A Biblical Musical with a Prophetic Message of True Peace when Messiah returns to Jerusalem to establish the Kingdom of God on earth! Outstanding musical score by Jeremiah Ginsberg, who has been called a musical genius, a brilliant composer, and “a modern-day Puccini!”
“The Time of Mendel’s Trouble”
Music & Lyrics by Jeremiah Ginsberg
Book by Jeremiah & Wendy Ginsberg
An Epic Musical of Biblical Proportions!
Actors Equity Showcase
Produced off-Broadway
in New York City
at The Beckett Theatre
July 18-August 2, 2008!
“The Time of Mendel’s Trouble” is an epic musical that dramatizes the times in which we live as well as what’s coming in the future in that uniquely Jewish way that the Ginsberg team does so well.
The story revolves around Mendel Moskowitz who gets a visit from the Burning Bush which scoots into his living room in Brooklyn, and tells him, “Mendel, I’m making you a prophet.” And Mendel replies, “It’s about time I made a profit!” Even serious subjects can be dramatized with a bit of humor. The Lord sends him to Jerusalem where he becomes a big-mouth prophet bearing the mantle of Elijah! Along with Murray Schwartz, who gets the mantle of Moses, they become the Two Witnesses in the Book of Revelation.
The show incorporates a Romeo & Juliet-type love story, political satire, comedy, tragedy, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil!
The prophetic Biblical message of this new musical rings loud and clear: The Jewish Messiah is coming to establish true and lasting Shalom on earth!
It is a message of God’s great love for His people, and it is also a warning that there will be a time of tribulation: “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.” (Jeremiah 30:7) The humorous political satire in this new musical is extraordinary, as is the music. This show shines the light on the United Nations, the Arabs, the Muslims, the Russians, and the Politicians!
Rather than bringing peace, the self-serving U.N. Leaders bungle everything and the War of Armageddon ensues.
The U.N. Leaders in this show are:
1) The Leader of the Emerging Russian Socialist Empire, Vladimir Bullshatowsky
2) The Leader of Great Britain, Lady Beezer Peevy-Pill
3) The Leader of The Council of World Church Relations, Giuseppe Gepetto Falsetto
4) The Leader of The Middle East Arab Alliance, Sheik-Abu Ali-Goniff
5) The Leader of The World-Wide Islamic Conglomerate, Akbar Duhnutjob
6) The President of America, Scarlett O’Harlett
7) and Scarlett’s husband, Secretary General Don Juan O’Harlett
Overture Slideshow
One Thousand Two Hundred & Three Score Days from “The Time of Mendel’s Trouble