Dark Side of the Moon Tour – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics", the name under which it made its press debut in February 1972 at London's Rainbow Theatre. The title changed for the first part of the US tour to "Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)" during April and May before reverting to "Dark Side of the Moon – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" in September for the second part of the US tour and finally released in 1973 under the title of "The Dark Side of the Moon". Remarkably, at its first full live performance at Guildhall, Portsmouth, England on 21 January 1972, most of
The Moon Is Down Pichel, starring Cedric Hardwicke as Colonel Lanser, Henry Travers as Mayor Orden, and Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Winter. The title of the book comes from "Macbeth". Just before Banquo encounters Macbeth on his way to kill Duncan, he asks his son, Fleance, "How goes the night, boy?" Fleance replies, "The moon is down; I have not heard the clock." (Act II, Scene i). The Moon Is Down The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, was published by Viking Press