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The Orbiting Human Circus

WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents

Drama, Orbiting, Performing Arts, Comedy Fiction, Paris, Eiffel, Fiction, Arts, Julian, Human, Tower, Circus, Koster

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How to escape. Escape with the Janitor! The Orbiting Human Circus returns with twice the fun: the first half of a special double episode. It’s a scream! The first half of a scream. A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Featuring John Cameron Mitchell, Susannah Flood, Harrison Beckwith, Walter Lowery, Julian Koster, and Drew Callander. Written and directed by Julian Koster and produced by Christy Gressman With musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes; music by the Music Tapes and the Orbiting Quartet, featuring Gauvain Gamon on bass, Benjamin Miller on piano, Kolja Gjoni on drums, Romica the Singing Saw, who was encouraged to sing by Julian; lead editor Grant Stewart, editor Jaanelle Yee, and assistant editors Emily Marinoff and Jeff Tobias, with Julian; sound design by Jonathan Siri-Mohs, foley by John Ringhofer, and lathe cutting by Steve Espinola; engineering by Vincent Cacchione; and additional production and mixing by Will Stanton. Julian’s performance in the recap was directed by guest director Dennis Koster, Julian’s father. Music from the show is released by Merge Records: https://smarturl.it/OrbitingS2songs. Become a Friend of the Orbiting Human Circus on Patreon: patreon.com/orbitinghumancircus, check out shirts, pins, and more at topatoco.com/collections/orbiting-human-circus, and follow us on Instagram @orbitinghumancircus or Twitter @orbitinghuman. For full credits and more information, go to orbitinghumancircus.com.

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0:38.1	It's been such a long break
0:42.2	and so much has happened to the janitor.
0:44.4	Wouldn't it be nice if before the episode there could be some sort of recap?
0:49.4	Like in movies starring Humphrey Bogart, which incidentally is how the janitor sees himself,
0:55.0	where in the middle of a moment of action the camera would zoom in on Humphrey's face,
0:59.0	the background would blur and begin spinning, and he'd say something like, how did I get here? How did this all begin?
1:08.6	How did I get here? How did this all begin? I woke up on the Eiffel Tower. I don't know why I'm here.
1:18.0	I don't know, I don't know who I am, I don't know how I got here.
1:21.0	All I remember is my great grandfather hypnotizing all Paris. I'm a little boy in the memory and I don't know why that's all I remember. It's night. I'm cold, I have a bucket and a mob. I guess I'm the janitor. It seems I have a
1:40.4	boss named Mr. Chenard, but I'm terrible at cleaning. I'm just terrible. I'd have no idea how to clean. So I hide from him. But sometimes I feel like it's too easy to hide from people of the Eiffel Tower.
1:54.0	I hear my boss, and he's trying to convince somebody that I even exist.
1:59.0	And they don't believe him.
2:01.0	Well, the thing is, the only people who've ever seen me
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