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SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: “Are they trying to kill all the gays right now? If one more iconic diva hits this Zoom, they’ll be scraping us off the floor.”
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Published: Apr 27, 2020
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Pandemic: Dispatches and Essentials
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“Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration” was exactly what many of us needed — a triple-shot of genius, topped with the cream of Broadway musical talent, and, for icing, a worthy cause. I think I may confidently speak for the 100,000 who experienced it: Whatever it meant to Sondheim… it meant more to us.
It did not begin well. The 8 PM start time came and went. The traditional 8:l0 curtain also failed. As the clock ticked toward 9 PM, Twitter became a festival of wit.
– #Sondheim90Concert will be delayed until 9:57 so Steve can find out what happens on the Homeland finale
– But where are the clowns?
– Every stage manager in America is rushing around their houses and apartments wearing headsets and shrieking at no one in particular right now
– Don’t think gay twitter has been this fun since Faye Dunaway gave the Oscar to LaLa Land!
– Sondheim just turned 100.
And then… 2+ hours of magic.(“Are they trying to kill all the gays right now? If one more iconic diva hits this Zoom, they’ll be scraping us off the floor.”) Here’s all of it:
0:18 Stephen Schwartz – “Prologue” (Follies)
8:47 Sutton Foster – “There Won’t Be Trumpets” (Anyone Can Whistle)
12:47 Neil Patrick Harris – “The Witch’s Rap” (Into the Woods)
16:26 Kelli O’Hara – “What More Do I Need?” (Saturday Night)
19:56 Judy Kuhn – “What Can You Lose?” (Dick Tracy)
23:53 Katrina Lenk – “Johanna” (Sweeney Todd)
27:11 Aaron Tveit – “Marry Me a Little” (Company)
32:58 Beanie Feldstein & Ben Platt – “It Takes Two” (Into the Woods)
36:25 Brandon Uranowitz – “With So Little to Be Sure Of” (Anyone Can Whistle)
41:04 Melissa Errico – “Children and Art” (Sunday in the Park with George)
46:20 Randy Rainbow – “By the Sea” (Sweeney Todd)
49:21 Elizabeth Stanley – “The Miller’s Son” (A Little Night Music)
54:21 Mandy Pantinkin – “Lesson #8” (Sunday in the Park with George)
59:05 Maria Friedman – “Broadway Baby” (Follies)
1:02:36 Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Giants in the Sky” (Into the Woods)
1:05:46 Lea Salonga – “Loving You” (Passion)
1:08:28 Laura Benanti – “I Remember” (Evening Primrose)
1:14:06 Chip Zien – “No More” (Into the Woods)
1:19:27 Josh Groban – “Children Will Listen/Not While I’m Around” (Into the Woods/Sweeney Todd)
1:25:13 Brian Stokes Mitchell – “The Flag Song” (Assassins)
1:28:04 Michael Cerveris – “Finishing the Hat” (Sunday in the Park with George)
1:33:28 Linda Lavin – “The Boy From…” (The Mad Show)
1:37:10 Alexander Gemignani – “Buddy’s Blues” (Follies) 1:41:08 Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh & Thom Sesma – “Someone in a Tree” (Pacific Overtures) 1:50:59 Raúl Esparza – “Take Me to the World” (Evening Primrose)
1:53:55 Donna Murphy – “Send in the Clowns” (A Little Night Music)
1:58:47 Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep & Audra McDonald – “The Ladies Who Lunch” (Company)
2:03:31 Annaleigh Ashford & Jake Gyllenhaal – “Move On” (Sunday in the Park with George) 2:08:14 Patti LuPone – “Anyone Can Whistle” (Anyone Can Whistle)
2:11:46 Bernadette Peters – “No One Is Alone” (Into the Woods)
2:17:49 Ensemble – “I’m Still Here” (Follies)
Some highlights..
at 1:25:13…Brian Stokes Mitchell, “Flag Song”
Little known factoid: This was the original opening to “Assassins.” The idea was that all these onlookers would watch the President go by. And little by little the assassins would appear in the crowd, slowly replacing them.
at 54:21 Mandy Patinkin
at 1:53:55 Donna Murphy: “Send in the Clowns”
at 2:11:46 Bernadette Peters: “No One Is Alone”
Annaleigh Ashford & Jake Gyllenhaal
When it was over, well after the traditional 11 o’clock song and curtain, I remembered a play that closed exactly a year ago. And I felt again, as I felt every night of the run — and I was a glutton; I went to every performance — how much I loved everyone involved in that production, and in the production two years ago in San Diego, and… anyway, this is what you missed, this is what I hope will find a home again.
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ESSENTIALS AND DISPATCHES
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