Words from Galileo to John Glenn, Archibald MacLeish to Einstein and Emily Dickinson, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, WallaceStevens, William Cullen Bryant, John Brainard, and Lola Ridge from DUBlin, with music “I Will Survive,†“Happy Days,†“Starman,â€â€œWoodstock,†“Oh Would You Like to Swing on a Star,†“Happy Together,†“Imagination,†“Pure Imagination,†“Just My Imagination,†and“Imagine,†from David Bowie to Crosby Stills Nash and Young to Bing Crosby and Gloria Gaynor to astronauts Buzz Aldrin (Snoop Dog),Chris Hadfield covering Bowie’s “Space Oddity†(get out your handkerchiefs), and the Temptations, Earth Wind and Fire, Turtles, and GeneWilder (we loved him in “Young Frankenstein†but did you know he could sing and dance? With a cane?), and . . . it seems like a stretchgoing from the imagination called for in The Martian by a stranded botanist astronaut trying to survive, but yes John Lennon . . . imagine! We do!
IMAGINATION EVERY, EVERY MINUTE: AN ASTRONOMICAL HOUR, OUR SPACY SHOW WHICH SWINGS LIKE A STAR ON THE MARTIAN,CHALLENGER, STAR WARS, LORD OF THE RINGS, PLANETS MARS AND EARTH, AND WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT
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