A comic romp through the first Five Books of The Bible, written with Larry Gelbart, from the perspective of a group of ordinary folks who just happen to live next door to the major stars of the Bible (whom we never see) – including Cain, Noah, Moses and the wife of Abraham who seems to have had a baby at the age of a hundred and ten!
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Though not the movers and the shakers of the world, for centuries our little hapless yet hopeful band of characters experience all of the disasters, floods, enslavements and vicissitudes of the Big Names, with no special treatment for themselves, yet somehow manage to muddle through in spite of it all. The show features and introduces the classic Yeston song New Words, among others.