Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
May 7, 2020
Episode 126: Screens and Dreams
This week, Jessica and Michael go over their favorite (and not-so-favorite) moments of Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration , a virtual event featuring Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, and other Broadway luminaries.
When it comes to picking a Sondheim song appropriate for quarantine, Michael says,
I came away from this thinking that all his songs are about isolation. All his songs are about yearning for connection. All his songs are about estrangement from the world and making connection with the world in a way.
Also mentioned this week:
- Vulture, How the Remote Sondheim 90th-Birthday Concert Came Together (an Hour or So Late)
- Peter Marks, Washington Post, A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best
- Caitlin Moynihan, Broadway Buzz, Raúl Esparza and Mary-Mitchell Campbell Share Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert
- Bumper: Bernadette Peters & Stephen Sondheim “Send In the Clowns”, YouTube
- Unorthodox, Netflix
- My Brilliant Friend, HBO
- The Affair, Showtime
- Call My Agent, Netflix
- Bumper: Call My Agent Trailer, YouTube
- Anil Dash
- Anna Wiener, New Yorker
- Bumper: Have you ever had a dream like this?, YouTube
- Jessica Helfand, Design Observer, The Self-Reliance Project
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