The Capture

from HAIL OBLIVION by Orion Stephanie Johnstone and Joshua William Gelb

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THE CAPTURE
in which an unlikely tea party is interrupted by a naval proclamation.
Featuring: Rick Burkhardt, Bryce Pinkham, Ato Blankson-Wood, Joshua Hinck, Elias Spector-Zabusky, Brian DeCaluwe, Jabari Brisport and the Company.

lyrics

Lyrics:

BRISPORT:
I don’t have a job, I barely have a family.

FLYNN:
The movie has a handsome Hollywood rake but in real life Major Stede Bonnet was just a madman with a death-wish.

BONNET:
I think of escape. I think of the wind kicking up, filling my sails.

FLYNN:
Call my boat the Sirocco.

BONNET:
We’ll call it the Liberty.

FLYNN:
You called it The Revenge.

THE SIRENS:
Follow me, I am Neptune’s heart
Follow me to oblivion...

THE DOCTOR:
His eyes are red, he’s vomiting bile
The boy is dead.

ALL:
Hail! Hail!

JUDGE:
Major Stede Bonnet!

THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY
I’ve got an armed force of trained marines
Prepared, by forced to seize the cruise ship,
Snipers too, if necessary.
If you don’t surrender now
If you don’t surrender — surrender —

FROM THE CROW’S NEST:
Ahoy! Ahoy!
Ship on the port side!

CAESAR:
What colors, sailor?

LOOKOUT:
English, sir, English!

SIRENS:
Hail Oblivion, Hail!

CAESAR:
Captain, off the port, two English schooners
What’s your orders, Captain?
What’s your orders, Captain Bonnet?

ALL:
Hail oblivion! Hail oblivion!
Hail, hail, hail oblivion!

CAESAR:
Captain, off the port, two English schooners
What’re your orders, Captain?
What’re your orders, Captain Bonnet?

BONNET/FLYNN/BRISPORT:
Is she merchant man or man o’ war?

CAESAR:
It’s likely both are here to claim the bounty on your name.

BONNET/FLYNN/BRISPORT:
Guns ready, Caesar, take them.
We’ll take them.

CAESAR:
You think the odds are with us, Captain Bonnet?

BONNET/FLYNN/BRISPORT
Whenever I dream, I dream of the ocean
Whenever I dream, I know I’ll be free.

credits

from HAIL OBLIVION, released April 9, 2017
Performed by Bonnet (Rick Burkhardt), Flynn (Bryce Pinkham), Brispoprt (Ato Blankson-Wood), The English Admiralty (Joshua Hinck and Elias Spector-Zabusky), Crow's Nest (Brian DeCaluwe), Caesar (Jabari Brisport), and the Company.

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Johnstone/Gelb New York, New York

HAIL OBLIVION is the latest work by Gelb and Johnstone, whose music theater projects include Tully (In No Particular Order), last seen at NYMF, and the rock musical Sometimes in Prague, which was featured in American Theater Magazine as part of the Polyphone Festival, after previous development at the Tank, Joe's Pub, and the New Ohio Ice Factory. ... more