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 |data4  = 3/6/[[1984]]
 |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/tour-of-the-city-a A Tour Of The City (Part 1)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Tour%20Of%20The%20City]
-|data6  = [[Alan Hunter]], [[Marilyn Casky]], [[Barbara Sohmers]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Richard Bower]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Mark Hammer]], [[Joseph Palmieri]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank
+|data6  = [[Alan Hunter]], [[Marilyn Casky]], [[Barbara Sohmers]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Richard Bower]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Mark Hammer]], [[Joseph Palmieri]], [[Larry Block]], [[Sharon Dennis-Wyeth]], Joe Frank
 |data2  = [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]
 |data10 = [[Questions]]
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 == Synopsis ==
+Joe (using second person) tells about landing in a plane, looking down
+on the city.  Pilots land the plane safely despite engine failure.
+Joe compares how the city looks on the ground with how it looked from
+the air.
+:50: Guy with German-ish accent ([[Brother Theodore]]) talks about
+suicide.  'Each of us has contemplated suicide&hellip;'
+:20: Joe describes walking along Vladeck (sp?) avenue.  A guy
+([[Larry Block]]?) begs change; a woman invites his attention;
+squatters live in vacant lots; chickens and goats graze.
+:20: A fellow with a German-ish accent ([[Tim Jerome]]) remembers
+winter in Erf&uuml;rt.  A woman broke her leg skiing.
+:20: A woman recalls dinner, seeing an acrobat with no arms
+and legs in San Nemo; she was engaged to John.
+:10: A man remembers the summer they (apparently he and a
+woman) went to the sea.
+:00: Joe tells about the star worshippers, their equipment,
+their gowns, dancing to drums.
+:20: Voltgen, founder of the Electricist religion ([[Arthur Miller]]?), one of the many sects that have sprung up in the city,
+talks to Alex, a novice; he explains Electricism, ruminates on
+darkness and light.
+:00: Joe tells of Voltgen ushering Alex into a worship
+service.  Voltgen leads a service, which features a large filament,
+culminates with electrical arcs.
+:40: Alex arrives home; his wife Eva ([[Barbara Sohmers]]) greets
+him.  They have a drink.
+:30: Someone ([[Tim Jerome]]) tells about Glemp (sp?) who had a
+camera, took pictures of everything.  At the end of the season he took
+his film to the lab, which destroyed them, leaving only memories.
+:30: Joe tells of the rain falling on everyone in the
+streets.
+:00: Eva tells what she did during the day to Alex.  He bathes her.
+(Accompanied by <i>Peace piece</i> (Bill Evans)).
+:20: Joe tells of a fellow walking on a mountain path, who
+sees a speck rising above the desert.  It turns into a giant wave that
+forms the shape of giant white horses, then a giant man.
+:50: Having prepared Eva's bath, Alex puts her in the water.
+(She can't walk.)  She wonders why they haven't made love in months,
+wonders if he still wants her.
+:40: The first fellow with a German-ish accent ([[Brother Theodore]]) recalls the soldier who attacked the enemy armed with only
+a can opener, suggests he may have been suicidal, not heroic.
+:30: Alex recalls returning to the same hotel by the sea
+years later.
+:20: Joe tells of a helicopter flying overhead, a man in a
+phone booth.
+:10: Joe describes images of the city at night, the tree-folk, the
+people of the law (who recite laws that sound like parody Leviticus).
+:40: Joe tells of 'wrestling' matches, the first between a
+caveman with a tree and a baron who weighs 2,695 stone (about 20
+tons), the second between a giant beetle and an Irish washerwoman.
+:20: Joe tells of a convoy of army trucks outside; a
+presidential address follows.
+:10: Eva tells Alex he talked in his sleep last night.  She
+wants him to tell her how he feels, he's gone so much.
+:10: Joe describes the picaresque, cites classical examples,
+wonders where modern heroes travel.
+:00: Alex tells of walking through the city, wondering where
+he's going.  Voltgen responds, tells him he has to give up on love.
+:40: Voltgen gives Alex a hooded gown, leads Alex into the
+temple, leads a service, accompanied by choral chanting, inducts Alex
+into Electricism.
+:00: Olga ([[Marilyn Casky]]), Alex's other wife, talks about Alex
+spending time at Voltgen's temple, says he'll leave it as he's left
+all the other sects he's joined.
+:00: A fellow leaves an ominous message on their phone.
+Olga's scared, Alex says it's nothing.  They argue.
+:00: The president tells of driving a few days ago, saw 2
+children making earthcakes near their hut, recalls a song from his
+childhood, hums it for us.
+:20: 'Sometimes I sign out a chopper...' The president looks
+at girls sunbathing on the roof.
+:10: Eva hears the helicopter, asks Alex what it's doing;
+it's looking into their window.
+:30: The president calls on citizens to report strangers to
+the authorities.
+:10: Alex tells of physicians treating some woman.
+:20: The president talks about burying oneself up to the
+neck to stay warm during the winter.
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
+<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synposis</div>
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
 Second person monologue: You arrive in a plane which nearly crashes.  Cab driver talks about suicide methods.  Scenes from a street.  The principals are introduced in monologue.  Voltgen gives an electrocism lecture to a novice.  Electrocism ceremony.  A man bathes his disabled wife.  Seeing a speck in the desert that becomes a wall of water and a giant drawn by horses.  Religious orders and commandments.  Bizarre boxing matches: a knight and a caveman, a housewife and a giant bug.  The president addresses the public via loud speakers.  The mans wife confronts him.  Hero mythology.  Discussion with Voltgen about love. Electrocism initiation.  Man argues with his wife, gets a threatening phone call, is watched by a helicopter.  President hums a childhood song over loudspeakers.  Sounds of an explosion.  A man talks about watching people from a helicopter. President asks people to spy on their neighbors.
+</div></div>
 == Interesting Facts ==
-*Material from this program was later included in the programs [[Nightride]] and [[Black Hole]].
+The later program [[Nightride]] happens in the same 'world'; Alex is the same person; the mood is the same.  The material is new.
+*Material from this program was later included [[Black Hole]].
 *The text from this program was published in the form of a play.
+In the <i>NPR Playhouse</i> version an announcer includes
+Sharon Dennis-Wyeth in the cast; joefrank.com's summary doesn't.  I
+e-mailed her at her website, http://www.SharonDennisWyeth.com.  She
+replied, 'Was in something of his that I recorded.'
 == Commentary ==
 {{commentary}}
 == Music ==
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 {{Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ (Steve Reich)}}
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Scripted_Actors]]
 [[Category:Sound_Effects]]