[Hemingway's Ghost]

You know what always makes me cry? It's the scene in Godspell where everyone is taking off their makeup during the last supper. I'm tearing up over that one even now.

You know, I've never seen Godspell even though I know some of the songs: your wife is crying, sighing, and your olive tree is dying. Temples are graying and teeth are decaying and credit is weighing your purse.

Is there a vid of it?

[ArGee]

They did a movie but I never liked it as much as the various live plays I've seen. I go every time I can.

They play a song called On the Willows:
On the willows there
We hung up our lives
For our captors there
Required
Of us songs
And our tormentors, mirth

(repeat)

Saying,
"Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Sing us one of the songs of Zion."

But how can we sing, sing the LORD's songs
In a foreign land?

On the willows there
We hung up our lives.

It's a great song on its own (one of the Psalms but I can't remember which one). But it's sung by the chorus, not the cast. The cast is helping each other take off their clown makeup, then hugging and crying. Jesus keeps his makeup on and is going from character to character sharing some physical memory with them (some gesture that had been associated with that person throughout the show) about the great times they had together.

The song ends with everyone in their normal face except Jesus, who is taken away and tried and crucified.

Oh, G-d, I'm dead!
Oh, G-d, You're dead!
Oh, G-d, You're dead!
Oh, G-d!

Long live G-d.
Long live G-d.
Long live G-d.
Long live G-d.
(descant)
Prepare ye the way of the LORD.
Prepare ye the way of the LORD.
Prepare ye the way of the LORD.
Prepare ye the way of the LORD!

Can you tell I loved it? Sorry everybody.

Shalom.