That was the most Broadway response

June 7, 2016 11:19 AM

Broadway Carpool Karaoke, featuring James Corden, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Krakowski and Audra McDonald (SLYT)
posted by roomthreeseventeen (51 comments total)

I laughed, I cried, I shouted happily at my laptop like a complete lunatic.
posted by merriment at 11:36 AM on June 7, 2016 [5 favorites]

This is what every car trip with my fiancé is like, except I can't sing at all, and I end up doing most of the parts to "One Day More" on my own.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 11:38 AM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]

This is the best thing, thank you.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 11:38 AM on June 7, 2016

Holy shit. This is incredible.
posted by Talez at 11:40 AM on June 7, 2016

Were Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth not available to do a defying gravity finish?

Missed opportunity.

Of course having Lin Manuel Miranda on was obviously a desperate ploy to get Hamilton tickets. We know your dirty tricks Corden
posted by vuron at 11:44 AM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]

Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth Reunited for an Encore Wicked Performance
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 11:48 AM on June 7, 2016 [2 favorites]

yes I said yes I will Yes
posted by anotherpanacea at 11:51 AM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]

it was darling from start to finish, and they're all supremely talented but holy crap audra mcdonald can sing the pants off of all of them. it's always fascinating to see a group of totally good singers with one incredible singer who all want the thing to sound good. it's an interesting balancing act on all their parts.
posted by nadawi at 11:53 AM on June 7, 2016 [18 favorites]

Wonderful. But could have used more Laura Benanti.
posted by pjsky at 11:53 AM on June 7, 2016 [2 favorites]

oh! fun fact that i'm sure i'm the last to know - while working on in the heights, tommy kail was audra mcdonald's assistant.
posted by nadawi at 11:55 AM on June 7, 2016 [2 favorites]

If you have theater friends, you've been on this car ride.
posted by lunasol at 11:55 AM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]

oh oh oh
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:56 AM on June 7, 2016

And now I know why Audra McDonald has so many Tonys. Damn.
posted by lunasol at 11:56 AM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]

i am drowning in jane krakowskis eyes. go away send no help
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:58 AM on June 7, 2016 [9 favorites]

Audra is also several months pregnant, at the age of 46. Woman is fierce.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 11:58 AM on June 7, 2016 [11 favorites]

I can't remember ever having been so excited for a Tony Awards show ... and I'll be on a plane. *cries*
posted by lunasol at 12:01 PM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

I am kinda depressed that Audra McDonald is basically unknown outside of theater community.

She's got a Sterling pedigree but even then she barely seems to get tv roles much less movie roles.

Looks like she will be in the Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast next year but even then she's the Gardrobe and not Ms Potts.
posted by vuron at 12:03 PM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

We'll be in the mezzanine of the Beacon on Sunday. Cannot freaking wait.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 12:04 PM on June 7, 2016 [9 favorites]

Whaaaaaaaaat? So jealous.
posted by lunasol at 12:07 PM on June 7, 2016

Time to hunt down roomthreeseventeen and take his place.
posted by vuron at 12:11 PM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]

Is this a good time to mention that I actually saw the production of Carousel in which Audra McDonald made her debut? *preens*

She stood out as awesome even then.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:23 PM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]

EmpressCallipygos - Me too! In a show that was amazing, she was extraordinary.
posted by pjsky at 12:31 PM on June 7, 2016

If you have theater friends, you've been on this car ride.

I have a Broadway husband. My entire life is this car ride, man.

We watched this last night - it was pretty good.

Sadly, Audra McDonald was out when we saw Shuffle Along a couple of days ago, but her understudy was great. Then there was Billy Porter's solo number, which brought the house down.

We will be on the mezzanine of the Richard Rogers tonight!

In September, he said to me "I'm booking tickets for Hamilton in June and we're going," and I was like "Uh, OK, I like New York, sounds good." Little did I know what a Big Deal this would turn out to be. I hadn't even heard the cast recording yet, which I love.

We just looked up what our tickets are reselling for. Holy shit.

I jokingly said "Well, let's resell them - we'll cover our trip and still make a profit." I got a glare that could have melted lead.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:34 PM on June 7, 2016 [27 favorites]

mandolin conspiracy, enjoy every second!
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 12:36 PM on June 7, 2016

oh god i am listening to this on my headphones at work and am desperately trying not to laugh hysterically at the les mis bit
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:45 PM on June 7, 2016

Love this! I played my Les Mis karaoke CD in the car to work this morning after watching it (OBVIOUSLY I was singing the whole time - I may have also driven extra slowly...)
posted by Mallenroh at 1:01 PM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

I just made everybody watch it on the projector at work and I hadn't even seen it yet. (We were two minutes late into the meeting.)

And god damn Audra McDonald, just god damn.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:02 PM on June 7, 2016 [4 favorites]

I'm going through a tough spell at work, and this just makes me tear up - I know it's all set up and rehearsed and whatever, but its still people having a blast at their job. So lovely
posted by mumimor at 1:14 PM on June 7, 2016 [4 favorites]

I am completely slammed at work today, and considered it vital to my mental health to watch this. It is perfect.
posted by rtha at 2:04 PM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

#Ham4Pamphlet: 45 Illustrators Draw the 46 Tracks of "Hamilton"
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 2:12 PM on June 7, 2016 [17 favorites]

I feel a deep kinship with the proliferation of DRAMA ARMS on One Day More. Anyone who claims to be able to sing any part of One Day More and not do DRAMA ARMS is a lying liar.
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:13 PM on June 7, 2016 [10 favorites]

"Well, let's resell them - we'll cover our trip and still make a profit."

I said a variation of this to my daughter as a threat when she was giving me attitude last Wednesday night. Instead, we pulled ourselves together and had THE BEST DAY OF MY WHOLE LIFE on Saturday. We saw Daveed and Oak in Times Square - she went nonverbal, but I called out to them and they turned around and allowed me to babble at them like a schoolgirl. They are so damned good looking. Then we saw the matinee from the (slightly obstructed view but up close so who cares) orchestra seats I bought in November. LIN MADE EYE CONTACT WITH US during Cabinet Battle #2. I cried so hard, so many different times, that tears ran all the way down my neck. Then we came back and did the stage door after the evening performance and she got selfies with Chris Jackson and Rory O'Malley.

But since, I've been so sad because I just want more. I want to see it again and again and again. I know I should be happy that I got to see it once, with that cast, at this time in history - and I am - but part of me will never be satisfied**.

(**sorry)

There's a Tony-watching party at the performing arts center in town, but I think I will have to watch by myself so I can cry again and savor their moment as a delusional person who has developed unhealthy emotional attachments to these talented strangers.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 3:27 PM on June 7, 2016 [29 favorites]

This is giddy fun, but I think my favorite part is when some of them flub the lyrics a bit here and there.
posted by dnash at 4:38 PM on June 7, 2016 [5 favorites]

Wow. Yep. Got tears in my eyes.
posted by pipoquinha at 4:52 PM on June 7, 2016

but part of me will never be satisfied**.

(**sorry)

At least you got to be in the room where it happens!**

(**not sorry)
posted by booksherpa at 6:27 PM on June 7, 2016 [7 favorites]

Oooh, have we talked about this supercool illustration of Miranda's rhyming prowess yet?
posted by TwoStride at 6:35 PM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]

Well, that #Ham4Pamphlet is gorgeous. (Aside from the one unhappy typo...)
posted by suelac at 7:46 PM on June 7, 2016

We were just in the room where it happens...wow.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:51 PM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]

Be prepared to feel staggered for quite a while, mandolin conspiracy.
posted by rtha at 7:52 PM on June 7, 2016

Send fainting couch, stat.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:55 PM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow. OH WOW. AUDRA MCDONALD DOES A GREAT JAVERT!

McDonald is the only actor to have won six Tony Awards. She's also the only person to have won Tonys in all four performance categories. Saw her in Porgy and Bess a few years back with Norm Lewis and they blew the roof off the theater.

Thanks so much for posting this. Incredible.

Also, how funny is Jesse Tyler Ferguson during One Day More, waving off Jane Krakowski?
posted by zarq at 8:57 PM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]

Funniest One Day More ever.
posted by crossoverman at 10:00 PM on June 7, 2016

My favorite part of the video: every single time Lin Manuel Miranda plays with his hair.
posted by FirstMateKate at 6:02 AM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

My favorite part of the video: every single time Lin Manuel Miranda plays with his hair.

Or headbangs during "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You".

In an exception to the usual rule on comments, y'all may want to check out the Youtube ones - a lot of it is admiration, and once or twice you get someone saying "this is great, but who are these people?" followed by a crapton of theater geeks schooling them but good.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:10 AM on June 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

> I am kinda depressed that Audra McDonald is basically unknown outside of theater community. She's got a Sterling pedigree but even then she barely seems to get tv roles much less movie roles.

I want everyone to know the awesomeness and grandeur that is Audra, but given her Broadway schedule, who says that she even wants TV and movie roles?
posted by desuetude at 6:53 AM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

> This is giddy fun, but I think my favorite part is when some of them flub the lyrics a bit here and there.

Me too. I can see all-star concerts of Broadway favorites if I want polished performances, but seeing these five act EXACTLY like the rest of us musical theater geeks in a car was the best.
posted by desuetude at 6:58 AM on June 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

The great white way: can the diversity Hamilton brought to Broadway last?
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 9:10 AM on June 8, 2016

I want everyone to know the awesomeness and grandeur that is Audra, but given her Broadway schedule, who says that she even wants TV and movie roles?

I was thinking the same thing. Her one major TV role (on Private Practice) ended amicably when, by all accounts, she wanted to return to New York, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is a personal choice.

"this is great, but who are these people?" followed by a crapton of theater geeks schooling them but good.

When I showed this at work, a woman who I already was crazy about as a work friend only didn't recognize Jesse Tyler Ferguson, a star of one of the biggest sitcoms of the past decade, and I found that extra charming. (She's not an anti-TV person, however, which, is, of course, a deal breaker.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:03 AM on June 8, 2016

360 Video of a dressed down rendition of "Wait For It"

Ensemble member Daniel J Watts performs an original poem in tribute to Muhammad Ali
posted by kmz at 2:10 PM on June 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

That was a pretty credible rendition of "Guns and Ships" (a.k.a. The Fastest Song on Broadway) by James Corden. Even Lin-Manuel seemed impressed.
posted by How the runs scored at 2:29 PM on June 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

I want everyone to know the awesomeness and grandeur that is Audra, but given her Broadway schedule, who says that she even wants TV and movie roles?

The world deserves more Audra on TV and in movies; not everyone can visit Broadway! And Audra deserves the chance to make more money doing less exhausting work (this Tony number on the joy of TV work come to mind).
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 6:35 AM on June 9, 2016