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|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] | |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]] | |data2 = [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]] | ||
|data10 = [[Questions]] | |data10 = [[Questions]] | ||
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== Synopsis == | == 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. | |||
2:50: Guy with German-ish accent ([[Brother Theodore]]) talks about | |||
suicide. 'Each of us has contemplated suicide…' | |||
4:20: 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. | |||
6:20: A fellow with a German-ish accent ([[Tim Jerome]]) remembers | |||
winter in Erfürt. A woman broke her leg skiing. | |||
7:20: A woman recalls dinner, seeing an acrobat with no arms | |||
and legs in San Nemo; she was engaged to John. | |||
8:10: A man remembers the summer they (apparently he and a | |||
woman) went to the sea. | |||
9:00: Joe tells about the star worshippers, their equipment, | |||
their gowns, dancing to drums. | |||
9:20: 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. | |||
12:00: Joe tells of Voltgen ushering Alex into a worship | |||
service. Voltgen leads a service, which features a large filament, | |||
culminates with electrical arcs. | |||
14:40: Alex arrives home; his wife Eva ([[Barbara Sohmers]]) greets | |||
him. They have a drink. | |||
17:30: 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. | |||
18:30: Joe tells of the rain falling on everyone in the | |||
streets. | |||
19:00: Eva tells what she did during the day to Alex. He bathes her. | |||
(Accompanied by <i>Peace piece</i> (Bill Evans)). | |||
20:20: 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. | |||
21:50: 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. | |||
24:40: 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. | |||
25:30: Alex recalls returning to the same hotel by the sea | |||
years later. | |||
26:20: Joe tells of a helicopter flying overhead, a man in a | |||
phone booth. | |||
27:10: Joe describes images of the city at night, the tree-folk, the | |||
people of the law (who recite laws that sound like parody Leviticus). | |||
28:40: 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. | |||
32:20: Joe tells of a convoy of army trucks outside; a | |||
presidential address follows. | |||
34:10: Eva tells Alex he talked in his sleep last night. She | |||
wants him to tell her how he feels, he's gone so much. | |||
35:10: Joe describes the picaresque, cites classical examples, | |||
wonders where modern heroes travel. | |||
36:00: Alex tells of walking through the city, wondering where | |||
he's going. Voltgen responds, tells him he has to give up on love. | |||
38:40: Voltgen gives Alex a hooded gown, leads Alex into the | |||
temple, leads a service, accompanied by choral chanting, inducts Alex | |||
into Electricism. | |||
42:00: 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. | |||
43:00: A fellow leaves an ominous message on their phone. | |||
Olga's scared, Alex says it's nothing. They argue. | |||
45:00: 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. | |||
46:20: 'Sometimes I sign out a chopper...' The president looks | |||
at girls sunbathing on the roof. | |||
47:10: Eva hears the helicopter, asks Alex what it's doing; | |||
it's looking into their window. | |||
49:30: The president calls on citizens to report strangers to | |||
the authorities. | |||
50:10: Alex tells of physicians treating some woman. | |||
51:20: 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. | 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 == | == Interesting Facts == | ||
*Material from this program was later included | 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. | *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 == | ||
{{commentary}} | {{commentary}} | ||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
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{{Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ (Steve Reich)}} | {{Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ (Steve Reich)}} | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | [[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | ||
[[Category:Sound_Effects]] | [[Category:Sound_Effects]] |