Vashti Is Deposed

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Vashti Is Deposed by Ben Chenoweth. (C) 1996 Signpost Music. All rights reserved. • I'm on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Wy4H... • Official benchen71 merch available at http://www.ephesusscroll.com/merch • Esther - a musical by Ben Chenoweth • This performance comes from August 1998 at Lilydale Baptist, with Peter Marshall as Memucan and Richard Hunt as Xerxes. • Act One: The Palace Gardens • Scene One: The Garden Party • Vashti Is Deposed • [Xerxes] Has anyone in my place ever • Been stood up by his Queen? • In full view of all my guests, • What a sad, degrading scene. • Come gather to me, all of my • Experts in the law. • Wise men this is your opportunity: • Help me even the score. • [Chorus] What will be the fate of Vashti the Great? • Will she have to die? What will he decide? • [Xerxes] According to Persian law, • To Vashti, what must be done? • She has not obeyed a word of my • Good and righteous command. • Are we obligated to • Remove her beautiful head? • That would be too much of a shame, • And would leave her pretty much dead. • [Memucan] No, your royal highness, • That needn’t happen at all. • But there are consequences • Far from being small. • For what she has done will probably • Go down in history. • She has wronged many more than just • Yourself, excellency. • For what the Queen has done will • Become known throughout the world. • Then ev’ry wife will despise her man • And refuse to obey his word. • So, you see, she mustn’t be • Allowed to get off scot free. • You must set the precedent • For all the world to see. • [Chorus] He makes a good case, so now act in haste, • Before it’s too late: what will be her fate? • [Xerxes] What do you suggest, O Memucan? • For I haven’t a clue. • If it doesn’t involve an axe, • I don’t know what else I could do! • [Memucan] Why don’t you just issue one of your • Nifty royal decrees? • Stating that the Queen’s been deposed. • It seems pretty simple to me. • She can never be with you • Unless she loses her life! • Then all that you need to do • Is find another wife. • [Xerxes] Yes! So write the decree • And I will inscribe it with my very own ring. • Then in every home, over his family • The husband will be king. • [Chorus] Welcome to the extraordinary garden party of Xerxes, • Fortunately women’s liberation • Won’t be around for some two-thousand years!

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