A PASSION PLAY

It would seem that I am not alone in putting this one second only to Thick as a Brick. Nonetheless, while it is up there, it clearly is not on the same level as Brick. There seems to me to be too much 'down time' here, either waiting for good parts to start, or between sections (for example, while I like the story about the Hare who lost his spectacles, but I almost always skip over it now. It does not bear repeated listening).