The Spirit of Allah
a musical about Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
Posted by Jew from Jersey
15 July 2003
Scene8. “Jimmy”
the Shah, Cyrus Vance, Zbigniew Brzezinski[The background is reset to reveal the White House lawn. In the background are the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and the Hollywood sign. The foreground reveals the Oval office, or something very like it. In a huge chair behind a huge desk sits a larger-than-life doll of Jimmy Carter, with huge front teeth and perpetual dopey grin.
The door opens and in walks the Shah in a toned-down suit. From outside, chants of “marg bar shah” can be heard in almost a direct extension of the previous scene. Tear gas floats in the door before the Shah can close it. On the either side of the Shah are Vance and Brzezinski. They are dressed as an angel and devil respectively. If at all possible technically, they hover on either side of his head.]
[Jimmy leans his head to one side.]
- MRP [Still choking on tear gas]: So you see, my friend, that’s how it is
- They want to throw me out of my own land
- I think it’s a plot by communists
- To turn my modern economy into quicksand
[Jimmy leans his head back to the other side.]
- ZB [with a voice like Jim Pons in “200 Motels”]: Fee Fie Fo Fum
- Do I smell a communist son-of-a-gun?
- You’d better get out and start braking some bones
- Show no mercy or you’re as good as dethroned
- CV [in a snotty falsetto]: Oh no, that’s not how things should go
- You want to be civilized, don’t you, Moe?
- When faced with a gun we negotiate
- That way they know that you’re really great.