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Re:See What I Wanna See - 2007/12/10 01:08
The three stories are
Kesa and Morito
In the Grove (which was inspired by the story Rashomon)
and The Dragon
Kesa and Morito start the first and second act. If you have the CD you will notice that the first (Kesa) is sung by a woman (Idina Menzel ) and the second (Morito) by a man (Marc Kudisch) but they are basically the same song.... see if you can find the difference (which is what is meant to happen)
It then goes into a modern day version of Roshomon which makes up act one - basically a murder mystery.
The second act is called "Gloryday" - where a priest who has lost his faith decides to play a practical joke on the world and says that Christ will rise from the pond in central park "In three weeks, on tuesday at one pm sharp"
Hundreds of people believe him and camp out in central park.
The priest, on the day the event is to happen, finds that he can't go through with it and tells everyone it was a Joke, but no one will believe him.
Then at the appointed time a storm comes up and scares everyone away.
The only person to see Christ rise from the pond... is the priest.
All along the miracle was for him, and him alone, to gain his faith back.
Towards the end of the musical is a beautiful song
"There Will Be A Miracle " that says that people need to believe only on faith and not on tangible things
"You can never rush a miracle, you can't force a thing to be, I am desparate for a miracle but it won't come just for me, we will all share the miracle as everybody should"
It is quite moving!
The major underlying theme is "Playing God"
The reason I know so much about the second act is because I am going to be (hopefully) directing it for our regional competition. 
Post edited by: Johnnyonenote, at: 2007/12/10 01:10
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