A MOMENT IN TIME

A Musical Play

James Q. Muir

PO BOX 694

Bountiful, Utah 84011

(801) 815-5966

Revised Edition

A MOMENT IN TIME

Characters

Enos…Prophet mentor of young Kasemaj

Nascent (The First)…Ship’s navigator apprentice

Young Kasemaj…A boy of twelve called of God

Sarisha…Young lady, saint and daughter of Kasemaj

Rium…Young man, saint and the king’s son

Epoh…Wife of Kasemaj

Kasemaj….Prophet of God in his late fifties

Niac…King’s First Chancellor and younger brother to Kasemaj

Croyden…The king of Nor a man in his late sixties

Nolard/Mihk…Young Devil/Rockstar

Enarag/Bevac…Young Devil/Rockstar

Sinlow/Airlog…Young Devil/Rockstar

Piper…A boy of twelve

Nascent (The Second)…Grandson of Kasemaj

First Athlete

Second Athlete

Drummer…A young man

Notlim…Elag’s groom

Two old friends of Kasemaj at the mountaintop

A Chorus and Dance Company of Adults

A Chorus and Dance Company of Children

A MOMENT IN TIME

ACT ONE

Scene One…Overture and Space Ship journey from other interior worlds to the Hollow interior of Earth and the land of Nor.

Scene Two…REJOICING x 3 of Rium and Sarisha outdoors

Scene Three…Epoh and Niac find Rium & Sarisha. WHEN WILL YOU FIND YOUR LOVE

Scene Four A chorus of children are running playfully away from Kasemaj. Epoh and Niac come in only to quickly turn and leave once seen by Kasemaj. THE LORD BE GLORIFIED IN ME

Scene Five…Kasemaj and Epoh contend at the wedding reception hall, JERUSALEM with chorus, then Elag consoles Epoh. Kasemaj with a sudden revelation renders, THIS MOMENT IN TIME, with chorus of entire wedding company.

Scene Six…Out in the garden Sarisha’s romantic fantasy discovered by Rium, LOOK AT YOU, a romantic duet of Rium and Sarisha, OUR LOVE MY LOVE, and Epoh’s celebratory, GO FIND YOUR FATHER.

Scene Seven…At the big rock on the mountain top Kasemaj is found by Rium and Sarisha, THIS IS THE DAY I DIE.

Scene Eight…Croyden and Niac enter the mountain top clearing first laughingly, WE NEVER REPENT, the king’s company enter while Croyden and Niac continue with POWER, finally the entire company celebrate the arrival of the Space Ship of pretense, PARTY SHIP, mounting the rock near the clearing Kasemaj calls down upon the entire company, THE REBUKE, emboldened by Kasemaj’s tumble off the rock Niac secures an arrest of Kasemaj, THE ARREST, and the company rejoices and prepares for death on the spot.

Scene Nine…Sarisha prays earnestly behind the rock, MY SACRIFICE, musically, she is answered by the Lord, she comes out to call to her father who is already aware.

Scene Ten…King Croyden discovers that his son, Rium is present and loses his nerve and so allows Kasemaj to sing over Niac’s objection, THE HERO’S CHAMPION, the people are moved to join Kasemaj in singing as they repent, Kasemaj is untied unaided and ascends up slowly, Croyden sings out for him to return, PEACE FOREVER, the company join Rium singing. THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD.

Scene Eleven…Alone again on the other side of the rock Rium wonders over the astonishing events, WHAT WAS IT, reality sinks in when Sarisha informs Rium what she sacrificed all, even their love, THY WILL O GOD NOT MINE BE DONE, an empathetic treatment of the atonement of Jesus Christ.

End of ACT ONE

ACT TWO

THE RENEWAL INTERLUDE

Scene One…At the wedding feast the chorus regales with a toast to the bride and groom, ABUNDANT LIFE, returning suddenly, Rium and Sarisha account to Epoh the mountain top news, WHERE’S YOUR FATHER, Elag panics a wrecked event.

Scene Two…Inside the church of the palace Niac bungles the formalities while the chorus carries the point home, WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR WAYS, King Croyden calls for the sustaining of the new order of things while Niac continues to lose his grip upon reality, ARISE, the chorus, Croyden and Rium, led by Sarisha close the meeting upon the central point while Niac continues to introspect. MESSIAH,BORN IN BETHLEHEM

Scene Three…Inside the Great Hall of the palace the coronation of Rium is announced with Sarisha appointed the King’s First Chancellor, Rium sings greetingly. ON MY SOUL

Scene Four…Epoh in her room repenting sincerely discovered unknown to Epoh by Sarisha, MESSIAH HAVE MERCY, allowing her mother to rest Sarisha sweetly coos, NEW CHILD LULLABY, suddenly a rushing wind of spiritual power brings the answer from God to Epoh’s plea as Sarisha explains.

Scene Five…Stepping out of the bedchamber of her mother Sarisha defends the door as she is confronted by three devils. I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG

Scene Six…Entering in again to her mother’s bedchamber she discovers her father, Kasemaj singing rejoicing over the repentance and new sainthood of his wife, MY WIFE AWAKENED, Epoh awakens to her husband and Sarisha joins them both to reprise the play’s opening. A MOMENT OF LOVE

Scene Seven…At the stadium a drummer engages two athletes as those three devils return as strutting and preening Rock Stars who find a hostile crowd. WE WANT TO THANK YOU

Scene Eight…Singing and dancing through the streets the Piper leads a company celebrating the new liberty. WE ARE FREE

Scene Nine…Rium and Sarisha come together and admit they will not forsake their love, THERE IS NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU, after Rium withdraws Sarisha sings a faithful prologue to resign herself to the will of God, DAY TO DAY, awarded from on High she has proving faithful to her trial.

Scene Ten… Kasemaj returns to answer Nascent’s question, WHAT’S IT LIKE IN JERUSALEM, the company rejoices to see Kasemaj, return to finish their work, then arise in great strength to astonishingly open the earth, with a cast up highway to enter the outer world rejoicing as a little child leads them. THE END

A MOMENT IN TIME

James Q. Muir

ACT ONE

Scene One

THE LOVE OF GOD OVERTURE

The music begins as the lights go down as a movie is projected on the round dome of the theater’s ceiling or as if the view screen of a Space Vessel and shows how it jumps from one interior world to the next manifesting that the universe is dominated more by interior worlds that are the norm rather than worlds planted in the outer darkness realms like our earth.

Portals open to the Space Vessel and allow it to enter and exit without traversing the distances between the different orbs. Soon the projections center around the staged viewing monitor of the command bridge of the Space Vessel where Enos, a man of great wisdom with a mentoring aptitude is conducting the young Kasemaj on a journey through the stars and finally back to earth but first to slow down and witness the outer regions of this earth and especially the Holy City, Jerusalem, so that they young prophet protégé can witness the reality of what the Holy Scriptures talk about to know for himself that they are true that he might teach his own people of Nor the right way of the Lord in due time.

ENOS speaking to the young navigator Nascent

Brother Nacent, this is your first visit to the Holy Sphere, is it not?

NASCENT of a searching and inquisitive nature

Yes, this is my very first time.

ENOS

Then you must prepare yourself.

NASCENT

Prepare?

ENOS

For the shock that always hits us so hard when we enter near that one world turned inside out.

NASCENT

I have beheld its various manifestations from many visionary perspectives

ENOS laughing

Visionary perspectives?

NASCENT

It is almost like being there.

ENOS

God had need for only this world prepared in the Outer Darkness regions of a single sphere out of all of his creations, only this earth for the Holy One, the Son of God to come here and do his great work.

NASCENT reflects

When you build a mansion you should move inside and not live out on the roof exposed to all the elements.

ENOS

You might think the Great Father is acting a bit of the showman, keeping an exposed world in delicate balance to its life light and fully protected from major collision.

Earth is approaching closer and closer as the vessel steers around the moon and begins to circle in on the Holy Land.

NASCENT

It is the only one of its kind, and for such a long time. Is it true what they say about the probates that live there? Are they really so cold, so unyielding to the truth? He made them and they knew him not?

Some of the crewmen rustle about operating various systems. The Middle East is seen as Enos and Nascent speak of Jerusalem.

ENOS

Messiah came two millennia in the past.

NASCENT

How could they not know?

ENOS

They inhabit the Outer Darkness realms. Do you understand what that means?

NASCENT

Tempters are allowed into the probate regions of interior space as well.

ENOS with slight contempt

A few powerful ones manage to get inside. That is true enough. But the numbers that swarm over this outer world. That is the SHOCK. You can sense them all, can you not? That is why we bypass the Outer Darkness. But for young Kasemaj there [gestures] we must slow for his sake before we enter the inner house.

calls over to get young Kasemaj to look

Behold the Holy City where Messiah died and lived again. JERUSALEM.

NASCENT

The heart of man.

ENOS gestures to Kasemaj to come over

Kasemaj, come up here and meet our young navigator. Until now anyways, Helmsman take us in. Nascent, this is Kasemaj the young probate you have no doubt heard a lot about.

NASCENT

Yes, a probate still. Shall he be quickened here before us all?

ENOS with both hands on the shoulders of young Kasemaj

No. Not for some time yet. This is a chosen young man we have here with us. He must see the truth for himself and turn his whole nation to the right way of the Lord. That to know the truth is to know God. Kasemaj say hello to my young friend Nascent.

YOUNG KASEMAJ shaking hands heartily with Nascent

Hello, I rather like your name, Nascent, what does it mean?

NASCENT

Glad to meet you, Kasemaj. And do you know about our work at the Universal Seed Port Service inside the Holy Sphere?

ENOS interrupting

Mostly he had to see the outside of the Holy Sphere, to recognize the cities mentioned in his people’s scriptures that he might know enough to take them most literally. A lot will depend upon this.

YOUNG KASEMAJ

My people learn everything but it means nothing to them. The Great Ones ignore my people as they must by their laws. We have had wars that fight over what is real and what is only fable. We still believe that we were brought inside of the earth for a fantastic destiny to return. But many think Jerusalem does not exist.

NASCENT

No Jerusalem would mean no Messiah. They do not believe?

ENOS

Not enough to get it right. Refugees here for many generations. It is all fables to them. By his own example young Kasemaj here will show them how to obtain the grace of Messiah. Or he might just die trying. Right?

Young Kasemaj winces and steps away a pace

KASEMAJ

You have not told me how I will do that.

ENOS

Just live your life and keep your own faith strong. Only our God can turn a soul inside out to understand what the truth is.

They have passed into the interior of the planet earth through a dimensional portal that just opened up and closed behind them.

The surface of this hollow world is much like earth on the outside. Mountains, rivers, large oceans and continents with snows at higher elevations, lakes, deserts and forests, and a typical topography with similar plants except that photosynthesis is not a chloroplast base here. Multicolored esters furnish this world in a constant autumn-like array of colors, but more vibrantly alive and flourishing.

A suspended cluster rotates on its own emitting spokes of light that light up the same kind of blue skies that hide the darkness, but almost at random shadows fall upon this world here and there allowing the sight of the opposite side of the hollow orb to be seen as well as the spoke rays of the cluster sun.

Imagine the earth is only eight hundred mile thick before it hollows out. That would allow for the interior world to be about six thousand and three hundred miles from side to side. And the atmosphere could only be a few thousand feet leaving thousands of miles of deep space between opposite sides an astonishing world.

The craft makes its approach and docks at a splendid city. The crew prepares to leave.

ENOS

Perhaps Nascent or I will visit you from time to time.

NASCENT

I would be honored Kasemaj. I will pray for your success.

YOUNG KASEMAJ

Why were my people ever brought to this place?

ENOS

They must leave one day soon in the power and majesty of the Great God, to the astonishment of the outer world. They will abide in peace and triumph when Zion is brought forth in a single day.

NASCENT

You shall fulfill scripture, you and your people. As spoken of by the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah and Joseph; the earth shall travail and bring forth her strength.

ALMOST FIFTY YEARS LATER

ACT ONE

Scene Two

Kasemaj is now fifty-eight years old. His beautiful daughter, Sarisha, is out in the wilderness with her life long friend, Rium, who is King Croyden’s only son. Both are in their early twenties and both are remarkably advanced spiritually. They are the only success Kasemaj has been able to manage. Even his own wife Epoh resists the gospel that Kasemaj offends nearly everyone about with his constant harpings.

REJOICING 1

Taking advantage of a break in the wedding day of her sister, Elag, Sarisha and Rium are out expressing their shared joy in the knowledge of the goodness of God. Like King David of old they sing and dance with their whole heart, might, mind and strength before the Lord. They are real and true saints who know God.

Saints must worship God continually because they know the truth that God is all in all and life is not about us.

SARISHA.

LOOK UNTO THE LORD

IN YOUR EVERY THOUGHT

AND CONSIDER THE END

OF YOUR SALVATION

[repeat above three times]

LOOK UNTO THE LORD

IN YOUR EVERY THOUGHT

RIUM.

LET THE SOLEMNITIES

OF ETERNITY

REST UPON YOUR MIND

[repeat two times]

REJOICING 2 music changes when singing begins

RIUM and SARISHA

OUT OF THE MOUTHS

OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS

THOU HAST PERFECTED PRAISE repeat

I SAY UNTO YOU

IF THESE SHOULD KEEP SILENCE

THE ROCKS WOULD THEN CRY OUT repeat

HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST

BLESSED BE THE KING

THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD repeat

[repeat all]

REJOICING 3

RIUM

PREPARE YE

THE WAY OF THE LORD

AND MAKE HIS PATHS

STRAIGHT

FOR THE HOUR

OF HIS COMING IS NIGH

[repeat twelve times]

SARISHA

NO ONE KNOWS

NOT THE ANGELS

OF HEAVEN

NO ONE KNOWS

NOT THE HOUR NOR DAY

[repeat six times]

They finish singing unto the Lord and walk into the next scene

ACT ONE

Scene Three

As the music begins Rium and Sarisha take to an open space to dance a splendid ballet together unto their God and not so much unto each other. Epho, an impatient and fretting soul, and Sarisha’s mother, enters looking for these two with her brother in-law Niac who is the King’s First Chancellor. Niac comes off only deservedly arrogant as an artful and blameless accusatory soul.

WHEN WILL YOU FIND YOUR LOVE?

EPOH singing while they observes the ballet nearby

WHEN HE PUTS

HIS HANDS UPON HER

WHY NOT LINGER

WHY NOT WANDER

ONLY SHE

DEFENDS HER FATHER

NONE OF US

WOULD EVER BOTHER

NIAC SEE THEM

DANCE TOGETHER

FOR THE LORD

NOT FOR EACH OTHER

WHEN WILL SHE

DISCOVER PASSION

WHEN WILL HE

MAKE WITH SOME ACTION

DID I FAIL

TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT

DID I LOVE

AND HOLD HER TIGHT

DID I NOT

TEACH RIGHT FROM WRONG

DID I SING

THE PROPER SONGS

SARISHA DEAR

MY DOVE

WHEN WILL YOU

NIAC moves closer and sings as Epoh continues

O WHAT SHALL

I MAKE OF THIS

A PRETENSE

A SHAM OF BLISS

THERE’S NOTHING

IN THEIR HEARTS

TO SET THESE

TWO APART

NOTHING IN

THEIR SOULS

EMPTY FULL

OF HOLE

FIND YOUR LOVE

EPHO continues to sing as the ballet goes on

WHY DID RIUM

LEAVE THE PALACE

CROYDEN BARELY

KEEPS HIS BALANCE

KASEMAJ IS NO

GREAT TEACHER

ONLY THESE TWO

LEARNING EACH YEAR

OF MY DAUGHTERS

ONLY THIS ONE

LOVES HER FATHER

MORE THAN

THIS MOM

SHE COULD LOVE

HER FANSY DRESSES

FANTASIZE MORE

WHEN SHE FUSSES

SARISHA WAS MOST

IN MY HEART

I CHERISHED HER

EPOH

A YOUNGER SISTER

WITH A HUSBAND

NOW SHE’LL HUNGER

FOR HER OWN MAN

ALL THE THRILLS

THAT SHE’S IGNORING

T’ HARMONY

OF BLISSFUL SNORING

MAYBE KASEMAJ

WILL SEE THAT

SARISHA AND RIUM

SHOULD WED

SAD TO SAY HE’S

FLOATING TOO A

MASTER WITH NO RETINUE

SARISHA REACH

FOR MORE THAN THIS

IF ONLY THESE

MORONS WOULD KISS

I’LL TAKE A STAND

AGAINST HER FATHER

MAKE HER CHOOSE

WHY EVEN BOTHER

SARISHA DEAR

MY DOVE

WHEN WILL YOU

FIND YOUR LOVE?

NIAC

O WHAT SHALL

I MAKE OF THIS A PRETENSE A

SHAM OF BLISS THERE’S NOTHING

IN THEIR HEARTS

TO SET THESE

TWO APART

NOTHING IN

THEIR SOULS

EMPTY FULL

OF HOLES

RIUM and SARISHA

Singing when Epoh begins

TIME ‘S BEEN STRUNG

ON THE LOOMS OF TOMORROW

MASTERFULY SPUN

WE UNFOLD

UNTO TRIUMPH

FOREVER SHALL

WE NOW RELY

UPON THE

LORD GOD

MESSIAH OF

OUR SOULS

EPOH, RIUM

and SARISHA

WE ARE HERE

FOR ONLY ON LIFE

TIME PASSES

UNTIL ONE MOMENT’S LEFT

ALL THAT YOU TREASURE

SHALL BE YOUR MEASURE

EPOH apart

SARISHA DEAR

MY DOVE

WHEN WILL YOU

FIND YOUR LOVE

NIAC

I WONDER

I PONDER

I SEE NEAR

AND YONDER

OUR PURPOSE

WE MAKE IT

WE SHAPE IT

WE FAKE IT

LIFE IS

NOTHING MORE

THAN EVERY

DAY YOU OWN

NOTHING

TO BE SURE

WILL EVER

LONG ENDURE

LIFE IS

NOTHING MORE

LIFE IS

NOTHING MORE

RIUM and SARISHA

Sing apart from Epoh

MESSIAH

OF OUR SOULS

THOU ART

OUR ALL

IN ALL

MESSIAH

OF OUR SOULS

All four finish the song as a chorus of children enter to herald the approach of Kasemaj. The children love Kasemaj and yet tease him about his exuberance and saintly rebukes and praising he carries out in the wilderness much like Rium and Sarisha

[All exit scene faces to black]

ACT ONE

Scene Four

THE LORD BE GLORIFIED IN ME

As the music comes up children rush in from all directions in a different part of the wilderness, squealing and laughing as if being chased by a friendly monster. We hear Kasemaj singing before he enters as the children will sing before he does appear. Epoh and Niac enter only to wait to catch the eye of Kasemaj then exit.

Kasemaj comes off ill tempered but having suffered an impossible life being alienated from his family and his community. His unrequited passions for the truth and for his God casts a pall of insanity over him and the children take advantage of that. Kasemaj does not mind as any attention is better than the apathy from his own wife and brother. He is bedraggled to have failed his life’s great purpose for so long.

Epoh mocks her husband under her breath as if she has heard his thunders a thousand times. Rolling her eyes and mouthing the same words Kasemaj sings she relieves her own pensive tensions, knowing full well how hated her husband is by his own brother Niac who will witness this for a while and withdraw. Rium and Sarisha are fully engaged by the children.

KASEMAJ singing a shout from off stage

THE LORD BE GLORIFIED IN ME

CHILDREN’S CHORUS singing and dancing

LO OUT FROM THE WILDERNESS

THE PASSION AND THE TERROR

THE PROVERB OF KASEMAJ

A LIGHT YET UNSEEN

KASEMAJ

BE SILENT O ALL FLESH

BEFORE THE LORD

FOR HE IS RAISED UP OUT

OF HIS HOLY HABITATION

FOR HE IS RAISED UP OUT

OF HIS HOLY HABITATION

BE SILENT O ALL FLESH

BEFORE THE LORD

THE LORD BE GLORIFIED IN ME

CHILDREN’S CHORUS

THE LORD BE GLORIFIED IN ME

LO OUT FROM THE WILDERNESS

THE PASSION AND THE TERROR

THE PROVERB OF KASEMAJ

A LIGHT YET UNSEEN

Niac is already gone as the entire party exits several different ways [fade to black]

ACT ONE

Scene Five

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

[lights up] At a reception hall in town open to a garden area Kasemaj and Epoh are busy setting things up while a few family and friends scurry about. Both Rium and Sarisha are in and out as well as the groom Notlim and the bride Elag, the second daughter of Kasemaj. Notlim is completely nondiscript and Elag is carefully in full control of everything.

KASEMAJ

HOW ‘BOUT A PEAR

HOW ‘BOUT A PLUM

WE MUST HAVE PAID FOR A THOUSAND AND ONE

BREAK IN NEW SHOES

CONSIDER THE NEWS

ELAG HAS MARRIED

A MERCHANT OF BLUES

CERTAINLY SOME

KINSMEN WILL COME

I AM OF THE KINGDOM

A TREASURE TO NONE

LOOK IN THE MIRROR

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT

A CHARMING OLD CHUM

MY FRIENDS HAVE FORGOT

THE PICK OF THE PEARS

THE PICK OF THE PLUMS

NO WORD IS SAVORED

WHY SHOULD THEY COME

I HAD TO WAKE UP

I HAD TO DO THAT

THERE’S NO CONNECTION

‘TWEEN THIS AND WITH THAT

NOBODY HEARS NOBODY SEES

NO HEART IS OPENED

AND NO ONE AGREES

THIS SHOULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

YEAH THIS SHOULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

EPOH singing a

combative duet

YOU WENT TO THE STADIUM

AND CALLED DOWN

UPON EVERYONE

YOU STOOD UP

AT THE STADIUM

THEN SHOUTED TO

UPBRAID THEIR FUN

THE FEAST IS SET

BUT WILL THEY COME

O KASEMAJ WITH THIS

YOU HAVE LOST

ALL THIS FAME

HOW MUCH IT COST

YOUR TRIUMPH

AT THE STADIUM

HAS CUT THE PRIDE

OF EVERYONE

KASEMAJ

WE COULD HAVE LIVED

IN SPLEDOROUS LIGHT

IF MORE WERE DEVOTED

TO LOVE MORE THAN LIFE

MY HERITAGE LOST

ALL EXCEPT ONE

SARISHA ALONE

KNOWS OF THE COST

I AM TO BLAME

IT IS MY LOSS

THEYHAVE THEIR LEADERS

BUT THEY ARE ALL LOST

PRETENDING TO MEET

WITH THE GREAT ONES SO OFT

O LORD TELL ME WHERE

TELL ME WHEN

THEY’LL BE CAUGHT

HERE IS THE KEY

TO POWER IN LIFE

BEOME RESPONSIBLE

FORWHAT YOU LIKE

HERE I WILL TURN

NOW I WILL FIGHT

THE WORK FOR MY WAGES

IS NOT SATISFIED

TO JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT

TO MERCY AND TRUTH

I WILL OVERCOME

THE MORE RESOLUTE

THIS SHOULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

YEAR THIS SHULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

EPOH

I WORRY FOR

SARISHA’S SAKE

SHE NEEDS TO LOVE

SHE NEEDS A MATE

I SEE HER WITH

RIUM ALL DAY

HE WONT SEE HER

THAT SPECIAL WAY

WHY SUCH A PRIZE

HAS SHUT HIS EYES

IT MUST BE WRONG

YOUR’VE BEEN UNWISE

YOU KEEP THEIR MINDS

PLEASE TURN THEIR HEADS

WE NEED MORE THAN

ON DAUGHTER WED

PLEASE KASEMAJ

DO AS I’VE SAID

Several gather to encourage the unhappy couple

RIUM and SARISHA and CHORUS

JERUSALEM JERUSALEM JERUSALEM JERUSALEM

KASEMAJ

LOOK AT MYLIFE

WHAT HAVE I GOT

ONLY TWO CHILDREN

ND MORE I HAVE NOT

RIUM IS FILLED

WITH ALL OF MY THOUGHTS

SARISHA HAS MORE

ON HER OWN THAN I’VE GOT

LOOK AT THE WORLD

LOOK AT THIS PLACE

A KINDGOM NOT READY

IT MUST ABOUT FACE

ALL OF THEM DRUNKEN

WITHY PRIDE AND EXCESS

THEIR UNDERSTANDINGS’S

A TANGLED UP MESS

KNOWLEDGE IS KNOWN

TO SAY BUT NOPT DO

LEADERS CONVINCE THEM

TO DO AS THEYDO

THE PICK OF THE PLUMS

THE CHOICE OF THE CROPS

THE AXE IS LAID BARE

IT’S TIME FOR SOME CHOPS

NO ONE KNOWS BETTER

THAN ME HOW TO CUT

MYLIFE UP ‘TILL NOW

HAS BEEN IN A RUT

THIS SHOULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

YEAH THIS SHOULD BE

THE DAY THAT I DIE

EPOH

I TAKE CARE

THE BEST I CAN

WHEN ONE MUST

HELPA WONDER MAN

YOU SIT AND THINK

FROM SHADE TO SHADE

I DO THE BUSINESS

EVERYDAY

YET YOU WANT MORE

YOU WANT MY SOUL

I MIGHT PURSUE

ALL THAT YOU KNOW

BUT KASEMAJ YOU’VE

BEEN TOO LAX

WE’D ALL BE SAVED

ON STREETS IN SACKS

I SEE THE FUTURE

FROM THE PAST

RIUM and SARISHA and CHORUS

JERUSALEM JERUSALEM JERUSALEM JERUSALEM

Elag enters with Notlim somewhere in tow. She wants to control the situation with some measure of consolation.

ELAG

MY TWO FRIENDS

PLEASE AMEND

NOW PLEASE AMEND

YOU HAVE NOT LIVED

FOR THIS CONFRONTATION

TAKE HER HAND

TAKE HIS HAND

UNDERSTAND YES

UNDERSTAND

YOU HAVE FOREVER

ONE MOMENT IN TIME

YOU ARE TOGETHER

THIS MOMENT IN TIME

AFTER ALL HE IS YOUR HUSBAND

AFTER ALL SHE IS YOUR WIFE

NEVER STRANGERS

NO REAL DANGERS

STILL AFTER THE YEARS STILL

CONVERGING HERE AT ODDS

I REMEMBER AS A GIRL

YES I REMEMBER SO WELL

YOUR FOND PASSION

YOUR ATTRACTION

AND YOUR LOVE

I WAS NURTURED SO WELL

BY TWO LOVERS I COULD TELL

AND THAT NO TIME OR FATE

COULD EVER DIM

LOVE ALONE MUST IN TIME WIN

BEGIN AGAIN

ONCE AGAIN

AND AGAIN

Epoh sings back to Elag while Kasemaj is lost in deep and searching thoughts like a light is going on in his mind. The chorus is absorbed in the two songs of Elag and Epoh.

EPOH

I KOW ELAG IS RIGHT

LOVE DOES NOT END

WHEN YOU FIGHT

THERE IS THAT LIGHT

STILL IN HIS EYES

THAT TURNS MY FEARS

INTO DELIGHTS

WONDERFULLY YOUNG

AND NEW WED

THERE IS NO MORE

TO BE SAID

BEFORE TOO LONG

YOU’LL REALIZE

LOVE FINDS STENGTHS

OF HEART AND MIND

STILL YOUR IDEALS

LEAD YOU ON

AND YOUR HEART

PLAYS ALL THE SONGS

NOW IS YOUR TIME

Suddenly, Kasemaj is dancing all about in a discovery of truth that makes him shout for joy and sing all about. Everyone gathers around Kasemaj to see what is up with this. They will all join him in the final chorus.

KASEMAJ singing and dancing a bit

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

I KNOW THAT

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

I KNOW THE TIME

I KOW THE PLACE

I KNOW THAT

THIS WILL BE HE DAY

HALLELUIA YEAH

I KNOW THAT

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

I KNOW THE TIME

I KNOW THE PLACE

I KNOW THAT

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

HALLELUIA YEAH

I’ll GET BEFORE THEM

TO THE PLACE

THERE IS STILL TIME

IF I MAKE HASTE

TO SEE THE LOOK

UPON THEIR FACES

UP ON MOUNTAIN

CHEVRONCES

THERE’LL BE NO PLACE

FOR THEM TO HIDE

I’ll CUT THE LEADERS

DOWN TO SIZE

HALLELUIA YEAH

I KNOW THAT

THIS WILL BE THE DAY

I KNOW THE TIME

I KNOW THE PLACE

I WILL EXPOSE

THEIR GREAT DISGRACE

PRETENDING HOLINESS

AND GRACE

OPPRESSING ALL

WITH PRIVILAGE

ALLT HINGS ARE

NOT AS THEY ALLEGE

ENTIRE COMPANY singing

YOU WILL REMEMBER THIS MOMENT IN TIME

YOU HAVE FOREVER THIS MOMENT IN TIME

[fade to black]

ACT ONE

Scene Six

LOOK AT YOU

The lights come up on the garden just outside the Grand Hall. Kasemaj has gone off on his jaunt up to the mountain top. Sarisha is igniting overhead laturn lights as the shadow is appoaching in the garden area and pretends the igniter, a handle with a spade type head, is Rium, she might even trace a funny face on it sooty surface, she dances a romantic fantasy, not knowing that Rium has stopped short to see her as he watches the entire act.

SARISHA singing and dancing with the igniter

LOOK AT YOU

LOOK AT US

ARE WE A PAIR

ARE WE IN LOVE

ELAG’S AGLOW

TO BE WITH NOTLIM

WE ARE TOO SLOW

SO WHAT’S THE PLAN

IT’S IN YOUR EYES

BUT NOT ON YOUR LIPS

TURN YOUR HEART OUT

TO YOUR FINGERTIPS

WHY TURN AWAY

NOW DON’T BE SHY

I AM FOR YOU

FOR ALL OF MY LIFE

SAYIT IS LOVE

SAY IT IS SO

SAY WE’RE IN LOVE

JUST LET ME KNOW

SAY WE’RE INLOVE

THEN SAY NO MORE

SAY WE’RE IN LOVE

I’VE GOT TO KNOW

SAY WE’RE IN LOVE

WE COULD JUST STROLL

OR WE COULD EMBRCE

WE COULD DO MORE

THAN SING AND DANCE PRAISE

THE LOVE IS IN ME

THE LOVE IS IN YOU

THERE IS A LOT

WE NEED TO DO

SAY WE’RE IN LOVE

SAYIT FOR US

SAY WE’RE INLOVE

RIUM SOON

THIS IS OUR DAY

WILL IT BE SO

WHAT DO YOU SAY

ME IN A GOWN