Trans Siberian Orchestra

As usual, they were freaking amazing!!!! They changed their story this year and their stage. I actually enjoyed the story more this year and I was able to follow it better. I missed a few things because my mind wondered but for the most part I got it all. This angel is given a task by The Lord that needs to be competed within a certain time limit. The angel doesn't know where to start but knows it needs somewhere were all the races are found and different cultures and things like that. The angel finds its spot in New York. He walks along the streets of New York and sees that they're all guarded except for this one building that says "vacant, because there is always room for one more". He decides to go to that building. Right outside of it, the angel sees a man telling a story to this group of children. The children are absolutely captivated by the mans stories and beg him not to stop. So the angel stays to listen. After many stories the angel comes back to reality and notices there's all these people, kids and adults, standing around the man also. As he notices this, he hears music coming from this bar and decides to go on in there. There's a man on stage calling people up to play music. Everyone of these people have an amazing talent at playing music and singing. The angel is amaze by this. This man brought all these people up to display their talents. Everyone is having a blast and not stopping to look at their watches. Even the bartender doesn't care that no one is drinking. The angel only has a few hours left to complete the task but there are always reasons for patience. A little while later, the angel notices this man that hasn't cracked a smile once. The man looks as if he hasn't allowed happiness in his life for years and he walks out of the bar. As he walks out, the angel follows him and sees drops of blood from this mans soul on the ground. He follows this business man and sees his soul weeping years he himself had never allowed himself to cry. The angel wondered what had happen to make this man so sad. The man had grown up to believe and have a strong faith. He was sent to an academy and taught all the rules. He met a woman and they got married. One day she comes to him and tells him she's pregnant. On the day of the birth, the man is waiting in the waiting room of the hospital. The doctor comes out of one of the rooms with a few nurses and regretfully says they tried everything they could for his wife but she started hemorrhaging and they couldn't stop the bleeding. She died and the child was cut off from oxygen for to long and became brain dead. The doctor said he'd never be able to hold a job, talk comprehend or even learn to walk. The man lost his faith and said what of his I'd this and how can this be? Why am I even in this world? The man tells the doctor to put the baby in the a state facility. The angels sees all this and understands. The man sees a little girl walking along the street and she's trying to catch snowflakes. As she's trying to catch one, she bumps into the business man. She looks up at him and asks him if he has an children and he replies with a rough "no". He turns away from the girl and walks slowly back home. He feels a pain in his heart because he knows he lied. He thinks about the child he left and if he's still alive. He calls the institution and the receptionist excitedly tells him that his son is alive. He spends most of his time in the hospital instead of the institution. The child learned to walk and can mostly understand what people say to him. The man asks the address to the hospital. He goes there and asks a nurse about where he can find his son. She leads him to the premature baby ward. He walks into a room and sees his son with an infant in his arms. The boy looks like the man but at a younger age. The premature baby is sleeping and not trembling or crying. The nurse whispers to the man that he has that effect on everyone. Right then, the boy looks up and immediately recognizes his father. He smiles with eyes that shine with forgiveness and past forgotten. The father turns around and walks away to the other side of the room to an incubator and picks up a baby, walks over to a rocking chair near his son and they rock the babies tgether all through the Christmas night. The angel goes back to lord with a list of names of people he encountered on the way. The Lord tells the angel he gave a man site that was never blind and added years to his life without giving him more time.

I love the story an then the second part of the show began. It was aaaammmmazzzziiiinnnngggg. During the last song of the show though, there was a malfunction and when the violinist and guitarist got on the risers, the spotlight only focused on the violinist. The guitarist was like what the heck and kept staring at the tech people. He looked kinda upset but it didn't effect the music. I can't wait for next year. I know it'll be just as amazing.