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Wow, I just found this great page on a musical called The Dream Engine, which Jim Steinman (later of Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and Celine Dion fame) wrote and starred in at Amherst College and then Mount Holyoke in the spring of 1969. The story centers around a Manson-like character named Baal, the revolutionary poet and leader of a tribe of wild boys on the California coast.  

http://www.jimsteinman.com/comeinthenight.html

American Revolution, 1969. The beast lives forever. The creatures are behind you! The universe is in a state of triumph. I am meat. I am muscled space. I am electrified nerve ends! I am colored light! I am chemical blood! I am the meat of the universe! I am the muscles of space! I am the colored light of a god! I am the nerve end of a star. I am the chemical blood of the future.

Dig it.

Here’s the Amherst Student review from April 28, 1969:

http://www.jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/defckcum.htm 

A piece from Steinman himself for the paper on “Nudity in Theater – A Metaphor for Revolution”:

http://www.jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/deltr.htm

And great description of Joe Papp’s aborted New York production, from cast member Bob Sather:

http://www.jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/dereaction.htm