Up From Paradise.
Up From Paradise is a stage musical based on the Creation story of Adam and Eve.
Cast[]
- Len Cariou - God
- Austin Pendleton - Adam
- Alice Playten - Eve
- Walter Bobbie - Lucifer
- Paul Ukena - Cain
- Lonny Price - Abel
Plot[]
The story is a retelling of God's battle with Lucifer for control of Adam and Eve as chronicled in the Book of Genesis.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "The Lord is a Hammer of Light" - Angels
- "How Fine It Is (to Name Things)" - Adam, God and Angels
- "When Night Starts to Fall" - Adam
- "Bone of Thy Bones" - God
- "Hallelujah" - Angels
- "In the Centre of Your Mind (Keep the Lord)" - God, Adam, Eve and Angels
- "It's Just Like I Was You" - Adam and Eve
- "Recitative" - God
- "But If Something Leads to Good (Can It Be Bad)" - Lucifer
- "I'm Me, We're Us" - Adam and Eve
- "Curses" - God
- "Lonely Quartet" - Adam, Eve, God and Lucifer
- "How Lovely Is Eve" - Lucifer
- "I Am the River/Waltz" - Eve
- Act II
- "All of That Made for Me" - Angels
- "As Good as Paradise" - Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel
- "It Was So Peaceful Before There Was Man" - God
- "It Comes to Me" - Abel
- "I Don't Know What Is Happening to Me" - Cain and Abel
- "All Love" - Eve, Adam, Abel and Angels
- "Passion" - God
- "Nothing's Left Of God" - Lucifer
- "Never Seen the Garden Again" - Adam, Eve and Company