Siddhartha

Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama sought enlightenment.

“Much of what happens in the show mirrors the story of Siddhartha,” Jablonski says.

Also on stage was the elegant Siddhartha Mukherjee, a cancer doctor and author of the bestselling The Emperor of All Maladies.

She imagined that she had won the love of young Siddhartha, but he took no further notice of her.

The name Siddhartha is said to have been given him as a child, Gautama being the family name.

I saw a man, Siddhartha thought, a single man, before whom I would have to lower my glance.

Siddhartha answered: "How old, would you think, is our oldest Samana, our venerable teacher?"

Never before, Siddhartha had venerated a person so much, never before he had loved a person as much as this one.