(Of the Air): Thirdly!

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

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 24 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. Will the famed storytelling cricket (Tim Robbins) return? Plus, Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis perform Shakespeare as you’ve never heard it and the janitor pushes host John Cameron to the very brink. Starring John Cameron Mitchell as Mr. Cameron, Julian Koster as the Janitor, Drew Callander as the Narrator, and Susannah Flood at Laeticia, with Tim Robbins as the Cricket, Charlie Day as Macbeth, Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Lady Macbeth, and the Alicia Svigals Klezmer Ensemble featuring the late Evan Harlan (Julian's uncle) on accordion and North the Singing Saw. 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/orbitinghumancircuswww.orbitinghumancircus.com

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0:00.0	Sometime last week, stagehands Jacques and Francois had this conversation in the backstage lounge.
0:07.0	I didn't even tell you about this.
0:09.0	Yeah. I caught that Janita kid backstage.
0:11.0	What, the kid that was banned? Yeah, the one that was banned during the show he's backstage. I'm out for a cigarette I see him standing there. How does he get back in? That's the thing. I don't know. Security, right? Hey, hey, hey, us, I mean, so I'm about to throw it out.
0:23.6	You know what I'm saying?
0:24.6	He's like, if you let me stay, I'll tell you where Mr Cameron gets the acts from.
0:30.1	First of all, he's full of shit.
0:31.8	And that was a horrible, that was a horrible that was a horrible
0:33.6	that's exactly what he sounds like that is exactly what he sounds like
0:37.0	so ten minutes I come back to him and I go alright kid time to pay up what's the
0:41.4	secret right he won't tell me.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	So I push him around a bit.
0:45.0	You're a tough guy.
0:46.0	Hey, hey, tougher than anyone here.
0:48.0	You know that.
0:49.0	You know that. All right, Rocky, you know that.
0:50.0	You know that.
0:51.0	You know that. You know that. You know that.
0:52.0	But get this. Yeah. He goes, even Mr Cameron doesn't know. I can't tell you. I'm like, really kid? Mr. Cameron doesn't know where he gets his own acts from.
1:02.0	A co-presentation of WNYC studios and Nightfail presents.
1:07.0	You are listening to the orbiting human circus of the Air. Broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the orbiting human surface of the air.
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