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The Orbiting Human Circus

(Of the Air): Seventhly!

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 18 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. Hold onto your hats – extraordinary events strike the Orbiting Human Circus! 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. For more information and full credits:www.wnycstudios.org/shows/orbitinghumancircus www.orbitinghumancircus.com

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0:00.0

As early morning settles on Paris, we bring you now to the janitor who perched high on the outer railings of the Eiffel Tower with his mop looks very much like someone who's made up his mind.

0:12.0

Made up my mind more than you'll ever know.

0:14.0

I'm not going to try to go on the show anymore.

0:17.0

What?

0:18.0

I'm speechless?

0:20.0

Well, come on, let's be honest, every bad thing that's happened because I wanted to be on the stage or because I wanted to be in front of the lights around the microphone.

0:27.5

Of course, all your life you've dreamed of having an audience.

0:31.0

Yeah, but it's not real. It's okay, millions of people don't.

0:36.0

And I'm not pretending I have an audience anymore either.

0:39.0

Brave words, considering especially he spent last night singing to that very imaginary audience to comfort himself.

0:47.0

Oh, yeah, you are.

0:52.0

It's a melody that came to him one day that he often hums to himself.

0:57.0

And in his fantasy he sang with confidence and authority and his song made his audience happy

1:08.7

Which in turn made him happy. And this power.

1:14.0

And this power to

1:16.0

close your eyes.

1:20.0

And this power to make happiness intoxicated him, until he fell into the deepest and sweetest of sleep.

1:35.0

So what happened to inspire such strange new resolutions?

1:42.0

We take you now to the apartment of Chief Stagehand Letitia Saltier as she recounts the events following our recent hypnosis debacle to her downstairs neighbor.

1:51.0

If you are picturing a bad thing just like make it a hundred time worse

1:55.4

they'd go the fire brigade to spray people to wake them up you know because what

2:00.4

brings somebody out of an hypnotic state it is water you know there's like a

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