Original 1975 Script

This subject is being moved to

 "I Am Alpha and Omega; Libretto"

as it pertains to the rewrites. 

The older versions will continue to be posted here. I will post the original screenplay separately and may rewrite this screenplay into a viable project once The Gnomes of New Hope is finished.

ARCHIVE;

 Here is a copy of the Original Script, 

which has been rewritten numerous times.

The current script is quite different.

There are items in this script that have been nixed

 for practical & content reasons.

I post it here as a matter of historical reference.

I will post the entire original script

(a few pages at a time) 

which are scans of the typewritten script.

Years of theatrical and writing experience

have made this project much more refined and practical.

The newest rewrite will be posted on this blog,

with links placed in the sidebar.

Commentary;

As I begin to post this script, 

that was originally written fifty years ago (in 1975),  

it has me thinking about the changes that were made 

in subsequent scripts.

 I realize that the script posted here was not the first version, as the first version was a screenplay.  I believe this version was the one I was working on in Boston, so I began this version around the time I met with The Moody Blues,  because I went to Boston two years after that.

 One very big difference is

 that I introduced the voice of God,

 thinking in His mind about the creation

and some of the correspondential elements 

of forming the natural world.

I tormented for some time over that, because 

I didn't want to be putting words into God's mouth.

But I concluded that as a theatrical endeavor, 

doing so based on the Word 

and the New Revelation given through Swedenborg, 

which has become the foundation for The New Church,

for over two hundred years now, 

well,  doing so may be acceptable, 

as long as it is done so under 

poetic artistic license.

Should God sing those words?  Possibly.  

It depends how that would be effected.

Although, he does say "Let us make man in our image" 

One very strong possibility is that the earths creation 

occurred after that of the Heavens (which is implied) 

and that spiritual beings were created before man. 

I will need to look into that more,

 but in that event, the singing voices 

could be the voices of angels. 

Thus transferring the expression of the creation 

to an array of SATB voices.

That may work quite well. I will need to locate 

the more recent versions of the script,

but even so, a new revision is called for, 

so that could be crafted as needed with new perspectives.

So, I will continue to post the original script here and most likely 

add commentary and possibly even interject updated material

 (as I can migrate it to newer computers).

AG