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The Book of Hologram (Broadway Overture)

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[Intro] [low synth drone enters] [Narration] In the beginning was the book of the show, Hologram. The book of the showHologram Eon is a autistic savant engineer that has created a time machine to go back and stop the rise of the Nazi regime by stopping Marinus Lubbe from starting the Reichstag fire which leads to the holocaust of Jews, Gypsies, Leftists and LGBTQI in Nazi Germany. He is assisted by a younger pretty engineer, Butterfly, who is in a relationship with the charismatic beautiful anarchist singer, Dylan. Eon and Butterfly have a secret love for each other which Eon is unable to express in his prison of autistic isolation. They live in a dystopian future where climate change has altered the world, where Amsterdam is now an island after the great flood of melting ice overcame the European continent. Our story begins in the local hang out of the Millerite Kollective of revolutionaries, named after Rosa Muller, who created the ideals of the Millerites before the Holocaust. At the Savage Reservation Pub we are introduced to the factions of Revos. The story moves to the ideals of time travel and quantum mechanics in the lab run by Eon and Butterfly. There is a authoritarian counter pressure to this in the Bureau of Corporations, who is led by Herr Hissler, who call all the shots in the new world order of post-Flood Amsterdam Island. They call on the state to stop Eon and Butterfly from going back and changing the past, which pursues and chases Eon and Butterfly. Cornered in their workshop Butterfly surrenders herself with a fake time machine and is taken by the Corpos and the State to prison, Eon escapes out the window of the Lab and is on the run. He then is able to avoid capture and activate the time machine and goes through a portal to find himself in 1933 Berlin, he back traces Marinus Lubbe to a Beer Hall where he is being made drunk by Nazi Agents so that he is an easy patsy for blame for the Reichstag Fire. Eon tries to intervene but no one can see or hear him, he is merely potential energy in the past, a hologram of sorts, since he has no corporeal existence at that time or place in history. He laments his inability to change history, but a Romani 'Gypsy' fortune teller, Rosa, working the Beer Hall crowd sees and hears him, the only one that can. They interact and she decides to help Eon but not by stopping Marinus which it is to late anyway, but by starting the Kollective. Eon asks her assistance in warning his Jewish ancestors that they must send their children away. He also visits his German great-grandfather who is a common ancestor for Eon and the Head of the Corpos, where Eon confronts his great-grandfather Heinrich Hissler. Eon is convinced to return to the future to rescue Butterfly. Rosa sends her children away along with Levi's children on a caravan to London, she sings of a Romani resurgence later. She gives her sons a letter to be handed down to her great-granddaughter, Butterfly, is it a letter to herself? Eon rallies the Revos to free Butterfly, they storm the state building and go toe to toe with the Police again. Eon goes to the State and the Corpos and fights for Butterflies freedom, based on the fact that he can't be convicted of interfering in the temporal time line, if you can't change anything in the past anyway. The State sides with Eon and Butterfly is released and they sing a finale, 'Never Be Afraid'.