The libretto, an 18th- century "education-of-a-tyrant" plot, features Tiridate, king of Thrace, who is obsessed with his sister-in-law, Zenobia, and wages indiscriminate war to get her.

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Another features a boy reciting the plot of an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. ( YouTube views: 640, 000).

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The stage show draws from the movie and the books, but features new characters, new plot points and new songs.

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