G'Nite ELMO

Part Five ACT TWO -- Dead Sea Salts and Baclava

PART FIVE

[Continued]

Rock Operaepic: Helicopters, Gunships and Tanks

A Rock Operaepic ... [using the Yiddish Dictionary Online]

Appeal to Israel
[Stage left is a school of children being led by teacher and burkha babe Meydlsh -- Jessica Simpson -- in front, signaling each little up turned face to do his\her best. Because of her ubiquitous garment it is not revealed that the teacher is pregnant, nor that she is wearing Daisy Dukes and Cowgirl Boots underneath.]

[Meydlsh]
Conjugations Children:

[Grammar School Children]
Hamo, Hamas, Hamat -- Hamas

[Meydlsh]
Again children, i'·ber·khaz·er·n
Who is not a friend of Fatah?

[Grammar School Children]
Hamo, Hamas, Hamat -- Hamas

No, no, not Fato, Fatahs, Fatah't...
just Hamo, Hamas, Hamat.
we love dead sea salt,
and honey dipped baclavas

[Children and Meydlsh together]
All day we love to conjugate
for Hamas and our Gaza state
if God himself should aroyskumen
we would surely kon·yoo·geer'·n

[Andrea Bocelli saunters to center stage amid deafening applause from the audience... He is blind Mustafa, who lost his sight in a camel wrestling event. He is noticed by two large figures off in upstage right who are in an animated conversation; they stop a moment then continue gestering, inaudible at this time. Suddenly out of nowhere a UFO hovers over the town square. Only our blind baritone senses it. He gestures, then genuflects, falls to his knees... obviously frightened. Spotlight is from above and on him]

[SOLO: Blind Mustafa]
kumen tsu a shlus
this komediye
as I aroystretn
am I the komiker?

anu araynkumen
are you my shtatem?
how does it pasim
that we tsunoyfkumen...

My life is iberfirn zikh
like these kin and their
Melamed, whom I love,
der lererke, I love

[Children]
Hamo, Hamas, Hamat -- Hamas
Again children, i'·ber·khaz·er·n
Who is not a friend of Fatah?
Hamo, Hamas, Hamat -- Hamas

[UFO Loudspeaker over head]
tsunoyfkumen, kumen
time for your
meh·di·ka·ment'...
as for your Melamed
She is hot as peppermint

[Blind Mustafa]
How can you not hear it
how are you so deaf
are you as deaf
as I am blind?

Her skin soft as salt
her faith is a Temple of Gaza
her lips taste like baclava't
can she see me tremble?

[Blind Mustafa begins an ascent to the UFO above]

[Fugue Interlude ensues, with voices of children, Blind Mustafa, Meydlsh, and the two strangers who are arguing. Tank enters from backstage and stops to display a jumbo-tron of websites. The UFO departs after Blind Mustafa is lifted to it, Cirque Soleil style... Children are hurried off, but some boys stay behind and begin throwing bricks at the tank.]

PART SIX -- Fugues of War....