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Wherever you are out there in the world, it's time to step out onto the high wire.

You know, I was just sitting backstage thinking how I say that at the top of every show,

but I really, really think about what that means

we're an international show millions of people watching around the world right now

someone's crawled out of bed at about 4 a.m. in Australia to watch the High Wire. They do this every

single Thursday. Someone in Isard by Jean is staying up. It's about 10 p.m. hanging on

for those last words to get their fix with a high wire. Why? I mean why are they

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