When his traveling ministry breaks down in a small Kansas town, part-time reverend and full-time con artist Jonas Nightingale (Raul Esparza) quickly pitches a tent and invites the locals to a revival. The town sheriff, Marla Humes (Jessica Phillips) is determined to stop him from separating the townspeople from their money.
The crisis of faith in Kansas is awkwardly framed with a revival meeting on Broadway a year later. In these scenes, Esparza jokes with the audience. There are live TV monitors and characters in choir robes running up the aisle amid much lapping of elbows. It's one thing for the plot to be about desperate, seedy people. But the show shouldn't feel that way, too.
Praise the Lord, and pass the amphetamines. “Leap of Faith,” which opened on Thursday night at the St. James Theater, uses the religious revival meeting as both its subject and its form. Yet reviving (or revivifying or inspiriting) is hardly the right adjective for it. Starring Raúl Esparza and based on the 1992 movie of the same title, “Leap of Faith” is this season’s black hole of musical comedy, sucking the energy out of anyone who gets near it.
2010 | Los Angeles |
World Premiere Los Angeles |
2012 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Raul Esparza |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Warren Leight |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Janus Cercone |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Sergio Trujillo |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Christopher Ashley |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Alan Menken |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | 0 |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Raúl Esparza |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Leslie Odom, Jr. |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Production of a Musical | 0 |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Raúl Esparza |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Relativity Media, LLC |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Steve Kaplan |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Rich/Caudwell |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Center Theatre Group |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michael Palitz |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richard J. Stern |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Melissa Pinsly |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Celine Rosenthal |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Independent Presenters Network |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Diana Buckhantz |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Pamela Cooper |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Vera Guerin |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Leading Investment Co., Ltd |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Christina Papagjika |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Victor Syrmis |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Semlitz/Glaser Productions |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jujamcyn Theaters |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Daryl Roth |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michael Manheim |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | James D. Stern |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Douglas L. Meyer |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Marc Routh |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richard Frankel |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Tom Viertel |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Steven Baruch |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Annette Niemtzow |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Leap of Faith |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert G. Bartner |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Steven Silva |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Shanna Silva |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Endgame Entertainment |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Patricia Monaco |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Debi Coleman |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Dancap Productions, Inc. |
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