Naughty Till New Years: Firstly, the Janitor

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 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the perfect place for new listeners to begin. All your favorite Orbiting Human Circus characters return in a brand new adventure, inviting you into the mystery surrounding the lonely young janitor who lives at the Eiffel Tower... and has no idea how he got there. New episodes every other Wednesday! A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Drew Callander, Susannah Flood, David Barlow, Dan Solomon, and Julian Koster. Written and directed by Julian Koster, and produced by Christy Gressman. For full credits and more information, go to orbitinghumancircus.com. Become a Friend of the Orbiting Human Circus on Patreon at https://patreon.com/orbitinghumancircus; check out shirts, pins, and more at https://topatoco.com/collections/orbiting-human-circus; and follow us on Instagram @orbitinghumancircus or Twitter @orbitinghuman.

Transcript

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0:00.0	A co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Nightville presents.
0:07.0	In a barn, deep in the country as night falls upon the earth, the animal turn their expectant gaze towards a small radio mounted on the wall.
0:17.0	Exercise number five, the curl.
0:21.0	Arms, sideways your fist, ready, begin.
0:26.0	One, three, four, five, six,
0:32.0	five, six, thank you. And in the farmhouses, children rush until their homework is done.
0:39.0	This is going to be the best show ever, isn't it?
0:42.0	Hurry! be the best so ever isn't hurry
0:44.1	done it it's gonna be on a second
0:49.7	and college students hurry home from their evenings out, some alone, some impairs, holding hands and
0:56.8	glancing at the clock they hasten their pace. Everywhere, hands on dials, hands on dials.
1:03.0	You see, on all of these radios, we are moments away from the appearance of a very special new star.
1:15.0	Whose capturing of the public imagination can be likened to nothing since perhaps a group of beetles went on the Ed Sullivan show.
1:28.0	Life has stopped and as all goes silent, people realize they will someday ask each other where they were at this moment.
1:41.0	Are you going to listen?
1:43.0	Yeah, they got a radio around back, a bunch of us are gathering around.
1:47.0	It's nice, isn't it?
1:50.0	And even backstage at the grand theatre from which the broadcast will come, the crew glances around,
1:56.5	hoping to catch a glimpse of the star, and Chief Stagehand Letitia Saltier, running the whole show, can't help but get swept up in the excitement as she
2:06.7	gathers her crew around her.
2:08.7	Hello Bernard!
2:10.7	Hey, you can't watch here forever. No, because they're going to exit this way. I'm going to talk to everyone in five minutes, okay? By the loading dock.
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