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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

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fun with 2000 telescopes, and the stunning return of somebody very special. A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Featuring Drew Callander, David Barlow, Julian Koster, Susannah Flood, Dan Solomon, John Cameron Mitchell, Jessie Shelton, Nicholas Carter, and Miche Braden. Written and directed by Julian Koster and produced by Christy Gressman; with musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes, music by Gauvain Gamon on bass, Benjamin Miller on piano, Kolja Gjoni on drums, Romica the Singing Saw, who was encouraged to sing by Julian, and the Music Tapes; 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. 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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0:00.0	A co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Fail presents.
0:05.0	You are listening to the orbiting human circus of the air. The Late afternoon the janitor is hiding in the shadows at the base of the Eiffel Tower.
0:35.2	He peaks across the way at the ticket booth and the line of tourists that form in front of it.
0:42.0	Mr. Chenard comes storming up.
0:43.4	He marches right up to the janitor.
0:47.4	What are you doing? I look for you everywhere. I look in the closet. I look on the girders. I look in the closet I look on the gerbils I look in the commissary behind the case of talk the quaçons and not there
0:57.0	The janitor starts turning colors he's willing mr. Chenard to speak quieter
1:02.0	What are you looking at?
1:03.0	It's a ticket booth.
1:05.0	People online are looking over.
1:07.0	The ticket booth clerks are looking over.
1:09.0	The janitor, his face bright red turns and runs off
1:12.0	away from Mr.
1:12.9	Chenard into the Eiffel Tower and takes full flight up the stairs.
1:16.7	Watching the janitor go, Mr. Chenard turns to the people online.
1:20.1	Pardon, did any of you happen to see the man I was speaking to just now?
1:27.0	Anyone?
1:30.0	Pardon, madame, have you seen the man that I was talking now?
1:33.0	Okay.
1:34.0	Meanwhile, the janitor runs up and up and higher and higher and
1:38.4	reaching the top.
1:39.2	The janitor runs out onto the deck and feels suddenly as though he's going to throw up. He
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