It was a clear Hawaiian night, and it was possible to walk up to the very edge of an active lava flow on the slopes of Kilauea—the blood of the earth exposed to the air, its intense heat briefly glowing then rapidly cooling to become dark stone. People would ask me, “How close can you get?” My response was always, “How far can you put your head into an oven?” Watching people transfixed by the light in the dark, it dawned on me that all life is drawn to light and the whole world would want to see a show about that. That thought was a pivotal moment in my history.
A few years earlier, I had quit a 15-year career as a highly successful stage performer. I had pioneered a genre, becoming the first comedy talking juggler in the history of Las ...
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