(Of the Air): Eighthly! – Director’s Cut

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

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This special edition of The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air) Season One is a co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Today, Julian reveals the real ending of the season for the very first time with a new director’s cut of the Season Finale. The fate of the janitor—and the show—hang in the balance as the Orbiting Human Circus races towards its breathtaking conclusion! Starring John Cameron Mitchell as Mr. Cameron, Julian Koster as the Janitor, and Drew Callander as the Narrator, and Susannah Flood as Leticia Saltier. Written and created by Julian Koster. Co-directed by and developed with Ellie Heyman. Produced by Christy Gressman. Musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes and songs by The Music Tapes, editing by Grant Stewart, sound design by Eric Sluyter, and recording engineering by Vincent Cacchione. If you liked the songs the Janitor sang on the show, you can get them on a new EP by the Music Tapes called “The Orbiting Human Circus,” out now on Merge Records. Get it at mergerecords.com. For more information and full credits:www.wnycstudios.org/shows/orbitinghumancircuswww.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 You're going to be here. Oh, A hospital room in the heart of Paris. Here lies Julian, janitor at the Eiffel Tower,
1:00.0	who opens his eyes?
1:05.0	Come on boy, you can do it.
1:08.0	Who opens his eyes?
1:14.0	He won't wake up. It's Letitia, Chief Stage-hand of the orbiting human circus of the air.
1:19.0	Please help.
1:20.0	It's golden ear, huh?
1:22.0	Sirfrees, you do dead. Help. It's always like always nothing.
1:33.0	It's like, oh, he's always like this.
1:35.0	That's why.
1:36.0	It's hospital.
1:37.0	Lottisha sits nervously by the janitor's bedside.
1:41.0	She opens her mouth to speak but hesitates.
1:46.0	The show is closing.
1:49.0	Leticia takes out the cigarette a doctor had lent her in the hall. It is Paris after all,
1:54.8	walks to the far side of the room and getting as far away from the janitor as she can,
1:59.6	lights up.
2:00.6	The Porter bear here, he escapes the tower, he runs loose in Paris. He is going to the
2:06.7	oyster bars and along the sun anyway the details don't matter. But...
2:11.1	Yes, things are not going well with the show in fact tonight's acts are all
2:17.5	ones John Cabron and previously rejected it seems he can get neither acts nor
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