July 29, 2004

here's a good one...

The Christian dramatist ...doesn’t have to tell the whole gospel at once.  He may find insights coming from the negative dramatic work of people like Albee, Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett, who depict man’s loneliness and hopelessness without God.  But he will not stop there.  He must do more than expose man’s depravity, more than raise searing questions about human existence; he must start to work out some answers in terms of justice, love, reconciliation, and resurrection. (Gordon Bennett)

July 03, 2004

Parody: Sung to the tune of “OLD FASHIONED WEDDING”

From the musical Annie Get Your Gun
(of course you CAN get a man with a gun!)

HE:
We’ll have an Old Fashioned reading.
Powerful with merely stools and black notebooks.
I’ll speak as if you’re a spot out there.
You’ll move them deeply though we both face front.
Anywhere in any little chapel,
Bookstores & coffee houses too.
We’ll have an old fashioned Reader’s Theatre
A simple reading for a low-budget ministry.

SHE:
I want my dramas in a big church with stage crews and orchestras!
A lot of actors with costumes and wireless microphones.
150 graceful dancers who will fill the stage I pray.
From the rafters fly in angels just like how they do in Cirque du Soleil.
Better yet we’ll have it in the beautiful and brand new Esplanade
A big finale that will end with fireworks and huge parade.
I want my dramas like that Willow Creek has
Everything big not small
If I can’t have that kind of production
I don’t want to have drama at all.

REPEAT TOGETHER

(END:
HE: We'll have an old fashioned reading!
SHE:If it’s not a big show then I don’t want to have drama at all)