As the act "Hallows Eve" opens, Joshua's Tree has just finished
playing the song "In Thy Kingdom Come," the
show
at "Crossroads" has ended and
the stage is dark. Shortly thereafter, the stage lights back up and
Joshua
and his band walk back onstage to the front edge of the stage bowing
and
thanking the crowd. Following
this, the band turns around and begins
walking towards the backstage area of the club en route to leaving the
stage but
Joshua remains onstage. At this point, pre-taped video footage of the
backstage area of "Crossroads" begins playing on the large video screen
onstage. The video of the backstage area
shows the band's manager Les talking with some record executives, some
of the road crew and people milling around the area. As soon as the
last band member walks off the stage and can no longer be seen by the
live audience watching "The Unveiling," we see the band members walking
backstage in the pre-taped video on the large screen onstage. The
transition
from seeing the band members live onstage to seeing them in the
pre-taped video is perfectly timed and seamless so it appears as if the
pre-taped footage of the backstage area is live action. As the
action continues in the pre-taped video on the large screen, the band
members walk by Les and the record executives, Les asks them where
Joshua is, they point in the direction of the stage, Les says a few
words to the executives and starts walking towards the stage. At the
same time the action just described above occurs in the pre-taped video
on the
large screen onstage, live video of Joshua who's still onstage begins
playing
on the screens on each side of the live stage. In the live video, we
see a
group of women at
the front of the
stage motion for Joshua to join them, he jumps off the stage and begins
talking to them. One
of the women who is dressed up as a devil takes a hit off a
joint, moves up to Joshua so they
are face to face and begins blowing smoke into his mouth kissing
him at the same time.
By this time, Les has almost reached the stage from the backstage area
in the pre-taped video on the large screen onstage. As soon as Les is
no longer
seen walking backstage towards the stage in the pre-taped video, we see
the actor playing Les walk onstage live.The transition from seeing Les in the
pre-taped footage backstage on the large screen to seeing him live
onstage is once again
perfectly timed and seamless so it appears as if all the action is live. At this point, the live video playing
on the screens on each side of the stage shows Les walking across the
stage towards Joshua and the group of women
who were yelling out Joshua's name. The
pre-taped video footage of the backstage area continues to play on the
large video screen onstage.
Up
until this point, no audible dialogue has been heard during the action
just the ambient sounds of the live audience and backstage area.
Les: Josh, Josh.. (Joshua doesn't hear or pay attention to him and Les continues walking towards Joshua continuing to shout out his name. This action continues to be captured live on the screens on each side of the stage) Josh, Josh..(By this time, Les is at the front edge of the stage right above Joshua and the women and Joshua finally turns around and responds to Les.)
Josuha: Can't ya see I'm busy man.-(Joshua looks at the woman he's been kissing.)
Les: (Irritated) If you want a record
deal, I suggest you get your butt up here right now.
Josuha: (He looks and smiles at the women) Sorry ladies, gotta go.-(Les extends his arm out to help lift Joshua back on to the stage. When Joshua extends his arm out to Les and is lifted onstage, Les sees fresh track marks on his arm and confronts Joshua.)
Les: You said
you were gonna lay off that crap. Nobody wants to sign a "junkie" to
a lucrative record deal.
Joshua: (Shaking his head back and forth and smiling) Don't worry about it bro. I've got it under control.
Les: You better not blow
this. (Motioning
backstage) Let's go. (The two of them walk towards the backstage
area and continue to talk. The camera follows them as the live action
continues to be seen on the video screens on each side of the live
stage.)
Joshua:
So what about the deal?(After Joshua says this, Les and him leave
the live stage and can no longer be seen by the live audience.
Immediately
thereafter, the lights
onstage fade out, the live video on the screens on each side of the
live
stage ends and the
screens go blank, and we see Joshua and Les walking backstage together
in the pre-taped video footage playing on the
large video screen onstage. The transition
from seeing Joshua and Les live onstage to seeing them in the
pre-taped video backstage is perfectly timed and seamless once again so
it
appears as if the
pre-taped footage of the backstage area is live action. The
pre-taped video footage continues to play uniterrupted
on the
large video screen onstage as the action continues. Once they're seen
backstage,
Joshua and Les stop
walking, Les points to the record executives backstage and talks to
Joshua.)
Les: Those A&R guys were blown away, said you're the best band they've seen in over a decade, and wanna sign ya guys to a killer deal.-(Les pauses.)
Joshua: (Impatient) And...
Les: How
does a three album deal, a million dollar
advance, and opening for Gun's and Roses on their reunion tour sound to
you?-(The name of the band
they're opening for
will be whatever actual band is the biggest draw and most popular at
the time "The Unveiling" is actually being performed.)
Les: (Laughing) Put me down so we can go talk
to these
guys and tell everyone else the news.-(Joshua puts Les down and they walk over to
where the
A&R guys are standing. As soon as Joshua and Les are standing
with the A&R guys, Les calls for the rest of the band to come over and meet them) Hey
guys, could you come over here for a minute.-(As soon as the rest of the band is
standing with Joshua, Les and the A&R guys, Les
introduces the A&R guys to the band) Josh,
guys, this is David Wilson and John
Brazil from Rhythm Records.-(The
A&R guys who are standing in front of
Joshua put their hands out to shake his hand and Joshua
extends his arm to shake their hands. However, at that exact moment,
the
angel Gabriel walks in between Joshua and the A&R guys straight
through their extended arms, looks at Joshua with his fiery orange eyes
and says "Follow me."
Gabriel's wings are not visible and
only Joshua can see and hear Gabriel.
Joshua is spellbound by Gabriel and turns away from the A&R guys
putting his arm down without shaking the record
executive's hands who still have their hands out to shake his
hand. At
this
point, Joshua begins to follow Gabriel who is walking towards the back
exit of the club. Gabriel walks straight through the door of the back
exit
without actually opening it. Just as Joshua is about to open the door
and leave the club, Les grabs his shoulder, Joshua turns around and Les
talks into Joshua's ear so only Joshua can
hear him) Whataya doing, ya trying to screw this
up?
Joshua: Did
ya see that guy walk straight through that door, and those eyes...(Shaking
his head back and forth in disbelief) I've never seen
anything like it.
Model
1-The Griffith Observatory, L.A., and Joshua's truck. |
Model
2-Gabriel above the central dome of the Griffith Observatory. |
Model
3-Joshua at base of central dome of
the Griffith Observatory. |
Model
4-Backside of the Observatory with Gabriel and Joshua. |
Model
5-Joshua atop the central dome prop of the Observatory. |
Model
6-L.A. and the Observatory on screens on each side of stage. |
As the video continues to play uninterrupted on the large video screen onstage, the following action occurs from the 0-1:11 minute mark of the song "Haunted." Joshua leaves the club and runs across the parking lot to his truck. As soon as Joshua gets to his truck to speak to Gabriel, Gabriel supernaturally moves from the hood of the truck to the top of a multi-storied building at a street corner on Sunset Blvd. some distance away. Joshua witnesses this seeing Gabriel standing atop the building, jumps into his truck, backs out of the parking space burning rubber and almost hits a parked car behind him. Joshua drives frantically at a high speed through the parking lot and down an alley in an attempt to catch up with Gabriel looking up to his right at Gabriel standing atop the building. Les and Darlene can be seen standing outside the back door of the club watching Joshua drive through the parking lot and alley. As Joshua approaches Sunset Blvd. from the alley, buildings blocks his view and he can no longer see Gabriel. At this point, the action in the video begins playing in slow motion. At the 35 second mark of the song "Haunted," Joshua looks to his left and sees the grim reaper standing under a dim light where the alley and sidewalk intersect on Sunset Blvd.. The grim reaper's eyes are glowing, he smiles and laughs maniacally at Joshua, and fresh blood drips from his metal sickle. Joshua can't believe what he's seeing and does a quick double take looking at the grim reaper again. This time he sees that the grim reaper is actually just a man in a halloween costume who is standing with a group of people dressed up for Halloween. The man is holding a plastic sickle and there's no blood on it. Joshua shakes his head and looks troubled by what he just saw. By this time, Joshua reaches Sunset Blvd. from the alley and at the last second looks out his windshield seeing he's entering Sunset Blvd as the action in the video returns to normal speed. He is still driving at a high speed and his truck fishtails into traffic almost hitting several cars on Sunset Blvd.. As Joshua drives at a high speed on Sunset Blvd., he looks up at the building that Gabriel was standing atop but he is no longer there. Joshua rapidly moves his head side to side looking for Gabriel. At exactly the 51 second mark of "Haunted," Joshua looks up and sees Gabriel high in the air some distance away. As Joshua continues driving on Sunset Blvd towards Gabriel, Gabriel moves downward with his wings tucked behind him. By the time we reach the 1:11 minute mark of "Haunted," Gabriel is suspended in the air right above a traffic light on Sunset Blvd. and Joshua is stopped at that light which is red looking up at Gabriel. The action in the video continues uninterrupted with the next paragraph of text. Note:there are several people walking on Sunset Blvd. in the video and most of them are dressed up for Halloween.
Newscaster's
words in the song "Hallow's Eve:"
Good
morning, I'm reporting to you live concerning the events that have
taken
place worldwide in the last hour. Reports state that millions of people
are
dead or missing, planes are falling from the sky for no apparent reason
and
automobile accidents cover the streets. But nothing rivals the death
and
destruction in the
Model
7-Joshua watches the Rapture from the central dome prop. |
Model 8-L.A. and the Observatory on screens on each side of stage. |
Model
9-Plane crashes into building on screens on sides of the stage. |
Model
10-Boeing 777 crashes into the Hollywood Sign. |
As the action continues uninterrupted and the song "Hallow's Eve" isperformed live, Joshua sings the Intro and Verse 1 live from atop the central dome prop onstage looking out over the live audience who are holding up fluorescent tubing and/or cell phones. Live video of the audience doing this continues to play on the screens on each side of the live stage. As Joshua sings the lyrics "The trumpet sounded," the digital clock atop the live stage reads midnight on Nov. 1, 2016 as shown above in Model 7, a deafening trumpet is heard signaling the start of the Rapture and the image on the screens on each side of the live stage changes back to pre-taped video footage of Joshua atop the Observatory overlooking L.A. as shown above in Model 8. As soons as the lyrics "And the saints cried out" begin to be sung, countless bodies of light simultaneously shoot upward against the backdrop of the sky seen above in Model 7 and then vanish. At the same time, countless bodies of light simultaneously shoot upward from the city of L.A. in Model 8 and also vanish instantaneously. This sequence of action lasts only about a second or as the scriptures say "in the twinkling of an eye." The bodies of light are the new resurrected bodies of dead and living Christians who are being taken up into heaven by Christ as the Rapture takes place. Immediately after Verse 1 of the song "Hallow's Eve" ends, we hear the deafening roar of approaching jetliners followed by two massive explosions that occur one after another. On the first explosion, an airliner crashes into a skyscaper in the video on the screens on each side of the live stage as shown above in Model 9. On the second explosion, a Boeing 777 crashes into the Hollywood sign in the video on the large video screen onstage as shown above in Model 10. The music following Verse 1 is extended a few measures longer live to allow the action of the crashing planes to take place before Verse 2 starts to be sung. At this point, the video on the large screen onstage which is showing Joshua atop the central dome of the Griffith Observatory watching the plane crash into Hollywood sign is replaced by video of Joshua turning on to Sunset Blvd in his truck as Verse 2 from "Hallow's Eve" starts to be sung, At the same time, the video playing on the screens on each side of the live stage which shows the plane crashing into a skyscraper fades out and the screens fade to black. The action in the video on the large screen onstage continues uninterrupted with the next paragraph of text as the song "Hallow's Eve" continues to be performed live.
Model 11-Joshua drives to the front entrance of his house. |
Mid Intro:
Hallow's Eve...
But didn't believe.
At about the 3:40 minute mark of the song "Hallow's Eve," Joshua comes to a screeching halt at the front entrance of his home as shown above in Model 11 and the video continues playing uninterrupted on the large screen onstage. Joshua exits his truck, crashes through the front door knocking it off its hinges and runs straight to the living room where a television is on reporting news about the Rapture. Joshua looks overwhelmed, continues to sweat profusely and looks pale. However, for a split second upon hearing the television in the living room, a look of hope races across Joshua's face in anticipation of seeing his parents in the living room but only his father's clothes are lying in a recliner in the living room. Joshua is stunned, stares blankly at the clothes shaking his head in disbelief and looks upward cursing God. This entire sequence of action takes place from the 3:40-3:50 minute mark of the song and is the same exact video Joshua saw in his premonition earlier at the Observatory. The remaining action in the video on the large screen occurs as the newscaster speaks for the remainder of the song "Hallow's Eve." As the action continues, Joshua looks at a picture of him and his mother directly above the televison living room. Immediately thereafter, he yells out "mom," runs out of the living room and starts looking for Lisa still in denial about all that has taken place. Joshua frantically runs around the entire house searching for Lisa repeatedly yelling out "mom." Joshua searches his parents room last, hears the shower on in their bedroom and enters the bathroom saying "mom" but gets no response. He pulls back the shower curtain but his mother is not there. Her wedding ring, a cross necklace she wore and diamond earrings are on the shower floor. Joshua looks very somber and picks up the necklace and ring from the shower floor. The cross necklace is gold and has a diamond in the center of it. He puts the wedding ring in his pocket and holds on to the cross necklace. Following this, Joshua walks over to the bathroom counter, picks up a T.V. remote and looks at himself in the mirror. He sees an image of his mother in the mirror smiling and standing behind him. Joshua smiles and turns around thinking his mom is standing behind him but nobody is there. He leans back against the bathroom counter and slides down until he is sitting on the ground looking dejected and demoralized. Shortly thereafter, the song "Hallow's Eve" ends and Joshua turns on the T.V. in his parent's room with the remote he's holding. At that exact moment, the video of Joshua in his parent's bedroom on the large video screen onstage stops playing, is replaced by the UNN logo as shown below in Model 12 and the stage lights up having been transformed into a UNN(Universal News Network) news station as shown below in Model 12. The set of the UNN newsroom shown below in Model 12 is an actual set onstage and not just an image on the large video screen. However, the UNN logo which shows the letters "UNN" above a picture of the earth in space is an image on the large video screen onstage. At this point, the newscaster in the song "Hallow's Eve" begins talking and the live theater presentation "The Newscast" begins.
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Hallow's Eve
"The Newscast"
Model
12-"The Universal News Network" Stage Set |
Avie: (When "The Newscast"
segment opens, the stage
has been transformed into a UNN news station as shown above in Model
12. News anchors
Avie Reece and Dawn Rivers are live onstage as shown above in Model 12
and the screens on each side of the live stage start showing live
close-ups
of Avie
and Dawn sitting onstage behind their news desks. At
this point, Avie Reece begins the live newscast with the following
dialogue which is exactly the same heard at the end of the song
"Hallow's Eve." Any live
news
footage in "The Newscast"
segment plays on the large video screen onstage and replaces the UNN
logo which is on the screen.
Good
morning, I'm
reporting to you live concerning the events that have taken place
worldwide in the last hour. Reports
state that millions of
people are dead or missing, planes are
falling from the sky for no apparent reason and automobile accidents
cover the streets. But nothing rivals the death and destruction in the
United States where conservative estimates put the number of dead or
missing at 30 million. Eyewitness accounts of people disappearing are
widespread and some claim a religious phenomena known as the Rapture is
responsible for the missing people and tonight's catastrophic chain of
events. (Looking at Dawn onstage) Dawn.
Dawn: The situation is so bad in many areas that UNN has been informed by various police and fire spokesmen that they lack the necessary resources to deal with an emergency of this magnitude. Additionally, hospital spokesmen tell UNN that virtually all the hospitals in the area are filled to capacity and there is a shortage of medical personnel to treat all the injured. Now let's go to Scott Marier somewhere in the City of Angels for a live report. Scott, this is Dawn. Where exactly are you and what's it like out there?
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Scott:
(At this point, pre-taped video footage of
reporter Scott Marier begins to play on the large video screen onstage.
Even though the footage of Scott is pre-taped, it's synced up with the
live action occurring onstage on the UNN set so that it appears as if
it's also live action. Scott is
outside
"Staples Center" in L.A. and he and his cameraman John Baker are on S. Figueroa
Ave.
crouched down behind a
satellite news van taking cover from the chaos on
the streets. Figueroa
Ave. is set up
to look like the Rapture has taken place and
there are some
automobile accidents, emergency vehicles, emergency personnel and other
people on the street.) Dawn, we're right outside
the Staples Center on
Figueroa Ave.. Earlier tonight, I was backstage interviewing Saul
Goldberg CEO
of Rhythm Records who organized tonight's concert event at the
Dawn: Scott, has anyone given you any type of explanation of what might have caused all this to happen?
Scott: Well Dawn, I want to show you and our viewers some incredible video footage shot by one of the concert goers who attended the show here tonight and left a little early.-(As Scott says the dialogue above, he climbs into the news van and begins to work with some of the controls of the video equipment in the van) Here we go.-(At this point, the video on the large screen onstage switches from the video of Scott in the news van to the video footage shot by the concert goer. The video footage shows people in an Escalade disappear as they drive on S. Figueroa Ave. and then shows the driverless Escalade veer out of control slamming into a telephone pole. Scott talks as the video footage plays on the large video screen onstage.) Look at the people in the white Escalade. Everything's normal up to this point. But now watch very closely, right here, the people just disappear, and then we see the Escalade run into telephone pole.
Dawn:
Scott, that's incredible! Can you show that to us again?
Scott:
Sure, but this time I'm going to slow the video down and show
it
to you frame by frame leading up to the point where the people actually
disappear. Here we go.-(At this
point, Scott begins to play the video once again and the live audience
sees
it on the large video screen onstage. When he gets to the
part right
before the people disappear, he starts showing the video frame by
frame. When he gets to the frame immediately before the people
disappear, he stops the video and speaks to Dawn and the audience) As you can clearly see right here, all
the people are in the Escalade. Now let's move it up to the very next
frame.
Now you can see that the people are no longer in the vehicle.
Dawn: (Shaking her head in disbelief) Scott, are you sure the video you were given wasn't manipulated or altered before you got it because people don't just disappear into thin air.
Scott:
(The video footage of the
Escalade on the large video screen is replaced by footage of
Scott in the news van once again)
I thought you
might ask that very question because I thought the same thing when I
first watched the video footage. But let me show you
and the viewers something.-(At
this point, Scott and John cautiously walk a short distance
down S. Figueroa Ave. and the Escalade seen in the video footage comes
into view. The Escalade is in the same location as it was in the video
with its front end
smashed up against a telephone pole. Scott approaches the vehicle and
stands next to the driver's door)
Here's the Escalade seen in the video and it's in the same location as
it
was in the video.-(Scott opens
the driver's door and speaks to his cameraman) John, get a shot inside the SUV.-(Scott steps aside and John gets a
camera shot of the inside of the Escalade. We see four complete sets of
clothing in the vehicle with two sets in the front seat and two in the
back but there's nobody in the Escalade) As you can see, there are four sets of
clothing but nobody's in the vehicle. We checked the clothing in the
front seat with that of the driver and passenger in the video footage
and it's the same. I highly doubt these people slammed into the
telephone pole, took off all their clothes and fled the scene. But
you can draw your own conclusions.
Dawn:
(Shaking her head) Unbelievable!
Well, let
me ask you again Scott. Have you heard any type of explanation of
what's causing all this to occur, these mysterious disappearences?
Dawn:
Well, hopefully there will be some answers soon.
Scott, great work, extraodinary report. We'll get back to you for
further updates. Take care of yourself and be safe.-(Immediately
after Dawn says this, the revving of an engine and the
screeching of tires is heard, and a pick-up truck with several people
in the
back of it comes
into view. The rioters in the truck fire several shots in the direction
of Scott and John.)
Scott: Oh my God! John's been hit in the head.-(As Scott says this, the camera shot on the large video screen changes as John and his camera fall to the ground after he's shot in the head. The camera falls to the ground lying on its side and only the pavement of the street is seen on the large video screen onstage. Shortly thereafter, we see a pair of boots on the pavement in the video on the large screen onstage and we hear Scott pleading for his life) Come on, you don't have to do this, please don't, please...-(At this point, we hear a series of gunshots go off and we no longer hear Scott who has just been shot and killed. Following this, we see one of the boots lift off the pavement and stomp on the camera. Immediately thereafter, the large video screen onstage goes blank, no audio is heard and the UNN backdrop re-appears on the large video screen so the stage looks just like Model 12 above once again.)
Dawn: (Visibly skaken) I can't believe that just happened.-(Dawn turns to the side and away from the camera to collect herself and Avie continues the newscast.)
Avie:
We apologize to our viewers for
that. Unfortunately, we can't
always control what airs during live broadcasts. Brave men, very brave men and we all
hope and pray they're all right.-(Avie
pauses briefly) I've just been informed
that philanthropist, rising political star
and owner of our own UNN
Dr. Christopher Gold, and
noted theologian and leader of the S.O.U.L. Church, Dr. Jonathan Silver
will address the world live from Vatican City shortly concerning
tonight's events and of course we will bring it too you live. We need
to take a short commercial break before continuing our live
coverage.-(At
this point, the entire stage goes dark and the news station set is no
longer
visible. Shortly thereafter, video begins playing on the large
video screen onstage and it shows Joshua watching the very end of the
newscast
we just saw performed live. He watched the newscast in his parents room. This ends the act "Hallow's Eve" and
the video on the large screen onstage continues to play as we
move to the
next act in "The Unveiling" which is "Alive.")