Journey to Bethlehem: When the Bible meets High School Musical

This Christmas musical fails to hit the right chords, says Tim Bechervaise

Have you ever wondered what a Christmas musical in the style of Glee and High School Musical might look like? It sounds rather outlandish, but it has now hit our cinema screens, and it’s everything you’d likely expect it to be.  

A Journey to Bethlehem is billed as an “all-singing, all-dancing retelling of the greatest story ever told”. It is a live-action musical – stretching just over an hour-and-a-half – weaving together original and reworked traditional songs with a creative take on the Nativity story.