Series 1, Episode 34: The River, Re-Mastered and Uninterrupted

The River — A Musical Revelation, concept by Peter Link and William Spencer Reilly, Music and Lyrics by Yours Truly opened in New York at Off-Broadway’s Promenade Theater in January of 1988 to rave reviews by 23 of the 25 major critics who attended. Included in that was a rave from the New York Times, the all important hit maker, who stated, “The River is, in fact, a celebration, that is directly communicated from the performers to the audience. It is an abundant musical evening. It moves on to an even greater affirmation of the spirit of man. Join in the celebration! Join in the exaltation!” This is Part Three (of 3). Listen to the spectacular closing night of the Theatrical Concert in its entirety!

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SPEAKER_00 0:01

Watch Fire Music and Theater of the Imagination present The River. Welcome to the final performance, complete and uninterrupted, of The River, a musical revelation. Concept by Peter Link and William Spencer Riley. Music and lyrics by yours truly. Opened in New York at Off-Broadway's Promenade Theater in January of 1988 to rave reviews by 23 of the 25 major critics who attended. Included in that was a rave from the New York Times, the all-important hitmaker, who stated, quote, The River is in fact a celebration that is directly communicated from the performers to the audience. It is an abundant musical evening. It moves on to an even greater affirmation of the spirit of man. Join in the celebration. Join in the exaltation. Peter Link's new musical, The River, is a collage of rock, rap, and pop gospel, extolling water in spiritual and metaphorical terms. In Mr. Link's lyrics, water falls, tumbles, rains, and rushes in the streams and rivers to the oceans, and then is drawn back into the heavens by the sun to begin the cycle again. Mr. Link parallels the cycle of water and the life cycle of man. So man falls from grace and travels in his or her lifetime across this material plane on the planet Earth. And hopefully, in the end, ascends back up into heaven. The show, which has no spoken dialogue, is entirely song. It begins in the heavens, and its narrator, played most effectively by our tenor, John Danny Madden, sets the tone and leads us spiritually through the experience. Followed by our opening number by the entire cast, which is joined Jenny Burton, Carol Dennis, Valerie K. Ely, Stephanie James, Lauren Hamilton, Ray Stevens, and Danny Man, and an evening of Spellbinding Entertainment.

SPEAKER_20 3:33

In the beginning, God with heaven, and the earth was for many voice, and the darkness was upon the face.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament. From the waters which were above the firmament. And God let the waters under the heaven be gather together. And let the dry land of me. Yes, the Lord God caused the rain to fall upon the earth. Yes, the Lord God caused the mist to rise up from the earth. And the rivers led to everything from the earth.

SPEAKER_11 5:12

So let the journey begin.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

And the rain falls, and the river goes on and on, and the waters all roll along. Then the mist is gone up to heaven again.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

It has always been this way. It'll never be Cause it's rolling on in me. Yes, it's rolling on in me.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

And I rolls on my bones. And the circle goes on and all goes on. And never caught to the devil's talk, but they all rise Again and again.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

It has always been this way. It'll never be Cause it's rolling on me.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Yes, it's rolling on a me. And the circle goes around and round and round. And the circle goes around and round and round. And the circle goes around and round and round. You can turn to the bee, but the tea.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

And just like O Noah, we're gonna be alright. It's gonna rain, rain, rain. Cause the windows of heaven are gonna pour out their night. It's gonna rain, rain, rain.

SPEAKER_19 10:22

And the rains came down, falling on the wild unholy ground.

SPEAKER_18 10:32

Yes, sister, the rain came down the cities, and the children of the devil went down, down, down in the water and drowned.

SPEAKER_09 10:43

Holy water and the devil himself was saturated with the holy water that God created, and the more that stuff accumulated, the more that devil got aggravated, and it made him so infuriated. He became quite incapacitated, and the rays came down. Now didn't it rain, children? Rain all night long, didn't it paw, didn't it paw? All night long, didn't it rain? Now didn't it rain, children? Rain all night long, I didn't aim, I didn't aim.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

All night long, didn't it rain?

SPEAKER_08 11:26

It rain forty days and forty nuts and out steppin'.

SPEAKER_10 11:28

No god work when the water kept jumping. I still swings and away it flew. No, I got on the arc and the children too. Then it called the animals two by two. People were moaning and crying out loud. While the rain fell from the plow. He knocked on the window and cried at the door, crying, brother, no, can't you take a little more? Well no, I said no, you're too full of sin. God's got the key and you can't get it. I didn't it all night long, didn't it rain?

SPEAKER_08 11:58

Now didn't it rain?

SPEAKER_10 12:02

All night long, I didn't it'll didn't it all night long didn't it rain? Listen, y'all Lord it listen, how it's training, Lordy, listen, how it's raining, Larry listen, how it's raining Lordy listen, how it's raining, listen to the rain, listen to the rain, listen to the rain, listen to the rain, some rain, some rolling, some roaming, some on it, in the east, in the west, in the north, in the south, to the running in the tight, so it's weeping, since we're in all day, all night, all day and night, all night, rain, rain all night, all night long, did it rain, didn't rain, rain all night long, I didn't know, I didn't know, oh night, we're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_20 14:02

But some are confused in the fire flame. To those that wander as they seek the answer, beware the fire will rise again.

SPEAKER_04 14:25

So water and men are the same and water and rain.

SPEAKER_15 15:08

Wash it down. To set my soul free to set me free.

SPEAKER_17 15:51

But I still feel the heat. Sometimes it burns too bad, like to make me fight these hard times with all I got. But the sweet temptation comes over me, it keeps me burning hot. And I just don't understand if it ain't one thing, it's another. I've got God on the one hand, God knows one on the other, the other.

SPEAKER_05 16:23

But I do know what I'm saying without an out of the take a miracle, to put the fire out of the take a miracle, put the fire out to put the fire out, would you tell me to put the fire out?

SPEAKER_17 16:46

Gonna take a miracle, put the fire out. It's gonna take a miracle to put the fire out. But I got this food. Got my pride that emo five gold feet on me. But the smoke is arising, and let's fit and I sweat. And the tortillo of the material world It's something I can't forget. Then I came and come alive. My back to the wall, help it, brother.

SPEAKER_05 17:25

I've got God on the one hand and God looks one the other hurt. But I do know what's gonna go. Put the tape on the break up, put the fire put the fire, put a piece Put me back, put the fire.

SPEAKER_12 19:32

And the goddess of the earth she said, I'll show you the pleasures of this life. Come and lay in my soft brown arms, and I will be ohvercome with passion.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

I slipped into the phone for the goddess, she had slipped away, and the earth had grown cold, and now I'm wondering in the wilderness, trying to find my way back to heaven. In the wilderness, tryna get back before it gets too late. Got some wandering in the wilderness out here in the danger zone as a wine, and it don't look like I'm ever gonna get back for no drop of rain fell from the sky as a goddess of the wind when rushing by come, she said, I'll give you the kingdoms that are mine.

SPEAKER_12 21:17

There are diamonds in the streets of gold from Zy to Palace time Wild with desire I tried to hold me Fellow Goddess. She just slipped away and left me standing And I won't dream In the wheel to the window tryna find my way back to it, but the dream In the wheel to the window Tryna get back before I get to the

SPEAKER_04 22:10

And it don't look like me. I'm ever never gonna cheer. I'm never gonna get home. I wanna go. We shall knew the way to the river.

SPEAKER_12 22:33

Where the sacred watchers wait to deliver me.

SPEAKER_20 22:44

We are beyond one drop of rain fell from the sky. Goddess of the fire.

SPEAKER_04 23:01

Caught my eye. Come to me, I will show you the fever of success. I will bring you, I will drag you on to all that I prefer. So I touched the fire. She touched me. She burned me to the very soul. Before she let me be, she would let me be.

SPEAKER_14 25:27

But temptation always passes by, leaving something in the stillness, calling softly to me, woman, don't you run and hide. You shall not be afraid. You can trust in me if you listen to the voice inside when the mountain move and the cold wind rolls and the fire fear the sky. The temptation always passes by if you listen to me.

SPEAKER_19 26:27

It's a still smile smile smiles calling to me. It's a still smiles, steel voice calling to me.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

There is something in the silence when I quiet my mind, and the waters rolling over me, and the hush kid is in a less, and the song runs free, and the voice is like a merdeing, and the tide shall come when the choice is made, and the voice inside will stay with me and be my guide through the waters ahead.

SPEAKER_14 28:27

Calling to me. Can you hear it? It's a still small voice.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

Calling to me. Calling to meet he who listens to the voice with me shall find his way to the desert.

SPEAKER_20 29:48

And when many shall gather together as one, the parched ground shall become.

SPEAKER_04 30:04

Yes, when many waters gather together the pool overflows and the streaming. Searching for the river that lies beyond to flow with the stream.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Just lay back and let it wash away the ashes to a high nothing can stop me now. But the spirit's within me. No, nothing's gonna stop me now.

SPEAKER_14 32:22

I know I always have been free.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

So lead me into water preach, you're gonna take me rising higher and higher.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

Soon he's gonna make me climb up through the fire to a heart Nothing can stop me now.

SPEAKER_04 32:59

But spirit with good No, nothing's gonna stop me now. I know I always have been a prison lead me to the water, got a fire shot up in my boat, lead me to the water, got a fire shot up in my boat, lead me to the water, got a fire shut up for the boat, shut up, shut up, shut up, baby.

SPEAKER_17 36:08

I can give you more Don't you think about it, don't you try and stop it? If you wanna rock it, just lay back and join it. I just feel it all around ya, girl. You're gonna get it. Just lay back and let it. I get off on your reaction. I just feel it in your body, burning like a fire, rising higher and higher. Don't it give you satisfaction? Don't it drive you crazy? Don't you feel like crying? Don't it get you flying? Don't it feel good?

SPEAKER_05 36:46

Thank you with your life to make it feel good.

SPEAKER_16 36:49

All right, all right, don't it feel real good?

SPEAKER_17 36:53

Then in your body, can keep it so good. Now it's coming at you. Feel a little chiller, rushing like a riller. Don't you feel those good vibrations racing through your body? Poor and through your stuff, oh you can't just go and don't it feel good?

SPEAKER_05 37:16

I can pick them up to make it feel better.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

Oh god, I don't feel feel good.

SPEAKER_17 37:24

Move it in the group, do that all the spirit in the light. And you feel it's so good.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

That feeling You just got to lay back a bed and style.

unknown 37:45

You just got to lay back the bed and die.

SPEAKER_05 37:55

Oh God, that in your body, I'll take it beautiful. Oh god, make it free.

SPEAKER_20 40:31

And the river rolls on for a thousand miles, and the gathering of souls goes on forever, and man stands waiting, wishing the river would take him away, and all the world is coming to the water, searching for the peace and forgiveness.

SPEAKER_17 44:01

Searching for the peace at the rivers, some face too, and finally the river is wrote around. I will be at peace.

SPEAKER_15 46:32

I will be a piece. I will be a piece I will be a peace.

SPEAKER_04 47:21

Like the tongue of a serpent, it awaits for you. One way leads to the fall of man, the other to his calling. The question is how will you know which is which? Fear not, for God will show you the way. But beware of false prophets who lead you astray over the water fall. Over the water fall, over the water fall.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

We all must try.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

Spirit runs deep in the water.

SPEAKER_02 49:32

You may get a climb right in the brother at your soul.

SPEAKER_10 49:42

Oh, there's a hundred and forty four thousand souls.

SPEAKER_02 49:46

Gonna make it to the finish line.

SPEAKER_10 49:49

Now there's another five million.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

Give a take a million live. I'm gonna make it five. But that gives a won to run, want you done, run, river, wanna run.

SPEAKER_08 50:23

St. Peter's taking tickets at the Golden Gate.

SPEAKER_12 50:26

Oh, let's see, you can get real shout.

SPEAKER_08 50:30

Harry, get your tickets before it's too late.

SPEAKER_12 50:33

Or they're just allowed, all so loud.

SPEAKER_08 50:36

There's no time left for the sin of mine.

SPEAKER_12 50:40

Oh, devil, little deeply sea.

SPEAKER_08 50:43

But there's a ticket or two for the likes of you.

SPEAKER_11 50:46

And for the likes of me.

unknown 51:05

Here it comes up, I'm walking the river. You ain't got much longer for your kicking time.

SPEAKER_05 51:14

Oh, the chick is slower. The sooner you can get there, the sooner you can get your buttons like your ball. Don't be with a bad speed, it's my answer.

SPEAKER_06 51:29

So bust up, faster, faster, you must not be the gutter, get the floor, move. One way, take a faster, one chick and slower. Only one way go I get you satisfied. So run on the river, won't you run, won't you run?

SPEAKER_04 51:49

One run river, won't you run? One on the river, won't you run? What you run? Run run river, won't you run?

SPEAKER_07 51:59

I don't remember what you run, want to run. I don't river want to run. I don't really want to run, I want to run. I don't really want to run.

SPEAKER_04 52:13

I love the river, want to run, I don't really want to run.

unknown 52:16

I love the bill I want to run. I don't feel what you have, people want to run, I don't feel what you have, I love people want to run, I don't want to run.

SPEAKER_06 52:29

No matter how you do it, you must not be denied. So I got the bible want to run people want to run.

SPEAKER_11 53:00

No, baby, you can't be getting out. Get up Come on, Danny, get out, man. Don't sit out. Stephanie Come on, baby. Help me Whoa, my soul, we wanna roll. So let's push it up to we lose control. Makes no sense to sit back, relax, get it while you can. It's all about speed, money, success. Doing what you do in excess. Everything else is meaningless, and it's finally comfortable this. So let's suck it up. Fill the cup, let it flow over the brim. Cause it's better up here in this atmosphere. When you're playing up over the rim, you go higher, faster, further, best.

SPEAKER_01 53:46

It's a high. It's a rush, it's a high.

SPEAKER_11 53:48

It's getting better all the time. Well, it's doing it perfectly. It's a deep. It's bad. It's the perfect cross. So take it. Just a little bit higher, faster, further, deeper. Get it.

SPEAKER_06 53:58

Now it's a whole lot cheaper. Get about the city man. Yeah, don't you worry about the people all around.

SPEAKER_01 54:04

Everything is turning upside down. So you better get it any way you can. Push it. See you feel the blush, the rest of the danger.

SPEAKER_18 54:13

You're the perfect man.

SPEAKER_11 54:16

If you wanna get right down to your toes, dig a little something up your nose. Then you're in command.

SPEAKER_06 54:25

It's a long time force, so grab it all. When you get up on that lens, cause there's nothing like the feeling we can find out of the air. It's a long fault, so grab it all. When you get up on that lens, cause there's nothing like the feeling we can find out of the air.

SPEAKER_12 54:40

Well, there's nothing like a high that you feel inside.

SPEAKER_11 54:44

When you drive at night down the highway, there's nothing like a feel of a stirring wheel. When you break it every low insight. Of your whole rewill. When you're flying higher, feeling fine.

SPEAKER_12 55:02

No, there's nothing like a death in the game of death. Once you put your life overline, come on, girl.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

Yes, it feels so right. Drive a little faster, fly a little higher.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

But it's all so wrong. That's what makes it so much fun. Come on, get ready tonight.

SPEAKER_04 55:27

There's a bit like it when you put your life on the line. Come on, get ready. You got to get ready all. Everybody get ready. It's all a little pyramid or out of the leg. Come on, get ready. You got to get ready all. And the world is spinning far below you.

SPEAKER_11 56:26

And you cannot find the floor, then you scream all four. To satisfy your appetite.

SPEAKER_06 56:33

When you push into the lash, it to the holding crack. And you're out there, where there's no tomorrow if there's only left behind.

SPEAKER_04 56:42

And you're running line. Cause there's nothing but the edge inside. Where my girl? And if you feel so right.

SPEAKER_01 56:51

No one's gonna stop you. Nothing really matters. But it's so wrong. And that's what makes us so much fun.

unknown 57:01

Come on, get ready tonight.

SPEAKER_04 57:02

You got to get ready. Come on, get ready. There's nothing like it when you put your life over line.

unknown 57:15

Everybody get ready. Come on, get it ready. It's all a little clearer with you. I don't believe it. Come on, get it ready. Gotcha getting ready, y'all. It's something like a feeling over the day.

SPEAKER_04 57:47

When you feel it's fine. Disrespect and no that's nothing like the stack when you're holding back with you.

SPEAKER_07 58:09

And the one that's a makeup like a change.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

Intermission. Act two will start at one hour and two seconds. If you want to have an insider's understanding of the history and the particulars of this production, please visit Peter Link Podcast, Scattershot Symphony, Episode 27 through 29, for a detailed account of the life of this production. In the listening only podcast.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:35

I'm a blister from a rolling body. And a force of the end of just going forward.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:44

It's a hundred degrees. And we're still dumping another pressure and switching. And it won't be surprising when somebody goes and gets shot.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:54

Everybody run from the back.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:00

And it's going to get proper, so you better get dumb. Yeah, stop it, stop it better, get back to people in the day. It's hot.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

It's all hot come back. Burn it up. Burn it up.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:26

It's all hot to find. Burn it up.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:36

Run it through my bay. And we're ripping up eyes. Run in the best way. Feeling like a fire. Run it through the heart of me. Rising high time. Run in every part of me. Breathing in water.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:10

I'm all for the sun, some summer time, but this is ridiculous. It's hot.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:15

Right.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:16

Burn it up.

SPEAKER_16 1:05:19

It's so hot converted. Burn it up.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:25

We got good wine.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:28

Girl, we got no fang.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:33

We got cool lines. We got cancer. Have a little more. Well, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Push it just low. Get that top on you can't.

SPEAKER_13 1:06:20

Here comes the boss. Check it out. Number four, look at the flow. Number five, look at the number four.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:36

I like the way you live.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:20

Oh, yes, I've tried to live by God's own plan seeking the open skies, giving you to flight on my yes, I ask for all I've known here on the side.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

This rolling stone keeps me from rising up from filling my rightful cup on my soul my despair my to take me to the pen my liberty.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:54

Yes, this is all spend each one and so this is a very important thing.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:39

And a ticket for the peep show.

SPEAKER_17 1:14:42

My panties are made of crepe disheen. Shoes are made of python. My halls are lined with tiger rugs, and my walls with heads of buzz on.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:56

Snooky Barkley found a quartz, put it under the sofa, waited till it came to light, hit it with a poker, sold his eyes for souvenirs, sold his love of whiskey, kept his bones with dumbbells, to use when he was hip.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:54

It's no go Blabotsky.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:57

All we want is a bigger bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:03

This world is going down the tubes. There's no way to stop it.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:09

So all we want is a little walk and the prophets in our pocket.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:08

It's no rights of man. We all have an obsession. We so on what we have some transgressions, no both your maiden heads, no more the passion. So give us all a little rush and show a little passion, no doubt humanities, no go the concepts, nothing else from day to day.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:41

It's all a lot of fun. So once a point, it's all we're all in this together.

SPEAKER_17 1:21:04

But nothing matter. Who did the same as I and lost it all?

SPEAKER_15 1:21:22

Oh, if I only could but change the course of my life and catch the fall before it's too late. I'd open everything white. I'd show you all that's inside 'cause love runs deeper than pride, try me again. I'm not afraid 'cause time can do great things, and if this is the end of all that we've made, then I can face it. I've seen a lot of lonely people in my life who've thrown it all away just to keep their pride trying to hold on to that last remaining dignity, but still it die what was to hide. I'll open everything why I'll show you all that's inside 'cause love runs deeper than pride. I see the lot of below the people in my life who throw it all away just to keep their price.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:07

Try to hold on to that last remaining dignity, but still one was to hide.

SPEAKER_15 1:24:26

Everything why I'll show you all that's inside because love runs deeper and clearly good but change the course of my life.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:14

Do it more, do it more before everything was show the sleep. And once more man rises to his glory. Since time began, and the Spirit of God moves upon my for the circle of water. Waters will never end, and as the pure river pours into the mind, the circle of the waters begins again. I am water I flow into the sea into the sea into the hurt behind me a great voice on a trumpet. We yes, and yeah, was in the spirit on the Lord and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet I am Alpha and Omaker, the beginning and the end, I am Alpha and Omaker, the beginning and the end, and I turned to see the voice that spake unto me, and I saw seven golden candlesticks, and seven heavenly scars, and one like unto the Son of Man, the Son of Man And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his voice was as the sound of many was as the sound of many was as the sound saying I am he that liveth and I am he that died and now behold I am alive forevermore I am he that liveth and I am he that died and now behold I am alive forevermore Write the things which thou had seen and the things which are in the things to be Write the things which thou seen and the things which are the things to be that living which are in the things to be And I am he that die And now behold I am alive forevermore So as it was he loved a gas mingled with fire And I saw the dead small and great stand before God And the dead were judged from the book of life according to their works Yes the dead were judged every man according to their works And whatsoever was left found written in the book of life was cast into the sea of fire And whosoever was left found written in the book of life was cast into the sea of fire And the devil went down in the sea of fire The devil went down in the sea of fire And the flames full of time in the sea of flesh and the sea of the sea The flames for the time in the sea of fire Thank you and I saw a new heaven and a new earth and a homeless city in New Jerusalem and a great voice out of heaven said Behold God is with them and they shall be his people Oh yes and he shall dwell with them with them Yes they shall be his people Yes and he shall dwell with easy And God shall wipe away all tears And death shall be no more Neither shall there be the pain and sorrow from before Allah Behold He shall make all things new Write these words For these words are true So true So true These words are true These words are true Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are in the things you write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are For I am helper and no faith which are in the things you'll be giving and beaker Thou kill me and be an overcome Shall in heaven And I will be his God Oh yes and he shall be my son He shall be my son Be my son Be my son And it show me a glory Of the water of light and dancing Hollywood And it showed me a flor of the water of life and dancing Hollywood I live show me a flower Of the water of life and dancing Hollywood I live as clear as crystal coming from the floor and God was clear as crystal Coming from the Four God show me the party of life and that's in hot in losing party of that same home show me the party of that same squeeze from the car before the turn me down I know the time is coming, so hold on, Lord.

SPEAKER_15 1:39:33

Don't let me go, I know you'll see me through the closer still I walk with you the Lord.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:43

I hear the hell the target to take me up. The tide of time has turned me back to you.

SPEAKER_17 1:39:53

One more mountain to climb, lie on the water, fly on the water, one more river to run, fly on the water, and I can't get through.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:08

One more valley to cross Fly on the water, five on the water, one more crotch to there, on the water, and I can't get there.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:22

So take me up, straight. Don't pass me over it.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:26

I'm ready to the Holy Kingdom, cause it's all work has gotten me down and I'm bound to move it on. So you get up and take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, I wanna go Take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, so ready to go up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up So promise me Lord, if we don't through I will still be able to walk with you All the sun will shine the hell once way Heaven starts well shot the whole day, take me out, take me up, sick me, take me up, take me up, snake me out, take me up, sweet, take me up, fake me up, take me out, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, fight me, take me, put it a high, take me, take me up, put it a high, take me on the jump, they go to it, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, save me up, take me up, take me up, take me up, take me up to the food, save me up, take me out, save me up, take me up, take me up to everyone, take me up, take me out, take me up, take me out, take me up to the spiritual kingdom of God, come I am like, Oh my god!

SPEAKER_00 1:45:02

The show opened in a New York January sub-zero-degree cold spell, where nobody wanted to wait in line in the freezing weather long enough to buy a ticket. The audiences who did come went nuts, show after show, and on closing night refused to leave the theater in protest of the closing for two hours after the final curtain came down. I went to bed that night knowing that we had a hit. The audience just would not allow the show to close. But I woke up the next morning knowing that the producers had run out of money. The lack of money won out. What you just experienced was, in fact, a closing night. Until now, so make it a little bit more.