My pal and occasional 2ommenter Aaron reveals an excerpt of his epic ode against eminent domain:

[from Act II, Battle of the Backroom]

DINGMAN
At Prospect Park the sections are prepared!

BEVERIDGE
At Bergen Street they're straining at the leash!

VITALE
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Brooklyn coming to our side!

SMITH
The time is near:
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the beer go to your brains!
For the comp'ny we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the money we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the NBA will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!

ANGELILLO
Let us pledge ourselves to hold this bar and backroom!
Let them come in their legions
And they will be met
Have faith in yourselves
And don't be afraid
Let's give 'em a screwing
That they'll never forget!

HALL
This is where it begins!
And if I should die in the fight to be drunker
Where the fighting is hardest
There will I hunker
Let them come if they dare
We'll be there!

BRUCE RATNER [Offstage]
You at the barricade listen to this
No one is coming to help you to fight
You're on your own
You have no friends
Give up your beers - or die!

HOLLANDER
Damn their warnings, damn their lies
They will see the people rise!

ALL
Damn their warnings, damn their lies
They will see the people rise!