Grammy Award-winning Christian rapper Lecrae says he hopes the new Broadway-inspired nativity story, “Journey to Bethlehem,” will impact audiences just like the Broadway hit Hamilton.
“The music is top-tier,” Lecrae recently told CBN News.
The faith-based musical is set to hit the big screen on November 10 and Lecrae, who plays the archangel Gabriel, says the movie can be a tool to spread the Gospel among non-believers.
“I look at what Hamilton did as far as the music and how impactful it was for culture. And I think of this in a similar fashion,” Lecrae told Christian Headlines. “This music is top tier, and the acting and the cinematography is just top tier. I want people to walk away saying, ‘What an amazing piece of art,’ but at the same time, ‘Wow, I never considered this perspective about the Nativity story.'”
As CBN News reported, the musical will feature Academy Award nominee Antonio Banderas as King Herod, Fiona Palomo as Mary, Milo Manheim as Joseph, and Joel Smallbone as Herod’s son, Antipater.
Film and TV music writer and composer Adam Anders directed this version of the nativity story.
Anders is responsible for producing Grammy-nominated music for Glee in 2011 and 2012
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