While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out this weekend's highlights from some of your favorites, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Liz Callaway, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Barbra Streisand, the cast of Company, and more!
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A group of stars have performed a new virtual cover of The New World from Jason Robert Brown's Songs For a New World. The video was directed and conceived by Jimmy Larkin, and music directed and sound engineered by Jonathan Brenner.
"It is my great pleasure to introduce a man who is a gentleman, a statesman, who in 48 years of government service has been a voice of reason, experience, and compassion," she said in his introduction. "Who, God willing, will be the next president of the United States."
Was thrilled to introduce Vice President Biden last night at a Zoom fundraiser for the Biden Victory Fund! @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/ljYxASy1e5
- Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) June 13, 2020
Andrew Lloyd Webber has returning to the little church he converted into a theatre, where he has been reflecting on how some of his shows began.
This time, Webber takes a stroll back down memory lane with Sunset Boulevard and recalls how the LA Strip inspired him to write his musical by the same name.
Today, Andrew takes a stroll back down memory lane with Sunset Boulevard and recalls how the LA Strip inspired him to write his musical by the same name. - #TeamALW pic.twitter.com/XAKIiWMbFG
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (@OfficialALW) June 14, 2020
"My friend, composer David Shire wrote this song in 1968 in reaction to the Detroit race riots, which followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.," Callaway wrote in the video's caption. "The song was originally recorded by Barbra Streisand on her What About Today album. After the horrific murder of George Floyd, and the events that have followed, I felt compelled to sing this. I got in touch with David, who was more than happy to revisit the song. Working together over FaceTime, we tweaked a few lyrics, and he kindly created this wonderful arrangement for me."
Brian Stokes Mitchell led the seventh Memorial For Us All tribute to honor those we lost due to COVID-19.
In the midst of this unprecedented pandemic, Memorial For Us All offers unity, comfort, and healing through music, an art form intertwined with so many of our most beloved rituals around the world.
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