I'd say "Purpose" is a sad ballad in it's own way. along with:
Let me walk among you - batboy
If I didn't believe in you - tl5y
empty chairs and bring him home - les mis
she cries - sfanw
THE CIVIL WAR:
brother, my brother
tell my father
virginia
father how long?
last waltz for dixie
i'll never pass this way again
and the one that gets my vote for best is "Regimental Drummer"
"he ran off to find adventure
at the tender age of 9
like so many other sons
of old virginia
though he was too young to hold a rifle
he would bang his drum and smile
as a regimental drummer for a while.
with a heart as green as summer
and a laugh as rich as gold
he would polish up the old dreams so long forgotten
but somewhere on the road back home from Shiloh
he got older than his years
as the regimental drummer cried our tears.
and in his eyes i'd sometimes see
the boy that i used to be
for a moment i could leave this all behind
then all at once the boy was gone
lost on this road we're on
just another...fallen brother.
I still think of him each morning
and i pray for him each night
just a regimental drummer from ol virginia
and when i close my eyes I still remember
how he'd bang his drum and smile
so I march a little farther
when I hear the drummer's call
for the regimental drummer in us all.
the innocence in me has died
lost somewhere deep inside
like another...fallen brother
down the dusty roads behind me
to the ones still up ahead
there's a regimental drummer from ol Virginia
who will always fall in step beside me
and bang his drum and smile
so I march a little farther
when I hear the long roll start
for the regimental drummer in my heart."
talk about sad =(
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
