1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:13,722 --> 00:00:14,931 (crowd applauding) 4 00:00:14,973 --> 00:00:17,559 (rock guitar playing) 5 00:00:23,106 --> 00:00:27,402 Taylor Mac: I was born four years after the Stonewall Riots. 6 00:00:27,485 --> 00:00:30,321 -(applause and music continue) -(fan whistles) 7 00:00:34,117 --> 00:00:36,244 All the songs that we're gonna sing in this decade 8 00:00:36,327 --> 00:00:38,788 were on the jukebox in Stonewall at the time. 9 00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:41,541 I don't actually know if that's true. 10 00:00:41,624 --> 00:00:43,168 (chorus vocalizing) 11 00:00:43,209 --> 00:00:46,546 Who started the Stonewall Riots? 12 00:00:46,629 --> 00:00:49,257 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 13 00:00:49,341 --> 00:00:51,301 Taylor: The most fun story is that 14 00:00:51,343 --> 00:00:56,681 Marsha P. Johnson was hanging out at Stonewall. 15 00:00:56,723 --> 00:01:01,061 And the cops come to arrest the queers, 16 00:01:01,144 --> 00:01:03,021 just because you're who you are. 17 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:04,647 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 18 00:01:04,688 --> 00:01:07,650 Taylor: And Marsha took a shot glass. 19 00:01:07,692 --> 00:01:11,071 She threw it against a mirror and it shattered, 20 00:01:11,154 --> 00:01:12,322 and they said, 21 00:01:12,364 --> 00:01:15,742 "It was the shot glass heard 'round the world." 22 00:01:15,825 --> 00:01:17,744 (cheering) 23 00:01:19,162 --> 00:01:22,916 ♪ War, children ♪ 24 00:01:22,999 --> 00:01:24,876 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 25 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:31,424 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 26 00:01:31,508 --> 00:01:35,011 ♪ ♪ 27 00:01:35,428 --> 00:01:39,057 ♪ Ooh, the fire is spreading ♪ 28 00:01:39,098 --> 00:01:43,311 ♪ On our very streets today ♪ 29 00:01:43,395 --> 00:01:47,524 ♪ Burning like a red coal carpet ♪ 30 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:51,777 ♪ Mad bull has lost its way ♪ 31 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:55,115 ♪ War, children ♪ 32 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:57,450 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 33 00:01:57,533 --> 00:01:59,244 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 34 00:01:59,327 --> 00:02:03,123 ♪ War, children ♪ 35 00:02:03,206 --> 00:02:05,959 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 36 00:02:06,042 --> 00:02:10,422 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 37 00:02:10,505 --> 00:02:12,340 ♪ ♪ 38 00:02:12,424 --> 00:02:16,428 Taylor: The show is about our history as Americans. 39 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,847 That history is in our songs. 40 00:02:18,930 --> 00:02:20,932 (cheering) 41 00:02:21,016 --> 00:02:24,019 Taylor: It's what happens when history is filtered 42 00:02:24,102 --> 00:02:26,021 all through one body. 43 00:02:26,103 --> 00:02:27,230 (song continues as instrumental) 44 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:29,816 (Taylor inaudible) 45 00:02:29,899 --> 00:02:33,403 Taylor: I love the idea that a queer body 46 00:02:33,445 --> 00:02:37,699 could become a metaphor for America. 47 00:02:37,781 --> 00:02:40,785 ♪ Yeahhh! ♪ 48 00:02:40,869 --> 00:02:45,290 (cheering and applause) 49 00:02:45,331 --> 00:02:47,459 Taylor: Yeah! 50 00:02:50,378 --> 00:02:53,173 Singing has just always been... 51 00:02:53,256 --> 00:02:55,466 My mom, she sang around the house, you know, 52 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:57,135 all the time when we were kids. 53 00:02:57,218 --> 00:03:01,348 So it's just been a part of... my life. 54 00:03:01,431 --> 00:03:04,893 And when I was thinking of a form that would best represent 55 00:03:04,976 --> 00:03:06,519 our history, 56 00:03:06,603 --> 00:03:08,730 it just seemed like popular music was the thing 57 00:03:08,813 --> 00:03:13,651 that would tell the story the best way. 58 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:20,533 So we're gonna do a transition into the next decade right now. 59 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:22,994 We've been working on this show 60 00:03:23,036 --> 00:03:25,204 for over ten years now. 61 00:03:25,789 --> 00:03:30,585 We took it out on tour as four six-hour shows. 62 00:03:30,669 --> 00:03:32,837 I knew I wanted to do the whole show 63 00:03:32,921 --> 00:03:35,757 as a 24-hour performance, 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,510 but I only wanted to do it once. 65 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:42,514 (harps and horns playing expansive overture) 66 00:03:44,182 --> 00:03:46,351 (drums join in) 67 00:03:55,067 --> 00:03:58,530 (cheering and applause) 68 00:03:58,613 --> 00:04:00,824 (band playing bluesy jazz) 69 00:04:11,710 --> 00:04:14,170 Hello, everybody! 70 00:04:14,212 --> 00:04:19,718 Today, tonight and tomorrow, 71 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:24,014 we are making a 24-decade history 72 00:04:24,055 --> 00:04:26,057 of popular music. 73 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:28,935 (cheering and applause continue) 74 00:04:29,019 --> 00:04:31,688 Taylor: I didn't know if I could do it. 75 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:36,109 I would be singing basically nonstop for 24 hours. 76 00:04:36,192 --> 00:04:38,403 (band playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy") 77 00:04:40,572 --> 00:04:44,743 ♪ Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony ♪ 78 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:49,164 ♪ Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni ♪ 79 00:04:49,247 --> 00:04:50,957 ♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up ♪ 80 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,251 ♪ Yankee Doodle dandy! ♪ 81 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:55,253 ♪ Mind the music and the steps ♪ 82 00:04:55,337 --> 00:04:57,714 ♪ And with the girls be handy ♪ 83 00:04:57,756 --> 00:05:00,884 I was dreading having to start our show with this decade 84 00:05:00,925 --> 00:05:02,844 because most of the music that has survived 85 00:05:02,927 --> 00:05:06,765 is patriotic music from the American Revolutionary War. 86 00:05:06,848 --> 00:05:09,059 And maybe you can tell from the way I'm dressed, 87 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,728 I'm not exactly an unironic patriot. 88 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:14,272 (laughter) 89 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:16,274 ♪ Father and I went down to camp ♪ 90 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:18,526 ♪ Along with Captain Gooding ♪ 91 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,487 ♪ And there we saw the men and boys ♪ 92 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:23,114 ♪ As thick as hasty pudding ♪ 93 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:25,075 ♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up ♪ 94 00:05:25,116 --> 00:05:27,118 ♪ Yankee Doodle dandy! ♪ 95 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:28,953 ♪ Mind the music and the steps ♪ 96 00:05:29,037 --> 00:05:31,247 ♪ And with the girls be handy ♪ 97 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:35,126 ♪ And there we saw a great big gun ♪ 98 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:36,795 (laughter) 99 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:40,965 ♪ As large as a log of maple ♪ 100 00:05:42,634 --> 00:05:46,304 ♪ And every time they shoot it off ♪ 101 00:05:46,388 --> 00:05:49,474 ♪ It takes a horn of powder ♪ 102 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:52,977 ♪ And makes a noise like father's gun... ♪ 103 00:05:53,061 --> 00:05:55,230 Uh-oh, that's sad. 104 00:05:55,313 --> 00:05:56,648 (laughter) 105 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:59,401 ♪ ...only a nation louder ♪ 106 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:02,487 ♪ It scared me, so I hooked it off ♪ 107 00:06:02,529 --> 00:06:05,490 ♪ Nor stopped as I remember ♪ 108 00:06:05,532 --> 00:06:08,576 ♪ Nor turned about till I got home ♪ 109 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:12,080 ♪ Locked up in mother's chamber ♪ 110 00:06:12,163 --> 00:06:16,584 This is the song I'm supposed to feel patriotic about? 111 00:06:16,668 --> 00:06:18,795 A song that makes fun of effeminate men? 112 00:06:19,295 --> 00:06:21,506 But then I did a little research 113 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:26,678 and it turns out that this song was a British song. 114 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,514 The British wrote it to make fun of Americans 115 00:06:29,556 --> 00:06:31,141 'cause they said we were effeminate, 116 00:06:31,182 --> 00:06:34,185 which is really saying something coming from the British. 117 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:35,979 (laughter) 118 00:06:36,021 --> 00:06:37,897 Not only were we effeminate, 119 00:06:37,981 --> 00:06:40,275 they said we had no fashion sense... 120 00:06:40,358 --> 00:06:42,360 (gasps) 121 00:06:42,444 --> 00:06:44,112 ...which is kind of true. 122 00:06:44,863 --> 00:06:48,700 But then what happened was the Americans won a battle 123 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:52,579 and we pointed our bayonets at them and we made them dance 124 00:06:52,662 --> 00:06:56,374 and sing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" over and over and over again. 125 00:06:56,457 --> 00:06:59,210 And that's how it became an American song. 126 00:06:59,294 --> 00:07:01,296 Dandy revenge! 127 00:07:01,379 --> 00:07:03,214 (laughter and applause) 128 00:07:03,298 --> 00:07:06,176 (dramatic piano music playing) 129 00:07:06,217 --> 00:07:09,846 Taylor: Please welcome the Dandy Minions, all through the house. 130 00:07:09,888 --> 00:07:13,892 They're here to perform random acts of fabulousness. 131 00:07:13,975 --> 00:07:16,227 (music continues) 132 00:07:16,311 --> 00:07:19,564 Niegel Smith: Taylor was like, "Look, I'm looking for a co-director. 133 00:07:19,606 --> 00:07:22,734 "I'm working on a 24-hour performance art concert, 134 00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:25,278 which is a radical fairy realness ritual." (chuckles) 135 00:07:25,362 --> 00:07:27,572 It is a radical 136 00:07:27,614 --> 00:07:32,534 fairy realness ritual sacrifice! 137 00:07:32,577 --> 00:07:36,664 The gathering, the event, that is the ritual. 138 00:07:36,748 --> 00:07:40,710 The audience is the sacrifice. 139 00:07:41,169 --> 00:07:44,631 We didn't want to be the only ones dressed up this evening, 140 00:07:44,714 --> 00:07:47,467 so we brought some drag, and the dandies are going 141 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:49,969 to pass that drag out to you all right now. 142 00:07:50,053 --> 00:07:52,222 (excited cheering) 143 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:58,436 Niegel: It's a ritual that asks us to move closer 144 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:00,105 to our queerness, 145 00:08:00,188 --> 00:08:02,107 and to practice empathy, 146 00:08:02,190 --> 00:08:04,609 and most importantly, I think, practice joy 147 00:08:04,651 --> 00:08:06,111 and exuberance and maximalism. 148 00:08:06,194 --> 00:08:09,572 -Photographer: Hey, ready? -(disco music playing) 149 00:08:09,614 --> 00:08:11,825 -(crew laughing) -Machine Dazzle: Supermodel! 150 00:08:11,908 --> 00:08:13,910 Taylor: A lot of people would say, 151 00:08:13,952 --> 00:08:15,745 "Have you ever thought about making traditional work? 152 00:08:16,204 --> 00:08:20,125 I don't know, a-a kitchen sink drama with a couch?" 153 00:08:20,207 --> 00:08:23,128 And I always thought, well, the Ancient Greeks 154 00:08:23,169 --> 00:08:26,297 wore platform high-heel shoes when they would perform, 155 00:08:26,381 --> 00:08:28,299 and they had masks on, 156 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:32,386 and sometimes when I'm in my drag, I just feel classical. 157 00:08:32,470 --> 00:08:35,724 (disco music continues) 158 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:39,102 Taylor: The project started with the idea of making a show 159 00:08:39,144 --> 00:08:43,106 that was a, a metaphorical representation of the AIDS epidemic, 160 00:08:43,148 --> 00:08:46,317 specifically about how communities build themselves 161 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:48,445 because they're being torn apart. 162 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:54,826 Erin Hill (singing): ♪ Fare thee well ♪ 163 00:08:56,202 --> 00:09:01,583 ♪ My own true love ♪ 164 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,295 (cheering) 165 00:09:05,337 --> 00:09:06,504 ♪ Farewell ♪ 166 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:12,344 ♪ For a while ♪ 167 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:14,471 ♪ I'm going ♪ 168 00:09:14,512 --> 00:09:20,018 ♪ Away ♪ 169 00:09:20,101 --> 00:09:22,354 ♪ But I'll ♪ 170 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:27,734 ♪ Be back ♪ 171 00:09:27,817 --> 00:09:31,404 Taylor: We start with 24 musicians on stage, 172 00:09:31,488 --> 00:09:33,615 and then every hour we lose a musician. 173 00:09:33,698 --> 00:09:36,409 ♪ Can't you see ♪ 174 00:09:36,493 --> 00:09:38,411 ♪ Can't you see ♪ 175 00:09:38,495 --> 00:09:40,372 ♪ That lonesome dove ♪ 176 00:09:40,455 --> 00:09:42,040 ♪ That lonesome dove... ♪ 177 00:09:42,082 --> 00:09:43,750 Taylor: And at the start of the show, 178 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:45,752 we have all the sound, 179 00:09:45,835 --> 00:09:47,712 and slowly it diminishes, 180 00:09:47,754 --> 00:09:49,214 diminishes, diminishes. 181 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:52,467 Taylor and Erin: ♪ He's weeping for ♪ 182 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:54,552 ♪ His own true love ♪ 183 00:09:54,636 --> 00:09:58,556 The concept came from the AIDS epidemic, 184 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,184 that... 185 00:10:01,226 --> 00:10:06,523 you fall in love and then somebody's gone. 186 00:10:06,564 --> 00:10:11,403 ♪ Come he back ♪ 187 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:15,490 ♪ My own true love ♪ 188 00:10:15,573 --> 00:10:20,578 ♪ Come back and stay a while ♪ 189 00:10:20,662 --> 00:10:25,375 ♪ If I had a friend ♪ 190 00:10:25,417 --> 00:10:30,422 ♪ In all the earth ♪ 191 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:34,467 ♪ You've been ♪ 192 00:10:34,551 --> 00:10:39,097 ♪ A friend to me ♪ 193 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:41,391 Machine and I are going to change! 194 00:10:41,433 --> 00:10:44,102 Bring down the screen. 195 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:47,105 (horns blowing, choir vocalizing) 196 00:10:51,985 --> 00:10:54,279 Machine: When Taylor first came to me 197 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,782 and said we were gonna do this 24-decade show, 198 00:10:57,824 --> 00:10:59,284 I got totally inspired. 199 00:10:59,325 --> 00:11:02,120 I was like, "Oh, my God, I get to make 24, like, 200 00:11:02,203 --> 00:11:05,457 historical, like, period costumes, but my way." 201 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:07,459 So this is Crazy Jane. 202 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:08,793 She lives in a whisky barrel. 203 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:10,295 She has a toothbrush. 204 00:11:10,337 --> 00:11:11,713 She has her dildo. 205 00:11:11,796 --> 00:11:14,632 She has everything that she needs. She's crazy. 206 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:16,301 Taylor: I'd never tell Machine what to do. 207 00:11:16,343 --> 00:11:18,470 -Machine: You're crazy, girl. -Crazy, Crazy Jane. 208 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,931 Taylor: I'll say, "This is what the decade's about. 209 00:11:21,973 --> 00:11:28,313 I'm gonna sing songs that were popular in pubs in 1796." 210 00:11:28,396 --> 00:11:30,231 That's all I tell him, and then he's like, 211 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:32,567 "Okay, it's in pubs and they're pub songs." 212 00:11:32,609 --> 00:11:35,320 So then he makes me a headdress of corks... 213 00:11:35,403 --> 00:11:36,821 (laughs) ...right? 214 00:11:36,905 --> 00:11:38,990 Um, corks all popping-- he puts them on little things 215 00:11:39,032 --> 00:11:41,326 so it looks like they're popping out of my head. 216 00:11:41,409 --> 00:11:42,952 He's an artist. 217 00:11:42,994 --> 00:11:45,705 I'm not gonna tell an artist to change their art. 218 00:11:45,789 --> 00:11:48,165 -We're good. Thank you. -All right. 219 00:11:48,249 --> 00:11:50,585 Taylor: Whatever he gives me, I wear. 220 00:11:50,669 --> 00:11:53,171 (band playing risqué ballad) 221 00:12:02,055 --> 00:12:04,849 Taylor: We were drinkers, we were such big drinkers. 222 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:07,060 The pub was a community center. 223 00:12:07,143 --> 00:12:10,313 There wasn't clean water so we had to drink. 224 00:12:11,856 --> 00:12:15,110 We're gonna pass out some beer to the drinkers 225 00:12:15,193 --> 00:12:19,030 and ping-pong balls to the non-drinkers. 226 00:12:19,072 --> 00:12:23,201 The theater can be so uptight, and there's so many rules, and don't talk, 227 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:25,161 and don't express yourself from the audience, 228 00:12:25,203 --> 00:12:27,288 and it's-- you're just there to listen 229 00:12:27,372 --> 00:12:30,375 and to a-appropriately clap and, you know, 230 00:12:30,417 --> 00:12:32,669 appropriately laugh at the right places. 231 00:12:32,711 --> 00:12:36,715 And it was just saying, it's okay for you to be chaotic in this space. 232 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:39,009 (risqué music continues) 233 00:12:40,510 --> 00:12:43,054 Now, you're gonna negotiate with your partner 234 00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:45,348 which one of you during the next verse 235 00:12:45,390 --> 00:12:48,893 is gonna spit their ping-pong ball into the other person's mouth. 236 00:12:48,977 --> 00:12:50,729 (laughter, woman exclaims) 237 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:55,108 And, drinkers, just sit back and drink. 238 00:12:55,191 --> 00:12:57,569 (cheering) 239 00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:04,034 American Revolutionary War just happened. 240 00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:06,911 They've been living under the system of oppression. 241 00:13:06,953 --> 00:13:08,955 It's a little bit like a kid in high school's 242 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:11,332 living under the thumb of his parents, 243 00:13:11,416 --> 00:13:12,584 strict rules and stuff. 244 00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:15,754 Goes to college for the first time and what does he do? 245 00:13:15,837 --> 00:13:18,256 He turns America into a frat party. 246 00:13:20,592 --> 00:13:23,303 (gargling musically) 247 00:13:26,348 --> 00:13:29,434 -(crowd cheering) -("Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" begins playing) 248 00:13:29,476 --> 00:13:33,605 ♪ ...and I'll not ask for wine ♪ 249 00:13:33,688 --> 00:13:38,610 ♪ The thirst that from the soul doth rise... ♪ 250 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:41,738 I think a temperance choir just walked into our pub, 251 00:13:41,780 --> 00:13:43,823 and they're trying to ruin all our fun. 252 00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:47,952 ♪ I sent thee late a rosy wreath... ♪ 253 00:13:48,036 --> 00:13:50,622 Taylor: That decade is so much about 254 00:13:50,705 --> 00:13:52,457 my own life in the, in the club world 255 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:53,792 and coming from the theater. 256 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:56,044 (band playing "Crazy Jane") 257 00:14:00,215 --> 00:14:03,343 (cheering) 258 00:14:03,426 --> 00:14:05,553 Taylor: When I got out of acting school, 259 00:14:05,637 --> 00:14:08,223 I found that I couldn't even get an audition. 260 00:14:08,306 --> 00:14:11,976 And I said, "Okay, well, where can I go where they'll just 261 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:13,478 let anyone into the room?" 262 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,147 And it turned out it was the clubs in New York City. 263 00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:20,902 ♪ Why, fair maid in every feature ♪ 264 00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:26,658 ♪ There's such signs of fear express? ♪ 265 00:14:26,741 --> 00:14:29,160 ♪ Does this wandering ♪ 266 00:14:29,202 --> 00:14:30,870 ♪ Wretched creature ♪ 267 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,207 ♪ With such terror ♪ 268 00:14:34,290 --> 00:14:36,584 ♪ Fill thy breast? ♪ 269 00:14:36,668 --> 00:14:39,629 ♪ Do my brazen looks ♪ 270 00:14:39,671 --> 00:14:41,548 ♪ Alarm thee? ♪ 271 00:14:41,631 --> 00:14:43,091 ♪ Trust me, sweet ♪ 272 00:14:43,174 --> 00:14:45,844 ♪ Thy fears are vain ♪ 273 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:48,596 ♪ Not for kingdoms ♪ 274 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,182 ♪ Would I harm thee ♪ 275 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:56,980 ♪ Well, I'm not some Crazy Jane ♪ 276 00:14:57,022 --> 00:14:59,274 Taylor: I started showing up to the clubs, 277 00:14:59,357 --> 00:15:04,529 dressed up in my version of drag at the time, and... 278 00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:06,614 I'd say, "Can I do a number?" 279 00:15:06,656 --> 00:15:08,700 And they'd just, "Sure," you know. 280 00:15:08,742 --> 00:15:12,537 ♪ I'm Crazy Jane ♪ 281 00:15:12,579 --> 00:15:15,165 Taylor: I'm singing a song and somebody's giving somebody 282 00:15:15,206 --> 00:15:17,250 a blow job right there in the audience. 283 00:15:17,334 --> 00:15:20,211 So, I would learn these techniques on how 284 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:24,215 to steal back the... the story. (laughs) 285 00:15:24,299 --> 00:15:29,054 ♪ ♪ 286 00:15:33,808 --> 00:15:36,561 ♪ While each passerby ♪ 287 00:15:36,644 --> 00:15:38,730 ♪ In pity ♪ 288 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:40,857 ♪ Cries, "God help thee" ♪ 289 00:15:40,899 --> 00:15:43,735 ♪ "Crazy Jane" ♪ 290 00:15:43,818 --> 00:15:46,154 ♪ Cries, "God help thee" ♪ 291 00:15:46,237 --> 00:15:52,535 ♪ "Crazy Jane" ♪ 292 00:15:52,577 --> 00:15:54,537 (cheering) 293 00:15:54,579 --> 00:15:58,540 I cut my teeth in the clubs in New York City. 294 00:15:58,583 --> 00:16:01,294 The Cock, the Slide and the Hole, in that order. 295 00:16:01,378 --> 00:16:02,212 (laughter) 296 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:03,797 When you cut your teeth in the clubs 297 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,256 and then you try to work in the theater 298 00:16:05,340 --> 00:16:08,385 and stuff, ah, ah, it's a long road. 299 00:16:08,426 --> 00:16:11,304 I used to only get booked in, um, in theaters 300 00:16:11,388 --> 00:16:16,101 when there was a festival going on with a, a caveat in the title. 301 00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:19,145 I was at Yale performing one time 302 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:20,897 in a, in a festival there. 303 00:16:20,939 --> 00:16:23,942 They called it the "No Boundaries Festival." 304 00:16:24,025 --> 00:16:25,360 (laughter) 305 00:16:25,443 --> 00:16:29,864 Which made me really nervous because I have boundaries. 306 00:16:29,948 --> 00:16:32,784 (laughter and applause) 307 00:16:32,826 --> 00:16:35,078 One time at The Cock I saw a woman, 308 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,832 she pulled a chicken leg out of her vagina. 309 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:40,583 -She ate it... -(audience members gasp) 310 00:16:40,625 --> 00:16:42,919 ...and she threw it into the audience. 311 00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:44,671 (shocked laughter) 312 00:16:44,754 --> 00:16:47,048 Then... 313 00:16:47,132 --> 00:16:49,092 she pulled another chicken leg... 314 00:16:49,134 --> 00:16:50,552 (shocked laughter) 315 00:16:50,635 --> 00:16:52,679 ...out of her vagina. 316 00:16:52,762 --> 00:16:56,808 She ate it and she threw it into the audience. 317 00:16:56,891 --> 00:16:58,518 (groans and laughter) 318 00:16:59,394 --> 00:17:00,645 Then... 319 00:17:00,729 --> 00:17:02,355 (gasps and laughter) 320 00:17:02,439 --> 00:17:05,150 ...she pulled the rest of the chicken... 321 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:07,861 -(shocked laughter) -...I kid you not... 322 00:17:07,944 --> 00:17:10,405 ...out of her vagina. 323 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:14,576 She ate it and she threw it into the audience. 324 00:17:14,659 --> 00:17:16,202 (groans and laughter) 325 00:17:16,411 --> 00:17:19,830 And I thought two things when I saw that performance. 326 00:17:19,914 --> 00:17:22,208 Only two. 327 00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:27,464 The first thing I thought was, "She's full." 328 00:17:27,505 --> 00:17:28,840 (laughter) 329 00:17:28,882 --> 00:17:31,259 And the second thing I thought was, 330 00:17:31,343 --> 00:17:34,012 "She has no boundaries." 331 00:17:34,054 --> 00:17:36,181 Audience Member: Whoo! 332 00:17:36,264 --> 00:17:38,183 I actually thought three things. 333 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:39,517 The third thing was, "Taylor, 334 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:41,895 you're just putting on eyeliner." 335 00:17:41,978 --> 00:17:44,314 (laughter) 336 00:17:44,356 --> 00:17:49,194 Maybe you've noticed this isn't like a regular concert. 337 00:17:49,277 --> 00:17:52,197 I call this a performance art concert. 338 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,531 What does that mean? 339 00:17:53,615 --> 00:17:55,492 At a regular concert, if you don't laugh 340 00:17:55,533 --> 00:17:58,703 and enjoy every single moment, cry all in the right places, 341 00:17:58,787 --> 00:18:00,121 then the artist has failed you. 342 00:18:00,205 --> 00:18:02,207 But in a performance art concert, 343 00:18:02,248 --> 00:18:05,543 you can-- you can love it or you can hate it. 344 00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:07,087 You can be bored out of your mind. 345 00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:08,296 You can despise me. 346 00:18:08,380 --> 00:18:09,881 You can hate everything I'm asking you to do. 347 00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:14,052 You can be annoyed, and I still will have succeeded. 348 00:18:14,135 --> 00:18:17,305 (cheering) 349 00:18:17,389 --> 00:18:20,225 It is the genius of performance art, 350 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:22,477 there is no failure. 351 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,145 (cheering) 352 00:18:24,521 --> 00:18:30,568 Gold... The gold goes away... 353 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:31,444 just a little bit. 354 00:18:31,528 --> 00:18:33,697 Machine: This is a beautiful opulence, 355 00:18:33,738 --> 00:18:36,908 just for the sake of opulence, for the sake of beauty, 356 00:18:36,991 --> 00:18:40,078 for the sake of... 357 00:18:40,161 --> 00:18:41,663 effeminism. 358 00:18:42,956 --> 00:18:45,917 -And it's a reveal too. -It's a reveal, like when-- 359 00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:48,920 Because the audience has been blindfolded for an hour, 360 00:18:49,004 --> 00:18:52,257 so we want them to concentrate on their other senses for a while. 361 00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:54,342 There's multiple reasons, but one is because 362 00:18:54,426 --> 00:18:57,012 they've been staring at the stage for four hours. 363 00:18:57,095 --> 00:19:00,765 And I thought, let's let them focus on different senses. 364 00:19:00,807 --> 00:19:04,436 And I wanted this because the audience is blind, 365 00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:07,981 I wanted this to be the most beautiful, most opulent costume 366 00:19:08,064 --> 00:19:10,108 that they don't get to see during the show. 367 00:19:10,191 --> 00:19:11,985 Yeah. (laughs) 368 00:19:12,068 --> 00:19:13,945 That's what I love about it. 369 00:19:14,029 --> 00:19:16,239 (piano playing "Coal Black Rose") 370 00:19:19,784 --> 00:19:23,496 My job is to surprise the audience enough 371 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:25,915 that it can push them out of their patterns 372 00:19:25,957 --> 00:19:29,044 and, um, out of the current mood that they're in 373 00:19:29,127 --> 00:19:31,379 so that they're-- they continue to dig in 374 00:19:31,463 --> 00:19:33,673 and continue to consider. 375 00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:38,678 How can we get everybody to ask questions in the audience 376 00:19:38,762 --> 00:19:40,263 about the moment, 377 00:19:40,305 --> 00:19:44,184 rather than, "Ah, yes. I understand that moment"? 378 00:19:46,436 --> 00:19:48,355 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 379 00:19:48,438 --> 00:19:50,065 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 380 00:19:50,148 --> 00:19:51,858 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 381 00:19:51,941 --> 00:19:53,651 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 382 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:59,240 ♪ Plays on the banjo all night long ♪ 383 00:19:59,324 --> 00:20:03,953 ♪ Then she sings her Southern song ♪ 384 00:20:05,997 --> 00:20:07,499 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 385 00:20:07,582 --> 00:20:09,376 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 386 00:20:09,459 --> 00:20:11,211 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 387 00:20:11,294 --> 00:20:12,629 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 388 00:20:12,671 --> 00:20:14,339 ♪ Her bangles and her beads ♪ 389 00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:18,510 ♪ They jingle all night ♪ 390 00:20:18,593 --> 00:20:20,470 ♪ They never stop ♪ 391 00:20:20,512 --> 00:20:23,765 ♪ Till the morning light ♪ 392 00:20:24,683 --> 00:20:29,020 ♪ ♪ 393 00:20:29,104 --> 00:20:32,023 ♪ ♪ 394 00:20:32,107 --> 00:20:34,275 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 395 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,027 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 396 00:20:36,111 --> 00:20:37,862 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 397 00:20:37,946 --> 00:20:39,614 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 398 00:20:39,698 --> 00:20:45,370 ♪ One more round then heave her dry ♪ 399 00:20:45,412 --> 00:20:47,330 ♪ Come on, Jack Tout ♪ 400 00:20:47,372 --> 00:20:50,667 ♪ You're not that shy ♪ 401 00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:54,045 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 402 00:20:54,087 --> 00:20:55,338 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 403 00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:57,507 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 404 00:20:57,549 --> 00:20:59,342 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 405 00:20:59,384 --> 00:21:01,219 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 406 00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:03,054 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 407 00:21:03,096 --> 00:21:04,889 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 408 00:21:04,973 --> 00:21:06,891 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 409 00:21:06,933 --> 00:21:09,894 ♪ ♪ 410 00:21:09,978 --> 00:21:11,688 (song ends) 411 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:13,732 The-- Don't applaud that song. 412 00:21:13,815 --> 00:21:15,567 Don't applaud it, don't applaud it. 413 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:20,405 That is a sea shanty adaptation of the very first minstrel song. 414 00:21:21,031 --> 00:21:23,158 Um... 415 00:21:23,241 --> 00:21:24,743 (sighs) 416 00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:27,579 What is happening, and may-maybe you didn't hear the lyric, 417 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:31,750 uh, there's this lyric i-in the song called, ah, it goes, 418 00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:34,753 "One more round then heave her dry, 419 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,546 come on, Jack Tout, you're not that shy." 420 00:21:36,588 --> 00:21:38,965 And what is happening is the men on the boat, 421 00:21:39,049 --> 00:21:40,759 they are hoisting up a sail 422 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,053 and they're trying to build their community 423 00:21:43,094 --> 00:21:44,512 by hoisting up the sail together, 424 00:21:44,596 --> 00:21:46,848 with the idea that when they get their job done, 425 00:21:46,931 --> 00:21:50,935 they can go into town and gang rape a slave, 426 00:21:50,977 --> 00:21:53,229 a woman who is enslaved. 427 00:21:53,271 --> 00:21:54,647 (clicks tongue) 428 00:21:56,316 --> 00:21:57,609 (sighs) 429 00:21:57,942 --> 00:22:02,238 People love things that build communities, you know? 430 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,910 And they never want to get rid of anything that builds a community. 431 00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:08,787 But... 432 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:10,705 sometimes you have to acknowledge 433 00:22:10,789 --> 00:22:12,582 that the things that have built the community, 434 00:22:12,624 --> 00:22:16,211 um, the foundation for them is evil. 435 00:22:16,294 --> 00:22:18,630 And that it's not serving you 436 00:22:18,713 --> 00:22:21,007 and that you have to tear it down 437 00:22:21,091 --> 00:22:22,634 and start from scratch. 438 00:22:24,469 --> 00:22:27,138 You can take off your blindfolds now. 439 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:34,604 And these are the songs that are part of our DNA 440 00:22:34,646 --> 00:22:36,981 passed down through us all. 441 00:22:37,065 --> 00:22:41,069 We teach children these songs and they sing them. 442 00:22:41,152 --> 00:22:44,656 That's the foundation of, of our, our learning. 443 00:22:46,199 --> 00:22:52,414 ♪ A-B-C-D ♪ 444 00:22:52,497 --> 00:22:57,210 ♪ E-F-G ♪ 445 00:22:57,293 --> 00:23:01,172 I'd say, "What is this particular hour of the show going to be about?" 446 00:23:01,256 --> 00:23:05,427 and go and hunt for songs that were popular around the time. 447 00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:08,304 ♪ Now I know ♪ 448 00:23:08,346 --> 00:23:09,723 ♪ My ♪ 449 00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:14,269 ♪ ABCs ♪ 450 00:23:14,352 --> 00:23:17,230 (cheering and applause) 451 00:23:17,313 --> 00:23:21,484 (childlike voice) ♪ Next time won't you sing ♪ 452 00:23:21,526 --> 00:23:25,739 ♪ With me? ♪ 453 00:23:25,822 --> 00:23:28,700 (cheering) 454 00:23:28,783 --> 00:23:30,785 (applause) 455 00:23:30,869 --> 00:23:34,539 (flutes playing) 456 00:23:36,791 --> 00:23:41,796 In the Indian Removal Act, we're singing children's songs. 457 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,885 I wanted Taylor's look to have a playful element to it. 458 00:23:46,968 --> 00:23:50,722 So it's kind of in the likeness of a, like a nanny, 459 00:23:50,764 --> 00:23:53,058 a caretaker of the children, 460 00:23:53,099 --> 00:23:54,601 or it could be the mother. 461 00:23:55,226 --> 00:23:58,521 I wanted whimsy for the sake of the children, 462 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:03,360 but I wanted something disturbing and sad 463 00:24:03,401 --> 00:24:07,197 as a representation of the extermination 464 00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:09,074 of the Indians. 465 00:24:11,201 --> 00:24:13,745 Taylor: We tell the story of the Cherokee people 466 00:24:13,787 --> 00:24:15,789 who are on the Trail of Tears. 467 00:24:15,872 --> 00:24:17,957 Andrew Jackson had this agenda to get rid 468 00:24:18,041 --> 00:24:20,168 of all the Native Americans. He wanted genocide. 469 00:24:20,251 --> 00:24:23,755 Let's sing a bunch of children's songs on the Trail of Tears 470 00:24:23,797 --> 00:24:26,966 in order to distract you from what's going on. 471 00:24:27,050 --> 00:24:32,097 He forced the Cherokee to go on this trek from Georgia to Oklahoma. 472 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:33,765 And thousands died. 473 00:24:33,848 --> 00:24:35,266 (band plays "Rove Riley Rove") 474 00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:36,685 ♪ I went up on a mountain ♪ 475 00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:38,645 ♪ Gave my horn a blow ♪ 476 00:24:38,728 --> 00:24:40,605 ♪ I think I hear my one true love say ♪ 477 00:24:40,647 --> 00:24:42,857 ♪ "Yonder comes my beau" ♪ 478 00:24:42,941 --> 00:24:45,068 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 479 00:24:45,151 --> 00:24:46,861 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 480 00:24:46,945 --> 00:24:49,364 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 481 00:24:49,447 --> 00:24:51,574 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 482 00:24:51,616 --> 00:24:53,118 ♪ Mama gave me meat ♪ 483 00:24:53,159 --> 00:24:55,036 ♪ And the Christians give me bread ♪ 484 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,580 ♪ The pretty girl gave me a kiss ♪ 485 00:24:57,622 --> 00:25:00,125 ♪ It just about knocks me dead ♪ 486 00:25:00,208 --> 00:25:01,710 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 487 00:25:01,793 --> 00:25:03,712 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 488 00:25:03,795 --> 00:25:07,465 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy got nowhere to go ♪ 489 00:25:07,549 --> 00:25:10,218 ♪ An opossum is a pretty thing ♪ 490 00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:12,429 ♪ It rambles in the dark ♪ 491 00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:14,222 ♪ The only time you know he's 'round ♪ 492 00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:16,641 ♪ Is when you hear that Ranger bark ♪ 493 00:25:16,725 --> 00:25:18,685 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 494 00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:20,478 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 495 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,814 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 496 00:25:22,856 --> 00:25:24,649 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 497 00:25:24,733 --> 00:25:27,819 And I don't know if this lyric is about the Trail of Tears, 498 00:25:27,902 --> 00:25:30,530 but I do know they had to go from Georgia 499 00:25:30,613 --> 00:25:33,408 through Arkansas to get to Oklahoma. 500 00:25:33,491 --> 00:25:35,744 ♪ I went down to Georgia ♪ 501 00:25:35,827 --> 00:25:37,829 ♪ And what do you think I saw? ♪ 502 00:25:37,871 --> 00:25:39,998 ♪ A thousand feet pushing a cart ♪ 503 00:25:40,081 --> 00:25:42,500 ♪ All the way through Arkansas ♪ 504 00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:44,669 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 505 00:25:44,753 --> 00:25:46,796 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 506 00:25:46,838 --> 00:25:48,757 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 507 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,800 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 508 00:25:50,842 --> 00:25:54,804 (cheering and applause) 509 00:25:54,846 --> 00:25:56,806 Matt Ray: I came up as a jazz musician, 510 00:25:56,848 --> 00:26:00,685 and I brought some of those people into the 24-hour show, 511 00:26:00,727 --> 00:26:02,187 into Taylor's world. 512 00:26:02,854 --> 00:26:06,358 Taylor would send me a list of songs. 513 00:26:06,441 --> 00:26:09,694 "Here's 30 songs that happened in this ten-year period. 514 00:26:09,736 --> 00:26:11,946 Which of these songs are interesting?" 515 00:26:12,030 --> 00:26:14,366 And trying to storytell out of that. 516 00:26:14,783 --> 00:26:21,206 We're going to sing the oddest abolitionist song for you now ever written. 517 00:26:21,289 --> 00:26:26,378 ♪ Oh, the Black man's only made for work ♪ 518 00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:29,381 (laughter) 519 00:26:29,422 --> 00:26:32,759 ♪ The Southern people say ♪ 520 00:26:32,842 --> 00:26:35,720 ♪ But the Black man's very willing ♪ 521 00:26:35,804 --> 00:26:38,807 ♪ And he wants to have his pay ♪ 522 00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:41,226 ♪ So he swims across the river ♪ 523 00:26:41,267 --> 00:26:44,229 ♪ And he flies across the plain ♪ 524 00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:46,981 ♪ But the Northern people catch him ♪ 525 00:26:47,065 --> 00:26:49,859 ♪ And they place him back in chains ♪ 526 00:26:49,901 --> 00:26:51,611 Matt: What if we tried it in three-four time? 527 00:26:51,695 --> 00:26:53,905 What if we tried it as a ballad and then it gets fast? 528 00:26:53,988 --> 00:26:59,202 And it was always about trying to find out how we could exhume 529 00:26:59,244 --> 00:27:02,580 the meaning of the song, the deeper meaning of the song, 530 00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:04,916 and the lyrics be heard in a new way. 531 00:27:04,958 --> 00:27:08,253 (upbeat music playing "Ghost of Uncle Tom") 532 00:27:10,505 --> 00:27:14,342 ♪ Well, the Black man's only made for work ♪ 533 00:27:14,384 --> 00:27:17,012 ♪ The Southern people say ♪ 534 00:27:17,095 --> 00:27:20,140 ♪ And the Black man's very willing ♪ 535 00:27:20,223 --> 00:27:22,934 ♪ But he wants to have his pay ♪ 536 00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:26,604 ♪ So he swims across the river ♪ 537 00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:29,107 ♪ And he flies across the plain ♪ 538 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:32,861 ♪ And the Northern people catch him ♪ 539 00:27:32,944 --> 00:27:36,281 ♪ But they place him back in chains ♪ 540 00:27:36,364 --> 00:27:37,615 ♪ Knock knock knock ♪ 541 00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:38,992 ♪ ♪ 542 00:27:39,075 --> 00:27:42,704 ♪ When the hour of midnight comes ♪ 543 00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:45,498 ♪ Who's that a-knocking? ♪ 544 00:27:45,582 --> 00:27:48,001 ♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 545 00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:50,378 ♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 546 00:27:50,462 --> 00:27:53,548 -♪ Who is that knocking? ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 547 00:27:53,631 --> 00:27:56,676 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 548 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,804 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 549 00:27:59,888 --> 00:28:03,058 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 550 00:28:03,141 --> 00:28:05,018 ♪ He's always knocking ♪ 551 00:28:05,101 --> 00:28:08,980 Maybe you noticed, this is my subjective take on history. 552 00:28:09,064 --> 00:28:11,983 (laughter) 553 00:28:12,025 --> 00:28:16,404 I'm not really interested in the show being about history 554 00:28:16,488 --> 00:28:20,909 as much as I'm interested in it being about all of us in this room 555 00:28:20,992 --> 00:28:22,952 have a lot of history on our backs 556 00:28:22,994 --> 00:28:25,622 and we're trying to figure out what to do with it. 557 00:28:25,663 --> 00:28:27,832 (cheering) 558 00:28:31,294 --> 00:28:34,714 (smooth jazz playing) 559 00:28:34,798 --> 00:28:39,010 Machine: In this decade, we champion Walt Whitman 560 00:28:39,052 --> 00:28:42,555 adorned with gay male erotica, 561 00:28:42,639 --> 00:28:45,517 flowers and potato chip bags. 562 00:28:46,393 --> 00:28:48,978 The reason for the erotica is, Walt Whitman, 563 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:52,982 famous queer writer, also wrote erotica. 564 00:28:53,024 --> 00:28:55,568 The reason for the potato chip bags is, 565 00:28:55,652 --> 00:28:58,780 apparently potato chips were invented during that decade too. 566 00:28:58,863 --> 00:29:02,367 ♪ Weep no more, my ladies ♪ 567 00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:05,620 ♪ Weep no more today ♪ 568 00:29:05,704 --> 00:29:09,791 ♪ We will sing a song for the old Kentucky home ♪ 569 00:29:09,874 --> 00:29:11,376 ♪ For the old Kentucky home ♪ 570 00:29:11,459 --> 00:29:13,253 ♪ Far away ♪ 571 00:29:13,336 --> 00:29:16,798 ♪ Corn tops ripe on the little cabin floor ♪ 572 00:29:16,881 --> 00:29:20,343 ♪ All merry, all happy and bright ♪ 573 00:29:20,385 --> 00:29:23,930 ♪ The time has come when the darkies all must part ♪ 574 00:29:24,014 --> 00:29:27,767 (discordant music plays, fades) 575 00:29:27,851 --> 00:29:29,394 ♪ The time has come ♪ 576 00:29:29,477 --> 00:29:32,856 ♪ When the darkies all must part ♪ 577 00:29:32,897 --> 00:29:35,483 ♪ Oh, my old Kentucky home ♪ 578 00:29:35,567 --> 00:29:37,569 ♪ Good night ♪ 579 00:29:37,652 --> 00:29:42,157 This is the state song of Kentucky, 580 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,993 a minstrel song. 581 00:29:45,076 --> 00:29:49,914 And they didn't know that until the 1980s, 582 00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:53,668 so they changed the word "darkies" to "people." 583 00:29:53,752 --> 00:29:57,088 They couldn't get rid of the song. 584 00:29:57,172 --> 00:30:00,759 The song was written by Stephen Foster. 585 00:30:00,842 --> 00:30:04,471 He is considered the father of American song. 586 00:30:04,554 --> 00:30:08,141 And people say, "Oh, you can't be too hard on Stephen Foster, 587 00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:09,684 he was a product of his time," 588 00:30:09,768 --> 00:30:13,229 but other people were a product of Stephen Foster's time. 589 00:30:13,271 --> 00:30:16,274 You know, Sojourner Truth, uh, Frederick Douglass, 590 00:30:16,358 --> 00:30:19,235 and one of the great radicals of all time, 591 00:30:19,277 --> 00:30:23,490 so radical he's still radical to this very day, Walt Whitman. 592 00:30:23,573 --> 00:30:24,491 (audience cheers) 593 00:30:24,574 --> 00:30:27,535 Walt Whitman said that his poems were songs. 594 00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:31,706 So I think Walt Whitman should be the father of American song. 595 00:30:31,790 --> 00:30:32,957 (cheering) 596 00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:37,671 So what I thought we would do is to have an epic smackdown. 597 00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:40,507 -In this corner... -(band playing fanfare) 598 00:30:40,590 --> 00:30:45,470 ...the sentimentalist minstrel songwriting Stephen Foster. 599 00:30:45,512 --> 00:30:47,180 In this corner, 600 00:30:47,263 --> 00:30:50,850 the self-proclaimed no-sentimentalist, 601 00:30:50,934 --> 00:30:53,478 radical fairy poet Walt Whitman. 602 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:58,191 Who will win the title of father of American song? 603 00:30:58,274 --> 00:31:00,777 -You decide. -(fanfare ends) 604 00:31:00,819 --> 00:31:02,946 -(cheering) -All right. 605 00:31:02,987 --> 00:31:06,991 You, sir, with the scarf and the popcorn right there? 606 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:08,827 Yeah. Come up here. Come up here. 607 00:31:08,868 --> 00:31:11,996 Gorgeous. You're going to be Stephen Foster. 608 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,832 I'm gonna play Walt Whitman. 609 00:31:13,873 --> 00:31:15,959 But I'm gonna sing your songs 610 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:17,711 'cause you don't know them, okay? 611 00:31:17,794 --> 00:31:19,170 Stephen Foster. 612 00:31:19,212 --> 00:31:22,549 ♪ The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home ♪ 613 00:31:22,632 --> 00:31:26,261 ♪ The young folks, they're rolling on the floor ♪ 614 00:31:26,344 --> 00:31:29,681 ♪ We will sing a song for our old Kentucky home ♪ 615 00:31:29,723 --> 00:31:33,184 ♪ Keep those hard times away from my door ♪ 616 00:31:34,936 --> 00:31:36,187 Walt Whitman. 617 00:31:36,271 --> 00:31:41,026 "Native moments when you come upon me... 618 00:31:41,067 --> 00:31:43,194 "Oh, you're here now. 619 00:31:43,278 --> 00:31:46,865 "Give me now libidinous joys only. 620 00:31:46,948 --> 00:31:49,367 "Give me life, coarse and rank. 621 00:31:49,409 --> 00:31:51,536 "Give me the drench of my passions. 622 00:31:51,578 --> 00:31:53,705 "Today, I consort with nature's darlings. 623 00:31:53,788 --> 00:31:58,877 "Tonight, too, I am for those who believe in loose delights. 624 00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:03,131 I share the midnight orgies of young men." 625 00:32:03,214 --> 00:32:04,841 -(cheering) -Ah. 626 00:32:04,883 --> 00:32:06,509 And the historians will all tell you 627 00:32:06,551 --> 00:32:08,470 "orgy" meant "party" back then, you know? 628 00:32:08,553 --> 00:32:10,805 They do, do whatever they can to convince you that no-- 629 00:32:10,889 --> 00:32:12,057 there was no queerness. You know, they, 630 00:32:12,098 --> 00:32:13,975 "Orgy meant party back then." 631 00:32:14,059 --> 00:32:15,518 No! It meant orgy. 632 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:16,936 (laughter) 633 00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:18,396 "No, it meant party." 634 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,690 Yes, but what happens at a party, right? 635 00:32:20,732 --> 00:32:23,234 A drinky-drinky, a smokey-smokey, and pretty soon... 636 00:32:23,318 --> 00:32:24,486 (gurgling) 637 00:32:24,569 --> 00:32:27,989 -(laughter) -Audience Member 1: Whoo! 638 00:32:28,073 --> 00:32:30,116 At least that's been my experience. 639 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,576 Audience Member 2: Whoo! 640 00:32:31,618 --> 00:32:32,994 Stephen Foster. 641 00:32:33,078 --> 00:32:36,164 (band playing "Camptown Ladies") 642 00:32:36,247 --> 00:32:38,166 ♪ Camptown ladies sing that song ♪ 643 00:32:38,249 --> 00:32:39,709 ♪ Doo-dah! Doo-dah! ♪ 644 00:32:39,751 --> 00:32:41,586 ♪ Camptown racetrack five miles long ♪ 645 00:32:41,670 --> 00:32:42,962 ♪ All the doo-dah day! ♪ 646 00:32:43,046 --> 00:32:45,048 ♪ Gonna run all night! ♪ 647 00:32:45,090 --> 00:32:46,591 ♪ Gonna run all day! ♪ 648 00:32:46,675 --> 00:32:48,718 ♪ I'll bet my money on a bob-tail nag ♪ 649 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,762 ♪ Somebody bet on the bay! ♪ 650 00:32:50,845 --> 00:32:52,013 Walt Whitman. 651 00:32:52,097 --> 00:32:55,183 "Listen. I will be honest with you. 652 00:32:55,266 --> 00:32:58,603 "I do not offer old, smooth prizes 653 00:32:58,687 --> 00:33:00,980 but offer rough, new prizes." 654 00:33:01,064 --> 00:33:03,900 I love that. That's how I feel about my art. 655 00:33:03,942 --> 00:33:06,736 I don't offer you old, old smooth prizes. 656 00:33:06,778 --> 00:33:08,279 I offer you rough, new prizes. 657 00:33:08,321 --> 00:33:10,990 If you came to this show expecting a polished show, 658 00:33:11,074 --> 00:33:12,909 you came to the wrong show girl. 659 00:33:12,951 --> 00:33:14,452 (cheering) 660 00:33:14,494 --> 00:33:18,540 Yeah. And you came to the wrong show comma girl. 661 00:33:18,623 --> 00:33:20,625 -(laughter) -But Stephen Foster says, 662 00:33:20,709 --> 00:33:25,171 "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute." 663 00:33:25,255 --> 00:33:27,799 -(mouthing words) -Uh, w-w-wait a minute. 664 00:33:27,841 --> 00:33:32,387 (laughter and applause) 665 00:33:32,470 --> 00:33:34,848 "This epic smackdown is rigged." 666 00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:38,435 This epic smackdown is rigged! 667 00:33:38,476 --> 00:33:39,769 (laughs) 668 00:33:39,811 --> 00:33:42,272 What else would I say? 669 00:33:42,313 --> 00:33:43,773 Amazing. 670 00:33:43,815 --> 00:33:47,110 "Everybody knows I'm the father of American song." 671 00:33:47,152 --> 00:33:50,530 (laughing) Everybody knows I'm the father... 672 00:33:50,613 --> 00:33:51,948 (audience laughing) 673 00:33:51,990 --> 00:33:53,992 ...of American song. 674 00:33:54,034 --> 00:33:56,077 -"And to prove it..." -And to prove it... 675 00:33:56,161 --> 00:33:57,829 "...I'm gonna release my secret weapon." 676 00:33:57,912 --> 00:34:00,623 ...I'm gonna release my secret weapon. 677 00:34:00,665 --> 00:34:02,000 (laughter) 678 00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:03,835 "A song so insidious..." 679 00:34:03,918 --> 00:34:05,295 A song so... 680 00:34:05,337 --> 00:34:07,839 -"Insidious." -...insidious... (laughs) 681 00:34:07,881 --> 00:34:10,382 -"...the minute you hear it..." -...the minute you hear it... 682 00:34:10,467 --> 00:34:12,260 "...you're not gonna get it out of your head." 683 00:34:12,344 --> 00:34:14,471 ...you're not gonna get it out of your head. 684 00:34:14,512 --> 00:34:17,014 "You're gonna go home and you're gonna try to sleep, but you're not gonna be able to sleep 685 00:34:17,056 --> 00:34:19,976 because it's gonna go around and around in your head on an endless loop 686 00:34:20,018 --> 00:34:22,687 until you go mad, I tell you, mad!" 687 00:34:26,024 --> 00:34:27,692 (laughing) 688 00:34:27,734 --> 00:34:29,069 Uh... (chuckles) 689 00:34:29,152 --> 00:34:31,862 English was my second language. 690 00:34:31,946 --> 00:34:34,532 (laughter and applause) 691 00:34:47,212 --> 00:34:48,922 (Taylor humming) 692 00:34:49,005 --> 00:34:52,926 Machine: You know, all the school bands' marching uniforms, 693 00:34:53,009 --> 00:34:54,969 they're all actually modeled 694 00:34:55,053 --> 00:34:58,848 off of the Civil War soldier outfits. 695 00:34:58,890 --> 00:35:01,851 And I read somewhere that hotdogs 696 00:35:01,893 --> 00:35:04,688 were invented during this time from German immigrants, 697 00:35:04,729 --> 00:35:07,982 selling their sausages inside of buns on the street. 698 00:35:08,525 --> 00:35:12,070 Is it blood or is it ketchup? You get to decide. 699 00:35:12,153 --> 00:35:14,781 Hot dogs. Hot dog! 700 00:35:14,864 --> 00:35:18,410 -Spins! We like spins! -(show music playing) 701 00:35:18,451 --> 00:35:20,495 Taylor: It's drag as metaphor 702 00:35:20,578 --> 00:35:23,289 as opposed to drag as impersonation. 703 00:35:23,373 --> 00:35:26,543 I'm never trying to look like Marlene Dietrich. 704 00:35:26,584 --> 00:35:30,588 It's a metaphor for an idea or a specific time. 705 00:35:30,672 --> 00:35:34,009 It's the Civil War, and I'm gonna divide you in half. 706 00:35:34,092 --> 00:35:38,096 This side of the audience, you're going to be the Union soldiers. 707 00:35:38,138 --> 00:35:41,474 -(cheering) -This side of the audience, 708 00:35:41,558 --> 00:35:44,185 you are going to be the Confederate soldiers. 709 00:35:44,269 --> 00:35:47,439 -(booing) -It's not personal. 710 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,524 I don't know you. You're not playing you. 711 00:35:49,607 --> 00:35:53,069 You're playing the part I assign you. 712 00:35:53,111 --> 00:35:56,573 Now, everybody stand. Everybody, everybody. 713 00:35:56,614 --> 00:35:59,325 We're going to have our very first battle. 714 00:35:59,409 --> 00:36:02,954 This one is gonna be a slow-motion fight. 715 00:36:03,038 --> 00:36:06,291 And you're gonna slow-motion fight with each other, people around you. 716 00:36:06,332 --> 00:36:10,420 And I want it dirty: I want it like g-groin punches 717 00:36:10,462 --> 00:36:13,965 and kicks and strangulation and asshole slaps. 718 00:36:14,049 --> 00:36:17,010 I don't like calling them "bitch slaps," asshole slaps. 719 00:36:17,093 --> 00:36:22,140 Just make it dirty and disgusting and cruel in slow motion. 720 00:36:22,182 --> 00:36:26,227 It's gonna go on a lot longer than you're gonna want it to. 721 00:36:26,311 --> 00:36:28,229 (band playing "The Fall of Charleston") 722 00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:39,824 ♪ With a whack, rowdy-dow ♪ 723 00:36:39,908 --> 00:36:42,494 ♪ A hunky boy is a Yankee soldier ♪ 724 00:36:42,577 --> 00:36:44,829 ♪ Whack, rowdy-dow ♪ 725 00:36:44,913 --> 00:36:47,832 ♪ Invincible is he! ♪ 726 00:36:47,916 --> 00:36:49,959 (rollicking jazz playing) 727 00:37:00,011 --> 00:37:01,346 (music slows) 728 00:37:01,388 --> 00:37:06,685 (elongated) Keeeeep going in sloooow motion. 729 00:37:06,768 --> 00:37:13,692 I'm gonna kick you dirty Confederate soldierssssss. 730 00:37:13,733 --> 00:37:18,321 I'm gonna punch you in the faaaaaace. 731 00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:23,243 I'm gonna strangle youuuu... 732 00:37:23,326 --> 00:37:25,120 Taylor: I'm interested in what happens 733 00:37:25,203 --> 00:37:28,039 when the audience has to make a commitment to something. 734 00:37:28,081 --> 00:37:31,042 (contemplative piano music playing) 735 00:37:36,589 --> 00:37:38,967 Taylor: It stops being just a party game. 736 00:37:39,050 --> 00:37:42,137 It becomes something, um... 737 00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:45,056 something deeper. 738 00:37:45,098 --> 00:37:47,267 (contemplative music continues) 739 00:37:52,522 --> 00:37:56,192 Six hundred thousand people died in the Civil War. 740 00:37:56,234 --> 00:38:00,405 Representing one of those 600,000 741 00:38:00,488 --> 00:38:02,782 is our mandolin player, Ethan. 742 00:38:02,866 --> 00:38:04,075 Come on down, Ethan. 743 00:38:04,117 --> 00:38:07,454 Every hour we lose a musician. 744 00:38:10,915 --> 00:38:14,252 ♪ The old church bell will peal with joy ♪ 745 00:38:14,294 --> 00:38:18,590 ♪ Hurrah, hurrah! ♪ 746 00:38:18,631 --> 00:38:22,177 ♪ To welcome home our darling boy ♪ 747 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:25,930 ♪ Hurrah, hurrah! ♪ 748 00:38:25,972 --> 00:38:29,893 ♪ The village lads and lassies say ♪ 749 00:38:29,934 --> 00:38:34,064 ♪ With roses they all stray away ♪ 750 00:38:34,105 --> 00:38:37,359 ♪ And we'll all feel gay ♪ 751 00:38:37,442 --> 00:38:42,447 ♪ When Johnny comes marching home ♪ 752 00:38:46,451 --> 00:38:48,953 We lost Johnny in the war. 753 00:38:52,457 --> 00:38:55,418 So Mother, after the war, 754 00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:56,544 wants to have 755 00:38:56,628 --> 00:38:58,004 a big family dinner. 756 00:38:58,088 --> 00:39:01,341 She wants us all to be together and enjoy ourselves, 757 00:39:01,424 --> 00:39:06,304 so this is Reconstruction, which means dinner. 758 00:39:06,388 --> 00:39:08,473 (laughter) 759 00:39:08,556 --> 00:39:10,308 So, um, I want you guys 760 00:39:10,350 --> 00:39:12,686 to jam out a little bit 'cause I'm gonna go pee. 761 00:39:12,769 --> 00:39:15,480 (playing "Down by the Riverside") 762 00:39:23,446 --> 00:39:26,157 ♪ Oh, I'm gonna lay down ♪ 763 00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:28,284 ♪ My sword and shield ♪ 764 00:39:28,326 --> 00:39:31,329 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 765 00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:34,416 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 766 00:39:34,499 --> 00:39:36,543 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 767 00:39:36,626 --> 00:39:38,628 ♪ I'm gonna lay down ♪ 768 00:39:38,670 --> 00:39:40,338 ♪ My sword and shield ♪ 769 00:39:40,422 --> 00:39:43,008 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 770 00:39:43,091 --> 00:39:48,847 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 771 00:39:50,682 --> 00:39:53,935 Other inventions of this time were the toilet paper rolls, 772 00:39:54,019 --> 00:39:55,979 so I have these empty toilet paper rolls, 773 00:39:56,021 --> 00:39:58,314 but also dynamite is another invention of the time. 774 00:39:58,356 --> 00:40:02,360 So I thought that was kind of a nice combination, toilet paper and dynamite. 775 00:40:02,402 --> 00:40:05,071 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 776 00:40:05,155 --> 00:40:08,241 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 777 00:40:08,324 --> 00:40:12,620 ♪ Oh, yeah, I don't want to, you can't make me ♪ 778 00:40:12,704 --> 00:40:14,914 -♪ Whoa-oh-oh ♪ -♪ No-oh-oh ♪ 779 00:40:14,998 --> 00:40:17,917 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 780 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:21,463 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 781 00:40:21,546 --> 00:40:25,216 ♪ Oh, yeah, I ain't gonna study war ♪ 782 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:28,553 ♪ No more ♪ 783 00:40:28,595 --> 00:40:30,847 (tempo increases, syncopation added) 784 00:40:38,772 --> 00:40:41,858 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 785 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:45,320 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 786 00:40:45,362 --> 00:40:50,075 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 787 00:40:50,116 --> 00:40:52,744 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 788 00:40:52,827 --> 00:40:56,581 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 789 00:40:56,623 --> 00:41:00,585 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 790 00:41:00,627 --> 00:41:03,963 (jazzy finish, tempo slowing) 791 00:41:05,090 --> 00:41:10,428 ♪ Yeah-eah ♪ 792 00:41:10,512 --> 00:41:12,806 (cheering and applause) 793 00:41:12,889 --> 00:41:15,767 Taylor: We bring out all these tables and we do 794 00:41:15,809 --> 00:41:18,353 a dinner theater production of the Mikado. 795 00:41:18,436 --> 00:41:20,355 (electronic music playing) 796 00:41:20,438 --> 00:41:22,524 We call it the Marskado. 797 00:41:22,607 --> 00:41:26,361 (lilting music, nasal horns blowing) 798 00:41:26,444 --> 00:41:28,947 (nasal voices) 799 00:41:37,831 --> 00:41:40,458 Niegel: The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, 800 00:41:40,542 --> 00:41:42,168 popular music. 801 00:41:42,252 --> 00:41:44,087 Deeply problematic. (chuckles) 802 00:41:44,129 --> 00:41:48,466 Uh, because the history of English and white folks 803 00:41:48,508 --> 00:41:49,718 putting on yellow face, 804 00:41:49,801 --> 00:41:52,595 putting on a culture that is not theirs, 805 00:41:52,637 --> 00:41:56,725 uh, in-in order to tell a story about themselves. 806 00:41:56,766 --> 00:41:57,475 What? 807 00:41:57,517 --> 00:41:59,978 And so we couldn't do that. 808 00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:03,398 And I said, "Well, what's something that we could put on?" 809 00:42:03,481 --> 00:42:04,983 So we went to Mars. 810 00:42:05,025 --> 00:42:08,361 Now, on Mars, in this strange coinky-dink 811 00:42:08,445 --> 00:42:10,447 that mirrors the Gilded Age in America, 812 00:42:10,488 --> 00:42:16,828 two percent of the population owned about 40% of the entire wealth of the nation, 813 00:42:16,911 --> 00:42:20,081 and 40% of the country had zero wealth. 814 00:42:20,498 --> 00:42:22,167 (in nasal distorted voice) 815 00:42:40,727 --> 00:42:42,020 (audience laughs) 816 00:42:42,062 --> 00:42:45,357 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 817 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:46,816 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 818 00:42:46,858 --> 00:42:48,526 Just do that over and over. 819 00:42:48,568 --> 00:42:52,197 (high-pitched nasal voice) ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 820 00:42:52,238 --> 00:42:53,323 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 821 00:42:55,492 --> 00:42:57,494 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 822 00:42:57,535 --> 00:43:01,247 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 823 00:43:01,331 --> 00:43:02,374 (audience laughs) 824 00:43:02,415 --> 00:43:04,376 (chuckles) ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 825 00:43:04,417 --> 00:43:07,587 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow... ♪ 826 00:43:07,671 --> 00:43:10,215 (audience laughing) 827 00:43:13,093 --> 00:43:16,388 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 828 00:43:16,471 --> 00:43:17,972 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 829 00:43:20,350 --> 00:43:23,520 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 830 00:43:23,561 --> 00:43:25,897 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 831 00:43:30,276 --> 00:43:32,237 (laughter) 832 00:43:33,029 --> 00:43:35,365 (lower pitch, slower) ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 833 00:43:35,407 --> 00:43:39,244 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 834 00:43:51,798 --> 00:43:56,177 (softly) ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 835 00:43:56,261 --> 00:43:58,221 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 836 00:44:01,725 --> 00:44:04,352 (laughter and applause) 837 00:44:11,234 --> 00:44:12,944 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 838 00:44:12,986 --> 00:44:17,323 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 839 00:44:25,874 --> 00:44:29,127 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 840 00:44:29,210 --> 00:44:31,296 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 841 00:44:42,182 --> 00:44:44,976 Together: ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 842 00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:50,190 ♪ Tit-willow... ♪ 843 00:44:50,273 --> 00:44:55,403 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 844 00:44:55,487 --> 00:44:57,364 (cheering and applause) 845 00:45:02,744 --> 00:45:06,498 Well, let me tell ya, dinner's over. 846 00:45:06,539 --> 00:45:10,335 (bluesy jazz playing) 847 00:45:10,377 --> 00:45:13,338 Anastasia Durasova: The makeup kind of takes over. 848 00:45:13,421 --> 00:45:16,758 There is, uh, less control, through the movement, 849 00:45:16,841 --> 00:45:18,927 through the sweat, through the tears. 850 00:45:19,010 --> 00:45:21,179 -(both laughing) -It transforms itself, 851 00:45:21,262 --> 00:45:23,890 uh, without my control, at least. 852 00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:30,397 Taylor: Well, it was part of the concept of the drag in the beginning was, 853 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,148 it's never homogenous. 854 00:45:32,190 --> 00:45:35,026 You can't really say that, that it's one thing. 855 00:45:35,068 --> 00:45:38,405 It's, it's giving you masculine and femininity at the same time. 856 00:45:38,488 --> 00:45:42,492 It's, um, giving you mess and order at the same time 857 00:45:42,534 --> 00:45:44,911 and beauty and, um... 858 00:45:44,994 --> 00:45:48,081 and just real grotesquery... 859 00:45:48,164 --> 00:45:50,959 (laughs) ...all happening at the same time. 860 00:45:51,042 --> 00:45:54,379 We have never done more than 12 decades before. 861 00:45:54,462 --> 00:45:56,047 Whew! 862 00:45:56,131 --> 00:45:59,759 -(chuckles) -(band playing bluesy jazz) 863 00:45:59,843 --> 00:46:03,013 So we are about to venture 864 00:46:03,054 --> 00:46:05,724 into uncharted territory. 865 00:46:05,765 --> 00:46:07,600 (cheering) 866 00:46:07,684 --> 00:46:12,772 ♪ ♪ 867 00:46:12,856 --> 00:46:17,110 ♪ ♪ 868 00:46:17,193 --> 00:46:20,071 -(music stops) -Taylor: Part of the art was that the audience 869 00:46:20,155 --> 00:46:23,241 would be with us for 24 hours as well. 870 00:46:23,992 --> 00:46:27,412 Most of the profound experiences in my life have happened 871 00:46:27,495 --> 00:46:32,083 as a result of giving more time to the, to the event, 872 00:46:32,125 --> 00:46:36,755 or, um, or the art, or, I mean, weddings... 873 00:46:36,796 --> 00:46:38,256 that last all day long. 874 00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:40,884 You know, those are things that you remember. 875 00:46:40,925 --> 00:46:44,262 Um, uh, trips to various places 876 00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:47,849 last weeks, or at least a few days. 877 00:46:47,932 --> 00:46:50,310 So these are things that you're welcoming in 878 00:46:50,393 --> 00:46:53,063 a certain amount of surprise and a, a different way 879 00:46:53,104 --> 00:46:55,940 of looking at the world, uh, when you, 880 00:46:55,982 --> 00:46:58,401 uh, when you commit to them. So I just want, 881 00:46:58,443 --> 00:47:01,071 I've always wanted theater to kind of do the same thing. 882 00:47:01,112 --> 00:47:03,239 (martial music playing) 883 00:47:03,281 --> 00:47:05,033 It's World War I. 884 00:47:05,116 --> 00:47:07,285 (band playing "Keep the Home Fires Burning") 885 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,333 ♪ They were summoned from the hillside ♪ 886 00:47:13,416 --> 00:47:17,295 ♪ They were called in from the glen ♪ 887 00:47:17,379 --> 00:47:21,841 ♪ And the country found them ready ♪ 888 00:47:21,925 --> 00:47:24,636 ♪ At the stirring call ♪ 889 00:47:24,678 --> 00:47:29,099 ♪ For men ♪ 890 00:47:29,140 --> 00:47:33,311 ♪ There's a silver lining ♪ 891 00:47:33,395 --> 00:47:37,816 ♪ In the dark clouds shining ♪ 892 00:47:37,857 --> 00:47:41,611 ♪ Turn the dark cloud inside out ♪ 893 00:47:41,653 --> 00:47:45,782 ♪ Till the boys come home ♪ 894 00:47:45,824 --> 00:47:47,325 (drums tattooing) 895 00:47:47,367 --> 00:47:50,620 All the women in the audience, self-proclaimed women, 896 00:47:50,662 --> 00:47:52,539 I would like you to sing this song. 897 00:47:52,622 --> 00:47:54,833 We have the lyrics. 898 00:47:54,916 --> 00:47:59,045 ♪ Keep the home fires ♪ 899 00:47:59,129 --> 00:48:01,923 ♪ Burning ♪ 900 00:48:02,007 --> 00:48:07,929 ♪ While your hearts are yearning ♪ 901 00:48:08,013 --> 00:48:13,518 ♪ Though your lads are far away ♪ 902 00:48:13,601 --> 00:48:19,691 ♪ They dream of home ♪ 903 00:48:19,733 --> 00:48:25,655 ♪ There's a silver lining ♪ 904 00:48:25,697 --> 00:48:31,911 ♪ In the dark clouds shining ♪ 905 00:48:31,995 --> 00:48:37,667 ♪ Turn the dark cloud inside out ♪ 906 00:48:37,709 --> 00:48:42,547 ♪ Till the boys come home ♪ 907 00:48:42,630 --> 00:48:46,968 -(cheering) -(band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again") 908 00:48:47,052 --> 00:48:50,388 ♪ Happy days are here again ♪ 909 00:48:50,430 --> 00:48:53,224 ♪ The skies above are clear again ♪ 910 00:48:53,266 --> 00:48:56,895 ♪ So let's sing a song of cheer again ♪ 911 00:48:56,978 --> 00:49:00,023 ♪ Happy days are here again ♪ 912 00:49:00,106 --> 00:49:04,819 This song is like a person at a party trying to force their fun on you. 913 00:49:04,903 --> 00:49:06,654 (laughter) 914 00:49:06,696 --> 00:49:09,574 Sixteen and a half million people 915 00:49:09,657 --> 00:49:11,451 died in World War I, 916 00:49:11,534 --> 00:49:13,828 and people are singing a song called 917 00:49:13,912 --> 00:49:15,872 "Happy Days Are Here Again." 918 00:49:15,914 --> 00:49:18,792 Here we go! ♪ Happy days... ♪ 919 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:21,461 (song continues, muted) 920 00:49:21,544 --> 00:49:24,339 ♪ ...the skies above are clear again ♪ 921 00:49:24,422 --> 00:49:27,676 ♪ So let's sing a song... ♪ 922 00:49:27,759 --> 00:49:30,053 (piano playing boogie-woogie) 923 00:49:36,351 --> 00:49:40,605 Everybody who is over 60, stand please. 924 00:49:40,647 --> 00:49:43,608 (cheering) 925 00:49:43,650 --> 00:49:46,945 Is anyone over 80? 926 00:49:47,195 --> 00:49:49,406 (cheering louder) 927 00:49:49,447 --> 00:49:52,242 Come to the stage. 928 00:49:53,284 --> 00:49:57,580 Raise your hand if you're under... 929 00:49:57,622 --> 00:49:59,624 20. 930 00:49:59,666 --> 00:50:01,710 Great, come up on stage. 931 00:50:01,793 --> 00:50:05,130 (cheering) 932 00:50:05,213 --> 00:50:11,469 You are going to teach this person how to dance. 933 00:50:11,511 --> 00:50:15,807 She's gonna copy everything you do, okay? 934 00:50:15,849 --> 00:50:18,560 All right? Ready? 935 00:50:18,643 --> 00:50:20,395 Here we go. 936 00:50:20,478 --> 00:50:22,814 ♪ The old folks are doing it ♪ 937 00:50:22,897 --> 00:50:24,899 ♪ The young folk too ♪ 938 00:50:24,983 --> 00:50:30,196 ♪ But the old folks teach the young ones what to do ♪ 939 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,407 ♪ They shake that thing ♪ 940 00:50:34,242 --> 00:50:37,662 ♪ Oh, they shake that thing ♪ 941 00:50:39,497 --> 00:50:41,958 ♪ They're getting sick and tired ♪ 942 00:50:42,042 --> 00:50:46,129 ♪ Of telling you to shake your thing ♪ 943 00:50:46,171 --> 00:50:47,839 Oh, my God, yes. 944 00:50:47,922 --> 00:50:49,299 Oh, my God. 945 00:50:49,341 --> 00:50:53,970 -Wow, okay. -(audience cheering) 946 00:50:54,012 --> 00:50:57,265 So everyone over 50, stand up. 947 00:50:57,349 --> 00:50:58,933 Everyone over 50? Okay. 948 00:50:59,017 --> 00:51:03,980 Now, everybody who is sitting, clock someone who's standing, 949 00:51:04,022 --> 00:51:09,319 and in this next musical section, you're going to copy their moves. 950 00:51:09,361 --> 00:51:11,988 Now, we live in an ageist culture, 951 00:51:12,030 --> 00:51:15,867 so if you don't actually look at the person and try to do what they're doing, 952 00:51:15,950 --> 00:51:18,495 you're being ageist, all right? 953 00:51:18,536 --> 00:51:20,538 And here we go! 954 00:51:20,622 --> 00:51:25,043 ♪ Well, Grandpapa Johnson, he grabs sister Kate ♪ 955 00:51:25,085 --> 00:51:29,881 ♪ And he shook her just like you shake jelly on a plate ♪ 956 00:51:29,964 --> 00:51:32,592 ♪ He shook that thing ♪ 957 00:51:34,761 --> 00:51:37,389 ♪ He shook that thing ♪ 958 00:51:39,641 --> 00:51:42,227 ♪ He's getting sick and tired ♪ 959 00:51:42,268 --> 00:51:45,730 ♪ Of telling you to shake your thing ♪ 960 00:51:49,359 --> 00:51:51,069 ♪ With music like this ♪ 961 00:51:51,111 --> 00:51:55,573 ♪ Why wouldn't you wanna shake ♪ 962 00:51:55,657 --> 00:51:58,743 ♪ Your thing? ♪ 963 00:51:58,827 --> 00:52:04,082 (band playing dramatic finish) 964 00:52:04,124 --> 00:52:06,418 (cheering and applause fades) 965 00:52:09,546 --> 00:52:11,339 Yeah. Gooey. 966 00:52:11,423 --> 00:52:15,760 -Yes, gooey good. -(snarling) Yeah, yeah... 967 00:52:23,268 --> 00:52:25,311 Taylor: It's the Great Depression, 968 00:52:25,395 --> 00:52:27,147 and one of the ways 969 00:52:27,230 --> 00:52:30,233 we survive poverty-induced depression 970 00:52:30,275 --> 00:52:35,280 is just to get together and admit that it's happening. 971 00:52:35,321 --> 00:52:38,033 (playing "I Ain't Got No Home/ Dust Won't Kill Me") 972 00:52:38,116 --> 00:52:40,535 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 973 00:52:40,618 --> 00:52:44,205 ♪ I'm just a-wanderin' 'round ♪ 974 00:52:44,289 --> 00:52:46,416 ♪ I'm a wanderin' worker ♪ 975 00:52:46,458 --> 00:52:50,295 ♪ And I go from town to town ♪ 976 00:52:50,378 --> 00:52:52,797 ♪ Police, they make it hard for me ♪ 977 00:52:52,881 --> 00:52:55,967 ♪ Wherever I may go ♪ 978 00:52:56,051 --> 00:52:58,303 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 979 00:52:58,386 --> 00:53:02,223 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 980 00:53:02,307 --> 00:53:04,893 ♪ That old dust storm ♪ 981 00:53:04,976 --> 00:53:08,104 ♪ Killed my baby ♪ 982 00:53:08,146 --> 00:53:11,066 ♪ But it won't kill me, Lord ♪ 983 00:53:11,149 --> 00:53:13,193 ♪ It won't kill me ♪ 984 00:53:14,277 --> 00:53:16,780 ♪ That old dust storm ♪ 985 00:53:16,863 --> 00:53:19,491 ♪ It killed my family ♪ 986 00:53:19,574 --> 00:53:22,535 ♪ But it won't kill me, Lord ♪ 987 00:53:22,619 --> 00:53:24,662 ♪ It won't kill me ♪ 988 00:53:26,331 --> 00:53:29,250 ♪ I'm farmin' on the shares ♪ 989 00:53:29,334 --> 00:53:31,920 ♪ And always I am poor ♪ 990 00:53:32,504 --> 00:53:35,173 ♪ And all my crops they go ♪ 991 00:53:35,215 --> 00:53:37,884 ♪ Into the banker's door ♪ 992 00:53:37,967 --> 00:53:41,221 ♪ And my wife took down and died ♪ 993 00:53:41,304 --> 00:53:44,391 ♪ Upon the cabin floor ♪ 994 00:53:44,474 --> 00:53:46,685 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 995 00:53:46,726 --> 00:53:50,313 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 996 00:53:51,189 --> 00:53:53,566 ♪ That old landlord ♪ 997 00:53:53,650 --> 00:53:56,027 ♪ He got my homestead ♪ 998 00:53:56,569 --> 00:53:59,906 ♪ But he won't get me, Lord ♪ 999 00:53:59,989 --> 00:54:02,534 ♪ He won't get me ♪ 1000 00:54:02,575 --> 00:54:05,328 ♪ That old pawn shop ♪ 1001 00:54:05,370 --> 00:54:08,331 ♪ Might get my furniture ♪ 1002 00:54:08,373 --> 00:54:12,210 ♪ But it won't get me, Lord ♪ 1003 00:54:12,252 --> 00:54:14,004 ♪ It won't get me ♪ 1004 00:54:15,547 --> 00:54:18,258 ♪ As I travel 'round ♪ 1005 00:54:18,341 --> 00:54:21,219 ♪ It's very plain to see ♪ 1006 00:54:21,261 --> 00:54:24,389 ♪ That this whole world's a great ♪ 1007 00:54:24,431 --> 00:54:27,475 ♪ And a funny place to be ♪ 1008 00:54:27,559 --> 00:54:30,437 ♪ Where the gamblin' man gets rich ♪ 1009 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,898 ♪ And the workin' man is poor ♪ 1010 00:54:33,982 --> 00:54:36,192 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 1011 00:54:36,234 --> 00:54:39,821 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 1012 00:54:41,156 --> 00:54:43,992 (fiddle playing Western music) 1013 00:54:44,075 --> 00:54:47,454 ♪ ♪ 1014 00:54:55,420 --> 00:54:58,590 Taylor: My father was born in Abilene, Texas. 1015 00:54:58,673 --> 00:55:01,343 (somber, syncopated jazz playing) 1016 00:55:01,426 --> 00:55:03,970 He died when I was four. 1017 00:55:05,805 --> 00:55:07,724 So we're going to sing this song. Uh... 1018 00:55:07,766 --> 00:55:10,101 I just want to point out that I decided to sing 1019 00:55:10,185 --> 00:55:14,064 one of the hardest popular songs in the history of popular songs 1020 00:55:14,105 --> 00:55:16,775 at hour, what is it, 16? 1021 00:55:16,858 --> 00:55:19,778 -Matt: 16, yeah, 17. -Something like that. Yeah. 1022 00:55:19,819 --> 00:55:21,780 A-And the reason that I decided to do it 1023 00:55:21,863 --> 00:55:24,991 is because this song traumatized me as a child, 1024 00:55:25,075 --> 00:55:29,829 and I thought, "Well, only way to get over that trauma is to own it." 1025 00:55:31,498 --> 00:55:34,793 This was my dad's favorite song. 1026 00:55:34,876 --> 00:55:37,962 (chuckles) I don't know if that's true, but that's what I was told. 1027 00:55:38,046 --> 00:55:41,758 ♪ I wonder what he'll think of me ♪ 1028 00:55:42,676 --> 00:55:44,886 ♪ I bet he'll call me ♪ 1029 00:55:44,928 --> 00:55:47,180 ♪ The "old man" ♪ 1030 00:55:47,263 --> 00:55:48,807 ♪ I bet he'll think ♪ 1031 00:55:48,848 --> 00:55:53,561 ♪ I can lick every other fella's father ♪ 1032 00:55:53,978 --> 00:55:57,107 ♪♪ Well, I can ♪ 1033 00:55:59,984 --> 00:56:03,655 ♪ I bet that he'll turn out to be ♪ 1034 00:56:03,697 --> 00:56:08,326 ♪ The spittin' image of his dad ♪ 1035 00:56:08,410 --> 00:56:11,329 ♪ But he'll have more common sense ♪ 1036 00:56:11,371 --> 00:56:13,832 ♪ Than his puddin'-headed father ♪ 1037 00:56:13,915 --> 00:56:16,376 ♪ Ever had! ♪ 1038 00:56:19,796 --> 00:56:21,673 ♪ Bill ♪ 1039 00:56:23,133 --> 00:56:24,676 ♪ My boy Bill ♪ 1040 00:56:24,759 --> 00:56:28,179 ♪ I will see that he's named after me ♪ 1041 00:56:28,221 --> 00:56:30,515 ♪ I will ♪ 1042 00:56:30,557 --> 00:56:32,017 ♪ My boy Bill ♪ 1043 00:56:32,058 --> 00:56:35,270 ♪ He'll be tall and as tough as a tree ♪ 1044 00:56:35,353 --> 00:56:37,063 ♪ Will Bill ♪ 1045 00:56:37,147 --> 00:56:41,234 ♪ Like a tree he'll grow with his head held high ♪ 1046 00:56:41,317 --> 00:56:44,863 ♪ And his feet planted firm on the ground ♪ 1047 00:56:44,946 --> 00:56:48,199 ♪ And you won't see nobody dare ♪ 1048 00:56:48,283 --> 00:56:50,201 ♪ To try to boss him ♪ 1049 00:56:50,285 --> 00:56:52,120 ♪ Or toss him around! ♪ 1050 00:56:52,203 --> 00:56:55,498 ♪ No flat bottom, flabby face, pot-bellied ♪ 1051 00:56:55,540 --> 00:57:00,628 ♪ Baggy-eyed bastard will boss him around ♪ 1052 00:57:00,712 --> 00:57:03,340 Taylor: I grew up with this mythology, 1053 00:57:03,381 --> 00:57:07,469 I'm not supposed to be the way I am. 1054 00:57:07,552 --> 00:57:10,221 That's-- I'm supposed to be like Bill, 1055 00:57:10,305 --> 00:57:16,561 like his ideal version of, of what a son would be is what I'm supposed to be. 1056 00:57:17,854 --> 00:57:20,065 (contemplative horns blowing) 1057 00:57:25,028 --> 00:57:27,113 Oh, no... 1058 00:57:27,197 --> 00:57:31,910 What if he is a girl? 1059 00:57:31,951 --> 00:57:34,037 (gasps) 1060 00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:36,915 (groans) 1061 00:57:36,956 --> 00:57:39,876 Oh, Bill, Bill! 1062 00:57:39,918 --> 00:57:43,588 Now, what can I do f-- What can I do for her? 1063 00:57:43,630 --> 00:57:47,425 What can I do with her? 1064 00:57:47,467 --> 00:57:50,220 ♪ You can have fun with a son ♪ 1065 00:57:50,261 --> 00:57:53,056 ♪ But you gotta be a father ♪ 1066 00:57:53,098 --> 00:57:58,103 ♪ To a girl ♪ 1067 00:57:59,354 --> 00:58:00,605 ♪ My little girl ♪ 1068 00:58:00,689 --> 00:58:03,233 (relentless music playing) 1069 00:58:03,274 --> 00:58:05,527 ♪ I gotta get ready ♪ 1070 00:58:05,610 --> 00:58:07,529 ♪ Before she comes ♪ 1071 00:58:07,612 --> 00:58:09,781 ♪ I got to make certain ♪ 1072 00:58:09,823 --> 00:58:12,575 ♪ That she won't be dragged ♪ 1073 00:58:12,617 --> 00:58:15,620 ♪ Through the slums with a lot of bums ♪ 1074 00:58:15,662 --> 00:58:18,498 ♪ Like me ♪ 1075 00:58:19,791 --> 00:58:21,543 ♪ She's gotta be sheltered ♪ 1076 00:58:21,626 --> 00:58:23,545 ♪ And fed and dressed ♪ 1077 00:58:23,628 --> 00:58:27,590 ♪ In the best that money can buy ♪ 1078 00:58:27,632 --> 00:58:29,551 ♪ I never knew how ♪ 1079 00:58:29,634 --> 00:58:31,636 ♪ To get money ♪ 1080 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,138 ♪ But I'll try! ♪ 1081 00:58:33,221 --> 00:58:35,974 ♪ By God, I'll try! ♪ 1082 00:58:36,016 --> 00:58:39,644 ♪ I'll go out and make it ♪ 1083 00:58:39,686 --> 00:58:41,563 ♪ Or steal it ♪ 1084 00:58:41,646 --> 00:58:46,651 ♪ Or take it ♪ 1085 00:58:46,693 --> 00:58:48,111 ♪ Or ♪ 1086 00:58:48,153 --> 00:58:55,201 ♪ Die! ♪ 1087 00:58:55,577 --> 00:58:58,163 (cheering and applause) 1088 00:59:12,886 --> 00:59:17,349 Machine: I made this Marilyn Monroe kind of wig 1089 00:59:17,432 --> 00:59:22,103 out of 3D glasses and, um, the big, almost like poodle-esque kind of skirt, 1090 00:59:22,187 --> 00:59:25,940 lots of white picket fences, and all of the houses that were the same. 1091 00:59:26,024 --> 00:59:28,485 McDonald's, the rise of the suburbs, 1092 00:59:28,568 --> 00:59:34,616 uh, you know, complete with a marabou white picket fence, but not before the heels. 1093 00:59:34,699 --> 00:59:38,661 -(Latin rhythm playing) -Machine: Gorgeous. Yes! 1094 00:59:38,703 --> 00:59:41,206 Yes. Beautiful. 1095 00:59:41,247 --> 00:59:42,957 Stunning. Stunning. 1096 00:59:43,041 --> 00:59:45,001 It's so good. 1097 00:59:45,043 --> 00:59:46,086 Perfect. 1098 00:59:46,169 --> 00:59:49,339 Yes. Yes. 1099 00:59:49,381 --> 00:59:51,049 What about fingers in mouth? 1100 00:59:51,132 --> 00:59:54,928 Oh, my gosh, she just came from the drive-through. 1101 00:59:55,011 --> 00:59:57,722 She can't wait to go home for her TV dinner. 1102 00:59:57,806 --> 00:59:59,224 Love, love, love. 1103 00:59:59,307 --> 01:00:01,518 Taylor: I grew up in Stockton, California, 1104 01:00:01,559 --> 01:00:04,229 which is maybe two and a half hours away 1105 01:00:04,312 --> 01:00:07,023 from San Francisco. 1106 01:00:07,065 --> 01:00:11,820 It's in the middle of what used to be great farmland 1107 01:00:11,903 --> 01:00:14,531 but has been overdeveloped with tract housing, 1108 01:00:14,572 --> 01:00:18,410 so it's a lot of, uh, kinda cheap, ugly houses 1109 01:00:18,493 --> 01:00:20,286 one after another after another. 1110 01:00:20,370 --> 01:00:22,038 It was pretty homophobic. 1111 01:00:22,372 --> 01:00:28,628 Nobody said anything about gay people unless it was to call us fags. 1112 01:00:28,712 --> 01:00:31,047 Now the white people in the suburbs, 1113 01:00:31,089 --> 01:00:34,217 they can stop people of color from being in their community 1114 01:00:34,259 --> 01:00:37,762 by making it really hard for people of color to get loans. 1115 01:00:37,846 --> 01:00:43,143 But what they can't do is stop the white queer from being born amongst them. 1116 01:00:43,226 --> 01:00:47,313 -(cheering) -You thought you were safe in the suburbs, 1117 01:00:47,397 --> 01:00:49,107 and then your child is me. 1118 01:00:49,190 --> 01:00:51,943 (laughter and cheering) 1119 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:58,575 All the young men ages 18 to 30 who are straight 1120 01:00:58,783 --> 01:01:01,953 are going to come to the stage now because 1121 01:01:01,995 --> 01:01:04,122 the only way the white queer 1122 01:01:04,205 --> 01:01:09,461 can hook up with anyone is if he converts. 1123 01:01:09,502 --> 01:01:11,504 ♪ When marimba rhythm ♪ 1124 01:01:11,588 --> 01:01:13,298 ♪ Starts to play ♪ 1125 01:01:13,340 --> 01:01:14,883 ♪ Dance with me ♪ 1126 01:01:14,966 --> 01:01:16,176 ♪ Make me sway ♪ 1127 01:01:16,259 --> 01:01:17,802 All the straight guys! 1128 01:01:17,844 --> 01:01:20,805 ♪ Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore ♪ 1129 01:01:20,847 --> 01:01:23,183 ♪ Sway me smooth ♪ 1130 01:01:23,266 --> 01:01:25,060 ♪ Sway me more ♪ 1131 01:01:25,143 --> 01:01:28,730 ♪ Other dancers may be on the floor, yeah ♪ 1132 01:01:28,813 --> 01:01:32,650 ♪ Dear, but my eyes, they see only you ♪ 1133 01:01:32,692 --> 01:01:36,112 ♪ Only you have the magic technique ♪ 1134 01:01:36,154 --> 01:01:39,783 ♪ When we sway, I go weak ♪ 1135 01:01:39,824 --> 01:01:42,243 Do exactly what I do. 1136 01:01:42,327 --> 01:01:43,661 ♪ ♪ 1137 01:01:43,745 --> 01:01:46,039 (cheering) 1138 01:01:54,881 --> 01:01:58,426 ♪ Other dancers may be on the floor ♪ 1139 01:01:58,510 --> 01:02:01,971 ♪ Dear, but my eyes, they see only you ♪ 1140 01:02:02,013 --> 01:02:05,767 ♪ Only you have the magic technique ♪ 1141 01:02:05,850 --> 01:02:07,143 ♪ When we sway ♪ 1142 01:02:07,227 --> 01:02:09,854 ♪I go weak ♪ 1143 01:02:09,896 --> 01:02:12,899 ♪ I can hear the sound of violins ♪ 1144 01:02:12,982 --> 01:02:17,070 ♪ Long before it begins ♪ 1145 01:02:17,153 --> 01:02:19,864 ♪ When we sway you have a way with me ♪ 1146 01:02:19,906 --> 01:02:21,282 ♪ Stay with me ♪ 1147 01:02:21,324 --> 01:02:22,450 Do exactly what I'm doing. 1148 01:02:22,534 --> 01:02:24,285 ♪ Stay with me ♪ 1149 01:02:24,369 --> 01:02:26,746 (panting) 1150 01:02:27,372 --> 01:02:31,292 (raucous cheering) 1151 01:02:37,257 --> 01:02:40,552 Keep doing that, keep doing that, keep doing that, keep doing that. 1152 01:02:42,554 --> 01:02:44,556 I think we have a winner. 1153 01:02:44,639 --> 01:02:45,640 (cheering) 1154 01:02:45,724 --> 01:02:47,642 You all may go sit down now. 1155 01:02:47,726 --> 01:02:50,145 Thank you. Thank you. 1156 01:02:50,228 --> 01:02:52,897 (men shouting) 1157 01:02:52,939 --> 01:02:55,400 ♪ Don't ♪ (panting) 1158 01:02:55,483 --> 01:02:57,110 ♪ Don't ♪ 1159 01:02:57,193 --> 01:02:59,154 ♪ That's what you say in the suburbs ♪ 1160 01:02:59,237 --> 01:03:02,240 When I wanna have a little public display of affection with you 1161 01:03:02,323 --> 01:03:04,784 and you're gonna try to stop me, you know, just a little bit at first 1162 01:03:04,868 --> 01:03:08,121 and then by the end of the number, I'm gonna be chasing you around the stage. 1163 01:03:08,204 --> 01:03:09,247 Okay? 1164 01:03:09,330 --> 01:03:12,083 ♪ Each time ♪ 1165 01:03:12,167 --> 01:03:14,711 ♪ That I hold you ♪ 1166 01:03:14,753 --> 01:03:17,339 ♪ This way ♪ 1167 01:03:19,174 --> 01:03:22,010 ♪ When the night is cold ♪ 1168 01:03:22,093 --> 01:03:24,929 ♪ And I want to hold you ♪ 1169 01:03:24,971 --> 01:03:26,973 ♪ Baby, don't say "Don't" ♪ 1170 01:03:27,057 --> 01:03:29,768 ♪ Don't, come on, say "Don't" ♪ 1171 01:03:29,851 --> 01:03:31,102 (laughs) 1172 01:03:31,144 --> 01:03:36,024 ♪ Don't leave my embrace ♪ 1173 01:03:36,107 --> 01:03:41,112 ♪ For here in my arms ♪ 1174 01:03:41,196 --> 01:03:43,948 ♪ Is your place ♪ 1175 01:03:44,032 --> 01:03:46,368 Just give me a kiss! 1176 01:03:46,451 --> 01:03:48,620 Ehhhh... 1177 01:03:48,661 --> 01:03:50,872 ♪ And if you think that ♪ 1178 01:03:50,955 --> 01:03:54,709 ♪ This is just a way ♪ 1179 01:03:54,793 --> 01:03:58,546 ♪ Of saying ♪ 1180 01:03:58,630 --> 01:04:00,840 ♪ I don't mean... ♪ 1181 01:04:02,592 --> 01:04:03,677 (laughs) 1182 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:08,973 ♪ ...everything I say ♪ 1183 01:04:09,057 --> 01:04:11,434 ♪ Don't... ♪ Just give me, love me! 1184 01:04:11,476 --> 01:04:13,728 Why can't you love me? 1185 01:04:13,812 --> 01:04:17,273 Don't... (sobbing) 1186 01:04:17,315 --> 01:04:19,025 ♪ That's ♪ 1187 01:04:19,109 --> 01:04:22,570 ♪ What you say ♪ 1188 01:04:22,654 --> 01:04:25,615 ♪ For here ♪ 1189 01:04:25,657 --> 01:04:28,118 ♪ In my arms ♪ 1190 01:04:28,159 --> 01:04:31,705 ♪ Is your place ♪ 1191 01:04:31,788 --> 01:04:34,874 ♪ ♪ 1192 01:04:34,958 --> 01:04:38,336 (cheering and applause) 1193 01:04:40,547 --> 01:04:42,215 Audience Member: Whoo! 1194 01:04:42,298 --> 01:04:45,260 (band playing "Freedom Highway") 1195 01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:50,557 ♪ Marching ♪ 1196 01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,143 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1197 01:04:55,020 --> 01:04:56,813 ♪ Marching ♪ 1198 01:04:56,855 --> 01:04:59,190 ♪ Each and every day ♪ 1199 01:05:01,026 --> 01:05:03,945 You all are on the bus to the March on Washington now. 1200 01:05:04,029 --> 01:05:06,322 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1201 01:05:07,907 --> 01:05:11,369 ♪ I found dead people in the forest ♪ 1202 01:05:11,411 --> 01:05:14,622 ♪ The Tallahatchie River and lake ♪ 1203 01:05:14,706 --> 01:05:17,709 ♪ The whole wide world is wonderin' ♪ 1204 01:05:17,751 --> 01:05:21,713 ♪ Oh, what's wrong with the United States? ♪ 1205 01:05:21,755 --> 01:05:24,924 ♪ Oh, yes, we want peace ♪ 1206 01:05:25,008 --> 01:05:28,094 ♪ That's if it can be found ♪ 1207 01:05:28,178 --> 01:05:31,431 ♪ I'm gonna stay on freedom's highway ♪ 1208 01:05:31,514 --> 01:05:34,601 ♪ And I won't be turned around ♪ 1209 01:05:34,684 --> 01:05:38,396 ♪ Well, I guess I'll vote for the right one ♪ 1210 01:05:38,438 --> 01:05:41,649 ♪ Who said we'll overcome ♪ 1211 01:05:41,733 --> 01:05:45,278 ♪ And I'll march on freedom's highway ♪ 1212 01:05:45,362 --> 01:05:48,073 ♪ Until the day is done ♪ 1213 01:05:48,114 --> 01:05:49,532 ♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪ 1214 01:05:49,574 --> 01:05:50,909 ♪ Marching ♪ 1215 01:05:50,992 --> 01:05:53,745 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1216 01:05:53,828 --> 01:05:55,163 ♪ Yeah, hey, yeah ♪ 1217 01:05:55,246 --> 01:05:57,749 ♪ Marching ♪ 1218 01:05:57,791 --> 01:06:00,710 ♪ Each and every day ♪ 1219 01:06:00,752 --> 01:06:02,629 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1220 01:06:02,712 --> 01:06:04,839 ♪ I said I made up, I made up my mind ♪ 1221 01:06:04,923 --> 01:06:06,341 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1222 01:06:06,424 --> 01:06:08,259 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1223 01:06:08,301 --> 01:06:09,969 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1224 01:06:10,053 --> 01:06:11,429 ♪ Made up my mind ♪ 1225 01:06:11,471 --> 01:06:13,098 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1226 01:06:13,181 --> 01:06:14,849 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1227 01:06:14,933 --> 01:06:16,267 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1228 01:06:16,309 --> 01:06:18,019 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1229 01:06:18,103 --> 01:06:20,188 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1230 01:06:20,271 --> 01:06:21,731 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1231 01:06:21,773 --> 01:06:23,149 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1232 01:06:23,233 --> 01:06:24,818 ♪ Made up my mind ♪ 1233 01:06:24,901 --> 01:06:26,236 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1234 01:06:26,277 --> 01:06:28,113 ♪ And I won't turn a... ♪ 1235 01:06:28,154 --> 01:06:29,989 ♪ ...round ♪ 1236 01:06:30,073 --> 01:06:32,409 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 1237 01:06:32,450 --> 01:06:35,745 ♪ Every ♪ 1238 01:06:35,787 --> 01:06:37,038 ♪ Day ♪ 1239 01:06:37,122 --> 01:06:41,292 ♪ Hey-ey-ey-ey... ♪ 1240 01:06:41,376 --> 01:06:44,421 ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ 1241 01:06:44,462 --> 01:06:45,630 Hey! 1242 01:06:45,714 --> 01:06:49,092 (cheering) 1243 01:06:49,134 --> 01:06:52,303 Steffanie Christi'an and Thornetta Davis! 1244 01:06:54,472 --> 01:07:00,603 The March on Washington, it was organized by a queer Black man by the name of Bayard Rustin. 1245 01:07:00,645 --> 01:07:02,814 (cheering) 1246 01:07:02,897 --> 01:07:07,193 They did not want you to know he was a queer Black man, 1247 01:07:07,277 --> 01:07:10,655 because they were thinking, "One thing at a time." 1248 01:07:10,697 --> 01:07:12,032 (laughing) 1249 01:07:12,115 --> 01:07:15,493 Taylor: Growing up in Stockton, 1250 01:07:15,535 --> 01:07:18,329 you're feeling like the world is attacking you, 1251 01:07:18,371 --> 01:07:22,792 and so you have to find your people or, or you'll dissolve, 1252 01:07:22,834 --> 01:07:24,669 um... 1253 01:07:24,753 --> 01:07:26,212 or be beaten to a pulp. 1254 01:07:26,296 --> 01:07:28,006 You know, you have to find, you have to find them. 1255 01:07:28,048 --> 01:07:29,674 So I-I found them. 1256 01:07:29,716 --> 01:07:31,676 1, 2, 3, 4... 1257 01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,596 (playing "Born to Run") 1258 01:07:37,390 --> 01:07:40,685 ♪ In the day we sweat it out on the streets ♪ 1259 01:07:40,727 --> 01:07:44,230 ♪ Of a runaway American dream ♪ 1260 01:07:44,314 --> 01:07:48,026 ♪ At night we ride through the mansions of glory ♪ 1261 01:07:48,068 --> 01:07:51,279 ♪ In our suicide machines ♪ 1262 01:07:51,363 --> 01:07:54,366 ♪ Sprung out on cages out on Highway 9 ♪ 1263 01:07:54,449 --> 01:07:56,493 ♪ Chrome wheeled, fuel injected ♪ 1264 01:07:56,534 --> 01:08:00,413 ♪ And steppin' out over the line ♪ 1265 01:08:00,497 --> 01:08:05,085 ♪ Whoa, baby this town rips the bones from your back ♪ 1266 01:08:05,168 --> 01:08:06,419 ♪ It's a death trap ♪ 1267 01:08:06,503 --> 01:08:08,213 ♪ It's a suicide rap ♪ 1268 01:08:08,296 --> 01:08:11,466 ♪ We gotta get out while we're young ♪ 1269 01:08:11,549 --> 01:08:13,593 ♪ 'Cause, baby tramps like us ♪ 1270 01:08:13,677 --> 01:08:17,889 ♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪ 1271 01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,941 This is what's gonna happen. 1272 01:08:28,024 --> 01:08:29,984 I'm going to be the queer of America, 1273 01:08:30,068 --> 01:08:32,028 you're the homophobes of America. 1274 01:08:32,069 --> 01:08:35,740 -Audience: Whoo! -I'm gonna run by you, and when I run by you, 1275 01:08:35,823 --> 01:08:38,368 you can throw your ping-pong balls at me, okay? 1276 01:08:38,410 --> 01:08:40,453 One, two, three, four! 1277 01:08:40,537 --> 01:08:43,415 ♪ The highway's full of broken heroes ♪ 1278 01:08:43,497 --> 01:08:46,417 ♪ In a last chance power drive ♪ 1279 01:08:46,459 --> 01:08:49,879 ♪ Everybody's out on the run tonight ♪ 1280 01:08:49,921 --> 01:08:52,506 ♪ And there's no place left to hide... ♪ 1281 01:08:52,590 --> 01:08:54,509 (groans) 1282 01:08:54,591 --> 01:08:56,594 Niegel: My mom a-and dad came 1283 01:08:56,636 --> 01:08:58,888 and after the show ends, my mom 1284 01:08:58,930 --> 01:09:01,599 still has the ping-pong ball in her hand and she says, 1285 01:09:01,683 --> 01:09:04,435 "I'm sorry, but I-I just couldn't throw it." 1286 01:09:04,477 --> 01:09:06,312 And his aunt was like, "Yay, I'll..." 1287 01:09:06,395 --> 01:09:08,148 She was throwing the ping-pong ball. 1288 01:09:08,231 --> 01:09:13,069 Everyone has a different internal monologue that they're going through. 1289 01:09:13,111 --> 01:09:15,779 That's the art that's in the room. 1290 01:09:15,863 --> 01:09:17,115 ♪ Run ♪ 1291 01:09:17,157 --> 01:09:22,120 ♪ Run-uh-uh-uh-un ♪ 1292 01:09:22,162 --> 01:09:24,663 (band playing dramatic finish) 1293 01:09:24,747 --> 01:09:26,416 (applause) 1294 01:09:26,457 --> 01:09:30,462 So that's what it was like in America before Will & Grace. 1295 01:09:30,545 --> 01:09:31,671 (laughter) 1296 01:09:31,755 --> 01:09:34,883 (band playing "Snakeskin Cowboys") 1297 01:09:38,261 --> 01:09:39,970 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1298 01:09:40,055 --> 01:09:43,224 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1299 01:09:45,810 --> 01:09:49,898 ♪ Who the hell you think you are? ♪ 1300 01:09:53,026 --> 01:09:55,528 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1301 01:09:55,612 --> 01:09:59,199 ♪ With your high-heeled boots ♪ 1302 01:10:00,909 --> 01:10:04,871 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1303 01:10:07,957 --> 01:10:10,919 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1304 01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,922 ♪ With your fancy pants on ♪ 1305 01:10:15,507 --> 01:10:20,011 ♪ You ain't got nothin' on me ♪ 1306 01:10:23,264 --> 01:10:25,517 ♪ Thinkin' you got it ♪ 1307 01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,354 ♪ Right here on the stage ♪ 1308 01:10:30,522 --> 01:10:33,316 ♪ Stick around, boys ♪ 1309 01:10:33,358 --> 01:10:38,863 ♪ Maybe I can set you free ♪ 1310 01:10:38,947 --> 01:10:41,491 Matt and I, we didn't wanna actually have to listen 1311 01:10:41,533 --> 01:10:43,952 to the Ted Nugent song in order to learn it. 1312 01:10:44,035 --> 01:10:45,704 (laughter) 1313 01:10:45,745 --> 01:10:48,373 We read the lyrics and they seemed bad enough. 1314 01:10:48,415 --> 01:10:50,834 I said, "This lyric is about fag-bashing." 1315 01:10:50,875 --> 01:10:53,753 And, and I thought, "Well, that's maybe not true." 1316 01:10:53,837 --> 01:10:57,257 And then I-I heard an interview with Ted Nugent from the '70s 1317 01:10:57,340 --> 01:11:00,010 where he said, "This song's about fags." 1318 01:11:00,051 --> 01:11:02,429 He doesn't like anyone who dresses fancy on a stage, 1319 01:11:02,512 --> 01:11:04,848 and he's gonna set them free. 1320 01:11:07,100 --> 01:11:10,311 Maybe you could see why I would take offense to that song. 1321 01:11:10,395 --> 01:11:12,188 (laughter) 1322 01:11:12,230 --> 01:11:15,942 When I read that lyric, I said, "We're gonna appropriate that shit." 1323 01:11:16,026 --> 01:11:19,320 (cheering) 1324 01:11:19,404 --> 01:11:22,741 So, so Matt threw down some of his own music 1325 01:11:22,782 --> 01:11:26,911 and we decided to turn the song into a gay junior prom song. 1326 01:11:27,996 --> 01:11:29,914 I want you to find somebody 1327 01:11:29,998 --> 01:11:32,667 who is the same gender as you. 1328 01:11:32,751 --> 01:11:36,254 If you're gender queer, you can pick anybody. 1329 01:11:36,296 --> 01:11:38,757 And find someone who's the same gender as you 1330 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,426 and you're going to slow-dance with them. 1331 01:11:41,468 --> 01:11:43,553 Come on up, come on up. Everybody, everybody up. 1332 01:11:43,595 --> 01:11:46,639 Stand up. Stand up, everybody. You're all doing this now. 1333 01:11:46,723 --> 01:11:50,393 You're all finding somebody of your same gender to dance with. 1334 01:11:50,435 --> 01:11:52,896 Here, let me-- I'll demonstrate on this guy right here. 1335 01:11:52,937 --> 01:11:57,609 I've noticed, uh, that when straight guys dance, 1336 01:11:57,650 --> 01:11:59,611 or even gay guys that don't know each other, 1337 01:11:59,694 --> 01:12:01,863 they can sometimes, you know, um, ch-- 1338 01:12:01,946 --> 01:12:04,491 or when they hug, they, like, try to put their, their pelvises 1339 01:12:04,574 --> 01:12:07,494 as far away from each other as possible. 1340 01:12:07,577 --> 01:12:09,954 Like, I don't want any space between you. 1341 01:12:10,038 --> 01:12:12,415 I want this kind of... 1342 01:12:12,457 --> 01:12:14,084 -All right? Okay? -Okay. 1343 01:12:14,125 --> 01:12:16,461 All right. So that's what I want. So go find somebody. 1344 01:12:16,544 --> 01:12:18,296 It doesn't have to be two people, 1345 01:12:18,338 --> 01:12:19,464 it can be three people. 1346 01:12:19,547 --> 01:12:21,675 It's not a heteronormative narrative. 1347 01:12:25,345 --> 01:12:27,430 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1348 01:12:27,472 --> 01:12:29,849 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1349 01:12:33,603 --> 01:12:37,524 ♪ Who the hell you think you are? ♪ 1350 01:12:40,777 --> 01:12:43,029 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1351 01:12:43,113 --> 01:12:47,033 ♪ With your high-heeled sneakers ♪ 1352 01:12:48,785 --> 01:12:53,665 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1353 01:12:56,710 --> 01:12:59,254 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1354 01:12:59,337 --> 01:13:02,757 ♪ With your fancy pants on ♪ 1355 01:13:04,551 --> 01:13:08,680 ♪ Prancin' all around the stage ♪ 1356 01:13:10,515 --> 01:13:12,308 All right, I let you have a round 1357 01:13:12,350 --> 01:13:15,520 where you got to laugh and joke and hook up with people and stuff. 1358 01:13:15,562 --> 01:13:16,771 -(laughter) -Audience Member: Whoo! 1359 01:13:16,855 --> 01:13:21,151 But now, I want you to take it really seriously. 1360 01:13:21,192 --> 01:13:25,196 I realize that sometimes the nervous laughter and the chatting and stuff 1361 01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:30,493 is about intimacy with strangers in public spaces and, you know, I get it, 1362 01:13:30,535 --> 01:13:33,538 but it's also maybe the possibility 1363 01:13:33,621 --> 01:13:35,874 that there's a little bit of that nervousness 1364 01:13:35,957 --> 01:13:40,378 is about internalized homophobia or a homophobia, right? 1365 01:13:40,420 --> 01:13:44,466 So just, uh, just hold the person, 1366 01:13:44,549 --> 01:13:46,634 just be romantic with them 1367 01:13:46,718 --> 01:13:50,430 and while Matt plays this piano solo. 1368 01:13:50,513 --> 01:13:52,891 (romantic piano solo playing) 1369 01:13:52,932 --> 01:13:56,728 ♪ ♪ 1370 01:13:56,770 --> 01:14:00,231 Taylor: I want to believe that an artist's job 1371 01:14:00,315 --> 01:14:02,192 is to dream the culture forward. 1372 01:14:02,233 --> 01:14:06,988 So to look at the things that aren't working in society 1373 01:14:07,072 --> 01:14:10,867 and imagine how it could be better. 1374 01:14:11,659 --> 01:14:14,245 (piano music continues) 1375 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:29,761 ♪ Ooh, snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1376 01:14:32,472 --> 01:14:36,768 ♪ Who the hell do you think you are? ♪ 1377 01:14:40,230 --> 01:14:42,524 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1378 01:14:42,607 --> 01:14:46,027 ♪ With your high-heeled boots ♪ 1379 01:14:48,279 --> 01:14:53,785 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1380 01:14:57,205 --> 01:14:59,624 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1381 01:14:59,666 --> 01:15:04,462 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1382 01:15:04,504 --> 01:15:07,132 (song ends) 1383 01:15:07,215 --> 01:15:08,633 (cheering and applause) 1384 01:15:08,717 --> 01:15:11,136 Thank you so much! 1385 01:15:11,553 --> 01:15:14,347 Taylor's created something that 1386 01:15:14,431 --> 01:15:17,350 is a radical format 1387 01:15:17,434 --> 01:15:19,102 for creating community, 1388 01:15:19,144 --> 01:15:20,603 and I, I think 1389 01:15:20,645 --> 01:15:23,314 the number-one reason we have problems in America 1390 01:15:23,356 --> 01:15:24,983 is lack of community. 1391 01:15:25,025 --> 01:15:26,317 That's my opinion. 1392 01:15:26,359 --> 01:15:30,363 Um, I think that's why all these people are so angry, 1393 01:15:30,447 --> 01:15:32,032 because they want to belong to something. 1394 01:15:32,115 --> 01:15:38,663 What Taylor does is opens the queer community to the world. 1395 01:15:38,705 --> 01:15:40,915 Taylor: We're gonna focus on songs that were 1396 01:15:40,999 --> 01:15:47,714 popular in the, in the back-room sex party from 1976 to '86. 1397 01:15:47,797 --> 01:15:50,008 (piano playing slow version of "Gloria") 1398 01:15:58,224 --> 01:15:59,601 ♪ Gloria ♪ 1399 01:15:59,684 --> 01:16:02,520 (laughter) 1400 01:16:02,604 --> 01:16:04,939 ♪ You're always on the run now ♪ 1401 01:16:06,691 --> 01:16:09,152 ♪ Runnin' after somebody ♪ 1402 01:16:11,613 --> 01:16:14,866 ♪ You got to get him somehow ♪ 1403 01:16:16,743 --> 01:16:20,955 ♪ I think you better slow down ♪ 1404 01:16:21,039 --> 01:16:25,669 ♪ Before you stop growing ♪ 1405 01:16:25,710 --> 01:16:29,714 ♪ I think you're headed for a breakdown ♪ 1406 01:16:30,924 --> 01:16:33,927 ♪ So be careful not to show it ♪ 1407 01:16:35,970 --> 01:16:39,182 ♪ Then you really don't remember ♪ 1408 01:16:40,892 --> 01:16:44,229 ♪ Was it something that he said? ♪ 1409 01:16:45,730 --> 01:16:49,317 ♪ Or the voices in your head ♪ 1410 01:16:52,153 --> 01:16:54,030 ♪ Calling ♪ 1411 01:16:54,114 --> 01:16:56,533 ♪ Gloria! ♪ 1412 01:16:56,574 --> 01:16:57,992 (laughter) 1413 01:16:58,076 --> 01:16:59,494 Okay. 1414 01:16:59,577 --> 01:17:03,039 So, every single person in this room 1415 01:17:03,081 --> 01:17:05,625 has had somebody in their life, at some point in their life, 1416 01:17:05,709 --> 01:17:09,546 tell them that having sex with multiple partners is a bad thing. 1417 01:17:09,587 --> 01:17:11,006 Every single person in this room. 1418 01:17:11,089 --> 01:17:14,092 So I want you to channel that person right now. 1419 01:17:14,175 --> 01:17:17,762 You're just going to point at your neighbors 1420 01:17:17,846 --> 01:17:20,056 and you're gonna sing this. 1421 01:17:22,100 --> 01:17:24,769 (quiet, judgemental tone) ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1422 01:17:24,853 --> 01:17:27,397 Just do it, channel that judgy person. 1423 01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:29,941 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1424 01:17:31,443 --> 01:17:34,404 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1425 01:17:36,281 --> 01:17:37,782 ♪ Gloria, Glo-- ♪ 1426 01:17:37,824 --> 01:17:40,243 Now, point it at yourself. 1427 01:17:40,285 --> 01:17:42,704 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1428 01:17:42,787 --> 01:17:44,372 And then other people and yourself. 1429 01:17:44,456 --> 01:17:48,168 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1430 01:17:49,294 --> 01:17:51,671 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1431 01:17:51,755 --> 01:17:54,215 (mouthing words) 1432 01:17:54,299 --> 01:17:55,842 Audience (softly): ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1433 01:17:55,925 --> 01:17:57,635 Taylor: Okay. Great. 1434 01:17:57,677 --> 01:18:01,723 All right, now the next step is, uh, 1435 01:18:01,806 --> 01:18:04,934 you're about to enter the back room and you're gonna liberate yourself, 1436 01:18:04,976 --> 01:18:07,312 so you're like, "Oh, my God! So exciting!" 1437 01:18:07,354 --> 01:18:10,648 So you're just gonna, like, shout out "Gloria" to the universe, 1438 01:18:10,732 --> 01:18:12,025 like you're saying hallelujah. 1439 01:18:12,108 --> 01:18:14,694 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ Yes. 1440 01:18:14,778 --> 01:18:16,154 (man shouts "Gloria!") 1441 01:18:16,237 --> 01:18:20,241 (with audience) ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1442 01:18:20,283 --> 01:18:23,036 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1443 01:18:23,119 --> 01:18:25,663 Great, you guys got that one, all right. 1444 01:18:25,747 --> 01:18:28,083 Now, now the real trick, 1445 01:18:28,166 --> 01:18:30,794 in order to really know what it's like in a back room, 1446 01:18:30,835 --> 01:18:34,339 you have to have that shaming, the shaming of yourself 1447 01:18:34,381 --> 01:18:38,510 and also the liberation all at the same time. 1448 01:18:38,551 --> 01:18:42,055 That's what it really feels like to be in the back room. 1449 01:18:42,138 --> 01:18:46,184 Okay, so, everybody, you just mix it up whenever you want, right? 1450 01:18:46,267 --> 01:18:49,354 It is not a homogeneous experience. 1451 01:18:49,437 --> 01:18:52,982 You can do all kinds of different things. Ready? Okay, here we go. 1452 01:18:53,024 --> 01:18:57,696 ♪ Gloria, Gloriaaaa! ♪ 1453 01:18:57,737 --> 01:19:00,156 ♪ Gloria, Gloria! ♪ 1454 01:19:00,198 --> 01:19:01,408 (tempo increasing) 1455 01:19:01,491 --> 01:19:05,036 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1456 01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:07,497 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1457 01:19:07,539 --> 01:19:08,957 Now, everybody up on your feet. 1458 01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:12,877 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1459 01:19:12,961 --> 01:19:15,964 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ Yeah. 1460 01:19:16,047 --> 01:19:20,051 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1461 01:19:20,093 --> 01:19:23,555 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1462 01:19:23,638 --> 01:19:26,683 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1463 01:19:26,725 --> 01:19:29,894 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1464 01:19:29,978 --> 01:19:32,647 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1465 01:19:32,731 --> 01:19:34,232 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1466 01:19:34,274 --> 01:19:35,525 One more! 1467 01:19:35,567 --> 01:19:38,862 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1468 01:19:38,903 --> 01:19:40,905 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1469 01:19:40,947 --> 01:19:43,450 (cheering and applause) 1470 01:19:43,533 --> 01:19:45,535 (band playing "Heroes") 1471 01:19:49,914 --> 01:19:55,086 ♪ ♪ 1472 01:19:57,464 --> 01:19:59,883 ♪ I ♪ 1473 01:19:59,924 --> 01:20:02,552 ♪ I wish I could swim ♪ 1474 01:20:04,220 --> 01:20:06,806 ♪ Like the dolphins ♪ 1475 01:20:06,890 --> 01:20:09,893 ♪ Like the dolphins can swim ♪ 1476 01:20:11,936 --> 01:20:14,856 ♪ And nothing ♪ 1477 01:20:14,939 --> 01:20:18,109 ♪ Will keep us together ♪ 1478 01:20:18,693 --> 01:20:21,905 ♪ We can beat them ♪ 1479 01:20:21,946 --> 01:20:25,450 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1480 01:20:25,617 --> 01:20:29,662 ♪ We can be heroes ♪ 1481 01:20:29,746 --> 01:20:32,123 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1482 01:20:33,875 --> 01:20:36,628 ♪ I ♪ 1483 01:20:36,670 --> 01:20:39,923 ♪ I will be queen ♪ 1484 01:20:40,924 --> 01:20:43,635 ♪ And you ♪ 1485 01:20:43,677 --> 01:20:46,846 ♪ You'll be my queen ♪ 1486 01:20:48,431 --> 01:20:50,684 ♪ And nothing ♪ 1487 01:20:50,767 --> 01:20:54,020 ♪ Will tear us apart ♪ 1488 01:20:54,104 --> 01:20:57,899 ♪ Oh, we can beat them ♪ 1489 01:20:57,982 --> 01:21:01,569 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1490 01:21:01,653 --> 01:21:05,198 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1491 01:21:05,281 --> 01:21:08,618 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1492 01:21:09,994 --> 01:21:12,622 ♪ I ♪ 1493 01:21:12,664 --> 01:21:14,582 ♪ I remember ♪ 1494 01:21:14,666 --> 01:21:17,085 chorus: ♪ I remember ♪ 1495 01:21:17,168 --> 01:21:20,005 ♪ Standing ♪ (Audience cheering) 1496 01:21:20,046 --> 01:21:21,548 ♪ Standing by the wall ♪ 1497 01:21:21,631 --> 01:21:23,675 Chorus: ♪ By the wall ♪ 1498 01:21:23,758 --> 01:21:26,886 ♪ And the bullets flew ♪ 1499 01:21:26,970 --> 01:21:28,847 ♪ They flew above our heads ♪ 1500 01:21:28,930 --> 01:21:31,057 Chorus: ♪ Above our heads ♪ 1501 01:21:31,141 --> 01:21:33,685 ♪ And we kissed ♪ 1502 01:21:33,727 --> 01:21:35,937 ♪ As if nothing could fall ♪ 1503 01:21:36,021 --> 01:21:37,772 Chorus: ♪ Nothing could fall ♪ 1504 01:21:37,856 --> 01:21:40,358 ♪ And the shame ♪ 1505 01:21:40,442 --> 01:21:45,030 ♪ It was on the other side ♪ 1506 01:21:45,113 --> 01:21:48,199 ♪ We could beat them ♪ 1507 01:21:48,283 --> 01:21:51,619 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1508 01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:55,665 ♪♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1509 01:21:55,707 --> 01:21:58,168 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1510 01:21:58,209 --> 01:22:01,921 Come on down, Russian penis! 1511 01:22:02,005 --> 01:22:04,632 -(audience cheering) -Taylor: Here comes Gorbachev! 1512 01:22:04,716 --> 01:22:10,638 I think we're gonna have to have a Cold War reenactment. 1513 01:22:10,722 --> 01:22:17,395 But when we do, the penises are going to ejaculate all over you. 1514 01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:20,732 Now, when they do ejaculate on you, 1515 01:22:20,774 --> 01:22:25,278 I want you to take that energy and have a little sex magic ritual right now. 1516 01:22:25,362 --> 01:22:28,531 Take all that energy from it, 1517 01:22:28,573 --> 01:22:30,867 and we're going to put it out into the universe 1518 01:22:30,909 --> 01:22:33,953 so that we can have some world peace. 1519 01:22:34,037 --> 01:22:35,538 Everybody, pull that energy in. 1520 01:22:35,580 --> 01:22:38,541 You're gonna have three yells, ready? Here we go. 1521 01:22:38,583 --> 01:22:42,754 Ohh! Ohh... 1522 01:22:42,837 --> 01:22:45,465 ♪ Ohhhhhh... ♪ 1523 01:22:45,548 --> 01:22:47,300 (sky rockets whistling) 1524 01:22:49,969 --> 01:22:53,723 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1525 01:22:57,102 --> 01:23:00,772 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1526 01:23:00,855 --> 01:23:04,025 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1527 01:23:04,109 --> 01:23:06,653 (cheering and applause) 1528 01:23:06,736 --> 01:23:08,738 (pianist improvising on theme) 1529 01:23:16,454 --> 01:23:20,375 Taylor: Because we've lost a musician every hour, 1530 01:23:20,458 --> 01:23:22,711 hour one, you've got all the support, 1531 01:23:22,794 --> 01:23:26,631 but as you're at your weakest, you have the least amount of support. 1532 01:23:28,133 --> 01:23:31,302 But the audience, they start to support us more. 1533 01:23:31,386 --> 01:23:34,973 We lose energy onstage, but they give more energy, 1534 01:23:35,015 --> 01:23:38,226 even though they are really tired too. 1535 01:23:38,768 --> 01:23:42,188 (audience whooping and hollering) 1536 01:23:44,774 --> 01:23:48,486 Taylor: We're also building ourselves because we rally together 1537 01:23:48,570 --> 01:23:51,197 to figure out how to navigate it. 1538 01:23:54,492 --> 01:23:56,661 (band playing "Love Will Tear Us Apart") 1539 01:23:56,703 --> 01:23:58,788 (cheering) 1540 01:24:02,834 --> 01:24:06,838 ♪ ♪ 1541 01:24:09,382 --> 01:24:12,969 ♪ When routine bites hard ♪ 1542 01:24:13,011 --> 01:24:17,015 ♪ And ambitions are low ♪ 1543 01:24:17,057 --> 01:24:20,018 ♪ And resentment runs high ♪ 1544 01:24:20,101 --> 01:24:23,480 ♪ But emotion won't grow ♪ 1545 01:24:23,897 --> 01:24:27,525 ♪ And we're changing our ways ♪ 1546 01:24:27,567 --> 01:24:31,613 ♪ Taking different roads ♪ 1547 01:24:31,696 --> 01:24:33,239 ♪ Love ♪ 1548 01:24:33,323 --> 01:24:38,203 ♪ Love will tear us apart again ♪ 1549 01:24:40,955 --> 01:24:42,874 Anastasia: This is the AIDS era, 1550 01:24:42,916 --> 01:24:47,712 the era when so many people lost their loved ones. 1551 01:24:50,382 --> 01:24:52,676 And, and, you know, like how your mascara runs, 1552 01:24:52,717 --> 01:24:56,179 so it's tears, but it's also like mascara's running, 1553 01:24:56,221 --> 01:24:58,932 and it's just like, it keeps running, 1554 01:24:59,015 --> 01:25:01,184 and it's, like, doesn't stop. 1555 01:25:05,105 --> 01:25:06,606 (song ends) 1556 01:25:06,690 --> 01:25:09,234 (cheering and applause) 1557 01:25:10,276 --> 01:25:12,487 (band playing "Blood Makes Noise") 1558 01:25:13,863 --> 01:25:15,865 1986. 1559 01:25:15,907 --> 01:25:19,077 I've just watched the network television premiere 1560 01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,788 of Clash of the Titans. 1561 01:25:21,871 --> 01:25:23,748 That night I go to bed 1562 01:25:23,832 --> 01:25:29,504 and I have a dream of Maggie Smith riding a Pegasus. 1563 01:25:29,587 --> 01:25:31,881 (laughter) 1564 01:25:31,923 --> 01:25:34,843 And it is my first wet dream. 1565 01:25:34,926 --> 01:25:38,263 (laughter) 1566 01:25:38,346 --> 01:25:41,433 There are also two men having sex in the dream, 1567 01:25:41,474 --> 01:25:45,186 but I think it was Maggie Smith that did it. 1568 01:25:45,270 --> 01:25:47,939 I woke up from that dream in, like, mid-orgasm, 1569 01:25:48,023 --> 01:25:49,941 I was like... (gasps) 1570 01:25:50,025 --> 01:25:53,445 And I immediately thought, "Gay people, when they have sex, 1571 01:25:53,528 --> 01:25:56,531 "they give each other AIDS, and I just had sex, and I'm gay. 1572 01:25:56,614 --> 01:25:59,826 That means I must have just given myself AIDS." 1573 01:26:01,786 --> 01:26:04,789 (clicks tongue) Then all that day at school, 1574 01:26:04,873 --> 01:26:08,501 the teachers were teaching, teaching, teaching, talking, talking, talking. 1575 01:26:08,585 --> 01:26:10,795 I couldn't listen to a single thing they were saying 1576 01:26:10,879 --> 01:26:14,632 'cause the entire time, I thought, "I'm gonna get AIDS." 1577 01:26:14,716 --> 01:26:16,718 ♪ I'd like to help you, Doctor ♪ 1578 01:26:16,801 --> 01:26:18,970 ♪ Yes, I really really would ♪ 1579 01:26:19,054 --> 01:26:20,388 ♪ But the din in my head ♪ 1580 01:26:20,472 --> 01:26:22,223 ♪ It's too much and it's no good ♪ 1581 01:26:22,307 --> 01:26:23,641 ♪ I'm standing in a windy tunnel ♪ 1582 01:26:23,725 --> 01:26:25,352 ♪ Shouting through the roar ♪ 1583 01:26:25,435 --> 01:26:27,937 ♪ And I'd like to give the information ♪ 1584 01:26:27,979 --> 01:26:29,064 ♪ As before ♪ 1585 01:26:29,147 --> 01:26:31,983 ♪ But blood makes noise ♪ 1586 01:26:34,569 --> 01:26:36,696 ♪ It's ringing in my ear ♪ 1587 01:26:36,780 --> 01:26:38,281 ♪ Blood makes ♪ 1588 01:26:38,323 --> 01:26:40,033 (whispering) ♪ Noise ♪ 1589 01:26:40,116 --> 01:26:44,287 ♪ I can't really hear you in the thickening, I fear ♪ 1590 01:26:45,872 --> 01:26:49,167 ♪ Blood makes noise ♪ 1591 01:26:49,209 --> 01:26:50,585 (applause) 1592 01:26:50,669 --> 01:26:54,589 So we've reached our AIDS decade, and, uh... 1593 01:26:54,673 --> 01:26:57,342 I thought we should lose something very special, 1594 01:26:57,384 --> 01:26:59,719 so this is our last time with Machine, 1595 01:26:59,803 --> 01:27:01,096 our costume designer. 1596 01:27:01,179 --> 01:27:03,348 (audience sighing) 1597 01:27:05,350 --> 01:27:08,228 (cheering) 1598 01:27:09,938 --> 01:27:13,274 Taylor: The audience has a bond to that queen. 1599 01:27:13,358 --> 01:27:15,402 Every time you see one of those outfits, 1600 01:27:15,485 --> 01:27:17,278 it is just pure delight, 1601 01:27:17,362 --> 01:27:19,489 so when you think that all of that delight 1602 01:27:19,531 --> 01:27:23,952 and all that artistry was gonna be taken away, 1603 01:27:24,035 --> 01:27:26,496 for me, it's... 1604 01:27:26,538 --> 01:27:30,959 what it was like to come of age during the AIDS epidemic. 1605 01:27:31,042 --> 01:27:34,504 Uh, every incredible artist 1606 01:27:34,546 --> 01:27:39,050 that you... hoped would be a mentor, 1607 01:27:39,092 --> 01:27:41,386 you know, um, passes. 1608 01:27:41,428 --> 01:27:44,597 (cheering and applause) 1609 01:27:44,681 --> 01:27:47,976 Taylor: It's time to say goodbye to our guitarist, 1610 01:27:48,059 --> 01:27:50,061 Viva DeConcini. 1611 01:27:54,482 --> 01:27:57,235 Niegel: The first time we lose a musician 1612 01:27:57,277 --> 01:27:59,237 after the first hour, you're like, 1613 01:27:59,279 --> 01:28:02,782 "But you've only been here an hour." 1614 01:28:02,866 --> 01:28:05,577 Uh... Hmm. Excuse me. 1615 01:28:05,660 --> 01:28:08,663 (voice breaking) Uh, we lost so many people in our community, 1616 01:28:08,747 --> 01:28:13,043 um, to HIV and AIDS and the complications, 1617 01:28:13,126 --> 01:28:15,253 and some folks had only been with us 1618 01:28:15,337 --> 01:28:18,298 for a very short amount of time. 1619 01:28:19,883 --> 01:28:22,594 (sighs) Excuse me. 1620 01:28:22,677 --> 01:28:25,889 So it's very hard to lose people throughout the work, 1621 01:28:25,930 --> 01:28:31,895 um, and-and to be reminded of that, um, in our community. 1622 01:28:31,936 --> 01:28:36,733 Uh, so, yeah, it's deeply significant... 1623 01:28:36,775 --> 01:28:38,860 because when you're, when you're left, 1624 01:28:38,943 --> 01:28:41,196 and you've been working with them so hard 1625 01:28:41,279 --> 01:28:43,615 and then they're gone and you're left and so you're like, 1626 01:28:43,656 --> 01:28:45,367 "Great, I have to, I have to keep going. 1627 01:28:45,450 --> 01:28:48,495 I have to keep bringing my artistry and my voice." 1628 01:28:48,578 --> 01:28:52,457 Uh, I think there's so much poetry in that... 1629 01:28:54,417 --> 01:28:57,003 but that's also our life. 1630 01:28:58,380 --> 01:29:00,465 (cheering) 1631 01:29:07,472 --> 01:29:10,350 Taylor: Dating in the '90s was navigating 1632 01:29:10,433 --> 01:29:13,812 whether or not you wanted to go on a date 1633 01:29:13,895 --> 01:29:16,940 with someone who might not be here in six months. 1634 01:29:17,023 --> 01:29:22,362 Never having the moment where your sexuality is free. 1635 01:29:22,445 --> 01:29:24,906 (clicks tongue) Yeah. 1636 01:29:24,948 --> 01:29:27,450 So not... not kinda having 1637 01:29:27,492 --> 01:29:29,494 the sense of what you may be missing, 1638 01:29:29,577 --> 01:29:32,497 but you know, always, always being afraid of sex. 1639 01:29:32,580 --> 01:29:34,791 (band playing "Denny") 1640 01:29:36,835 --> 01:29:40,213 ♪ Denny picked me up, Denny did me ♪ 1641 01:29:40,296 --> 01:29:44,134 ♪ He got a tattoo of his dick on his belly ♪ 1642 01:29:44,175 --> 01:29:46,219 ♪ It was double vision ♪ 1643 01:29:46,302 --> 01:29:48,346 ♪ Disorienting ♪ 1644 01:29:48,388 --> 01:29:51,725 ♪ Denny's kind of a dorky fella ♪ 1645 01:29:51,808 --> 01:29:53,518 ♪ Denny's dramatic ♪ 1646 01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:55,061 ♪ Denny is dark ♪ 1647 01:29:55,145 --> 01:29:58,106 ♪ He ain't nothin' like the restaurant ♪ 1648 01:29:58,189 --> 01:30:02,402 ♪ He's got "HIV positive" tattooed in black ♪ 1649 01:30:02,485 --> 01:30:05,697 ♪ In six-inch letters on his back ♪ 1650 01:30:05,780 --> 01:30:09,868 ♪ He says, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1651 01:30:09,951 --> 01:30:11,536 ♪ Denny ♪ 1652 01:30:13,705 --> 01:30:16,541 ♪ Denny's reading the Decameron ♪ 1653 01:30:16,583 --> 01:30:20,211 ♪ About a plague that came before ♪ 1654 01:30:20,295 --> 01:30:24,049 ♪ 'Cause Denny is dying and Denny don't like it ♪ 1655 01:30:24,090 --> 01:30:27,802 ♪ And Denny don't dance no more ♪ 1656 01:30:29,429 --> 01:30:32,849 ♪ He's kinda New Age but Denny's not that smart ♪ 1657 01:30:32,891 --> 01:30:36,311 ♪ He's trying to love himself but doesn't really know how ♪ 1658 01:30:36,394 --> 01:30:40,690 ♪ He's got a heart tattoo with his own name in it ♪ 1659 01:30:40,732 --> 01:30:44,152 ♪ Trouble is Denny doesn't really get it ♪ 1660 01:30:44,235 --> 01:30:49,157 ♪ Self-esteem is just a dream for Denny ♪ 1661 01:30:51,701 --> 01:30:54,245 ♪ Denny can be very funny ♪ 1662 01:30:54,329 --> 01:30:58,500 ♪ He says he wants my asshole tattooed on his chin ♪ 1663 01:30:58,583 --> 01:31:01,753 ♪ Denny is very demanding ♪ 1664 01:31:01,836 --> 01:31:06,174 ♪ 'Cause Denny don't got long to live ♪ 1665 01:31:07,592 --> 01:31:09,260 ♪ Denny did porno ♪ 1666 01:31:09,302 --> 01:31:10,929 ♪ Photos and film ♪ 1667 01:31:10,970 --> 01:31:14,432 ♪ Until his tattoos ruined his career ♪ 1668 01:31:14,516 --> 01:31:17,977 ♪ He stands there watching the video ♪ 1669 01:31:18,061 --> 01:31:21,898 ♪ Watching himself get infected ♪ 1670 01:31:21,940 --> 01:31:24,776 ♪ Denny has pneumocystis ♪ 1671 01:31:24,859 --> 01:31:28,613 ♪ And a new tattoo as well ♪ 1672 01:31:28,697 --> 01:31:32,158 ♪ Denny got a skull and crossbones ♪ 1673 01:31:32,242 --> 01:31:35,453 ♪ Smack in the middle of his forehead ♪ 1674 01:31:35,495 --> 01:31:39,916 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1675 01:31:39,958 --> 01:31:42,293 ♪ Denny ♪ 1676 01:31:42,377 --> 01:31:46,631 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1677 01:31:46,715 --> 01:31:49,092 ♪ Denny ♪ 1678 01:31:49,134 --> 01:31:53,471 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1679 01:31:53,513 --> 01:31:55,265 ♪ Denny ♪ 1680 01:31:55,306 --> 01:31:58,643 (cheering) 1681 01:32:00,812 --> 01:32:06,484 The very first time I ever met an "out" homosexual, 1682 01:32:06,568 --> 01:32:10,655 it was thousands all at the same time. 1683 01:32:10,739 --> 01:32:13,241 I found out about this thing called an AIDS Walk, 1684 01:32:13,324 --> 01:32:17,037 and my friend Marcy and I went to the AIDS Walk, 1685 01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:19,080 uh, in San Francisco, 1686 01:32:19,164 --> 01:32:23,585 and the first time I ever saw one "out" homosexual, it was thousands of them, 1687 01:32:23,668 --> 01:32:26,713 and the reason they were all together is 'cause, of course, they were dying, 1688 01:32:26,796 --> 01:32:29,174 and their loved ones were dying, 1689 01:32:29,257 --> 01:32:34,637 and they were screaming and laughing and dancing and joyous, 1690 01:32:34,679 --> 01:32:38,767 while at the same time horrified and full of sorrow, 1691 01:32:38,850 --> 01:32:42,854 and they, uh, were pushing loved ones in wheelchairs 1692 01:32:42,896 --> 01:32:44,647 and... 1693 01:32:46,107 --> 01:32:47,859 uh... 1694 01:32:49,027 --> 01:32:51,404 what I experienced was a community of people 1695 01:32:51,488 --> 01:32:54,532 that were being, um, built 1696 01:32:54,616 --> 01:32:57,243 as a result of being torn apart, 1697 01:32:57,327 --> 01:33:01,289 and it was a pretty profound experience for a kid. 1698 01:33:01,373 --> 01:33:04,167 Years later, I thought, many years later, I thought, 1699 01:33:04,209 --> 01:33:10,256 I wanna make a show that is some kind of metaphorical representation of that. 1700 01:33:10,340 --> 01:33:14,636 So we started making a 24-decade history of popular music. 1701 01:33:20,725 --> 01:33:23,019 This decade is all songs that were popular 1702 01:33:23,061 --> 01:33:26,690 with radical lesbians during the AIDS epidemic. 1703 01:33:26,731 --> 01:33:30,735 Many gay men, their parents, family members wouldn't take care of them 1704 01:33:30,819 --> 01:33:34,989 and their lovers were dying at the same time that they were struggling, 1705 01:33:35,073 --> 01:33:37,617 and so, um... 1706 01:33:37,701 --> 01:33:41,996 many lesbians really stepped up 1707 01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:45,750 in a way that was above and beyond. 1708 01:33:45,792 --> 01:33:49,963 (rock music playing) 1709 01:33:50,046 --> 01:33:53,925 Taylor: I learned my politics from radical lesbians 1710 01:33:54,009 --> 01:33:57,637 and I learned how to have confidence from radical lesbians. 1711 01:33:58,596 --> 01:34:04,769 Lesbians spend so much time having to stretch towards the rest of us. 1712 01:34:06,396 --> 01:34:09,107 I thought it would be sweet 1713 01:34:09,149 --> 01:34:12,444 if we invite all of the lesbians in the audience 1714 01:34:12,527 --> 01:34:13,778 to come up on stage. 1715 01:34:13,820 --> 01:34:16,281 (guitar playing "Girl on a Road") 1716 01:34:18,533 --> 01:34:20,035 Taylor: So, they got to see 1717 01:34:20,118 --> 01:34:22,078 all of us stretch towards them. 1718 01:34:22,120 --> 01:34:25,040 ♪ My momma was a waitress ♪ 1719 01:34:25,123 --> 01:34:27,792 ♪ My daddy a truck driver ♪ 1720 01:34:27,876 --> 01:34:31,129 ♪ The thing that kept their power from them ♪ 1721 01:34:31,171 --> 01:34:33,548 ♪ Slowed me down awhile ♪ 1722 01:34:33,631 --> 01:34:36,134 ♪ I remember the morning ♪ 1723 01:34:36,217 --> 01:34:39,637 ♪ It was the closing of my youth ♪ 1724 01:34:39,679 --> 01:34:42,766 ♪ When I said goodbye to no one ♪ 1725 01:34:42,807 --> 01:34:45,685 ♪ And in that way faced my truth ♪ 1726 01:34:45,769 --> 01:34:48,813 ♪ And a walk along the river ♪ 1727 01:34:48,897 --> 01:34:51,816 ♪ And a rain a-coming down ♪ 1728 01:34:51,858 --> 01:34:54,611 ♪ And a girl ♪ 1729 01:34:54,652 --> 01:34:56,696 ♪ On a road ♪ 1730 01:35:00,408 --> 01:35:03,328 Taylor: ♪ But if music is a boulder ♪ 1731 01:35:03,411 --> 01:35:06,748 ♪ Let me carry it a long while ♪ 1732 01:35:06,831 --> 01:35:09,793 ♪ Let it turn into a feather ♪ 1733 01:35:09,834 --> 01:35:12,754 ♪ Let it brush against my smile ♪ 1734 01:35:12,837 --> 01:35:16,174 ♪ Let the life be somewhat settled ♪ 1735 01:35:16,257 --> 01:35:19,344 ♪ With the life that song has made ♪ 1736 01:35:19,386 --> 01:35:22,764 ♪ Let there be nothing I am longing for ♪ 1737 01:35:22,847 --> 01:35:25,809 ♪ In some plan I may have made ♪ 1738 01:35:25,850 --> 01:35:29,104 ♪ In some story quickly written ♪ 1739 01:35:29,187 --> 01:35:32,524 ♪ In a long forgotten time ♪ 1740 01:35:32,565 --> 01:35:35,443 ♪ By a girl ♪ 1741 01:35:35,527 --> 01:35:37,904 ♪ On a road ♪ 1742 01:35:42,409 --> 01:35:45,161 Together: ♪ Rain upon the water ♪ 1743 01:35:45,203 --> 01:35:48,998 ♪ Makes footprints sunk in sand ♪ 1744 01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:52,127 ♪ Anger upon angry hurt ♪ 1745 01:35:52,210 --> 01:35:55,296 ♪ Take me by the hand ♪ 1746 01:35:55,380 --> 01:35:58,216 ♪ Take me by the heartstrings ♪ 1747 01:35:58,258 --> 01:36:00,969 ♪ And pull me deep inside ♪ 1748 01:36:01,052 --> 01:36:04,723 ♪ And say I'm one with your forgiveness ♪ 1749 01:36:04,806 --> 01:36:09,060 ♪ And separate from my pride ♪ 1750 01:36:11,813 --> 01:36:15,817 ♪ ♪ 1751 01:36:19,863 --> 01:36:21,448 (song ends) 1752 01:36:21,531 --> 01:36:24,826 (cheering and applause) 1753 01:36:29,039 --> 01:36:33,084 (cheering and applause continue) 1754 01:36:50,185 --> 01:36:55,106 Matt: I had put so much of my life at that point into helping create the show. 1755 01:36:55,148 --> 01:36:58,151 It took a physical toll on me and it took a mental toll 1756 01:36:58,234 --> 01:37:00,445 and it was all positive, but it was a lot. 1757 01:37:00,487 --> 01:37:03,281 We've been doing this all night and I thought, 1758 01:37:03,323 --> 01:37:05,200 I don't want to leave Taylor alone on stage. 1759 01:37:05,283 --> 01:37:08,370 I can't leave Taylor alone on stage, i-it's-- I have to stay here. 1760 01:37:08,453 --> 01:37:10,914 (cheering and applause) 1761 01:37:10,955 --> 01:37:13,625 (fans whistling) 1762 01:37:22,133 --> 01:37:25,970 (cheering and applause continue) 1763 01:37:46,825 --> 01:37:49,411 (audience exclaiming, applauding) 1764 01:38:06,136 --> 01:38:08,471 (cheers and exclaims intensify) 1765 01:38:17,355 --> 01:38:20,025 (playing "When All the Artists Leave or Die") 1766 01:38:29,784 --> 01:38:34,039 ♪ When all the artists ♪ 1767 01:38:34,122 --> 01:38:36,875 ♪ Leave or die ♪ 1768 01:38:36,916 --> 01:38:41,296 ♪ And you're alone on stage ♪ 1769 01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,843 ♪ Naked and unrehearsed ♪ 1770 01:38:46,885 --> 01:38:49,304 ♪ Grasping for lines ♪ 1771 01:38:49,387 --> 01:38:55,268 ♪ And trying to save some grace ♪ 1772 01:38:55,352 --> 01:38:59,064 ♪ When all the fairies ♪ 1773 01:38:59,105 --> 01:39:01,358 ♪ Are dead and buried ♪ 1774 01:39:03,068 --> 01:39:09,074 ♪ Then will the pixie dust be swept? ♪ 1775 01:39:09,157 --> 01:39:13,536 ♪ When all the radicals die ♪ 1776 01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:15,372 ♪ Or are married... ♪ 1777 01:39:15,413 --> 01:39:16,539 (laughter) 1778 01:39:16,581 --> 01:39:21,044 ♪ ...then will the tragedy end ♪ 1779 01:39:21,086 --> 01:39:23,463 ♪ Or begin? ♪ 1780 01:39:30,637 --> 01:39:33,139 Taylor: Ultimately for me, it's all about 1781 01:39:33,223 --> 01:39:35,016 expressing and experiencing 1782 01:39:35,100 --> 01:39:36,768 the full range of who you are 1783 01:39:36,851 --> 01:39:38,645 and taking the time 1784 01:39:38,728 --> 01:39:41,731 to actually do that, and, um... 1785 01:39:41,773 --> 01:39:43,316 and so, who you are 1786 01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:45,610 as somebody who has to leave, 1787 01:39:45,652 --> 01:39:47,987 as well as somebody 1788 01:39:48,071 --> 01:39:50,699 who can, um... 1789 01:39:50,782 --> 01:39:52,534 be at the center. 1790 01:39:52,617 --> 01:39:54,994 ♪ Sleep well ♪ 1791 01:39:55,078 --> 01:39:56,705 ♪ Get up ♪ 1792 01:39:56,788 --> 01:39:58,832 ♪ Do it again ♪ 1793 01:39:58,915 --> 01:40:04,170 ♪ Day after day after day ♪ 1794 01:40:04,254 --> 01:40:07,716 ♪ Until the cockroaches are ♪ 1795 01:40:07,799 --> 01:40:10,593 ♪ Your only patrons ♪ 1796 01:40:10,635 --> 01:40:12,345 ♪ Even then ♪ 1797 01:40:12,429 --> 01:40:14,806 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1798 01:40:14,889 --> 01:40:18,143 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1799 01:40:18,184 --> 01:40:21,187 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1800 01:40:21,271 --> 01:40:23,565 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1801 01:40:24,941 --> 01:40:27,360 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1802 01:40:27,444 --> 01:40:30,655 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1803 01:40:30,697 --> 01:40:33,366 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1804 01:40:33,450 --> 01:40:36,119 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1805 01:40:38,079 --> 01:40:39,789 Go ahead and sing it. 1806 01:40:39,831 --> 01:40:42,625 (laughter) 1807 01:40:42,667 --> 01:40:45,003 (with audience) ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1808 01:40:45,045 --> 01:40:48,882 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1809 01:40:48,965 --> 01:40:51,134 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1810 01:40:51,176 --> 01:40:55,180 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1811 01:40:55,221 --> 01:40:57,307 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1812 01:40:57,349 --> 01:41:00,352 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1813 01:41:01,936 --> 01:41:03,355 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1814 01:41:03,438 --> 01:41:06,524 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1815 01:41:08,234 --> 01:41:10,028 Audience (softly): ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1816 01:41:10,070 --> 01:41:12,822 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1817 01:41:14,449 --> 01:41:16,201 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1818 01:41:16,284 --> 01:41:19,287 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1819 01:41:20,997 --> 01:41:22,707 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1820 01:41:22,791 --> 01:41:25,710 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1821 01:41:27,420 --> 01:41:29,214 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1822 01:41:29,297 --> 01:41:32,676 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1823 01:41:34,052 --> 01:41:35,679 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1824 01:41:35,762 --> 01:41:38,848 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1825 01:41:42,143 --> 01:41:44,479 (cheering and applause) 1826 01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:51,569 (band playing "People Have the Power") 1827 01:41:51,611 --> 01:41:54,572 Taylor: ♪ I was dreaming in my dreaming ♪ 1828 01:41:54,656 --> 01:41:58,118 ♪ Of an aspect bright and fair ♪ 1829 01:41:58,201 --> 01:42:00,036 ♪ And my sleeping ♪ 1830 01:42:00,078 --> 01:42:01,705 ♪ It was broken ♪ 1831 01:42:01,746 --> 01:42:05,250 ♪ But my dream it lingered near ♪ 1832 01:42:05,333 --> 01:42:08,712 ♪ In the form of shining valleys ♪ 1833 01:42:08,753 --> 01:42:12,007 ♪ Where the pure air is recognized ♪ 1834 01:42:12,090 --> 01:42:15,468 ♪ And my senses newly opened ♪ 1835 01:42:15,552 --> 01:42:19,973 ♪ I awakened to the cry ♪ 1836 01:42:20,056 --> 01:42:23,435 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1837 01:42:23,476 --> 01:42:27,105 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1838 01:42:27,147 --> 01:42:29,315 ♪ The power to dream ♪ 1839 01:42:29,399 --> 01:42:31,234 ♪ To rule ♪ 1840 01:42:31,276 --> 01:42:34,279 ♪ To wrestle the earth from fools ♪ 1841 01:42:34,362 --> 01:42:37,615 ♪ It is decreed the people rule ♪ 1842 01:42:37,657 --> 01:42:40,869 ♪ It is decreed the people rule ♪ 1843 01:42:40,952 --> 01:42:42,537 Listen! ♪ I believe ♪ 1844 01:42:42,620 --> 01:42:44,456 ♪ Everything we dream ♪ 1845 01:42:44,497 --> 01:42:48,126 ♪ Can come to pass in our union ♪ 1846 01:42:48,168 --> 01:42:51,546 ♪ We can turn the earth around ♪ 1847 01:42:51,629 --> 01:42:55,592 ♪ We can turn the world's revolution ♪ 1848 01:42:55,633 --> 01:42:58,970 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1849 01:42:59,054 --> 01:43:03,058 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1850 01:43:03,141 --> 01:43:06,019 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1851 01:43:06,102 --> 01:43:09,647 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1852 01:43:09,731 --> 01:43:12,776 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1853 01:43:12,817 --> 01:43:15,695 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1854 01:43:15,779 --> 01:43:18,198 ♪ ♪ 1855 01:43:18,281 --> 01:43:21,951 ♪ ♪ 1856 01:43:21,993 --> 01:43:24,829 (rhythmic clapping) 1857 01:43:26,331 --> 01:43:28,625 (cheering and applause) 1858 01:43:28,667 --> 01:43:30,877 (band playing "Peter Gunn Theme") 1859 01:43:34,881 --> 01:43:36,341 ♪ To everything ♪ 1860 01:43:36,424 --> 01:43:37,884 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1861 01:43:37,967 --> 01:43:39,511 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1862 01:43:39,552 --> 01:43:41,763 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1863 01:43:41,846 --> 01:43:43,139 ♪ And a time ♪ 1864 01:43:43,181 --> 01:43:44,808 ♪ For every season ♪ 1865 01:43:44,849 --> 01:43:47,143 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1866 01:43:47,185 --> 01:43:48,812 (horns improvising) 1867 01:43:57,946 --> 01:43:59,364 ♪ To everything ♪ 1868 01:43:59,406 --> 01:44:01,324 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1869 01:44:01,366 --> 01:44:02,867 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1870 01:44:02,909 --> 01:44:05,370 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1871 01:44:05,412 --> 01:44:06,454 ♪ And a time ♪ 1872 01:44:06,538 --> 01:44:07,956 ♪ For every purpose ♪ 1873 01:44:08,039 --> 01:44:11,376 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1874 01:44:11,459 --> 01:44:13,253 ♪ A time for love ♪ 1875 01:44:13,336 --> 01:44:15,046 ♪ A time for hate ♪ 1876 01:44:15,088 --> 01:44:16,423 ♪ A time to rend ♪ 1877 01:44:16,506 --> 01:44:18,508 ♪ A time to sow ♪ 1878 01:44:18,550 --> 01:44:21,219 ♪ A time you may embrace ♪ 1879 01:44:21,261 --> 01:44:24,055 ♪ A time to refrain ♪ 1880 01:44:24,097 --> 01:44:27,392 ♪ From embracing ♪ 1881 01:44:27,434 --> 01:44:29,561 (horns improvising) 1882 01:44:42,657 --> 01:44:47,912 ♪ ♪ 1883 01:45:04,220 --> 01:45:05,555 Oh! 1884 01:45:10,435 --> 01:45:11,936 ♪ To everything ♪ 1885 01:45:11,978 --> 01:45:13,521 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1886 01:45:13,605 --> 01:45:15,231 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1887 01:45:15,315 --> 01:45:17,525 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1888 01:45:17,609 --> 01:45:18,693 ♪ And a time ♪ 1889 01:45:18,777 --> 01:45:20,320 ♪ For every purpose ♪ 1890 01:45:20,403 --> 01:45:24,032 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1891 01:45:24,115 --> 01:45:25,533 ♪ A time to gain ♪ 1892 01:45:25,617 --> 01:45:26,951 ♪ A time to lose ♪ 1893 01:45:27,035 --> 01:45:29,037 ♪ A time for love ♪ 1894 01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:30,330 ♪ A time for hate ♪ 1895 01:45:30,413 --> 01:45:32,457 ♪ A time to reap ♪ 1896 01:45:32,499 --> 01:45:33,625 ♪ A time to sow ♪ 1897 01:45:33,708 --> 01:45:35,794 ♪ A time for peace ♪ 1898 01:45:35,835 --> 01:45:41,383 ♪ I swear it's not too late ♪ 1899 01:45:41,466 --> 01:45:43,635 (horns improvising) 1900 01:46:01,569 --> 01:46:04,447 (band playing dramatic finish) 1901 01:46:04,489 --> 01:46:06,074 Good night, everybody! 1902 01:46:06,157 --> 01:46:08,159 (cheering and applause)