ANNAS
Cut the protesting forget the excusesWe want information get up off the floorCAIAPHAS
We have the papers we need to arrest himYou know his movements – we know the lawANNAS
Your help in this matter won't go unrewardedCAIAPHAS
We'll pay you in silver – cash on the nailWe just need to know where the soldiers can find himANNAS
With no crowd around himCAIAPHAS
Then we can't fail***
JUDAS
I don't need your blood money!CAIAPHAS
Oh that doesn't matter our expenses are goodJUDAS
I don't want your blood money!ANNAS
But you might as well take it – we think that you shouldCAIAPHAS
Think of the things you can do with that moneyChoose any charity – give to the poorWe've noted your motives we've noted your feelingsThis isn't blood money – it's a fee nothingFee nothing, fee nothing more.JUDAS
On Thursday night you'll find him where you want himFar from the crowds in the Garden of GethsemaneCHOIR
Well done JudasGood old JudasACT-II
The last supper.
Thursday Night
APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulationsSinking in a gentle pool of wineDon't disturb me now I can see the answersTill this evening is this morning life is fineAlways hoped that I'd be an apostleKnew that I would make it if I triedThen when we retire we can write the gospelsSo they'll still talk about us when we've diedJESUS
The end ...Is just a little harder when brought about by friendsFor all you care this wine could be my bloodFor all you care this bread could be my bodyThe end!This is my blood you drinkThis is my body you eatIf you would remember me when you eat and drink ...I must be mad thinking I'll be remembered – yesI must be out of my head!Look at your blank faces! My name will mean nothingTen minutes after I'm dead!One of you denies meOne of you betrays me -APOSTLES
Not I! Who would? Impossible!JESUS
Peter will deny me in just a few hoursThree time will deny me – and that's not all I seeOne of you here dining, one of my twelve chosenWill leave to betray me -JUDAS
Cut out the dramatics! You know very well who -JESUS
Why don't you go do it?JUDAS
You want me to do it!JESUS
Harry they are waitingJUDAS
If you knew why I do it ...JESUS
I don't care why you do it!JUDAS
To think I admired youFor now I despise youJESUS
You liar – you JudasJUDAS
You want me to do it!What if I just stayed hereAnd ruined your ambition?Christ you deserve it!JESUS
Hurry you fool, hurry and go,Save me your speeches, I don't want to know – Go!APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulationsSinking in a gentle pool of wineWhat's that in the bread it's gone to my headTill this morning is this evening life is fineAlways hoped that I'd be an apostleKnew that I would make it if I triedThen when we retire we can write the gospelsSo they'll all talk about us when we've diedJUDAS
You sad pathetic man – see where you've brought us toOur ideals die around us all because of youAnd now the saddest cut of all -Someone has to turn you inLike a common criminal, like a wounded animalA jaded mandarinA jaded mandarinA jaded faded mandarinJESUS
Get out! They're waiting! They're waiting for you!JUDAS
Everytime I look at you I don't understandWhy you let the things you did get so out of handYou'd have managed better if you'd had it planned -APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulationsSinking in a gentle peal of wineDon't disturb me now I can see the answersTill this evening is this morning life is fineAlways hoped that I'd be an apostleKnew that I would make it if I triedThen when we retire we can write the gospelsSo they'll still talk about us when we've died