This American Life: Live at BAM
5.7
2014
1 hr 49 min
Drama
, Comedy
, Music
It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.
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- Cast:
- Mike Birbiglia , Sasheer Zamata , Lin-Manuel Miranda , Lindsay Mendez , James Ransone , Anthony Ramos , Josh Hamilton
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