Hello! Welcome to the No Sleep Podcast! I'm your host, David Cummings. Thanks for joining us! Woo-hoo!

Yeah, none of that was actually live. I just have that sound effect play whenever I enter my little recording closet here. It's good for my ego.

But indeed, we do welcome you to this special episode of the podcast in which we share with you the live show we performed on March 3rd, 2017 at the Highline Ball Room in New York City.

We were joined by over 200 very enthusiastic fans who shared a great evening with us.

On stage with me for the tour was our composer, Brandon Boone, providing live music and the cast of Jessica McAvoy, David Alt, Nicole Goodnight, and Peter Lewis.

As you'll hear, the live show consisted of a script we commissioned from our good friend, Michael Whitehouse.

Michael wrote three scripts for the tour, and on this night we performed the one titled, From a Watery Grave.

After the main story, we concluded the show with each of us performing one of our short flash fiction tales from our suddenly shocking series of bonus episodes.

And for the short story segment, we were thrilled to welcome our special guest for the evening, Mike Delgado, who joined us with a short story of his own.

Oh, and I should say for our fans in Boston, where we performed the night before this NYC show.

I poked some fun at your town and your beloved Tom Brady. Mostly just to tease our resident Patriots fan, Mr. Dan Zapula.

It's all in fun, so no letters or emails please. We love Boston, and we know deep down people from Boston and New York love each other dearly.

And just a quick technical note about this performance. It was recorded straight off the sound console providing the live sound for the venue itself.

Sometimes mixing sound for a venue is different from what you might do in a studio, and therefore there were some spots where the music was a little loud in the mix, and that made the voice a little hard to hear.

But luckily we have our great producer Phil McCalski around, who worked on the audio to make it sound as good as it possibly can.

I think you'll find it's very easy to listen to thanks to Phil's audio mastering.

And so it gives me great pleasure to share with you a performance of Sleepless Live.

We take you now to the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan. Please take your seat as we start the show.

This is a live horror presentation. We've gathered here tonight because you don't just want to listen. You want to watch.

So give in to your fear because tonight you will see no sleep.

New York City, brace yourself for Sleepless Live.

Hello New York City.

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