If you love Broadway shows, if you love Sondheim, watch “Take Me to the World,” a celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday, featuring great Broadway stars.
I don’t know how long it will be available—for a day, a week, or forever.
I’m watching now. Join me!
Don’t miss it.
You won’t want to miss this great show!
The celebrated acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil will be live-streaming a 60-minute performance TONIGHT of a show called ZED.
It was performed only in Tokyo.
I have seen this group perform twice, and each time was thrilling. Their aesthetic is dazzling. Their physical grace is astonishing.
If you tried to catch their show in Las Vegas, the ticket would cost more than $100.
Don’t miss the chance to see them tonight for free.
I was not familiar with the SGN Channel on YouTube and “Some Good News” with John Krasinski. He tells “good news” stories about people helping each other during these hard times. But in the segment noted here, he pulls off a magical experience.
Billboard wrote about this amazing show where the host talks online to a little girl who was very disappointed when her trip to New York City to see “Hamilton” was canceled.
Krasinski’s wife Emily Blunt played Mary Poppins and she may have helped arrange the great surprise at the end of the show.
Not only does Lin-Manuel Miranda appear to talk to the little girl, but he assembles the original cast of the show to sing the title song.
Please watch this clip to the end. It is thrilling!
The Port Virtual Choir from the Port Washington, New York, school district sings “Seasons of Love.”
A great way to overcome social isolation!
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles invited the public to select a favorite work of art and recreate it in their home, using familiar objects.
Thanks to our reader Dienne for suggesting this list of musical and theatrical productions that are streaming for free.
One of them “Jesus Christ Superstar” is already unavailable, so make a note to catch the ones that are still streaming.
Have fun.
Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda join James Corden to give reprises of 22 musicals in 12 minutes.
The Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra performed Beethoven’s exhilarating “Ode to Joy,” a tribute to theh7man spirit, as each musician was isolated in his or her home.
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra responded by performing Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring” in their homes.
The website SlippedDisc posted both and invites viewers to vote.
Bottom line: creative artists are learning to collaborate while isolated, to share the gift of music with all of us.
I vote that we, each isolated, are the real winners!
Bravo!
The Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra members are confined to their homes. But music cannot be denied.
Here they are playing the closing section of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the stirring “Ode to Joy,” each of them in his or her own home.
If this stirring rendition doesn’t move you, check your pulse.
When their performance was canceled due to the pandemic, the Chamber Singers at Chino Hills High School in California found another way to perform.
Watch this beautiful performance of “Over the Rainbow.”
This video was widely reposted and went viral.
Creativity! Hope! Persistence! Resilience!
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