|John The Baptist]] bits to increase his screen time.
** He's supposed to be a composite of the two, it's written in the script that they are meant to be the same character. It's what makes the betrayal so powerful; that it's carried out by Jesus's right hand man. It's not just extra screen time, it's an integral part of the character.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: An arguably intentional example; the lyrics to the song
* [[Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number]]: You need at least eight voice parts/people to do "Tower of Babble", and they're all singing at once.
** The finale of "Long Live God/Prepare Ye/Day by Day".
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: [[Foreshadowing|Foreshadowed]] at the end of "All for the Best" when Judas [[Wham! Line|narrates the start of his betrayal in the third person]], and kicks in with "Alas for You".
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Thomas Aquinas in the "Prologue/Tower of Babble" and both John/Judas and Jesus in "All for the Best".
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: John/Judas in the film, ''and how.''
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: The movie has some aspects of this (as one would expect from anything created during [[The Seventies|the 70s]]).
* [[New Age Retro Hippie
* [[Original Cast Precedent]]: A lot of productions follow certain guidelines: the cast is made of five women, three men, a John/Judas and a Jesus; Jesus wears a Superman t-shirt; whoever sings "Turn Back, O Man" [[Lady in Red|wears]] [[Color
** The disciples [[No Name Given|didn't have names]] in the original stage play, so the actors went by their own names. As a result, the names of the first cast became the characters' official names in the play. For those curious: Sonia ("Turn Back, O Man"), Peggy ("By My Side"), Robin ("Day by Day"), Joanne ("Bless The Lord"), Jeffrey ("We Beseech Thee"), Gilmer ("Learn Your Lessons Well"), Herb ("Light of the World"), Lamar ("All Good Gifts").
*** Often, the actors playing these parts won't go by these names, but by ''their'' own names in a continuation of the tradition (with lines altered accordingly).
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* [[The Song Before the Storm]]: Subverted with "On the Willows". Light and sweet, before the heartbreak of the crucifixion.
** The music, at least. The lyrics are from Psalm 137, about the Babylonian captivity of the Jews.
** The production after
* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: "Prepare Ye/Day by Day".
* [[Unexplained Accent]]: Many, many, many. Perhaps the most offbeat is that Abraham speaks with a heavy Brooklyn accent -- and it's ''written into the script''.
* [[Wham! Line]]: "Then the man they called Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests, and said
** In the film, the final line of the speech is accented with a percussive sound not unlike [[Dramatic Thunder]].
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Gilmer. In the film, she's the auburn-haired girl with the tiger puppet (and the actress who originated the role on stage, so it's her real name).
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: In the film, Jesus can't wear a [[Superman]] insignia, so instead he wears a shirt with a stylized "S" that suggests it instead.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: All the songs, and maybe the entire play.
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