The pandemic has dealt Broadway nothing but lemons, but on Sunday night it made lemon spritzes.
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90, waiting for it. The tribute to the greatest living composer of musical theater was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Sunday night, and fans both rabid and casual gathered around their variously sized screens to share the closest thing we’ve got to a collective experience right now. As the livestream on Broadway.
com failed to appear on schedule, breathless anticipation turned to jokes about how, just like a real Broadway show, the online tribute would start a few minutes after the hour, then passing around word that it would be more like 8:30. But social media didn’t really explode until composer Stephen Schwartz finished his solo piano rendition of the prologue toand the stream cut to what was meant to be a live introduction from Raúl Esparza.
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