Kathie Lee Gifford presents: The Way

  • Music
9/1/2022
85
NR

Storyline

Moving stories from the Bible brought to life as you’ve never seen before written by four-time Emmy award-winning TV personality, actress, and best-selling author Kathie Lee Gifford, and hit songwriters Brett James, Louis York, David Pomeranz, and Sal Oliveri. This set of oratorios merges the ancient with the modern - bringing to life biblical stories with contemporary orchestral arrangements, powerful narration, and touching visuals. Over the course of 4 movements spanning 75 minutes, these pieces revolve around Kathie Lee as our narrator, a symphony orchestra, and a cast of musical stars singing tailor-made roles such as Nicole C. Mullen, Danny Gokey, Jimmie Allen, Larry Gatlin, and BeBe Winans.

      Reviews

      • mbanak

        GREAT CONCEPT; STILL POSSIBLE TO SALVAGE IT

        I wanted this film to succeed. Yet, there are a few things working against its beauty and brilliance.

        First, Evangelical song leaders will likely find several gems in the soundtrack. I anticipate the seeding of songs from this work, directly into the modern Christian experience. Messianics and especially Sacred Namers, will likely capture these songs, and fine-tune the Divine Names. And that will be a further tip of the hat to the composers.

        The overtly anachronistic staging of this film took a while for me to accept. Modern vocalists, with modern beard cuts, modern clothes (albeit dressed-down) and sometimes even with eye-glasses, lip-sync to some compelling choral and solo pieces, while...

        September 2, 2022

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