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The
Opening:
The lights dim in the great concert
hall.
A hush falls over an excited
audience.
Darkness falls.
Silence follows.
A massive screen above the stage
lights up.
It displays a brilliantly animated
galaxy's luminescent "sea" of quasars, meteorites, stars, planets, and
suns.
The dark sky is jaded with twinkling
lights, suns, and distant stars.
Gear-like stars circle planets, and
planets revolve within solar systems. Silently but continuously, the galaxy
continues to move until slowly, the shining bodies of the galaxy disperse
into pinpoints of light and disappear.
Darkness follows.
Slowly, silently, within the darkness,
shimmering evanescent feathers of light appear, spiraling slowly into one
another. This continues, accelerating until a bright point of light appears
at the center.
As the waste hydrogen, asteroids, and
debris of planets are pressed tightly together, the brilliant point of light
suddenly explodes in a blinding flash of creation. A loud bang breaks the
dark silence.
Silence follows.
Out of the whirls and swirls of
glowing gases exploding into stars, nebulae, and galaxies, the universe is
reborn.
Slowly, a tiny clear point of light
emerges and begins moving toward the audience until it appears shimmering
and jewel-like.
As it moves closer, a giant, clear
glass sphere becomes visible. As the sphere continues emerging from the
depths of new space, a bird and a ship can be seen entrapped within the
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Both bird and
ship, the creature is both living and inanimate; a mythical ship's
figurehead – its swan-like appearance symbolizing peace, love, beauty,
and comfort – its ship-like nature portrays its peculiar and mysterious
journey through the universe, treacherous seas of the past and the
eerie, but intriguing seas of new space.
Light reflects
from the planets of the galaxy onto the sail, on which a newly created
sun can be seen rising in the sea of the new space.
On Stage: The
band enters under the darkness of the hall.
As the ship
drifts entrapped in the glass sphere, a shower of meteorites and
asteroids swish by hitting the glass sphere. With a loud noise, the
glass shatters, the sphere cracks open, and the band starts to play.
Music Over: the
band plays.
The band begins
to play the opening song, to the audience's surprise and jubilation.
On the screen:
The creature
struggles out of the broken sphere into the newly created space. As the
bird escapes, so does the audience.
The song
continues while the bird majestically flies into the darkened space,
passing the newly created universe's stars, planets, heavens, mythical
gardens, and lakes.
When the song
begins to end, the bird pulls up its wings higher and higher until its
body forms and freezes on the screen as a "W."
As the spotlights
shine on the stage for the first time, a narrator announces:
Voice Over: the
narrator
"Ladies and
gentlemen:
Paul McCartney
and Wings over the universe at the speed of light!
The hall goes
wild with roars and applause!
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