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♪♪

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-♪ Sacred moons,
embodied earth ♪

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♪ Goddesses of life and birth ♪

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♪ Casting spells
for your protection ♪

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♪ And listening
for my direction ♪

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I'm Bhama Roget,
and I am the author,

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composer, performer, creator,

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producer of "Mother Nature:
The Farewell Tour."

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-Let's do it.
-One, two, three, four.

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♪♪

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-It's a rock opera.
It's a ritual.

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Mother Nature is in drag
as a human.

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♪ You bitches
burned my witches ♪

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This project is the thing
that I've been trying to write

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my whole life.

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I needed a character
that was big enough

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to hold
what I was trying to say

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and also that could get away
with saying all of it.

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And that's
how Mother Nature came

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to be the storyteller
rather than me.

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And if I'm speaking
as Mother Nature,

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it's that you, humanity,

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you're looking at everything
you've created,

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all of your systems and your
progeny and your technology,

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and you're trying
to tell the difference

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between your
brilliant innovations

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and your weapons
of mass destruction,

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and you can't.
You don't know which is what.

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You don't know
what's going to help you

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and what's going to eat you.

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So she feels kind of about us
like we might feel about A.I.

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The genesis of this show
came during the pandemic.

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I just felt like
everything was on fire

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on the inside
and on the outside.

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What I did during the pandemic,

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in order to keep sane,
was I just went in my room,

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and I did yoga with an app
on my phone.

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And then
after I would do the yoga,

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I would just lay there,

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and I would just get
this feeling of grief

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that I didn't really recognize.

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I just had this overwhelming
feeling of contemplation about,

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we're not meant
to live like this.

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All these things we're doing
are terrible for us.

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And they're so --
they're so far from

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who we really are.

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And during the pandemic, I just
kind of randomly wrote this song

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that went...

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♪ We're all gonna die ♪

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♪ Maybe not now,
but eventually ♪
♪♪

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♪ Also, maybe now
there's a chance ♪

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♪ This could be our last dance ♪

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♪ Have you heard
there's a meteor ♪

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♪ Headed for earth ♪

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I have an incredible band.

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We're in Bootstrap Studios
in the vault

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and just kind of
putting it all together.

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On drums, I have
Aimee Zoe. Legend.

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Sherri Jerome is on lead guitar.

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Ben Heege on bass,
which I'm very excited about.

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Also, John Ackerman is going
to be leading the band,

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and then I have Evan Mosher
on audio visual

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and various electronica.

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I mean, I think the
two big questions for me

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are how did we get here,

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and is there any --
is there any way out?

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But here's the thing.

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The dinosaurs got lucky,

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because they didn't
have to witness their own end

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by their own hands,
by their own teeny-tiny hands.

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♪ When mankind was young ♪

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♪ The only gods were
the earth and sun ♪

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I feel like
there's a lot of shame

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around being
a human being right now,

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and I want the audience to feel
the beauty in themselves,

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to touch that divinity
within themselves

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and -- and in a room together

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and -- and feel hopeful
and feel like we have agency

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and we have choice about
what kind of world we create.

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♪♪