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THE TEA PARTY
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, and Alex Birnie.

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Lyrics:

FLYNN:
Sugar and cream?

BONNET:
Lemon, Mr. Flynn, thank you.

BRISPORT:
Mr. Flynn is a movie star and Mr. Bonnet is a landowner from Barbados. Mr. Bonnet likes lemon in his tea and Mr. Flynn a jigger of Man Friday Caribbean Rum.

FLYNN:
As they say on the islands, boys: Hail Oblivion.

BRISPORT:
My daughter throws tea parties for her imaginary friends.

BONNET:
My father and I took tea every afternoon.

BRISPORT:
At least that’s what her mother tells me.

MR. BONNET:
He told me — he owned a sugar plantation — he told me: Son, these pirates are terrorizing the trade routes. And I told him: Father, when I grow up I want to be pirate.

THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY:
A proclamation. Whereas we have received information from
The governor, that one Major Stede Bonnet,
Commander of the ship called Revenge
And former consort to Blackbeard, Edward Teach,
Has acted as a common pirate and robber upon the high seas.

BONNET / FLYNN / BRISPORT:
Whenever I dream, I dream of the ocean…

THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY:
Having in the waters of Virginia taken five merchant ships,
A schooner bound for Boston,
And a 60 ton sloop en route from Philadelphia to Bridgetown.

BONNET / FLYNN / BRISPORT:
Whenever I dream, I know I’ll be free…

THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY:
We have therefore thought fit to issue this proclamation,
Hereby commanding all his Majesty’s Admirals,
Captains, and other officers at sea
To seize and take the said Major Stede Bonnet,
And such who are with him,
And cause them to be punished as pirates upon the high seas.

FLYNN:
The movie ends happily but in real life Major Stede Bonnet was caught and hanged.

BRISPORT:
I’ve never seen this movie.

FLYNN:
It was never finished — I was —  

BONNET:
Tea is what separates us —

FLYNN:
— Preoccupied.

BONNET:
— From the savages

BRISPORT:
I’m going to leave. Get outta this town! —

credits

from HAIL OBLIVION, released April 9, 2017
Performed by Bonnet (Rick Burkhardt), Flynn (Bryce Pinkham), Brisport (Ato Blankson-Wood), and The English Admiralty (Joshua Hinck, Elias Spector-Zabusky, and Alex Birnie).

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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

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